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engage in text messaging more than males with 73 percent of females sending and receiving more than one thousand text messages monthly. The authors also discovered that females develop more intimate bonds with friends which leads to more “self-disclosure.” This group also displayed more delighted feelings by text messaging with attained more feelings of pleasure, satisfaction and contentment from this activity than males (Ceccucci, Peslak, Kruck & Sendall, 2013). Further research conveyed that females are more attached to their cellular phones than their male counterparts with 66.5 percent of females stating that it would be a great disturbance in their life without their cellular phones (Morrill, Jones & Vaterlaus, 2013).

Interestingly, Morrill et al., (2013) saw that males had higher scores for relationship breath in his study. This conveys that males are more likely than females to make new friends that may or not be of the opposite sex via messaging (Morrill, Jones,& Vaterlaus, 2013). Despite these gender dissimilarities between the experiences involved with text messaging, both genders did agree that text messaging provides needed information quickly (Ceccucci, Peslak, Kruck & Sendall, 2013) showing some aspect of concordance in the convenience of mobile messaging.

Additional research on this area is needed to understand how interactions in genders vary in regards to cell phone use, especially among residents in The Bahamas. The objective of the current study was to explore cell phone use and interpersonal relations and examine differences between male and female young adults texting styles residing in The Bahamas.

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