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Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Turkey
Approval Date: 2021
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: Saniye Selin Döğer
Supervisor: Fatma Elif Kılınç
Abstract:
This study examines friendship relations, which is the essential element of
adolescence, in adolescents attending the 9th grade and reveal the effect of the Covid19 pandemic process on these relations. In this direction, the phenomenology design,
one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The research group was determined
as a total of 21 adolescents, 13 girls and 8 boys, attending the 9th grade, who agreed
to participate in the study in line with the purposeful sampling. In line with the purpose,
data were collected through online interviews in line with the interview form, which
included questions about demographic information, friendship relations, and pandemic
lives. The obtained data were first transcribed by the content analysis method, and then
the expressions with similar meanings were categorized.
Looking at the results of the research, it was seen that adolescents continued their
education through different platforms during the pandemic process; they spent most of
their time with their phones during the pandemic process, and they used it to follow
lessons and social media. Furthermore, it has been observed that online life, which is
an output of the pandemic, affects adolescents' friendship relations, such as being away
from friends, not meeting, not making friends, and a decrease in the number of friends.
Therefore, in this direction, it can be recommended to protect adolescents' friendship
relations, protect them from the possible dangers of online life, and provide education
standardization.