The Use of Social Media and its Relationship to Social Competence among Bahraini Females at the Stage of Adolescence

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify patterns of social media use and its relationship to social competence among by a sample of female students in the Intermediate Level of Education in the Kingdom of Bahrain and to identify the differences in the use of these means according to grade level. In order to achieve these objectives, the study employed the analytical descriptive approach. Two measures were used by the researchers to collect the data: the Scale of Social Media Use and the Scale of Social Competence. The instruments were applied on a randomly selected sample of 240 intermediate school students at the stage of adolescence. The study results found a number of results, the most important of which was the second-grade students were the group that most frequently used means of social media, and that there was a negative signifcant correlation between students' use of social media and social competence.