Samopoimanje adolescenata u realnom i virtuelnom okruženju
Adolescent self-concept in the online world and reality

Summary/Abstract: Having in mind the fact that there are over 2 billion users of various social networks in the world, which are largely based on ways of presenting individuals, we believe that it is important to examine how the adolescents present in social networks. Specifically, we are interested in whether we can talk about the different ways of presenting adolescents in relation to the environment in which it happens, the reality and the virtual world created by the social networks.The study was conducted on a sample of 99 students of third and fourth graders from four secondary schools in the Tuzla Canton, and for investigating self-perception self-discrepancy scale was used. The study was conducted in two stages, the first stage of the data collected in the form of paper-pen, while the second time (after two months) data collected through the Internet, through specially designed platform.The study results suggest the existence of differences in self-perception of adolescents in reality and in the virtual environment. In fact, demonstrated a significantly more pronounced value self-perception of adolescents in the virtual environment (which is tested online mode of data collection) This conclusion is confirmed by the results of the Wilcoxon test in the following facets of self-perception: the emotional self (z = -6.86, p <0.01) social self (z = -7.55, p <0.01) and cognitive self (z = -8.25, p <0.01). These results could be understood as the need of adolescents to present themselves in a better way in virtual environment (social networks) in order to get a more positive and supporting response of the environment, as well as to present their self in the best possible way to the community of a few hundreds or even thousands of friends.

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