SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND CRITICAL THINKING OF ADOLESCENTS
Gabriela Šeboková, Kiara Udvardyová, Lucia Ráczová
Abstract: Social media is an important source of information for adolescents. The aim of our research was to analyze the relationships between general critical thinking and components of media literacy. Our 64 participants were 1st year students of Psychology of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. They completed selfreport and objective measures, e.g. Perception about social media personalized news algorithms (Ku et al., 2019); Digital Literacy scale (Rodríguez de Dios et al., 2016); Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (Watson & Glaser, 2000); 2 forms of Cognitive Reflection test (Frederick, 2005, Sirota et al., 2021). The results differ from our formulated hypothesis. We assume, for adolescents it is a rather demanding task to evaluate their level of media literacy, transfer their general critical thinking to a specific domain of social media.
Keywords: critical thinking; analytical thinking; adolescence; media literacy
Pages: 29-39
Doi: 10.17846/PP.2024.7.1.29-39
Source: Pomáhajúce profesie, 2024, vol. 7, issue 1, pp. 29-39 (PDF)
Language: English
