Focus groups experience in searching the best way to study the sexual-self aspects in teens

Abstract

This paper presents qualitative data from Focus Groups (FG) in young adults and teens’ samples. FG were conducted as a part of the pilot study in the dissertational project on adolescents’ sexuality. The explorative approach was used with young adults’ FG and the phenomenological one- working with teens. Older sample consisted of 17 young adults (students) (7 men and 10 women, aged 18-19) who participated in single-sex FG. The teens’ sample consisted of 27 pupils, aged 14, who participated in 4 single-sex focus groups. The information gathered from the young adult explorative FG provided the background for the qualitative study and the manual for young teens’ FG was created. The FG with teens helped to understand and describe both the psychological context and in particular teens’ experience on being sexual- fourteen.