Romantic and sexual relationships are increasingly initiated using mobile dating applications rather than in face-to-face contexts. There is subsequently a need to understand socially competent and incompetent behaviors during this pre-interaction relationship development stage. One-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 emerging adults from Australia and Belgium. Data were analyzed inductively based on thematic analysis. Participants reported 11 superordinate social competencies represented by 85 competent and 67 incompetent behavioral norms that varied across four stages of online relationship formation (profile, matching, discovery, and evaluation stages). Findings provide a unique contribution to the literature as online social competence has yet to be conceptualized. Comparisons between online and face-to-face relational processes are also discussed.

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移动约会应用程序社交能力和不能力的定性探索

浪漫和性关系越来越多地通过移动约会应用程序而不是面对面的方式发起。随后需要了解在这个互动前关系发展阶段的社交能力和无能力行为。对来自澳大利亚和比利时的 22 名新兴成年人进行了一对一的深度访谈。基于主题分析对数据进行归纳分析。参与者报告了 11 种高级社会能力，由 85 种有能力的行为规范和 67 种无能的行为规范代表，这些行为规范在在线关系形成的四个阶段（档案、匹配、发现和评估阶段）中有所不同。由于在线社交能力尚未概念化，研究结果为文献提供了独特的贡献。