اتجاهات طلاب المرحلة الثانوية نحو التعامل مع مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي

Abstract EN

The present study aimed at investigating the attitudes of secondary grade students towards dealing with social networking sites in three dimensions: cognitive, emotional and behavioral, also finding the differences in the students' responses regarding the following variables: studying class, father's educational level, family's economic status and the numbers of hours of dealing with these sites.

The descriptive approach was used and the study sample consisted of (260) students in secondary schools at Al-Qunfudah Educational Directorate, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

A questionnaire was used for collecting the data.

The results generally showed that there were positive attitudes towards dealing with social networking sites among secondary grade students in three dimensions: cognitive, emotional and behavioral.

Also, the results showed that there were no statistical differences in the students' responses regarding their attitudes towards dealing with social networking sites related to the studying class and the family economic status whereas there were differences related to the father's educational level and the number of hours spent dealing with these sites.

The study introduced some recommendations.