Dependence on Facebook as a source of information about crimes and its relationship to the psychological health of users and the extent of fear of copycat crime:

The study aimed to monitor, analyze and interpret the relationship between depends on Facebook as a source of information about crimes and the indicators of psychological health of users, and their attitudes about copycat crimes and its impact on Self and others. This will be through explanatory analytical study using media system dependency theory (MSD) and the third person effect theory (TPE). The study used media survey method depending on questionnaire tool and The Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R). These were applied on (450) users of Facebook during February, March, and April 2023. the study used quota sample; (225 females and 225 males), and the quota of each gender was pulled using the available sampling method
found that: More dependency on Facebook as a source of information about crimes, case great impact on the psychological health of users. And they were more responsive to Phrases of the obsessive-compulsive Disorder component, followed by, in order: anxiety, other, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, paranoid ideation, phobic anxiety, somatization, both hostility and psychoticism. It was found that there were differences in the response to the psychological health scale components according to the gender and dependence, while there was no discrepancy according to the age variable. The results show that the repetition of the crime leads to users less interest in information provided about it, this indicates the seriousness of the copycat crime. As despite the great attention given to the first crime, society get familiar to it and accepts it especially if the perpetrator gets the sympathy of some. The results show that users belief in the influence of the third person; Where the others were often the most likely to fall victim to the crimes they follow on Facebook. No discrepancy in that according to gender, dependence and age variables.
The results were discussed according to theoretical framework and in a comparative with previous studies (5) main points; They were represented in: respondents sources of information about crimes and their rate of using Facebook - respondents motives and patterns of dependence on Facebook to get information about crimes - the resulting effects on the respondents as a result of depend on Facebook to get information about crimes - the responses of respondents who depend on Facebook as a source of information about crimes to phrases of psychological Health scale- The extent to which respondents believe in the effect of the third person resulting from depend on Facebook to get information about crimes.