STUDY ON SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS SOCIAL MEDIA CONNECTIVITY AND PARENTS AWARNESS ON ADOLESCENCE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR CHANGES

Abstract

Social media is very useful for getting new ideas. When it comes to the parenting, social media is amazingly helpful.  Social media platforms allow parents to connect one another across the world.  It helps the parents to study and gather information about parenting, share ideas, learning and experiences.  A large number of research papers and articles on adolescence and adolescent related issues are available on social media.  They give useful information tips and advice to the parents to enhance the knowledge and upgrade their parenting skills.   But there are many parents who are not using social media platforms with various reasons. This study aim to find the significant relation with parent’s social media connectivity and parent’s awareness on adolescence psychological behavior changes.  A sample size of 384 parents including 207 male and 177 female who are active in social media and not active in social media were taken for this study.  This study was conducted in Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh state of India.  “The result shows that there is a significant association between “parents active in social media” and “parent’s awareness on adolescence psychological behavior change”.