ASSESSING THE ROLE OF TEACHERS & PARENTS IN DEVELOPING STRATEGIES AGAINST SOCIAL MEDIA MISUSE AMONG STUDENTS

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the ways in which social media was misused among secondary school students and how students could be prevented by teachers and parents developing some preventive strategies. This was a quantitative study conducted under a survey research design. All 10th grade students and teachers of secondary schools in Sargodha division, Punjab, Pakistan, made up the total population of the study. A total of 400 individuals were sampled, and of those, 52 teachers and 348 parents provided responses. The data was collected with the help of a self-made questionnaire built on a 5-point Likert scale. In the results, significant evidences of social media misuse were found among students. The study also discovered a substantial impact of parents and teachers’ preventive measures on students’ social media misuse (R2 = 0.72), F (1, 197) = 69.55), p < .001. In conclusion, teachers and parents played an effective role in keeping students from misusing social media by developing some preventive strategies. However, parents and teachers who are unaware of children’s misuse of social media should contribute to preventing them from misusing it.