Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School, Locked Bag 4001, corner Hawkesbury Road and Hainsworth Street, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; and Corresponding author. Email:
Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School, Locked Bag 4001, corner Hawkesbury Road and Hainsworth Street, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; and The Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
Sex Health. 2020 Nov;17(5):467-474. doi: 10.1071/SH20056.
Background Understanding the factors influencing adolescents' relationship views is important because early romantic relationships often act as precursors for relationships in adulthood. This study sought to examine the types of relationship-focused content adolescents witness on social media and how they perceive its effect on their romantic relationship beliefs.
Sixteen semistructured interviews were conducted with Australian adolescents aged 16-19 years who were purposively sampled from a larger longitudinal study. Interview transcripts were analysed qualitatively using constructivist grounded theory.
Participants described the types of romantic relationship portrayals they saw on social media, including relationship-focused trends like 'Relationship Goals' and 'Insta-Couples'. Participants explained their ability to identify incomplete and unrealistic relationship portrayals, as well as the pressure to share their relationships online in the same incomplete fashion. Views regarding the influence of social media were varied, but most believed social media relationship portrayals had some level of influence on young people's relationship views; some participants believed this occurred regardless of awareness of the incompleteness of the online portrayal.
Although participant interview data revealed the pervasiveness of social media relationship portrayals, it also revealed the sophisticated capabilities of adolescents in critiquing online media portrayals.
理解影响青少年恋爱观的因素很重要，因为早期的恋爱关系往往是成年后恋爱关系的前兆。本研究旨在探讨青少年在社交媒体上看到的以恋爱关系为中心的内容类型，以及他们如何看待这些内容对其恋爱关系信念的影响。
本研究采用建构主义扎根理论对 16-19 岁的澳大利亚青少年进行了 16 次半结构化访谈，这些青少年是从一项更大的纵向研究中有意选择的。
参与者描述了他们在社交媒体上看到的浪漫关系描绘类型，包括以恋爱关系为中心的趋势，如“恋爱目标”和“Instagram 情侣”。参与者解释了他们识别不完整和不现实的关系描绘的能力，以及以同样不完整的方式在网上分享他们的关系的压力。关于社交媒体影响的观点各不相同，但大多数人认为社交媒体的关系描绘对年轻人的恋爱观有一定程度的影响；一些参与者认为，无论是否意识到在线描绘的不完整性，这种影响都会发生。
尽管参与者的访谈数据揭示了社交媒体关系描绘的普遍性，但也揭示了青少年在批评在线媒体描绘方面的复杂能力。
