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Submission Number: 123
Submission ID: 927
Submission UUID: 89d111ab-3b97-4a07-8307-4672225497fd
Submission URI: /2025/abstracts
Created: Wed, 04/30/2025 - 13:33
Completed: Wed, 04/30/2025 - 14:21
Changed: Tue, 05/20/2025 - 02:05
Remote IP address: 2c0f:ef20:2206:6f00:d46b:6901:357:e23a
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
| Title | Ms. |
|---|---|
| Lastname | Coleman |
| Firstname | Robyn |
| rcoleman@ufh.ac.za | |
| Mobile | 0833911439 |
| Institution | University of fort hare |
| Biosketch | Robyn Coleman is a lecturer in Social Work at the University of Fort Hare. She is a PhD candidate exploring the dichotomy of social media and well-being using constructivist grounded theory. With experience across public, private, and NGO sectors, she brings practical insight alongside her theoretical application to her teaching and encourages postgraduate research engagement. Robyn is passionate about inclusive and current pedagogy, student and postgraduate well-being, and qualitative research. Her work aims to contribute to capacitating social work practices in an increasingly digitally immersed world. |
| Is there a Second Presenter? | No |
| Title of Presentatation | Social Media-Induced Emotional Distress and Its Impact on Emerging Adults' Well-Being |
| Theme Selection | THEME 4: Social Work Education, Transdisciplinarity and Curriculum Development |
| Subtheme FOUR Selection | SUB 4.7 Innovative teaching methodologies, and Innovations in postgraduate supervision. |
| Select your Presentation Type | Oral Presentation |
| Abstract | To uncover the truth, depth, and richness in researching a phenomenon, a constructivist grounded theory researcher goes to great lengths to delve deep beneath the surface and co-construct emerging insights where there were none before. The phenomena: to understand Generation Z’s dynamic interactions in a dichotomous world where online and offline interconnectedness is a normality. Statistically, they are both the highest users of social media and the most anxious generational cohort. With their overarching pressure to continually engage and interact on social media, this pressure precariously balances on the precipice of being both positive and detrimental to their well-being. A constructivist grounded theory (CGT) research study was conducted in the Buffalo City Metro in Eastern Cape, South Africa. The study selected 12 emerging adults aged 18 – 26 years old in 2023, which fell within the Generation Z age category. Data collection took the shape of in-depth interviews and a seven-day daily diary submission process that was iteratively shaped over three phases. This presentation will provide insight into the core concepts of CGT required to iteratively approach the study, one phase at a time; from data collection and analysis to the final emergence of co-constructed data, which depicts emerging adults' disclosure that social media content heightened their well-being, by experiencing both pain and pleasure while scrolling online. The insightful, rich, emergent findings presented emerging adults as experiencing emotional pain from viewing social media content, detrimentally influencing their offline well-being. This study recommends encouraging social work post-graduate students to embrace CGT as their research methodology to enhance the depth of rich, meaningful South African research, which is desperately required. |
| Title | Prof |
| Firstname | Alice |
| Lastname | Ncube |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Somewhat |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Education |
| Status | Accepted |
| Title | DR |
| Firstname | KIM |
| Lastname | SCHMIDT |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Somewhat |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Education |
| Status | Accepted |