The Effectiveness of Intervention-Support Protocol on Self-Destruction and Media Literacy in Media Storm Affected Society(Depending on the Technique of Throwing among Wolves)

Social media can also cause psychological harm in addition to informing. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an intervention-support protocol on self-destruction and media literacy in a military university staff.

The research is applied in terms of purpose with a quasi-experimental design. The statistical population included all the staff of a military university in 2020-2021. The sample of this study was 40 employees who were randomly selected by available method as a nonprobability sample and were divided into two groups of 20 as test and control groups. Data collection tools were the scale of Agha Mohammadian Sherbaf and Moradian's self-destructive behaviors (2012) and media literacy of Falsafi (2014). The intervention protocol consisted of group training workshops for 10 sessions as 2 sessions per week for five consecutive weeks that were performed on the experimental group. Analysis of covariance and SPSS 26 software were used to test the effectiveness of the intervention-support protocol on self-destruction and media literacy.

57.5% of the 40 participants (23 people) in the study were male who were between 20 and 30 years old. The highest and lowest frequency of education was respectively related to people with bachelor's degrees (50%) and Ph.D. degrees (7.5%). The mean scores of self-destruction in the experimental group decreased from 115.50±14.35 in the pre-test stage to 77.75± 15.09 in the post-test stage and the mean scores of media literacy in the experimental group in the pre-test situation increased from 45.30±7.81 to 62.60±7.12 in the post-test stage. The significance level of all tests was less than 0.05 error and the research hypothesis was confirmed.

Considering the significant effect of the intervention-support protocol on self-destruction and media literacy, applying this protocol is useful to control the damage caused by the media storm.