التأثيرات المرغوبة و غير المرغوبة لتعرض المراهقين للأفكار المتطرفة اجتماعيا في مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي

Abstract EN

The current study drives at identifying the desirable and undesirable effects of teenagers’ exposure to socially extremist ideas on the social media sites, by applying the job analysis model of Charles wright.

the study belongs to the descriptive type of studies.

the researcher has used the sample media survey method.

the sample consists of 490 male / female teenagers who are randomly selected belonging to the age group (17-18) years old, selected from the first-grade university students from universities of (Ain Shams-Badr-Al-Azhar-American university).

a questionnaire tool has been applied to the study sample, and a scale of the effects has been designed.

the most important results of the study are as follows : 79.5% of the study sample are exposed to socially extremist ideas, 73.8% of those exposed to these thoughts had a moderate degree of exposure.

64% of the respondents had highly desirable effects, represented in rejecting extremist contents and increasing their awareness of its dangers at the cognitive level, lacking sympathy with those who promote it on the emotional level, and taking counter positions on the behavioral level.

actually, about 35% of the respondents have experienced undesirable impacts ranged between high and medium, which represented in conviction with the content of the socially extreme ideas at the cognitive level, sympathizing with their owners on the emotional level, and taking positions that support them at the behavioral level.

as for the hypotheses of the study, the results come as follows : there is a direct, statistically significant correlation between the average scores of teenagers' exposure to the socially extremist ideas and the average scores of desirable and undesirable influences for them.

there is a direct, statistically significant, correlation between the average scores of adolescents' awareness of the latent objectives of the extreme contents and the average scores of their attitudes toward the desired impacts.