The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between parents’ selfperceived
family communication patterns and their adolescents’ self-reported social
networking usage, to examine the relationship between parents’ self-perceived family
communication patterns and their adolescents’ self-reported parental control, to examine
the relationship between adolescents’ self-reported parental control and their social
networking usage in Nakhon Ratchasima province. The current study will provide indepth
significant understanding of family dynamics and their susceptibility to be
influenced by extraneous factors such as social setting, peer pressure as well as its strength
as a primary setting for socialization (Santos, 2009). Two hundred fifty adolescents and
their parents participated in this survey. The samples were being selected by using
purposive sampling from twenty six districts in Korat province and clustered from each
district, and the questionnaires were distributed directly to respondents by using
convenience sampling. To test the three hypotheses, the mean, percentage, Chi- Square,
Multiple Regression were employed all variables with the 0.05 significance level. The
findings revealed that the adolescents who interacted in the laissez-fare family pattern as
perceived by their parents did not have a significant active or very active social
networking usage. It was also evident that there was no association between the
adolescents who interacted in the protective family communication pattern as perceived
by their parents and adolescents’ social networking usage. Moreover, majority of those
who interacted in the pluralistic family communication pattern had social networking
usage for 10 to 20 hours per week while 35.7% had usage for less than 10 hours per week.
The researcher also found that there was no significant association between adolescents
who interacted in the consensual family communication pattern as perceived by their
parents and social networking usage. The study also found out that there is no relationship
communication patterns and the network usage thus communication patterns do not
explain the networking usage. In conclusion, this communication pattern was not
significant among the “averagely active” social networking usage.