Determination of Adolescent Worldview: Combating Negative Influence of Social Media

Abstract

Use of social media creates positive or negative impacts on adolescents. There are a number of factors enabling adolescents to make use of social media positively. One of the factors studied in this research is the adolescent worldview. The adolescent worldview greatly determines the way she behaves and her attitude towards social media. The result of this research shows that adolescent worldview may release and enables her to reject negative impacts of social media, particularly from modern culturalisms as relativism, individualism, emotionalism, presentism (present-time ism), materialism, autonomy, victimism, and turn it into a positive impact on herself. Worldviews may be differentiated based on three categories namely religion, spirituality and secularity. This research is conducted by explorative-qualitative approach, using case study research method. Data collection process was conducted by in-depth interview with late adolescents.Key Words: Worldview, Social Media, Adolescent Abstrak Penggunaan Media sosial menimbulkan dampak yang positif juga negatif terhadap remaja. Terdapat sejumlah faktor yang membuat remaja bisa memanfaatkan media sosial dengan positif. Salah satu faktor yang diteliti dalam penelitian ini adalah wawasan dunia yang dimiliki anak remaja. Wawasan dunia yang dimiliki anak remaja sangat menentukan bagaimana ia bersikap dan berperilaku terhadap media sosial. Hasil penelitian ini, menunjukkan bahwa wawasan dunia anak remaja dapat melepaskan dan memampukannya menolak dampak negatif media sosial khususnya dari isme-isme budaya modern seperti relativisme, individualisme, emosionalisme, presentisme (kekinian-isme), materialisme, otonomi, victimisme (korban-isme) dan mengubahnya menjadi sesuatu yang positif buat dirinya. Wawasan dunia bisa dibedakan berdasarkan tiga kategori yakni agama, spiritualiti dan sekuler. Penelitian ini dilakukan melalui pendekatan kualitatif bersifat eksploratif, dengan menggunakan metode penelitian studi kasus. Adapun proses pengumpulan data diperoleh lewat wawancara mendalam terhadap anak remaja akhir.

Management and Psychological Aspect: Teenagers' Awareness of Privacy in Social Media

“…If the adaptation ability is not possessed, then what will happen is a feeling of being lazy to connect with people who come from different cultures (Widiastuti & Ritonga, 2020) Social media succeeds in influencing many teenagers to embrace modern culture full of -isms such as relativism, individualism, emotionalism, presentism (present-time ism), materialism, autonomy, victimism. These -isms will produce the attitude which is no longer critical to social media negative effects, even indifferent attitude, no selfcontrol, consumptive, selfish, indifferent to the applicable rules (Tarigan, 2017). Some social media sites turn out to have a strong effect on quality of human life and habits and sacrifice mental health and our time for playing social media (Widiastuti & Ritonga, 2020).…”