The role of the family to achieve the safe use of social media for adolescents and its relationship to enhancing their intellectual and moral security and strategies for facing cyberbullying

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Home management and institution,Home Economics,Menoufia University,Egypt

Abstract

The research aims to study the effectiveness of the family's role in directing its teenage children to the safe use of social media to enhance their intellectual and moral security and protect them from cyberbullying. the research followed the descriptive and analytical approach, and four tools were used: the general data questionnaire, the family role questionnaire to achieve adolescents' safe use of social media, a questionnaire on intellectual and moral security, Questionnaire of strategies for facing cyberbullying. The research tools were applied in personal interviews on 550 adolescents who were deliberately chosen and required in the sample from school and university students who could be at least 12 years old and no more than 21 years old
After collecting the data, they were unpacked, categorized, tabulated, and statistically analyzed using SPSS software
The results showed a positive statistically significant correlation between the family role in adolescents' safe use of social media from their point of view (the preventive role-the corrective role) and the enhancement of their intellectual and moral security. Statistically significant differences were found in the evaluative aspect of the family role to achieve safe adolescents' use of social media according to the stage of adolescence in favor of late adolescence. While females were better than males in promoting intellectual and moral security and using strategies to confront cyberbullying, the presence of the family within the adolescent's friends improved the preventive and corrective role in safe use, strengthened cultural and political security

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