”Jag önskar att jag inte behövde det men samtidigt så känner jag att jag måste”: En kvalitativ studie rörande unga vuxnas reflektioner om Facebook och Facebookanvändande
2016 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Abstract
The aim of this study has been to present the percieved influence of Facebook usage among
young adults. Five subjects, two men and three women aged 20-25, was the respondents of
qualitative, semistructured, interviews with an emphesis on social phenomenons that might
affect psychosocial health. After applying coding and thematc analasis to the collected data,
the findings were analyzed using socialpsychological theory and theory of identity and earlier
findings on the subject. The results show that the interviewed young adults tend to express
that Facebook usage is affecting their health in different ways, that Facebook as such has both
positive and negative sides and lastly that the individuals’ usage and represenatation on
Facebook can be linked to different roles and that the process of representation on Facebook
can affect the identification process.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016.
Keywords [en]
Facebook, Facebook usage, young adults, roles, identity, consequenses
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-56178OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-56178DiVA, id: diva2:1079048
Subject / course
Socialt arbete, (socionomutb)
2017-03-082017-03-072017-10-18Bibliographically approved