Interpersonal communication--Psychological aspects.

How we share our good news with people can have a significant effect on our
lives. Sharing good news on social media sites involves a process called capitalization.
Capitalization has been shown to increase well-being when others provide appropriate
responses in face-to-face interactions. To see if this effect on well-being extends to our
online presence, this study utilized the social media site Facebook to observe if
capitalization predicted well-being and relationship satisfaction. This study used data
collected from 137 participants recruited from an undergraduate participant pool and
from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Consistent with hypotheses, participants who reported
receiving active and constructive responses after sharing a positive event on Facebook
also reported greater personal well-being and relationship satisfaction. Although future
experimental research is needed to establish causality, the current results suggest that the ways in which friends respond to social media posts are associated with personal and
relationship well-being.

Previous studies have found that bilingual children’s vocabulary development
benefits more from child-directed speech from native speakers than child-directed speech
from nonnative speakers. The current study compared the native English child-directed
speech of 20 English monolingual mothers, the nonnative English child-directed speech
of 20 Spanish-English bilingual mothers, and the native Spanish child-directed speech of
the same bilingual mothers in terms of three aspects of input previously associated with
children’s language development: data-providing properties, topic contingency, and
speech function. There were significant differences between native English and nonnative
English child-directed speech, and between nonnative English and native Spanish. The
results suggest two sources of influence shaping child-directed speech: quality
differences related to native speaker status and cultural factors primed by the language
being spoken.