Indian Teenagers and their Family Relations in the Social Networking Era

Abstract

This study is an attempt to find out the difference in the social networking media usage patterns ofteenagers and their time spent on family communication. A secondary objective is to determine thestructure of attachment of teenagers to their parents. A structured questionnaire was administered to556 students (using social networking media) from high schools and higher secondary schools inIndia. Results show that there is a significant difference between the teenagers with internet at homeand those without internet at home in their time spent for family communication. The factor analysisof the structure of teenagers‘ attachment to their parents yielded a three factored solution. Subsequentfactor analyses of the structure of attachment of boys and girls to their parents also yielded three
factors. However, some changes were observed in the factor structures of these different groups.