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<h3><strong>Damascus University</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>Sociology Department</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>        Thesis for Master degree Title of study</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>      Activating social communication between</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>                        parents and teenagers</strong></h3>

<h3>  (Experimental study on a sample of parents with</h3>

<h3>         theirchildren students of 10th grade from</h3>

<h3>                              Damascus)</h3>

<h3><strong>Prepared by student   </strong></h3>

<h3><strong>Hiba Ahmad Nizar AL Kahwaji</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>Supervised b          </strong></h3>

<h3><strong>P<span dir="LTR">rofessor Dr. Bilal ORABI</span></strong></h3>

<h3><strong>The title of this study is:</strong></h3>

<h3>Activating social communication between parents and adolescents. A pilot study on a sample of first grade secondary students and their parents, in Damascus city, (2012).</h3>

<h3>The poor communication between the adolescent and his family members is an obstacle in building his personality, mental health, social behavior and general public experience.</h3>

<h3>The major problems that encounter parents in the education of adolescent, is due to a defect in communication with him, and the loss of conversation culture.</h3>

<h3>The study is a research about the nature of social communication, between parents and children: it’s a search for a practical method that helps: activating, improving this communication, and making it more positive.</h3>

<h3>This study gets its importance from being focused on communication systems between parents and their adolescent children, also on the ways of developing these systems to be more interactive, flexible, friendly and harmonious.</h3>

<h3>As well as to reduce its negative impact of this special phase of adolescent’s growing process, on the first hand, and on his family and society on the other.</h3>

<h3>And to define the responsible for this imbalance in the process of communication within family members.</h3>

<h3>Perhaps the parents are the reason for the lack of communication with adolescent. As of not being enough open minded to allow adolescent to conduct discussions and dialogues within family. On the other hand, it might be as well the child’s problem, as having a lack of communication resulting of an imbalance in maturity of personality since early childhood. As they prefer silence over expressing themselves, beside never participating in dialogue, sometimes that leads to an absolute surrender to parents’ point of view and decisions.</h3>

<h3>This study contributes in making important highlights on the ways of rehabilitating both: parents and adolescents, developing their communication skills, and in equipping them with basics of effective communication skills, and strategies.</h3>

<h3> Looking, through that training, forward to build a new style of relationship, and optimizing the use of mental abilities.</h3>

<h3>That's where the scientific and practical importance of this study comes from.</h3>

<h3><strong>Core of research contains the following six chapters:</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>1. Chapter I</strong>: Including:</h3>

<h3>Research problematic and its importance, objectives of the research. And terminology (teen - teens – Father - Mother - Children - communication), Previous studies (studies about adolescence and adolescents - and studies dealing with parents and children – beside an experimental method study in Damascus – as well as studies about communication between parents and children).</h3>

<h3><strong>2. Chapter II (a study of adolescence and adolescent)</strong>: including:</h3>

<h3>The definition of adolescence and emergence of term, “Adolescence” as a phase or as a crisis? The different trends in studying adolescent. Also includes adolescent growing up stages. And finally, the forms of adolescence.</h3>

<h3><strong>3.Chapter III (Relationship between parents and adolescents)</strong> Including:</h3>

<h3>Parental treatment methods and factors affecting it, different types of families and their impact on adolescent. Basic rules of parenting, Relationship between the two parents, and its impact on the adolescent. In addition to parent authority. Examples of problems between adolescents and parents. And models for some behavior evaluating method.  Finally, reading effective communication (parents and adolescents).</h3>

<h3><strong>4. Chapter IV (social networking and skills): </strong>Including:</h3>

<h3>Definition of communication, It’s scientific basis, social motives, functions, and it’s objectives. The main elements of the communication process and it’s success factors. Defining difference between mass, and personal, communication. Different types of communication: verbal and non verbal, beside an in-depth study of gestures and body language. Finally, the communication process, standards, and skills.</h3>

<h3><strong>5. Chapter V (methodology, tools and procedures):</strong> Including:</h3>

<h3>Description of the methodology: its limits, its community and its sample. Listing study’s tools and study’s multiple stages it went through before taking it’s final look. As well as the set of statistical laws been used in the research. And finally, the difficulties researcher had to over come in order to complete this research.</h3>

<h3><strong>6. Chapter VI (interpretation and discussion of hypotheses): </strong> Including:</h3>

<h3>Interpretation of results and discussion of hypotheses based on the results and conclusions of analyzing statistical data. A summary of most important results of the research. A list of proposals based on the final reached results, the research is divided into two parts:</h3>

<h3><em>First part:</em> the theoretical part containing a study of adolescence and its characteristics. Parents and adolescents relationship within family. And study of communication, types, characteristics, and mechanisms.</h3>

<h3><em>Second part</em>: a pilot experimental study on a sample of males and females students from secondary first grade with their parents. In order to identify: the impact of the proposed advising program on activating communication process between adolescents and their parents within the experimental sample.</h3>

<h3><strong>Research objectives:</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>A. Objectives of the theory:</strong></h3>

<h3>1. Theoretical study of adolescence characteristics.</h3>

<h3>2. Relationship between parents and adolescents within the family.</h3>

<h3>3. Theoretical study of communication, types, characteristics and mechanisms.</h3>

<h3><strong>B. The objectives of practical part:</strong></h3>

<h3>1. Develop the social communication skills among members of experimental sample composed of students (of both sex) with their parents, from secondary first-grade in Damascus city, through a pilot program designed specifically to fit with the objectives of the research.</h3>

<h3>2. Identify the impact of the advising program in activating communication process between adolescents and their parents.</h3>

<h3>3. Reach a number of recommendations that help activating communication between parents and their adolescents children, and that make this communication even more positive.</h3>

<h3><strong>Research Methodology:</strong></h3>

<h3>Search has adopted a descriptive analytical approach. The experimental method (quasi-experimental) design used in this research is: the quantitative design (prior - posterior – synchronous).</h3>

<h3><strong>Search Tools:</strong></h3>

<h3>1. Scale for social communication between parents and adolescents. (Prepared by the researcher).</h3>

<h3>2. Scale for social communication between adolescents and parents. (Prepared by the researcher).</h3>

<h3>3. Advising Program. to activate the social communication skills between parents and adolescents. (Prepared by the researcher). A program that consists of 17 sessions dedicated to adolescents, and 17 sessions dedicated to parents.</h3>

<h3><strong>Search sample:</strong></h3>

<h3>Sample composed of (18) adolescents (10 females and 8 males), unintended sample of students from two schools (Abbas Mahmoud Al Akkad secondary  school, and Maamoun Mansour secondary school).As for the parents sample it is composed of (18) mothers and (8) fathers.</h3>

<h3><strong>Main hypotheses:</strong></h3>

<h3>• There are indicative variations at the significance level (0.05) in average scores scale of social communication skills for parents and adolescents between the program's two applications (prior and posterior) with parents.</h3>

<h3>• There are indicative variations at the significance level (0.05) in average scores scale of social communication skills for parents and adolescents, between the program's two applications (prior and posterior) with mothers.</h3>

<h3>• There are indicative variations at the significance level (0.05) in average scores of the scale of posterior social communication skills (for parents as for adolescents), between fathers and mothers.</h3>

<h3>• There are indicative variations at the significance level (0.05) in average scores of the scale of social communication skills of adolescents and parents, between the program's two applications (prior and posterior) with females.</h3>

<h3>• There are indicative variations at the significance level (0.05) in average scores of the scale: adolescents and parents social communication skills, between the program's two applications (prior and posterior) with males.</h3>

<h3>• There are indicative variations at the significance level (0.05) in average scores of the scale: Posterior social communication skills (for adolescents as for parents), between males and females (children).</h3>

<h3>Each hypothesis branches into six major sub-hypotheses, in order to test out every dimension of social networking separately.</h3>

<h3>The six dimensions are (the moral dimension - the dimension of mental and intellectual development - the social dimension – the dialogue and listening dimension – the psychological and emotional dimension – and the personal dimension).</h3>

<h3><strong>Search Results:</strong></h3>

<h3>1. Some indicative variances at the level of (0.05) exist in the average scores of the measurement standard (scale) : “ skills of parents to adolescents social networking “ between its two applications (prior and posterior) of the ” parents’ program”. regarding totality of communication skills. As for following dimensions: the  ethical dimension, the social dimension, the dialogue and listening dimension, the psychological and emotional dimension, as well as personal dimension. Data analyses indicate the existence of variances in these dimensions, the variance is in favor of "post-test" group, and indicates no indicative variances in the mental dimension</h3>

<h3>2. Some indicative variances at the level of (0.05) exist in the average scores of the measurement standard (scale): “skills of parents to adolescents social networking “between its two applications (prior and posterior) with mothers regarding totality of communication skills. As for following dimensions: the  ethical dimension, the mental dimension, the social dimension, the after dialogue and listening dimension, the emotional and psychological dimension, as well as the personal dimension) there are variances in these dimensions and the variances are in favor of "post-test" group.</h3>

<h3>3. There is no statistically indicative variances, at the significance level (0.05) in average scores of the scale: skills of social communication (for parents and adolescents), between fathers and mothers, regarding the following dimensions: the ethical dimension, the social dimension, the after dialogue and listening dimension, the psychological, the emotional, and the personal dimension), There are no differences in these dimensions, As for the mental dimension, there is a difference.</h3>

<h3>4. There are indicative variances, at the significance level (0.05) in average scores of the scale: skills of social networking for adolescents and parents, between the two applications (prior and posterior) of  program with females, regarding the following dimensions: the ethical dimension, the mental dimension, the social dimension, the after dialogue and listening dimension, the psychological and emotional dimension, as well as the personal dimension) there are differences in these dimensions.</h3>

<h3>5. There are , indicative variances at the significance level (0.05) in average scores of the scale: skills of social networking for adolescents and parents, between the two applications (prior and posterior) of program with males, in regard to following dimensions: the ethical dimension, the mental dimension, the social dimension, the after dialogue and listening dimension, the psychological and emotional dimension, as well as the personal dimension) there are differences in these dimensions, in favor of the "post-test" group.</h3>

<h3>6. There is no statistically indicative variances at the significance level (0.05) in average scores of the scale: social communication skills of adolescents and parents, between males and females. With regard to following dimensions: the ethical dimension, the social dimension, the after dialogue and listening dimension, the emotional and psychological dimension, and the personal dimension) there are no differences in these dimensions, on the other hand, when it's to mental dimension a difference exist in favor of a group of females.</h3>

<h3><strong>Recommendations:</strong></h3>

<h3>1. For adolescents:</h3>

<h3>Work on educating themselves about the stage of adolescence, about it's stages and growing features (physical, psychological, emotional, mental and social) in order to grow a self-awareness, and to avoid disturbances caused by lack of understanding the rapid changes which are reflected in all aspects their behavior, and in their  communication with others, especially parents. Through reading or through cultural programs in television and in radio.</h3>

<h3>2. Parents:</h3>

<h3>Work on educating themselves about the stage of adolescence and about the way of dealing with changes in all aspects of  their adolescence son's life, and his behavior, in order to alleviate the tensions that beset the family as a result of these changes.</h3>

<h3>3.Ministry of Education:</h3>

<h3>diffusion and broadcasting of educational programs about adolescence in all secondary schools, as well as organizing regular advisory programs about the skills of social communication between adolescents and parents, in order to activate their communication with their parents as children, and to equip them with these efficient skills as future fathers and mothers.</h3>

<h3><strong>Damascus University</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>Sociology Department</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>        Thesis for Master degree Title of study</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>      Activating social communication between</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>                        parents and teenagers</strong></h3>

<h3>  (Experimental study on a sample of parents with their</h3>

<h3>    children students of 10th grade from Damascus)</h3>

<h3><strong>Prepared by student   </strong></h3>

<h3><strong>Hiba Ahmad Nizar AL Kahwaji</strong></h3>

<h3><strong>Supervised b          </strong></h3>

<h3><strong>P<span dir="LTR">rofessor Dr. Bilal ORABI</span></strong></h3>

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