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Qualitative Research Group 3 Chapter 1

This study investigates the impact of social media on teenage relationships, focusing on both positive and negative effects on communication, emotional connections, and conflict resolution. It employs two theoretical frameworks to understand how social media fulfills individual needs and is influenced by external factors. The findings aim to inform educators, parents, mental health professionals, and policymakers about the implications of social media on youth social and emotional development.

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Qualitative Research Group 3 Chapter 1

This study investigates the impact of social media on teenage relationships, focusing on both positive and negative effects on communication, emotional connections, and conflict resolution. It employs two theoretical frameworks to understand how social media fulfills individual needs and is influenced by external factors. The findings aim to inform educators, parents, mental health professionals, and policymakers about the implications of social media on youth social and emotional development.

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CHAPTER 1:

INTRODUCTION

The Impact of Social Media on Teenage Relationship

Background of the Study

The rise of social media has reshaped the way youngsters connected and construct connections. Stages such as Facebook,

Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat have gotten to be central to pre-adult communication, impacting fellowships, sentimental

connections, and social character. Whereas these advanced spaces permit for moment association and self-expression, concerns

have developed almost their effect on teenager's passionate well-being, social abilities, and offline intelligent.

Recent considers recommend that social media utilize among young people has both positive and negative impacts. Agreeing

to Valkenburg (2022), social media can cultivate social associations, especially for youths who battle with face-to-face intuitive. In

any case, over the top utilize may lead to social comparison, cyberbullying, and diminished enthusiastic flexibility. A study by The

Modern Britain Venture (2025) found that a lion's share of youthful individuals accept social media does more hurt than great, with

concerns around online poisonous quality and enslavement. These discoveries highlight the significance of understanding how

social media impacts high school connections in both useful and inconvenient ways. Given these issues, this think about points to

investigate the part of social media in forming young connections, centering on how it influences communication, passionate
associations, and strife determination. A subjective approach will be utilized to capture teenagers’ real-life encounters and points of

view, giving more profound experiences into the affect of advanced intelligent on their social lives.

Theoretical Framework

This inquire about is guided by two foundational hypotheses that offer assistance clarify the impact of social media on adolescent

connections:

Employments and Satisfactions Hypothesis – This hypothesis proposes that people effectively select media stages to fulfill

particular needs, such as excitement, social association, or information-seeking. In the setting of social media, youngsters lock in

with diverse stages based on their individual and social needs. Weinstein (2018) investigated this hypothesis in connection to

juvenile socialization, highlighting how advanced intelligent can fulfill social and enthusiastic needs whereas too uncovering clients

to potential risks.

Biological Frameworks Hypothesis – Proposed by Bronfenbrenner, this hypothesis clarifies how different natural components

shape person behavior. When connected to social media utilize, this system recommends that connections are impacted not fair by

individual intuitive but too by outside components such as family, peers, and social desires. Shapiro and Margolin (2020) inspected

how online social intelligent fit inside broader social frameworks, appearing that advanced communication can both back and

complicate high school connections.


Research Questions

1. How does social media influence the quality of teenagers’ face-to-face connections?

2. In what ways does social media impact the arrangement and support of fellowships and sentimental connections among

youngsters?

3. What are the seen positive and negative impacts of social media on teenagers’ passionate well-being and social aptitudes?

Significance of the Study

The discoveries of this think about will be profitable for different partners:

Teachers and School Directors – Understanding the affect of social media on students’ connections can offer assistance in

planning programs that advance sound advanced intelligent and address issues like cyberbullying.

Guardians and Gatekeepers – The ponder will give bits of knowledge into how social media influences their children’s social and

passionate improvement, making a difference them offer superior direction.

Mental Wellbeing Experts – Analyzing the association between social media utilize and pre-adult well-being can offer assistance

advisors create intercessions for tending to digital-related stretch and uneasiness.


Arrangement Producers – The ponder may contribute to arrangement talks on making more secure and more mindful online

situations for youthful individuals.

Scope and Delimitations

This consider will center on youths matured 13 to 18 and their encounters with social media in connection to their interpersonal

connections. The inquire about will be conducted through subjective strategies, counting interviews and center bunch discourses, to

investigate individual encounters and discernments. The consider will be constrained to a particular geographic region, meaning

that its discoveries may not be generalizable to all youngsters. Moreover, this inquire about will not degree quantitative angles such

as time went through on social media or its measurable impacts on mental wellbeing.

Definition of Terms

Social Media – Computerized stages that empower clients to communicate, share substance, and lock in with others online.

Era Z (Gen Z) – People born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, who have developed up with far reaching web get to and

social media.

Cyberbullying – Badgering, terrorizing, or negative behavior coordinated at people through computerized stages.
Social Comparison – The inclination to assess oneself in connection to others, regularly impacted by curated social media

substance.

Environmental Frameworks Hypothesis – A system that analyzes how social and natural components impact human improvement

and behavior.

Employments and Satisfactions Hypothesis – A hypothesis that clarifies how individuals utilize media to fulfill particular needs, such

as amusement, data, or social interaction.

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