Castillo de Mesa Joaquin, Gómez-Jacinto Luis, López Peláez Antonio, Erro-Garcés Amaya
University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2020 Feb 18;11:230. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00230. eCollection 2020.
Research on youth transitions, and the well-being of young people, has to take into consideration the digital context in which they are immersed. Digital interaction of young people increase year by year, social networking sites play a key role in their personal and professional relationships, and a very high percentage of jobs require digital skills. According to Eurostat (2019), participating on social networking sites (one of the most common online activities in the EU-28), is growing every year [more than half (56%) of individuals aged 16-74 used the internet for social networking sites], and this percentage increases among the younger generations. In this article, we present the results of our research on the digital skills and well-being of young people on Facebook, based on a survey with a sample of 126 young people graduated from the University of Málaga (School of Social Work) (Spain). Based on certain scales, the level of digital skills that students have on Facebook was measured, considering strategic aspects for information search, level of use and presence of Facebook in life, maintenance of relations and tolerance to diversity. Variables of psychosocial well-being were also measured (social capital, self-esteem, life satisfaction, and personal well-being). Variables of digital skills on Facebook were subsequently related to well-being variables. Results show that certain digital skills relate to the well-being of young people. In this sense, we deem it crucial to develop education policies that could provide young graduates with general digital skills to be used on social networking sites.
关于青年转型以及年轻人福祉的研究，必须考虑到他们所沉浸其中的数字环境。年轻人的数字互动逐年增加，社交网站在他们的个人和职业关系中发挥着关键作用，而且很大比例的工作都需要数字技能。根据欧盟统计局（2019年）的数据，参与社交网站（欧盟28国最常见的在线活动之一）的人数逐年增长[16至74岁的人群中，超过一半（56%）的人使用互联网访问社交网站]，并且这一比例在年轻一代中更高。在本文中，我们展示了基于对126名毕业于马拉加大学（西班牙，社会工作学院）的年轻人样本进行的一项调查，关于年轻人在脸书上的数字技能和福祉的研究结果。基于特定量表，测量了学生在脸书上的数字技能水平，考量了信息搜索的策略方面、脸书在生活中的使用程度和存在情况、关系维护以及对多样性的容忍度。还测量了心理社会福祉的变量（社会资本、自尊、生活满意度和个人福祉）。脸书上数字技能的变量随后与福祉变量相关联。结果表明，某些数字技能与年轻人的福祉相关。从这个意义上说，我们认为制定能够为年轻毕业生提供可在社交网站上使用的通用数字技能的教育政策至关重要。
