Factors that Predict the Risk of Minors’ Rights in the Use of Social Networks

Abstract

Digital technology has disrupted the lives of children; they live now in a more connected world, with great advantages such as free access to information, but also great risks, situations that threaten the particular rights of minors. This article aims to describe and analyze consumer habits in social networks in primary school children associated with their fundamental rights. With a quantitative cut methodology and hypothetical-deductive approach, the research aims to explain through a structural model the rights of children who are being affected by their habits of use and consumption of social networks through mobile devices. A sample of 290 students from 5th and 6th year of public elementary schools in the town of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico was used. As part of the results, measures of central tendency are exposed: mean, median and standard deviation of demographic variables, Cronbach's alpha of the scales used, as well as the indexes of goodness of fit and the Chi-square of the model proposed for the study. The various tests show a strong predisposition to affect and violate some fundamental rights of minors in the digital age based on their consumption habits.