Navigating the moral world : contrasting adolescents’ moral dilemmas in social media and reallife environments

Rakinić, Kristina (author)

This qualitative study aims to explore and compare adolescents’ moral dilemmas in real life and on social media, focusing on their content, conflict and context. A purposive sampling method was used, involving 130 Slovenian adolescents (mean age 17.3 years). A deductive and inductive approach was used for data analysis. Results show commonalities in moral dilemmas regarding context, mainly involving friends, and content, mainly rooted in the care/harm foundation. Notable differences in conflicts were observed, largely influenced by the unique characteristics of social media. These findings contribute to the relatively unexplored realm of moral dilemmas on social media from adolescents’ perspectives, providing valuable insights for moral education in the context of social media.

• Language: English
• Keywords: morality, dilemmas
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 4-25
• Numbering: Vol. 15, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-159635
• UDC: 316.472.4:17-053.6
• ISSN on article: 2084-9257
• DOI: 10.14746/eip.2024.1.1
• COBISS.SI-ID: 201935619
• Publication date in RUL: 16.07.2024

RAKINIĆ, Kristina, 2024, Navigating the moral world : contrasting adolescents’ moral dilemmas in social media and reallife environments. Ethics in Progress [online]. 2024. Vol. 15, no. 1, p. 4–25. [Accessed 14 March 2025]. DOI 10.14746/eip.2024.1.1. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=159635

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Ethics in Progress
• Shortened title: Ethics Prog.
• Publisher: Academic Research Publishers of Institute of Philosophy AMU
• ISSN: 2084-9257
• COBISS.SI-ID: 528941081

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: družbeni mediji, kvalitativno raziskovanje, mladostništvo

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0168
• Name: Družboslovna metodologija, statistika in informatika