University of Southern California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Occidental College, San Diego, CA, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2019 Aug;48(8):1452-1468. doi: 10.1007/s10964-019-01061-8. Epub 2019 Jul 1.
Social media platforms and instant messaging applications have a widespread presence in today's secondary schools. However, the implications of these ubiquitous communication technologies for adolescent's social functioning with peers and academic competence in the classroom are not well understood. In fact, research on adolescents' digital lives has only rarely incorporated direct assessments of adjustment in school environments. The current study addressed these limitations with a school-based data collection. 376 adolescents (M = 14.4; 209 girls; including 29.2% Latino/Hispanic, 27.3% White, 28.2% mixed) were recruited from an urban high school and followed for one year. Social reputations were indexed via peer nominations and electronic communication tendencies were assessed using self-report questionnaires. Grade point averages, disciplinary events, and attendance data were obtained from school records. On a cross-sectional basis, frequent use of fashionable social networks (i.e., Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter) was associated with popular-aggressive social reputations, poor achievement, and rule-breaking behavior. E-mail use, in contrast, was associated with academic competence. Longitudinal analyses were less conclusive because the examined constructs were highly stable across the period of data collection. The full pattern of findings indicates that electronic communication patterns can be a powerful marker of academic and social functioning at school.
社交媒体平台和即时通讯应用在当今的中学中广泛存在。然而，这些无处不在的通信技术对青少年与同伴的社交功能以及在课堂上的学术能力的影响还没有得到很好的理解。事实上，关于青少年数字生活的研究很少将对学校环境中的调整的直接评估纳入其中。本研究通过基于学校的数据收集来解决这些局限性。从一所城市高中招募了 376 名青少年（M=14.4；209 名女生；包括 29.2%的拉丁裔/西班牙裔、27.3%的白人、28.2%的混血儿），并对他们进行了为期一年的跟踪研究。社会声誉通过同伴提名来衡量，电子沟通倾向则通过自我报告问卷进行评估。平均绩点、纪律事件和出勤数据均来自学校记录。在横截面上，频繁使用时尚社交网络（即 Instagram、Snapchat 和 Twitter）与受欢迎的攻击性社交声誉、较差的成绩和违反规则的行为有关。相比之下，电子邮件的使用与学业能力有关。纵向分析的结论不太明确，因为在数据收集期间，所考察的结构非常稳定。总体研究结果表明，电子沟通模式可以成为学校学术和社交功能的有力标志。
