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family members to keep in touch with each other. These
include communication via a digital platform such as
sending and receiving messages by using emails and/or
social networking services. Hence, the advances in
digitalization can have a major impact on how people in
the past had perceived differently the various ways of
maintaining interpersonal or social relationships with each
other (Kraut et. al., 1988).
In addition, the cost of the acquisition of a validated
and published questionnaire can also be an important
consideration, especially for researchers from developing
countries. The purpose of a questionnaire validation study
is to determine whether (or not) a validated questionnaire
can be re-used in a local respondent population within a
local setting. Since many researchers may have difficulty in
paying for the access to a validated and published
questionnaire if they do not receive any financial support,
