شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The present study aimed to understand the using of sites, programs and social networks effect on acculturation, academic achievement and attitude towards foreigners through a structural equation model that combined these variables together. The study also aimed to identify whether the effect of using sites, programs and social networks to acculturation, and the attitude towards foreigners shows in the presence of high or low academic achievement. The study also aimed to identify if academic achievement has a moderated effect, on variables in the model, and if acculturation strategies (assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization) have a mediation effects on variable in the model. The results indicated a direct effect to the using sites, programs and social networks on attitude toward foreigners. There is no moderated effect to academic achievement on model, and no mediation effects to acculturation strategies on model the results of the current study revealed a structural equation model includes variables worthy of studying .. Where many people argued excessively on the impact of using sites, programs and social networks on young people as a variable may hinder academic achievement or may be a gateway to assimilation and a threatening self-identity. The results were promising, where there was no any effects of this variable to acculturation only one effect to attitude toward foreigners. (Published Abstract)