”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

• Main Authors: Andersson, Andreas, Johansson, Sara
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete 2016
• Subjects: Facebook; Facebook usage; young adults; roles; identity; consequenses
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-56178

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.