UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL VALIDATION AS A PROCESS AND LIVED EXPERIENCE AMONG COLLEGE GOING STUDENTS IN DELHI.

PSYCHOLOGY(SOCIAL SCIENCES)

Considerable research has explored the variables that affect the socialization and social life of an individual. We build on this research by examining the different dimensions of social validation as a process and lived experience among college students through focus group discussion. Social validation is concerned with social norms and how people often look on to others’ behaviour in deciding how to behave across situations, especially in ambiguous contexts. In other word, we tend to consider how others act and behave in similar situation. To understand the lived experience of social validation we used focus group discussion. Through the focus group discussion, social validation was identified as a process that may directly or indirectly affect one’s mental health, and emotional wellbeing. One of the key point that was found in social validation that it may either be a positive factor, or a negative factor: it may be a source of motivation for an individual while be a source of deprivation and low self-esteem for the other.

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