The alcohol self-presentation model: Using thematic qualitative analysis to elucidate how college students self-present via alcohol-related social media posts.

Autor: Steers MN; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.; School of Nursing, Duquense University, Pittsburgh, USA., Mannheim LC; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA., Ward RM; Department of Kinesiology and Health, Miami University, Oxford, USA., Tanygin AB; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Drug and alcohol review [Drug Alcohol Rev] 2022 Nov; Vol. 41 (7), pp. 1589-1598. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 28.
DOI: 10.1111/dar.13508
Abstrakt: Introduction: Posting and viewing of alcohol-related content to social media is prevalent among college students and is related to problematic drinking. However, the cognitive self-presentation and self-monitoring processes behind users' alcohol-related content posts to different platforms are largely unknown.
Methods: Through in-depth, qualitative interviews with college students (n = 15) who drink heavily and post alcohol-related content regularly, we developed the Alcohol Self-Presentation Model.
Results: Using a multi-step thematic analysis approach, the themes of protectiveness and acquisitiveness emerged; these themes served as the basis of our model. In total, three protectiveness (perceived permanence of the content, privacy and reputation concerns) factors and four acquisitiveness (provocative, impulsive, high-status, maintaining relevance and connections) factors were derived.
Discussion and Conclusions: Our model delineated the alcohol self-presentations which allowed participants to demonstrate disparate versions of themselves to certain social media audiences. Our results illuminated that what people identify as being alcohol-related content, and what motivates the individual to post alcohol-related content, are essential to better comprehending how their alcohol-related content uniquely contributes to their drinking. Understanding students' alcohol self-presentations is important since their alcohol-related content may be putting themselves, and others, at-risk by perpetuating patterns of frequent posting and heavy drinking within the network. Our model may inform future behavioural interventions targeting the reduction of drinking among young people who are active on social media.
(© 2022 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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