Practicing school media activities and psychological rebellion among adolescents

Author

Radio and television teacher, Department of Educational Media, Faculty of Specific Education, Minia University

Abstract

This study sought to identify the nature of the relationship between the practice of adolescents (middle school students, which represents early adolescence, and secondary school students, which represents middle adolescence) of school media activities (school radio, school press, debates, parliament) and the psychological rebellion among these adolescents, it also aims at Collecting facts and data about the studied phenomenon, interpreting and analyzing it comprehensively, extracting useful results and indications which lead to the issuance of generalizations about the phenomenon that the researcher is studying. It is divided into 202 students in the secondary stage, and 198 students in the preparatory stage, from 10/3/2019 to 1/4/2019. The forms of students who do not engage in educational media activities and their number were (152) students, (58) were excluded from the preparatory stage and (92) from the secondary stage, and the study reached several results, the most important of them are:
• The study concluded that there is a negative correlation between the practice of school media activities for the study sample of adolescents (the preparatory stage, and the secondary stage) and their degree of psychological rebellion.
• There is a negative correlation between the practice of school media activities for the study sample of adolescents (the preparatory stage, the secondary stage) and the following dimensions of psychological rebellion: (self-rebellion, family rebellion, and school rebellion) for them, while there is a positive statistically significant relationship between the practice of The activity of the school press and the school parliament and the degree of school rebellion among these students.
• The study concluded that the average observed decrease, whose value was (48.37), compared to the hypothetical average (54) of psychological rebellion for the study sample, and this may be due to the study sample's practice of various school media activities.
• The school press activity ranked first in terms of participation rates of the study sample members by 41.9%, followed by the school radio activity by 36.3%, and females outperformed males in practicing the most active school media activities by (62.1) of the study sample.
• The study recommends conducting more studies on educational media activities, its psychological and societal effects, and its relationship to students' academic and societal performance.

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