A Study of the Youth's Social Media Use and Interpersonal Relationships

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 青少年兒童福利碩士學位學程 === 104 === Abstract    The main purpose of this article is to explore the use of social media and relationships within the 5-grade to 8-grade children around Taipei area,with a total effective sample of 730 children. The results are as follows: 1. 85% of children h...

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Main Authors: LIN,JIA-CI, 林家琦
Other Authors: Yung-Yi Tang
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47461919560330511333
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Summary:碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 青少年兒童福利碩士學位學程 === 104 === Abstract    The main purpose of this article is to explore the use of social media and relationships within the 5-grade to 8-grade children around Taipei area,with a total effective sample of 730 children. The results are as follows: 1. 85% of children had used social media;;the main motivation is for the maintenance                       of human interaction and meeting new friends,chatting with friends and texting are   frequently used. 2. there are significant differences in terms of the number of Facebook friends in different grades of children. 3. there are significant differences in different gender of using social media,the use of reason, functions, friendships and interpersonal network. 4. there are significant differences in different grades of the use of seniority, weekly use of time,the use of reason and functions. 5. there are significant differences in different parents in the education of social media use,the use of reason, functions,and the number of Facebook friends. Mother's education on the web of interpersonal relations with friends reaches significant differences. 6. according to background variables and "Parents’ attitude of children using social media"of network relationships,we found that mother's education and the parents' responses are both reaching significant differences. 7. regarding children using social media as interpersonal variables,we found that both "chatting with friends" and "emotional support" reach significant differences. Via Pearson correlation analysis, the correlation coefficient of virtual network relationships and the reality of the relationship between friends are up to .809, both showing high positive correlation.    In this study, we make suggestions based on research results, for parents, schools, teachers and researchers of the future reference.