وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي وتأثيرها على درجة الاغتراب النفسي لدى طلاب الجامعة

Abstract

The present study aimed to find the effect of using social media on the degree of psychological alienation among university students "field of Psychology". The semi-experimental approach was chosen as it is the most relevant to achieve the objectives of the study. The following study tools were relied on: Psychological Alienation Scale (Zainab Choucair 2002), and the scale was modified on the Algerian environment by Sabrina Hamdi (2015). After collecting the data and it was processed by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS, the following results were achieved: There is a significant statistic difference between the mean scores of students on the psychological alienation scale according to the variable of the degree of social media use. There is no a significant statistic difference between the mean scores of males and females on the psychological alienation scale. There is a difference between male and female students in the degree of use of social media.