Social Media Usage, Sexual Behavior and Risk Perception Among Adolescents’ of Some Private High Schools in Addis Ababa.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Abera, Dame (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Reshid, Mohammed | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-07T07:30:23Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T16:18:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-07T07:30:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T16:18:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The major purpose of this study was to assess the relationships among adolescents’ Social media usage, sexual behavior and risk perception. A descriptive survey was employed as a study design. Questionnaire was used to gather data from a random sample of 300 (150 male and 150 female) students of grade 9 th through 12 th in the selected five private high schools of Bole sub- city. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square, t-test, ANOVA and correlations were used to analyze quantitative data. Descriptive statistics revealed that entertainment, communication with people far away and making companionship (34.3%, 20% & 16%) were the major reasons to school adolescents’ social media usage respectively. Weak positive correlation was found between social media usage and sexual behavior [r (298) = .222, P < .05]. However, sexual behavior was moderately correlated with the frequency use of social media sites used [r (298) = .694, P= <0.05]. Descriptive statistics found that the majority (61.3%) of the respondents had high risk perception while 30.7% of the respondents had low risk perception to social media usage. When looking in to the conclusion, adolescents’ sexual behavior in relation to social media usage by default had weak positive correlation. However, their sexual behavior was moderately correlated with the frequency use of social media sites. Hence, among the practical recommendations forwarded, School administrators and teachers should plan and advise school students to use social media sites for educational issues than entertainment, or for companionship. Also, school students should be aware that using social media sites frequently boost to enter sexual behavior | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/11106 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Private high schools in addis ababa | en_US |
| dc.title | Social Media Usage, Sexual Behavior and Risk Perception Among Adolescents’ of Some Private High Schools in Addis Ababa. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |