The Effectiveness of Media Literacy Training Skills on the Anxiety and Critical Thinking of Parents of Elementary School Boys

AbstractThe purpose of this research was the effectiveness of teaching media literacy skills on the anxiety and critical thinking of parents of primary school boys. The statistical population in the present study included all the parents of elementary school boys from the 18th district of Tehran in the academic year of 1401, whose number was approximately 1460. In this research, 30 parents of students who meet all the entry criteria were selected as available and replaced by a simple random method (lottery) in two experimental and control groups. Data collection tools included Beck Anxiety Questionnaire (1990), California Critical Thinking (1997) and Media Literacy Education Skills Protocol. The analysis of collected data was done through the latest version of 26SPSS software. In this research, the significance of the desired statistical tests and the effect size of the independent variable were used. Covariance analysis was used to analyze inferential statistics data. The results showed that the skill of teaching media literacy is effective on the anxiety and critical thinking of parents of primary school boys, according to the size of the effect, the skill of teaching media literacy has a greater effect on critical thinking than the anxiety of parents of primary school boys.