Facebook impact on psychological and social adjustment on deaf high school students in Jordan

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal the impact of Facebook on the psychological and social adjustment on deaf high school students in Jordan, where the study tried to answer the following questions : What is the level of psychological and social adjustment among a sample of public high school students who use Facebook and who do not use Facebook?, and if there were statistically significant differences in the level of social and psychological adjustment of deaf students who use Facebook and who do not use Facebook attributed to gender?  to answer the study questions and test its assumptions, the researcher used the analytical descriptive method, and the study sample consisted of (230) of deaf high school students who use Facebook and who do not use it evenly distributed (165) of those who use it ,and (165) of the students who doesn’t use Facebook, and to collect information a psychological and social adjustment questionnaire is used prepared by the researcher, and then the researcher conducted the statistical processors for the accumulated data of the study questionnaire using T test, Pearson and Alfa Cronbakh.

Key words: deaf, Facebook, Psychological and social adjustment