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Social networking and young adults' drinking practices: innovative qualitative methods for health behavior research.
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Publisher: American Psychological Association, Division of Health Psychology Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 8211523 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1930-7810 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02786133 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Health Psychol Subsets: MEDLINE
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Publication: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, Division of Health Psychology
Original Publication: Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawerence Erlbaum Associates, c1982-
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- Abstract:
Objectives: Understandings of health behaviors can be enriched by using innovative qualitative research designs. We illustrate this with a project that used multiple qualitative methods to explore the confluence of young adults' drinking behaviors and social networking practices in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Method: Participants were 18-25 year old males and females from diverse ethnic, class, and occupational backgrounds. In Stage 1, 34 friendship focus group discussions were video-recorded with 141 young adults who talked about their drinking and social networking practices. In Stage 2, 23 individual interviews were conducted using screen-capture software and video to record participants showing and discussing their Facebook pages. In Stage 3, a database of Web-based material regarding drinking and alcohol was developed and analyzed.
Results: In friendship group data, young adults co-constructed accounts of drinking practices and networking about drinking via Facebook as intensely social and pleasurable. However, this pleasure was less prominent in individual interviews, where there was greater explication of unpleasant or problematic experiences and practices. The pleasure derived from drinking and social networking practices was also differentiated by ethnicity, gender, and social class. Juxtaposing the Web-based data with participants' talk about their drinking and social media use showed the deep penetration of online alcohol marketing into young people's social worlds.
Conclusions: Multiple qualitative methods, generating multimodal datasets, allowed valuable nuanced insights into young adults' drinking practices and social networking behaviors. This knowledge can usefully inform health policy, health promotion strategies, and targeted health interventions.
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MR/K023195/1 United Kingdom MRC_ Medical Research Council
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Date Created: 20150331 Date Completed: 20151016 Latest Revision: 20220129
- Publication Date:
20221213
- Accession Number:
10.1037/hea0000168
- Accession Number:
25822049
