Investigating the role of

Eshghi Pour, Hamid Reza; Rafiei Moghadam, Behnaz

Investigating the role of "social networks" on interpersonal communication and self-concept of second year high school students (Case study: Isfahan city schools)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Hamid Reza Eshghi Pour ¹

Behnaz Rafiei Moghadam ²

¹ PhD in culture and communication, lecturer, researcher in the field of culture, communication and media

² PhD student in Geology, University of Research Sciences, Tehran

Abstract

This research examines the role of non-native and international virtual social networks on interpersonal communication and self-concept of second-year high school students in Isfahan. This study was carried out with a questionnaire and a survey method, in which the students' use of non-native social networks and their interpersonal communication skills and their effects on their self-concept were evaluated. It is studied, evaluated and investigated. The statistical population of this research has nearly 93,000 students, and the number of statistical samples based on Cochran's formula and taking into account the error rate was 385. The statistical samples of this study were selected by random sampling method and evaluated with validity and reliability questionnaires. Finally, the information extracted by the methods of descriptive and inferential statistics monitored, fact analysis and with the help of Pearson's correlation test, it was determined: the use of social networks by a statistical sample on interpersonal communication (0.586) and self-concept. Users (0.658) has a role.

Keywords

Social networks

teenagers students

users

interpersonal communication self-concept