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Kalikwu Patience Emmilian, Iyobosa Humphrey Omoregie
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2023.03.004
University of Delta, Agbor, Nigeria; University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
The social media may become a very dangerous tool if allowed to proliferate in the wrong hands. It is on this premise that this study investigates social media content in promoting good values and social behaviour among secondary school students in Ika Federal Constituency of Delta State. The study adopted a descriptive survey design with total of 240 senior secondary school students drawn through a stratified and a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using a self-designed questionnaire which contained 34 items. The collected data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result of the study showed that secondary school students are exposed to numerous social media applications that do not promote good social values and behaviour among secondary students in Ika Federal Constituency; majority of the social media that most secondary school students use have contents that appear to promote violence, sexual promiscuity, cybercrimes, among others. The study therefore recommended that parents, the government, and especially our educational and political leaders should provide and implement appropriate legislative framework that would limit the use social media influence on students’ moral value systems among others.
social media content, students, social values, good behaviour
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