This research deals with the issue of self-harm, the relationship between self-harm and the Internet, and the relationship between self-harm and subculture. The theoretical part characterizes the age of adolescence, as well as describing self-harm and the emo and gothic subcultures. The aim of the research was to discover the motivations that lead young people to write blogs about self-harm, whether they have their own experiences with self-harm, and if so, what are their experiences, their manner of self-harm, how they experience self-harming, and what are the causes. Another aim was to determine the role that social contagion plays in self-harm and how young people perceive the relationship between self-harm and culture-subculture. The research results showed that the causes of the respondents' self-harm are individual and that there are always several factors at play. As a trigger for self-harm the respondents stated stressful situations, annoyance, surging anger and hatred, depression, and feelings of inferiority. The causes of self-harm were diverse among respondents; they included family problems, parental divorce, death of a loved one, trouble at school, bullying, anorexia, abortion, and rape. Respondents indicated that self-harming served as a release, where mental pain was transformed into physical pain. In this way it provided relief from internal tension and anxiety. i have not found a direct link between emo subculture and self-harming among respondents. There was also an effort to understand the issue of self-harm, as such, more deeply.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:188186 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | PROKOPOVÁ, Eliška |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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