Social Relationship Crimes on Social Media and Their Impact on Adolescents

Abstract

• Research Title: Social Relationship Crimes on Social Media and Their Impact on Adolescents.


• Study Problem: The problem lies in questioning the nature of social relationship crimes that adolescents are exposed to via social media (specifically YouTube), and the extent of their impact on the psychological, social, and behavioral dimensions of their lives.


• Study Objectives: To uncover the relationship between exposure to social relationship crime content and the magnitude of the resulting impacts, while identifying the psychological and social motives for following such content and monitoring the resulting cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects.


• Methodology: This study is classified as descriptive research and adopted a survey methodology. It utilized "Media Dependency Theory" as its theoretical framework.


• Key Findings:
  
  
  
  • There is a positive correlation between the intensity of exposure to crime content and the cognitive and emotional effects on adolescents.
  
  
  • The most followed channels were "Shehab Ahmed" (80%) and "Public Opinion Issue" (60%).
  
  
  • Content creators use artistic techniques for attraction, the most powerful being "headline manipulation," which recorded a strong correlation with emotional impact.
  
  
  • Results showed that repetitive viewing of criminal content acts as a catalyst for reshaping the adolescent's emotional system, making them more influenced by the behavioral patterns presented.