Abstract
This study aims to examine and measure the influence of the effect of critical thinking on the use of social media, tolerance, and self-assessment of adolescents at school. Critical thinking has become a necessity for everyone in the era of the digitalization of technology. In dealing with the problems of adolescent life, critical thinking is one of the bases for taking action. Everyday teenagers are faced with very complex problems, such as addiction to the use of social media, lack of tolerance, and inaccurate self-assessment. Lack of literature that discusses the importance of critical thinking in dealing with these problems, researchers are interested in examining the effect of critical thinking on the use of social media, tolerance, and self-assessment of adolescents. This research was a quantitative method, by taking 206 adolescents aged 17-18 years as the research sample. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 25 software was used to conduct a one-way Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) to determine the difference in effect on the dependent variable showing that there is an effect of critical thinking on the use of social media, tolerance, and self-assessment of adolescents. A percentage of the influence of critical thinking on self-assessment is higher than the use of social media or tolerance. Critical thinking and self-assessment have a very close relationship, so they have a higher influence. It turns out that critical thinking has a major influence on adolescent self-assessment, which is followed by the use of social media and a tolerant attitude. This research is expected to reinforce the importance of critical thinking in adolescents at schools.
Highlights
Critical thinking is a skill that everyone should have in life
Study Aim This study aimed to examine the effect of critical thinking on the use of social media, tolerance attitudes, and self-assessment of adolescents
The results showed that there was a significant effect of critical thinking on the use of social media, tolerance, and student self-assessment
Summary
Critical thinking is a skill that everyone should have in life. Technology is increasingly sophisticated, resulting in more information received by adolescents overload. That to keep up with technological developments, adolescents are required to improve their critical thinking skills. According to Frydenberg in the 21st century, everyone is required to have critical thinking skills, digital literacy knowledge and skills, information literacy, media literacy, and mastering information and communication technology (Frydenberg, M., & Andone, 2011);(Zakiah, 2019);(Malik & Ubaidillah, 2020). Critical thinkers are people who can go further, see problems from multiple perspectives, and make conclusions based on evidence, not their feelings (Murawski, 2014).
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