A Study Of Social Media And Its Effect On Family And Peer Relationships In Adolescence
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This study examines the influence of social media on the interactions between teenagers and their families and peers. It utilizes both primary and secondary data sources to gather empirical evidence. The collection of primary data involved the use of three instruments: the Social Media Addiction Scale Student Form (SMAS-SF) developed by C. Sahin, which was scored on a 5-point Likert scale; the Brief Family Relationship Scale-BFRS (Henry et al., 1994); and the Peer Relationship Scale developed by Fatih Aydoğdu in 2015. The secondary data comprised a range of sources such as research papers, books, journals, e-books, and websites. The study included 410 teenagers from schools in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and Hissar, Haryana. The participants were recruited using the Cochran technique to determine a sample size of 385, which was amended to 410 after discarding incomplete or erroneous replies. The analysis employed Excel and SPSS software to examine hypotheses using descriptive statistics, regression analysis, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation. The findings emphasize that social media has the potential to both improve and damage familial and peer relationships, depending on variables such as usage habits, engagement with content, and individual vulnerability that require more investigation in future research.
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