The Impact of Gender's Variable on the Patterns and Motives of Elementary School Students in Using Social Networks: An Empirical Study on Selective Governmental Schools Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

This study discusses the contents of social and psychological studies about the Patterns and Motives of ElementarySchool Students in using Social Networks, This study is based on" uses and gratification approach" which isinstrumental in studying the impacts of communication. The study aims to search for the impact of the gendervariable on (the pattern, motives, positive and negative impacts) in relation to the children in the elementary schoolswho are using social networks. The study relies on the descriptive concept, the demographic survey form and thequestionnaire, The community of the study consisted of (254) students of both genders, the boys represent 48.8% and51.2% girls) from public elementary schools, whom were selected from two different schools (Boys only and Girlsonly). The results revealed there were differences between males and females on the pattern and motives using, as tosocial positive/negative impacts, the males are more impacted negatively and the females impacted positively byusing social networks.