تأثير وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي على العلاقات الاجتماعية و الأسرية لدى طلبة الجامعة السعودية الإلكترونية بمدينة الرياض

Abstract EN

The research problem can be summed up in the answer to the following main question: What is the role of social networking media in social and familial relations of the students of Saudi Electronic University in Riyadh? The study objectives are to reveal the role of social networking media in students social and familial relations, to get to know the reasons for the students use of the social networking media, to get to know the actual state of affairs as regards the use of social networking media by the students and to get to know the differences in accordance with the variables of sex, marital status, kind of college and academic level in using socialnetworking media from the viewpoint of the students.

In the present study the researcher applied the descriptive survey method.

The final sample size amounted to 315 male and female students from the Saudi Electronic University, 153 of them male and 162 female.

The sample was chosen according to the random strata method.

A questionnaire prepared by the researcher was used.

For achieving the objectives of the study various descriptive and inductive statistical methods were used through the use of SPSS statistical analysis program.

Among these are arithmetic means, standard deviations, percentages, Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Alpha Cronbach Coefficient, ANNOVA, and T-test.

The study arrived at the following findings: The actual use by the male and female students of the Saudi Electronic University of social networking media is significant.

Social networking media most frequently used are Wattsap at 98.

7%, followed by Instigram at 83.

2%, Twitter at 71.

4% and Facebook at 47.

6% of the study sample individuals.

The findings also showed that 32.

4% of the university students spend five hours and more in social networking and that the time they prefer is the evening period, with a percentage of 52.

4% of the sample size.

The findings also revealed that 45.

4% of the students think that social networking hinders students work, whereas 54.

6% of the students do not think it does.

The findings of the study also revealed that there is a difference in the extent of support by each of the father, mother and brothers as regards the use of social networking.

The study findings also revealed that the reasons for using social networking media by the students of the Electronic University were significant, with an overall arithmetic mean of 3.

90.

The study findings also revealed that social networking have a great effect on social life with an arithmetic mean of 3.

47, whereas its effect on familial relations was low.