Document Type : Original Article
Author
Assistant Professor, Institute for Educational Studies, Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP), Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The important roles of identity are from various aspects and by many thinkers and theorists of the active situations of the world and the communication and confrontation of cultures and the development of technology on various issues. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of the relationship between the use of social networks and the identity dimensions of citizens. The research method is applied in terms of achieving the goal, and survey in terms of collecting information. The statistical population of the research includes all citizens living in Tehran. To determine the sample size, Morgan's table was used and the number of statistical samples was 384 people who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. In order to collect the required data, researcher-made questionnaires were used. Pearson's correlation coefficient has been used to analyze the hypotheses according to the measurement level of the variables. The results of the research showed that there is a significant negative relationship between the use of social networks and the identity dimensions of citizens, and the correlation coefficient of the two variables is -0.79. Also, there is a significant positive relationship between the use of social networks with personal identity and virtual identity, while there is a significant inverse relationship between the use of social networks with collective, national, religious and revolutionary identity.
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