The Impact of Children's Use of Social Media on their Upbringing from the Parents' Viewpoints

Abstract

The study of the impact of children's use of social media on upbringing is one of the contemporary studies whose effects on the new generation have been observed, but its psychological, social and health effects on children have not received sufficient study. Therefore, this study came to reveal the psychological, social, health and educational effects of social media on their upbringing from the point of view of parents. The study followed the descriptive analytical approach. The questionnaire was used as a research tool, and it consisted of four dimensions: the social, psychological, educational, and health aspects. The scale was applied to a simple random sample of 138 parents, and the results showed that the degree of influence of social media on the child was average from the parents’ point of view. There are differences in the impact of social media on children’s upbringing according to the variable of the educational qualification of the guardian in favor of the higher qualification, while there are no statistically significant differences according to the family’s standard of living. The study recommended the following:

-Design an electronic program to help children deal with the problems they face on social media, enabling them to distinguish between fake and real posts and videos in the age of artificial intelligence. -Enable privacy settings to prevent children from sharing personal information they don’t intend to share on social media -Enable parent control and monitoring of their children social media accounts.

-Conduct awareness programs about the dangers of excessive social media use.