Social Media Usage Sexual Behavior And Risk Perception Among Adolescents Of Some Private High Schools In Addis Ababa.

The major purpose of this study was to assess the relationships among adolescents’ Social mediarnusage, sexual behavior and risk perception. A descriptive survey was employed as a studyrndesign. Questionnaire was used to gather data from a random sample of 300 (150 male and 150rnfemale) students of grade 9 th through 12 th in the selected five private high schools of Bole sub-rncity. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square, t-test, ANOVA and correlations were used to analyzernquantitative data. Descriptive statistics revealed that entertainment, communication with peoplernfar away and making companionship (34.3%, 20% & 16%) were the major reasons to schoolrnadolescents’ social media usage respectively. Weak positive correlation was found betweenrnsocial media usage and sexual behavior [r (298) = .222, P < .05]. However, sexual behaviorrnwas moderately correlated with the frequency use of social media sites used [r (298) = .694, P=rn

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