Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-3 | Issue-06 | 724-733
Original Research Article
Effects of Media Information on Attitude of Parents and Its Impacts on Adolescents' Perception about Pornographic Content in Social Media, YouTube
Nur Kholisoh
Published : June 30, 2018
Abstract
All this time many parties including parents do not care about the
distribution of healthy information on sexual content to their adolescents so that many
of them look for the information through social media. Right now the spread of
websites with pornographic content occurs in social media including YouTube. This
research aims at knowing the perception of adolescents on pornographic content in
social media in relation to the influence of media information or the attitude of parents.
It is the quantitative research with survey methods and data analysis using path
analysis. The research results indicate that the attitude of parents on pornographic
content in social media, YouTube gets influence from media information, and the
perception of adolescents on pornographic content in social media YouTube gets
influence from the attitude of their parents as well as media information gets influence
the perception of adolescents on pornographic content in social media, YouTube. To
avoid the negative impact of pornographic content in social media, parents should be
more care about their adolescents particularly the planting of strong foundation on
morality and religious teaching concepts to them.