scholarly journals Perceived Benefits and Risks of Social Media: Ethiopian Secondary School Students’ Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 294-300
Author(s):  
Feyisa Mulisa ◽  
Dawit Asrat Getahun
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
School Students

scholarly journals Examination of Social Media Attitudes and Loneliness Levels of Secondary Education Students with Regard to Gender and Sport

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Gaye Erkmen ◽  
Mehmet Altin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Education Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Students Attitudes

The purpose of the study was to examine secondary school students' attitudes towards social media and their loneliness levels in terms of gender and whether they do sports or not. The sample of the study consisted of 175 female and 269 male secondary school stıdents. To collect data personal information form, Social Media Attitude Scale (Otrar ve Argın, 2013) and UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, Peplau, & Cutrona, 1980) were used to in this study. Independent t test analysis was conducted to examine whether the participants' social media attitudes and loneliness levels differed with regard to gender and do sport. According to the results, there was no significant difference in social media attitudes (t = -.832, p > .05) with regard to gender. However, loneliness levels of the participants seems to be significantly different with regard to gender (t = -6.513, p = .000). When the participants were examined whether they do sports or not, there was not any significant difference in social media attitudes (t = -.427, p> .05). However, the levels of loneliness was significantly found to be different in terms of doing sports or not (t = -3.675, p = .000). Furthermore, there was not a significant relationship between social media attitudes and loneliness (p > .05). It can be concluded that sport and regular physical activity can be considered as a means to provide environments where individuals will feel far away from the feeling of loneliness and that they will feel themselves more valuable. 

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on the Use of Social Media, Reading Habits and Academic Performance of Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
P. T. Nnaji ◽  
V. N. Okpuzor ◽  
E. Morka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Target Population ◽  
School Students ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Aim: A comparative study was conducted on how the use of social media affects the reading habit and academic performance of secondary school students. Study Design: The study adopted the descriptive survey research design to help elicit data from the target population through questionnaire, observations and interview instruments. Methodology: The questionnaires were randomly administered to both male and female students. Results: Social media is a great digital platform for learning and obtaining current information. There are consequences attached to the proper use and misuse among adolescent students. More than 50% of social media operators in secondary schools are users of Facebook. 58 out of 75 students who scored “A” grade in their favourite subject operated social media. 67.23% of the total respondents who use the social media didn’t score an “A” grade in their favourite subject. Students who operated more than one social media network scarcely scored an “A” grade. Only 3.5% of students spent up to 4 hours of reading every day. 46.5% read for 2-3 hours and 36.5% read for an hour. 11.5% read for 30munites while 2% read for less than 30 minutes. Conclusion: Students should be properly guided and given an adequate orientation before providing them with electronic devices like smart phones. Teachers should be encouraged to join large student groups. Off-topics and non-academic discussions should be curtailed.

Engaging Information Security Awareness on Social Media: A Case Study of Secondary School Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 7601-7605
Author(s):  
Omar Zakaria ◽  
Mohd Nabil Zulhemay ◽  
Rohana Mohamad Rashid ◽  
Nurul Nadiah Dewi Faizul Ganapathy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
School Students ◽  
Information Security Awareness

scholarly journals Gratifications on Social Networking Sites: The Role of Secondary School Students’ Individual Differences in Loneliness

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina López ◽  
Patrick Hartmann ◽  
Vanessa Apaolaza
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Need To Belong ◽  
School Students ◽  
Group Management ◽  
Different Levels

Social networking sites, such as Myspace and Facebook, have become popular online communities with large teenage user populations who engage in social media to interact, play, explore, and learn. Research based on uses and gratifications theory has revealed that among the gratifications on social media most sought specifically by adolescents between 12 and 18 years old are meeting new people, satisfying teenagers’ need to belong, and being entertained. Previous research also points to possible differences in the perception of gratifications among users of different media, depending on their level of loneliness. The current study examines whether associations between loneliness and gratifications obtained by adolescent social media users vary across different levels of loneliness. We conducted a survey among 344 Spanish secondary school students with an online profile on the Spanish friend-networking site Tuenti. Mixture modeling identified three classes of students with different levels of loneliness and distinct relationships between loneliness and gratifications for each class. This study contributes to more specific knowledge of the relationship between use of a friend-networking site by lonely teenagers and gratifications obtained and provides implications for the development of coping strategies for students of this age who suffer from loneliness. Further implications of findings for personalized educational computing and group management in on- and offline classrooms are discussed.

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