An Examination into The Relation Between Social Networks Usage And Violation Occurrence

Background: This study aims to explain the factors impacting on violation reproduction, namely the effect of social networks on violation. In other words, in this investigation it has been intended to answer to this crucial question: How would social networks influence on social violence reproduction? Based on theoretical framework, variables and hypothesis impacting on social violence reproduction were mentioned. These variables are as follow: usage amount of internet and social networks, virtual identification, definitions interpretation and economic and social base. Method: This research was performed as a survey using questionnaires among high school students. The sampling method is clustering. Findings indicate that there is a relation between virtual identification, definition interpretation, social-economic base and social violence reproduction. The multiple regression results show that social-economic base and virtual identification have direct effect on social violence reproduction. Result: Based on obtained results, there is an inverse relation between social-economic base and social violence. The other variable used in this study, namely definition interpretation has indirect influence on social violence. Conclusion: Given the research hypothesis, the relation between virtual identity and virtual networks and social violence reproduction indicates that there is a significant relation between these variables. Indeed, the result of correlation test was consistent with the relation between these two variables.