Social Media Usage Among Teenage Students in Poland
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https://doi.org/10.12775/PBE.2024.023Keywords
14–19 years old students, social media, user typologyAbstract
The article analyses data relating to the use of social media by 7th and 8th grade primary and secondary school students. Data was collected from 2969 respondents from a randomly selected 378 schools in Poland. The author of the article presents how the pattern of use of specific social media platforms by students is differentiated by socio-demographic variables. The modelling was performed based on a cluster analysis using the k-means method. Identified a model consisting of three types of use: ‘text’, ‘gaming’ and ‘mainstream’. The types obtained show significant relationships with variables relating to the class the respondent attends (age), the size of the location and gender.
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