The change of students' social network after entering intimate relationship

The undergraduate thesis focuses on students’ social network and lifestyle changes after engaging in a new partnership. Theoretical framework about the young adulthood era, social relationship, social network and support was in the empirical part upgraded with an overview of changes in diversification and composition of students’ social network after engaging in a new partnership and their satisfaction with these changes. I was researching also lifestyle changes that occur after entering a new partnership and the the satisfaction with these changes and glanced at the question how social network affects the partnership. Qualitative analysis was used; for data gathering three semi-structured interviews were conducted; one in focus group and another two individually. The research results show that interviewed students experience moderate to major changes in social network, however, these changes are not necessarily the consequence of the new partnership. The lifestyle changes that emerge due to an engaging in a new relationship also occur, but, according to the participants, do not seem to turn out as burdening, since the students tend to implement different strategies to create a new, more appropriate and better lifestyle