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Emoji use may depend on emotional intelligence and attachment style. The frequency of emoji use varies across genders and relationship types.
Emojis are characters depicting emotions, objects, animals, and more. They can be sent via computers or smartphones -- alone or with text -- to create more complex meaning during virtual communications.
Assessing how emoji use may vary depending on communication and interpersonal skills can provide insights into who employs emojis and the psychological mechanisms underlying computer-mediated communication.
Despite the pervasiveness of emoji use in our daily social lives, relatively little is known about who uses emojis beyond evidence of differences related to gender and personality traits.
To fill this knowledge gap, Dubé and colleagues investigated associations between emoji use frequency, attachment style, and emotional intelligence across genders and relationship types in a sample of 320 adults.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to process and manage one's emotions and those of others, while attachment styles refer to patterns of how individuals relate to others in close relationships, influenced by early interactions with primary caregivers.
These styles are broadly classified into three types: anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment.
Higher emotional intelligence is linked to more emoji use with friends, while avoidant attachment is associated with less emoji use with friends and dating or romantic partners, according to a new study. This pattern of results varies across genders and relationship types, with women using...
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