Metrosexual Lifestyle and Interpersonal Relationships

DOI

10.2991/icomacs-18.2018.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

lifestyles, metrosexual, interpersonal relationships, phenomenology

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discover and explain the motives, meanings, self-concept and interpersonal relationships of men undergoing sexual metro lifestyles. The approach of this research is qualitative approach, with a phenomenological method and constructivism paradigms. Data collection techniques through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and literature review. Informants who studied a number of eight people by purposive sampling. The results showed that the motive for men undergoing a metrosexual lifestyle of career demands, interest in modern lifestyles, and association. While in order to motive is the times, look more interesting. In this case metro sexual men interpreted that metrosexuals are very concerned about appearance to look more confident and make the body more healthy and clean. A man's self-concept is seen from the psychological perspective of self, the physical perception of the self, and the social perception of the self that produces positive and negative views. On the other hand in running their interpersonal relationship is not a self-limiting figure, but indirectly they tend to perform the process of selection that is considered equivalent as having the same lifestyle so that the communication is effective. Then emerging models of interpersonal relationships between them, where they play their role in accordance with their environment.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Achmad Wildan Kurniawan
AU  - Silvi Sucira Listian
AU  - Zikri Fachrul Nurhadi
AU  - Heri Hendrawan
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Metrosexual Lifestyle and Interpersonal Relationships
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Media and Communication Studies (ICOMACS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 20
EP  - 23
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icomacs-18.2018.5
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