The importance of face-to-face contact and reciprocal relationships and their associations with depressive symptoms and life satisfaction

The current study aimed to examine how patterns of interpersonal relational contexts (e.g., face-to-face or technology-based) and processes (e.g., initiated or accepted) relate to depressive symptomology and life satisfaction. Participants were recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (n = 962 adults [52.1% female; aged 18–78; 16.4% Non-White]). Quota sampling was used to closely match the sample demographics to that of the United States...