Addiction to Digital Drugs among Adolescent (A Comparative study) | ||||
| Educational Research and Innovation Journal | ||||
| Volume 4, Issue 13, April 2024, Page 40-71 PDF (1.06 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original research article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/erji.2024.340173 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mennat Allah Mohammed Anwar Mohammed1; Supervised by: Prof.Nabila Amin Ali Abu Zaid2 | ||||
| 1Lecturer in the Department of Psychology - Faculty of women - Ain Shams University | ||||
| 2Professor of Psychology - Faculty of women - Ain Shams University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The current research aimed to reveal addiction to digital drugs among adolescents. It also aimed to reveal the amount and significance of the difference in the average scores of the research sample of adolescents on the digital drug addiction scale according to gender (males - females). The research relied on the descriptive comparative correlative approach. The research sample consisted of (361) male and female students from the first and second grades in public Arabic and experimental language secondary schools belonging to the following educational departments: (Al-Mataria - Al-Zaytoun - Al-Nuzha - Heliopolis) in Cairo Governorate. The students' ages ranged between (16-18) years with an average of (16.6), and a standard deviation (of 0.69) of those enrolled in the academic year (2022-2023), the number of males was (161) and females (200). The researcher has prepared and used a scale for addiction to digital drugs among adolescents to verify the objectives of the research by using the appropriate statistical methods, the research results have disclosed a moderate degree of addiction to digital drugs among adolescents, The results also indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the significance level (0.01) between the average scores of males and females on the addiction to digital drug scale among adolescents in favor of males. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| addiction; drugs; digital drugs; adolescents | ||||
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