The Relationship Of Social Networking To Adolescent Psychosocial Adjustment In Selected Preparatory Schools Of Addis Ababa

This study was undertaken to find out the relationship of social networking to adolescentrnstudents’ psychosocial adjustment in selected preparatory schools of Addis Ababa. One hundredrneighty eight students from four preparatory schools (two from public and two from private) werernselected by using multistage sampling. They were asked to check their level of social networkingrnusage and psychosocial adjustment. The results were analyzed using SPSS version 20 computerrnsoftware. The results show that (1) preparatory students mainly use Facebook for social utility,rn(2) there is a relationship between students’ Facebook usage and students’ psychosocialrnadjustment, (3) students with higher Facebook usage show lower psychosocial adjustment, (4)rnthere is no difference between male and female students in their psychosocial adjustment, (5)rnprivate preparatory school students show higher Facebook usage and lower psychosocialrnadjustment than public preparatory school students, and (6) there is a difference betweenrnFacebook users and non-users in their psychosocial adjustment, Facebook non-users show highrnpsychosocial adjustment than high-users. The results are analyzed and interpreted from the pointrnof view of past research, and conclusions are drawn. This study suggests that preparatoryrnstudents need to be encouraged to use the site for educational purpose. Besides, those studentsrnwho spent longer time on Facebook should be advised to minimize their on-line time

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