Using Facebook and Its Relationship with the Psychological Resilience of a Sample of Orphaned Teenagers

Abstract

This study describes a new idea for the relationship between orphaned adolescents using the social networking website Facebook and its relationship to psychological resilience. The study also compares orphaned adolescents, male and female, in their use of Facebook and their degree of psychological resilience. It also identifies the rate of use of orphaned adolescents (male and female) for Facebook. One hundred orphaned adolescents were used as samples in this study. The results indicated a statistically positive correlation between the use of the social networking website Facebook by orphaned adolescents and their psychological resilience. It also showed statistically significant differences between the average specimens of the study sample of male and female orphaned adolescents on the questionnaire using Facebook in the direction of males, and statistically significant differences between the averages of the study sample scores of male and female adolescents on the psychological resilience scale of adolescents in the male direction.