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The popularity of contemporary communication media, including social network sites, with youngpeople creates new conditions for development in the area of interpersonal relationships. This article contrib-utes to the discussion about potential, both positive and negative, consequences of internet communicationfor friendship quality. The questions asked in the research referred to the impact of the attitude towards theInternet (open, overwhelmed) on the ways in which friends communicate, especially on a potential decreasein face-to-face meetings and perceived quality of friendship. The research included 658 teenagers and youngadults. It used ?The Internet-Interpersonal Relationships Questionnaire? by D. Chmielewska-Łuczak and?Friendship Quality Questionnaire? by M. Żurko. The results obtained in the research show that withinthe research group internet communication between friends results in the increase in their face-to-facecontacts. This is in line with research results showing positive influence of internet communication onclose relationships. The research is a part of the research program exploring the globalization impact onthe adolescents? and adults? psychosocial functioning.

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Internet jakość przyjaźni adolescencja internet friendship quality adolescence

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Żurko, M. (2018). Facebook Friends. Continuation or Change in Close Relationships of the Young Generation?. INSTED: Interdisciplinary Studies in Education & Society, 21(1(81), 105–117. Retrieved from https://insted-tce.pl/ojs/index.php/tce/article/view/338
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