The Degree of Using Social Media Sites and its Relationship to Self-Concept and Happiness among University Youth

Abdallah  Almahaireh; Hisham  Almakanin; Aseel  Ajlouni; Mamduh  Alzaben

doi:10.35516/hum.v49i3.1369

Authors

Abdallah Almahaireh The University of Jordan
Hisham Almakanin The Hashemite University
Aseel Ajlouni Al-Ahliyya Amman University
Mamduh Alzaben Al-Ahliyya Amman University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i3.1369

Keywords:

Social networking sites, happiness, self-concept, university youth, The University of Jordan

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the degree of using social media sites, and the most common level of self-concept, happiness and the relationship between them among university youth at the University of Jordan, and to identify the differences in the levels of both the degree of social media usage, self-concept and happiness according to gender (male, female), and college (Humane, scientific, health). The study sample consisted of (500) young university students. (163 males, 337 females), and (246 humanitarian colleges, 137 scientific colleges, 117 health colleges) of undergraduate students, and they were chosen by the stratified random method. And to achieve the objectives of the study were developed three measures, the measure of the degree of use of social networking sites, happiness scale, and self-concept scale. The results of the study showed that the most widely used social media networking site is Facebook and that the degree of social media use was moderate, and that the level of self-concept and happiness was high, and that there was a direct relationship between the degree of social media use, self-concept and happiness, and the results also showed statistically significant differences in the level of the degree of social media use, self-concept and happiness among students at the University of Jordan attributable to gender in favor of males, and the presence of statistically significant differences in the level of the degree of social media use, self-concept and happiness among all levels of the college variable, in favor of scientific, health, humanitarian.

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Author Biographies

Abdallah Almahaireh, The University of Jordan

Department of Counseling and Special Education, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Hisham Almakanin, The Hashemite University

Department of Special Education, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan

Aseel Ajlouni, Al-Ahliyya Amman University

Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan.

Mamduh Alzaben, Al-Ahliyya Amman University

Department of Psychology, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan

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