Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Calle Atarazanas, 4. 44003 Teruel, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep 7;17(18):6500. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17186500.
The emergence and popularization of dating apps have changed the way people meet and interact with potential romantic and sexual partners. In parallel with the increased use of these applications, a remarkable scientific literature has developed. However, due to the recency of the phenomenon, some gaps in the existing research can be expected. Therefore, the objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the empirical research of the psychosocial content published in the last five years (2016-2020) on dating apps. A search was conducted in different databases, and we identified 502 articles in our initial search. After screening titles and abstracts and examining articles in detail, 70 studies were included in the review. The most relevant data (author/s and year, sample size and characteristics, methodology) and their findings were extracted from each study and grouped into four blocks: user dating apps characteristics, usage characteristics, motives for use, and benefits and risks of use. The limitations of the literature consulted are discussed, as well as the practical implications of the results obtained, highlighting the relevance of dating apps, which have become a tool widely used by millions of people around the world.
约会应用的出现和普及改变了人们结识潜在浪漫和性伴侣的方式和互动方式。随着这些应用的使用越来越多，相关的科学文献也大量涌现。然而，由于这一现象出现的时间相对较短，预计现有研究中仍存在一些空白。因此，本研究的目的是对过去五年（2016-2020 年）在约会应用上发表的关于心理社会内容的实证研究进行系统回顾。我们在不同的数据库中进行了搜索，在初步搜索中发现了 502 篇文章。经过筛选标题和摘要并详细检查文章后，有 70 项研究被纳入综述。从每一项研究中提取了最相关的数据（作者/年份、样本量和特征、方法学）及其发现，并将其分为四个部分：用户使用约会应用的特点、使用特点、使用动机以及使用的好处和风险。讨论了所咨询文献的局限性，以及所获得结果的实际意义，突出了约会应用的相关性，它已经成为全世界数百万人广泛使用的工具。
