The Saudi student's attitudes towards watching television programs with their Families on the light of age and education effects

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Imam Uni

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This study was conducted on a random sample of male and female students at Imam University in Riyadh, amounting to (360) individuals from various practical and theoretical colleges, through the survey newspaper. The study aimed to identify the sample members’ attitudes towards watching television programs with their families, in light of the spread of mobile phones and the emergence of the addiction crisis to these devices. The study also aims to find the relationship between age and young people’s watching television programs with their families, as well as the relationship between the educational level of young people and their watching of programs. TV with their families.
The study reached results, the most important of which are the following:
  1- All members of the sample tend to watch television programs with their families, and they believe that it increases their bond with their families. The level of watching with the family “sometimes or for a short time” was the majority among the sample members, reaching 60%.
2- The study showed that there is an inverse relationship between the increasing age of the young people in the study sample and their viewing of programs with their families. The older the age, the less watching with the family.
3-The study also showed that there is a positive, direct relationship between the advancement of the educational level of the youth in the study sample and their viewing of programs with their families. The higher the educational level, the more watching with the family.

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