Instagram is one popular social media that is used, especially among college students. Students tend to do self-presentations to give a good impression to others. This study is conducted using qualitative method to obtain description of the type of students’ self-presentation through photo contents uploaded to their Instagram account. The data was collected from the social media of 10 female college students of Faculty of Communication in Padjadjaran University. The results show that the types of self-presentation performed by the participants were ingratiation, supplication, and enhancement. These three types of self-presentation are the types that are often showed through social media. There were three subjects who used all three types of strategies, four subjects used two types (ingratiation and enhancement) and three subjects used one type, ingratiation. From 192 observed photos, 152 were included in the ingratiation type, 4 in the supplication type, and 34 in the enhancement type.
BackgroundOne of the preferences working in the Generation Z is based on their motivational work values. The relevance of job choices with the work values will contribute to student career planning. The work value instrument among generations is one of the popular instruments used to measure final year students' work value, yet few studies of the psychometric properties of non-English language versions of this instrument. This study's objectives were to adapt a questionnaire of work value in Indonesian final year university students.MethodsThe number of participants in this study was 316 students in Indonesia, comprised of final year students from various majors who were selected by quota sampling. The instrument consisted of 5 dimensions of value, including leisure, extrinsic rewards, intrinsic rewards, altruistic rewards, and social rewards. The reliability analysis was performed using McDonald's Omega, the evidence of validity was obtained from test content, internal structure through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and evidence-based in relation to other variable has conducted the correlation between work value and career development learning using the Pearson's correlation coefficient.ResultsThe results showed that the work values instrument had good psychometric properties, including good reliability, good content validity, and internal structure. In CFA, the two-factor structure showed satisfactory model fit. Moreover, the correlation of work value with career development learning builds stronger validity evidence on this instrument.ConclusionThe adapted instrument can be used practically to identify work value preferences of final year students to help them choose a work preference and setup the career planning before graduating. The result could be of interest for the researcher in work value, motivational work, and career areas in higher education. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no reports about the adaptation of work value instruments in Indonesian final year university students.
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