The differences in the value systems order between social media addicts and non-social media addicts A comparative field study on a sample of college of basic education students

Alfadhalah, Khaled

doi:10.21608/jsre.2021.146706

The differences in the value systems order between social media addicts and non-social media addicts A comparative field study on a sample of college of basic education students

Document Type : Original Article

Author

khaled alfadhalah

department of foundations and educational administrations college of basic education public of authority and applied education and training

10.21608/jsre.2021.146706

Abstract

Abstract
This study aimed to identify the differences in the values system order in respect to its degree of significance between social networks addicts and non-social networks addicts among students of College of Basic Education in Kuwait. To achieve the objectives of this study, a questionnaire of (43) items was developed by the researcher to measure the significance degree of value system, and the social media addiction scale developed by Al-Menayes (2015), and both tools were distributed on a sample of (834) students at the College of Basic Education.
Results showed that (54.2%) of the sample were addicted to social networks, and that the order of the value systems in respect to its significance for both social networks addicts and non-social networks addicts was similar, and in the following descending order: religious values, aesthetic values, social values, economic values, and political values. In addition, the study found that there were no statistically significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) in the aesthetic values between social networks addicts and non-social networks addicts while there were statistically significant differences in the religious values, social values, economic values, political values, and on the total degree between social networks addicts and non-social networks addicts.

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Education

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