Online social networking and adolescent identity development
| Title: | Online social networking and adolescent identity development |
| Author: | McMillan, Whitney Anne |
| Abstract: | Using Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development and Higgins’s self discrepancy theory, this report provides a framework for understanding adolescents’ use of social networking websites and the implications of such use for their identity development and subsequent well-being. Suggestions for working with adolescents and future research are outlined. |
| Department: | Educational Psychology |
| Subject: |
Online social networking
Adolescence Identity |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5220 |
| Date: | 2012-05 |
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