Value use of social media by applying to a sample of adolescents (In value-deterministic theory)

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Lecturer at the Faculty of the Specific Education - port said university

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This study aims to identify the adolescents’ level of social media usages and the relationship to their level of values, and to recognize the concept of values through a new
perspective that is compatible with our social, cultural, civil and value environments
which is the theory of value determinism in the media.
The study based on a questionnaire form applied to a random sample of adolescents in
Port Said city, with a total sample of 383 individuals divided into 188 (male), 49.1% of the
total sample and 198 (female), 50.9% of the total sample.
The study reached a set of results and among these are:
1- The level of social media usages by adolescents is 56.7%, which proves the high rate
of usage among adolescents, where social media provide them an important window
to access the outside world.
2- There is a statistically significant inverse correlation between the intensity of adolescents’ use of social media sites and their level of values.
3-There is a statistically significant inverse correlation between the level of adolescents’
values and their social media wants.
4- There is a statistically significant inverse correlation between the level of adolescents’
values and the level of motivations they have for using social media.

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