إدمان وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي و علاقته بالحكم الأخلاقي لدى عينة من طلاب و طالبات جامعة بيشة

Abstract EN

The aim of the research is to determine the level of addiction to the use of social networking sites and the level of moral judgment in a sample of students of the University of Bisha, and to identify the nature of the relationship between them, as well as identify the differences in the addiction to the use of social networking sites and in moral judgment by different specialization (scientific - literary) , Gender (male and female), and predictability of moral judgment from addiction to the use of social networking sites.

The sample of the original study consisted of (180) male and female students at the Faculty of Education, randomly selected by (80) male students; by (59) students in the literary section; and (29) in the scientific section; and (100) female students; by (66) students in the literary section; and (34) in the scientific section.

Two scales were used as a tools for study, the first is the scale of addiction to social networking sites (El-Nayrab, 2016) to measure the level of addiction to social networking sites in the study sample of students and the second was scale of moral judgment (Al-Wahidi, 2012), to measure the level of moral judgment in the sample of the study of male and female students.

The researcher developed and standardized both measures on the Saudi environment through applying a sample of 20 students (other than the original sample) and calculating the psychometric properties (Honesty and Persistence) and verifying their validity for this study.

The results of the study reached that there were no statistically significant differences between the arithmetic average and the mean of addiction to social networking sites among the students of the Faculty of Education, Bisha University (that is, the level of addiction to social networking sites was average among the study sample).

There were also statistically significant differences between the mean (That is, moral judgment was a low-level among the study sample).