ผลของโปรแกรมเสริมสร้างพลังอำนาจต่อพฤติกรรมการติดสื่อสังคมออนไลน์ของวัยรุ่นตอนปลาย

Abstract

Late adolescents have high level of social media use. As a result, late adolescents are prone to social media addiction behaviors and subsequent problems. This quasi-experimental design aimed to study the effect of an empowerment enhancement program on the social media addiction behaviors of late adolescents. The twenty-six samples were late adolescents, aged 19-21 years, who studied in an educational institution under the Office of Vocational Education Commission, Ministry of Education, Northern region. They were divided into two groups of 13 each: the experimental group that received the program and the control group that did not receive the program. The research instruments included 1) a general data questionnaire, 2) a social media addiction test, 3) an assessment of perceived empowerment and 4) an empowerment program on social media addiction behaviors of late adolescents based on Gibson's concept (Gibson, 1995). The program consisted of 8 activities and lasted for 4 weeks. It was conducted twice a week for 45-60 minutes each session. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, and dependent t-tests. The study found that: 1. One month after receiving the empowerment enhancement program, the experimental group's average score on social media addicted behaviors of late adolescents was statistically significantly lower than before receiving the program (p < .05). 2. One month after receiving the empowerment enhancement program, the average score on social media addicted behaviors of late adolescents in the experimental group was statistically significantly lower than that of the control group (p < .05). The results of this study showed that the empowerment enhancement program on social media addiction behaviors of late adolescents could reduce their social media addicted behaviors. Therefore, this program should be used to further reduce social media addicted behavior in this group.