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Online social networking and adolescent identity development

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. / text

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5220
Date09 August 2012
CreatorsMcMillan, Whitney Anne
Source SetsUniversity of Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typethesis
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