الثقافة الرقمية وعلاقتها بالمهارات الاجتماعية لدى الأطفال في ضوء التحديات التكنولوجية كما تدركها الأمهات

Abstract EN

This research aims to study the relation between the digital culture & the social skills of children & in the light of the technological challenges caused from that as mothers of children perceived.

the study sample consisted of (165) child and their mothers from enrolled to fifth & six grade primary in Arabic & languages schools from male & female & from different levels of economic and social the research tools include the general information form, scale of the digital culture of children, attitude test about social skills for children, scale of technological challenges.

the research follows the descriptive analytical method.

the results showed that 47.7% from children use electronic applications at a rate of up to four hours per day.

electronic games come in first place as the most applications and programs used by children in the research sample.

Snapshat application come in first place as the most social applications they used.

the level of the majority of the research sample children in digital culture is average with a percentage 40.6%.

and the skills of digital culture come in first place with a percentage 56.5% as the first axes of digital culture & the knowledge of digital culture in the next with a percentage 43.5%.

& the level of children was average in total social skills with a percentage 56.4%.

and the communication and interaction skill in the first order with a percentage 37.7% followed by the skill of cooperation & participation by 33.6% then discipline skill by 28.7%.

the results also showed a statistically significant differences in axes of digital culture by the study variables.& in social skills for chidren.

also there were differences between perception of mothers for technological challenges.

also the statistically significant correlation inverse between axes of digital culture for children & social skills for them & was positive between axes of digital culture for children & perception of mothers for technological challenges at the significance level ranged between (0.05, 0.01).

and also results showed that the children's rate of use for electronic applications is the most influential factor and explains the percentage of disparity in their social skills with a percentage 90%.

the study recommended the need to prepare and build various packages of counseling programs by specialists in the field of childhood, which contribute to confronting cyber-invasion, its effects and challenges, and awareness that there are new types of skills, which are called twenty-first century skills, which must be strengthened among our children.