Analyzing the supervisory role of parents in the safety of students in social networks

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Assistant professor, Department of Humanities and Social Science, university of Farhangian

10.48310/rsse.2024.15740.1178

Abstract

This article examines parents' views on the security of their children's presence in cyberspace. This research was done by survey method and by distributing questionnaire among 260 people. According to the findings, parents whose children use foreign messengers more often have more concern and sensitivity towards their presence in these messengers; While such sensitivity is not observed in the case of internal messengers. Also, with the decrease in the safety and health of messengers and also with the decrease in easy access to appropriate and useful content in cyber space, parents also find it more necessary to control and monitor their children's activities in this space. On the other hand, the more incapable parents are of managing and controlling their children to communicate with people or view inappropriate content in cyberspace, the more necessary they are to control and monitor their children's activities in this space. Also, the unsafe and unhealthy nature of this space overshadows the virtual communication of children and teenagers in various fields, including communication with family and acquaintances, and reduces the educational effect of children's virtual relationship with acquaintances in the virtual space.

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