Mahdizadeh Mehrsadat, Solhi Mahnaz, Ebadifard Azar Farbod, Taghipour Ali, Asgharnejad Farid Aliasghar
Department of Health Services and Health Education, School of Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Health Promotion Research Center, Department of Health Services and Health Education, School of Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2017 Aug 20;31:46. doi: 10.14196/mjiri.31.46. eCollection 2017.
Social networking has a dramatically increasing trend among adolescents. By creating novel models of content production, distribution, and reception, this space has introduced opportunities and threats for adolescents, which must be understood in relation with their health status. This study was conducted with the aim of describing the psychosocial experiences of Iranian adolescents in the Internet's virtual space. The present qualitative formal content analysis was conducted in Mashhad a city Iran. The participants included 32 adolescents of 13-18 years of age. Data were collected through 32 semi-structured individual and group interviews with maximum variation. The data were recorded, transcribed, and then analyzed via MAXQ 10 software. In this study, 2 main themes of "moving towards constructiveness" and "perceiving social and psychological tensions" were formed. Accordingly, 9 subcategories were formulated including: increasing the social capital, a good feeling in life, escaping loneliness, being seen in the social network, intelligent selection of content, perceived threats, temptation, decline of behavioral values and principles, and emotional and social helplessness. Adolescents' positive and negative experiences in the Internet form based on personal and environmental factors. These experiences affect the mental and social dimensions of their health. These factors call for the attention of scholars and policymakers for developing enabling strategies for adolescents, and their families and for experts for promoting adolescents' health.
社交网络在青少年中的趋势急剧上升。通过创造内容制作、传播和接收的新模式，这个领域给青少年带来了机遇和威胁，必须结合他们的健康状况来理解。本研究旨在描述伊朗青少年在互联网虚拟空间中的心理社会体验。本次定性形式内容分析在伊朗城市马什哈德进行。参与者包括32名13至18岁的青少年。通过32次具有最大变异性的半结构化个人和小组访谈收集数据。数据被记录、转录，然后通过MAXQ 10软件进行分析。在本研究中，形成了“走向建设性”和“感知社会和心理紧张”两个主要主题。相应地，制定了9个子类别，包括：增加社会资本、生活中的良好感觉、摆脱孤独、在社交网络中被关注、明智选择内容、感知威胁、诱惑、行为价值观和原则的下降以及情感和社会无助。青少年在互联网上基于个人和环境因素的积极和消极体验。这些体验影响他们健康的心理和社会层面。这些因素需要学者和政策制定者关注，以便为青少年及其家庭制定有利策略，也需要专家关注以促进青少年健康。
