Minas Michikyan
Biographic Data
| ID | 643144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minas Michikyan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minas |
| FAMILY NAME | Michikyan |
| SIGNATURE | MICHIKYAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5178-6355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pregaming in the digital age
Identity Distress, Confusion, Synthesis, and Social Media Use for Coping
How do emerging adults undergoing identity distress during an adverse collective life event such as the COVID-19 pandemic use social media for coping? This study addressed this question by examining the associations of identity distress, confusion, and synthesis with social media use for coping with a national, multisite undergraduate sample of university students (N = 1257; M age = 20; 908 women) in the United States. Results indicated that emer…
Funds of Identity
Guided by the funds of identity framework, this study explored how qualitative and quantitative data from the Multidimensional-Identities-Qualitative-Quantitative-Questionnaire (MiQ) and identity artifacts (e.g., self-portraits and self-narrative profiles) may be used pedagogically to draw out and draw on ethnically/racially minoritized emerging adult U.S. college students’ most meaningful and important identities and identity experiences in diff…
Navigating Identity Uncertainty
The long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have only recently begun to be explored. Among college students, who were faced with sudden and unprecedented changes and challenges, it is likely that COVID-19 detrimentally impacted the establishment of a sense of self, a key developmental task of the college years. However, no research has examined the relationships among COVID-19 related worries, identity distress, and psychological and academic …
Social Connectedness and Negative Emotion Modulation
Using a cross-sectional survey study with undergraduate students ( N = 1257; M age = 20; 908 women) in the United States, this paper examined college students' use of social media for coping and its association with COVID-19-related worries (loneliness, interpersonal stress, anxiety) and mental health outcomes (depression, generalized anxiety, and life satisfaction). Undergraduate students were found to use social media frequently during the pand…
Self-Esteem and Real Self and False Self Presentation on Facebook Among Emerging Adults
This study examined the individual and interactive associations between self-esteem, social anxiety, and real and false self-presentation on Facebook. Data came from a college sample of 216 emerging adult Facebook users (M age ≈ 23, 171 women). Findings indicate that social anxiety moderated the association between self-esteem and false self-presentation, such that emerging adults low in self-esteem and high in social anxiety may present themselv…
The relation between face‐to‐face and digital interactions and self‐esteem
Enacted Identities of Immigrant-Origin Emerging Adult Women in Online Contexts
Using a multiple intersecting identities enactment framework, and a qualitative methodology, this article examined the multiple and intersecting identities immigrant-origin emerging adult women enacted online and explored the meanings they ascribed to these identities (N = 14, M age ≈ 20; 57% = second-generation immigrant). Thematic analyses of 84 narratives revealed that the immigrant-origin emerging adult women enacted a range of identities onl…
Adolescent Media and Social Media Use
Undocumented Undergraduates on College Campuses
In this article, Carola Suárez-Orozco and colleagues investigate how to improve undocumented undergraduate student experiences across a variety of US campuses. The authors draw on a national survey of diverse undocumented undergraduates attending two- and four-year public and private institutions of higher education. Using an ecological framework that accounts for risk and resilience, Suárez-Orozco and colleagues provide insights into the challen…
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Using a mixed methods approach, this study examined the meanings that emerging adults (N = 261; 195 women, 66 men; M age≈22 years old) ascribed to their online self-presentation. A thematic analysis based on 761 Facebook photo descriptions and 714 wall posts and status updates revealed that these emerging adults presented their individual, social, gender, ethnic, and spiritual identities as well as their positive, neutral, and negative affective …
Can You Guess Who I Am? Real, Ideal, and False Self-Presentation on Facebook Among Emerging Adults
Emerging adulthood is an important period for self-development, and youth use online contexts for self-exploration and self-presentation. Using a multiple self-presentation framework, the present study examined emerging adults’ presentation of their real self, ideal self, and false self on Facebook, and the relation between their identity state, psychosocial well-being, and online self-presentation. Participants ( N = 261; 66 males, 195 females M…
The effects of text, audio, video, and in-person communication on bonding between friends
Considerable research on computer-mediated communication has examined online communication between strangers, but little is known about the emotional experience of connectedness between friends in digital environments. However, adolescents and emerging adults use digital communication primarily to communicate with existing friends rather than to make new connections. We compared feelings of emotional connectedness as they occurred in person and t…
The effects of text, audio, video, and in-person communication on bonding between friends
Considerable research on computer-mediated communication has examined online communication between strangers, but little is known about the emotional experience of connectedness between friends in digital environments. However, adolescents and emerging adults use digital communication primarily to communicate with existing friends rather than to make new connections. We compared feelings of emotional connectedness as they occurred in person and t…
Can You Guess Who I Am? Real, Ideal, and False Self-Presentation on Facebook Among Emerging Adults
Emerging adulthood is an important period for self-development, and youth use online contexts for self-exploration and self-presentation. Using a multiple self-presentation framework, the present study examined emerging adults’ presentation of their real self, ideal self, and false self on Facebook, and the relation between their identity state, psychosocial well-being, and online self-presentation. Participants ( N = 261; 66 males, 195 females M…
Undocumented Undergraduates on College Campuses
In this article, Carola Suárez-Orozco and colleagues investigate how to improve undocumented undergraduate student experiences across a variety of US campuses. The authors draw on a national survey of diverse undocumented undergraduates attending two- and four-year public and private institutions of higher education. Using an ecological framework that accounts for risk and resilience, Suárez-Orozco and colleagues provide insights into the challen…
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Using a mixed methods approach, this study examined the meanings that emerging adults (N = 261; 195 women, 66 men; M age≈22 years old) ascribed to their online self-presentation. A thematic analysis based on 761 Facebook photo descriptions and 714 wall posts and status updates revealed that these emerging adults presented their individual, social, gender, ethnic, and spiritual identities as well as their positive, neutral, and negative affective …
Adolescent Media and Social Media Use
Enacted Identities of Immigrant-Origin Emerging Adult Women in Online Contexts
Using a multiple intersecting identities enactment framework, and a qualitative methodology, this article examined the multiple and intersecting identities immigrant-origin emerging adult women enacted online and explored the meanings they ascribed to these identities (N = 14, M age ≈ 20; 57% = second-generation immigrant). Thematic analyses of 84 narratives revealed that the immigrant-origin emerging adult women enacted a range of identities onl…
The relation between face‐to‐face and digital interactions and self‐esteem
Self-Esteem and Real Self and False Self Presentation on Facebook Among Emerging Adults
This study examined the individual and interactive associations between self-esteem, social anxiety, and real and false self-presentation on Facebook. Data came from a college sample of 216 emerging adult Facebook users (M age ≈ 23, 171 women). Findings indicate that social anxiety moderated the association between self-esteem and false self-presentation, such that emerging adults low in self-esteem and high in social anxiety may present themselv…
Navigating Identity Uncertainty
The long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have only recently begun to be explored. Among college students, who were faced with sudden and unprecedented changes and challenges, it is likely that COVID-19 detrimentally impacted the establishment of a sense of self, a key developmental task of the college years. However, no research has examined the relationships among COVID-19 related worries, identity distress, and psychological and academic …
Social Connectedness and Negative Emotion Modulation
Using a cross-sectional survey study with undergraduate students ( N = 1257; M age = 20; 908 women) in the United States, this paper examined college students' use of social media for coping and its association with COVID-19-related worries (loneliness, interpersonal stress, anxiety) and mental health outcomes (depression, generalized anxiety, and life satisfaction). Undergraduate students were found to use social media frequently during the pand…
Funds of Identity
Guided by the funds of identity framework, this study explored how qualitative and quantitative data from the Multidimensional-Identities-Qualitative-Quantitative-Questionnaire (MiQ) and identity artifacts (e.g., self-portraits and self-narrative profiles) may be used pedagogically to draw out and draw on ethnically/racially minoritized emerging adult U.S. college students’ most meaningful and important identities and identity experiences in diff…
Pregaming in the digital age
Identity Distress, Confusion, Synthesis, and Social Media Use for Coping
How do emerging adults undergoing identity distress during an adverse collective life event such as the COVID-19 pandemic use social media for coping? This study addressed this question by examining the associations of identity distress, confusion, and synthesis with social media use for coping with a national, multisite undergraduate sample of university students (N = 1257; M age = 20; 908 women) in the United States. Results indicated that emer…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (10 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Identity (music (4 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (4 works)