Fitting a Structural Model of the Impact of Social Media in Combating the Phenomenon of Parental Domestic Violence Against Children
Keywords:
institutional support, online activism, digital empowerment, structural equation modeling, social media, Domestic violenceAbstract
Purpose: Parental domestic violence against children is a common phenomenon and social media can help reduce it. As a result, the present research was conducted with the aim of fitting a structural model of the impact of social media in combating the phenomenon of parental domestic violence against children.
Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional fromtype of correlation. The population of the present research was parents with children aged 6 to 12 years in the cities of Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf, which based on the Cochran formula 384 people of them were selected as samples using a multi-stage cluster sampling method. The instrument of this research was a researcher-made questionnaire the impact of social media to combating the phenomenon of parental domestic violence against children, which its face validity by experts and its reliability using the Cronbach's alpha method was confirmed. The data of the present study were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and Smart PLS software.
Findings: The results of the present research showed that the researcher-made questionnaire the impact of social media to combating the phenomenon of parental domestic violence against children had 21 components and 7 dimensions of macro-multidimensional indicators, domestic violence against children, infrastructure deficiencies, online social activism, online comprehensive supports, inter-organizational assistance and multifaceted empowerment, which convergent validity of dimensions was obtained using the average variance extracted method above 0.50 and their reliability was obtained using the Cronbach's alpha and a combination methods above 0.70. Also, the structural model of the impact of social media in combating the phenomenon of parental domestic violence against children had a good fit and in this model, macro-multidimensional indicators on domestic violence against children; infrastructure deficiencies on online comprehensive supports and inter-organizational assistance; online social activism on online comprehensive supports and inter-organizational assistance; online comprehensive supports and inter-organizational assistance on multifaceted empowerment had a direct and significant effect (P<0.05), but domestic violence against children on online comprehensive supports and inter-organizational assistance did not have a significant effect (P>0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results of present research, social media experts and planners based on the identified components can design and implement effective and practical programs to combating the phenomenon of parental domestic violence against children.
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