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Firmin, Michael; Tse, Luke; Foster, Janna; Angelini, Tammy – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
The study utilized qualitative research methodology to assess external dynamics and their influences on tattooing practices among college students. Twenty-four undergraduates supplied in-depth interviews regarding the external variables related to college students' decisions to tattoo. The present research follows (Tse, Firmin, Angelini, &…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Undergraduate Students, Peer Influence, Adolescents
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Ferreira, Vitor Sérgio – Youth & Society, 2014
Why some young people start to tattoo their bodies? And why some of them keep going on with this practice, until having all body tattooed? What doing so means to them? These are some of the questions that underlie a qualitative research project carried out in Portugal on heavily tattooed young people. In this article, the author discusses their…
Descriptors: Human Body, Foreign Countries, Youth, Identification (Psychology)