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Effects of Social Media on Students’ Behavior

John Jacob M. Cordero, Justine Claire C. Ferrer, Julina C. Gonzales, Patricia Ann Naguit

Mrs. Angelina P. Lumalan (Adviser)

College of Education – Science and Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Pampanga State Agricultural University

Magalang, Pampanga

February 2018
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Introduction

It examine the issues related between the social media and the effect of it on students’

behavior. Audiences can extend the messages to other people in time and they can bring

changes and tendencies. Crowds are becoming more powerful through technology,

because technology has the ability to unite them (Njoroge, 2015).

Internet revolution changed the information world with regard to sharing, speed, storage

and getting information in whatever form despite with the person’s location. Through the

internet a series of web technologies are gathered and one technology that is making

waves with regard to information sharing and communication are the social media

networks. The development of social media has cut across all phases of society with its

positive and negative effects (Aghazamani, 2010).

Social media is a series of websites and application designed to let people to share,

information quickly, efficiently and in real time (Hudson, 2017). It is an internet based

software and allow individuals to do things with other people (Njoroge, 2015).

Social media allows us to share too much information. It is now become not only a part

of people’s lives but their lives revolve with this. Social media is only a tool not a

lifestyle (McGillivray, 2025). Social media is now the new communication tool that are

been used. The fact that social media is part of them especially having been born in the

era of technology, most of them feel they can’t live without it (Njoroge, 2015).

Social networking is absolutely affecting the students’ efficiencies as well as their grades.

Educators must be more concerned and try to find a solution for it (Wan, et al., 2011).
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One of the major impact of social media in students are more freedom, incredible

learning exposure, corrupted moral values, social media addiction, inability to think,

issue with self-esteem and great minds and innovativeness (Griffin, 2017). Social media

can effect students in different way. It can affect their academic performance. It can also

lead to improper behavior and have a potential for anti-social conduct (Ijeoma and Burke,

2013).

About 50% of surveyed students have said to have various networking sites. This

application or sites is taking over the lives of high school students; lives. Only 26.4%

students said that it regularly interfere with their school works. Two of the negative

effects are cyberbullying and distraction (Garcia, 2016).

Facebook has been a known site to Filipino students. It is just internet operated and

personal interaction and are way better than network. Addiction to any social network is a

normal thing to students this may help them to relieve stress but should not cause any

personal distraction in a person’s life (Mandaog, 2010).

Effects of Social Media on Behavior

29.9% of all high school students felt sad or hopeless every day for 2 weeks and stopped

doing usual activities for 12 months and 15.5% of 9th to 12th graders are being reported

electronically bullied for the past 12 months (YRBSS, 2015). Cyberbullying affects their

daily lives and is constant source of distress and worry (Bullying UK, 2011).

Cyberbullying also contributes anxiety and depression in all sort of different ways (The

Hearty Soul, 2017).

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Daily overdue of social media have more signs of other psychological disorders, like

antisocial behaviors, mania, aggressive tendencies, anxiety, and depression. There are

still good effects of social media like online social networking can help introverted

teenagers learn how to socialize (American Psychological Association, 2011). The longer

young adults spend time on social media, the more likely they are to be suffering from

depression (University of Pittsburgh School of the Health Science, 2013).

Depression is the new face of online bashing. A lot of people have a big difficulty facing

bashers online. Social media is a big contributor of people that are being bashed in

different way and now being studied by experts if social media contributes depression

(Tayag, 2017).

Advantages and Disadvantages of social media

Social media has a good and bad effect to the behavior of the students. It invades the

privacy of the student, distracts the student in everything they do, the student is too much

attach to it which lead to spending too much time in it and there are wrong information

being released by unauthorized people that cause fear. These are the things that can affect

them and even though there are a lot of things that can affect them there are still good

effects like they can get in touch with their love ones, they will know the latest news and

issues, they can participate online discussions, can help also introvert teenagers to

socialize (Parnala, 2012).

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Related studies shown that social media can really affect the students’ behavior either

positively or negatively. This study also aims to determine the effects of social media to

Grade-12 Senior High School students. Also this will help the researchers to determine if

there is a signicant relationship between the usage of social media to the behavior of the

Senior High School students.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

The research paradigm consists of the input variables, procedure and output variables.

The input consists of the usage of social media, the effects of using it and the relationship

between of usage and effects on the behaviour of the respondents.

The process is through an adopted questionnaire that requires the respondents to answer

how they use social media and how this affect them. Statistical treatment such as

frequency, percentage, mean and mode will be used. The output consists of the identified

respondents’ usage of social media, the effects on their behavior and the significant

relationship of usage and effects of social media to Senior High School students’

behavior.
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INPUT PROCEDURE OUTPUT

1. Usage of 1. Distribution of 1. Identified the
Social Media questionnaire usage of
by the 2. Statistical social media
students Treatment by the
2. Effects of respondents
Tally
social media 2. Identified the
on their Percentage effects of
behavior social media
Mode
to their
Mean behavior
3. Correlation of
Chi-
the usage of
Square Test social media
on their
behavior

PARADIGM OF THE STUDY

The paradigm shows the objective, the procedure and the expected results of the study.

Specifically, it aims to find the answers to the following questions: (a) what social media

do they often use?; (b) what are the effects of social media to their behaviour?; (c) Is

there a correlation between the usage of social media to the behavior of the students?

RESEARCH PROBLEM

This study seeks to determine the effects of social media on the behavior of the Grade 12

students. Specifically; (a) the usage of social media; (b) the effects of social media to

students’behavior; (c) Is there a significant relationship between the usage of social

media to the effects of social media on the behavior of the students?

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Methods

Respondents

The researchers used random sampling, as the sampling technique. The 72 respondents of

this study was the Grade 12 Senior High School students from (STEM, Agri- Fisheries

and Home Economics) from Pampanga State Agricultural University (PSAU).

Instrument

The researchers used adopted questionnaire from the study of Rosen, et., al, 2013. The

questionnaire was based on the usage and effects of social media on students. It was used

as the major instrument in the collection of the desired information. It includes the profile

of the students (name, age, gender), usage of social media they used and its effects on

them.

For the usage of social media used by the students were evaluated with 17 questions

using a 10-point scale ranging:

1 Never
2 Once a month
3 Several times a month
4 Once a week
5 Several times a week
6 Once a day
7 Several times a day
8 Once an hour
9 Several times an hour
10 All the time
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While for the effects of social media on students’ behavior was consisted of 16 items and

are evaluated by a 5-point Likert scale ranging:

1 Agree
2 Strongly Agree
3 Neither agree nor disagree
4 Disagree
5 Strongly Disagree

Procedure

The researchers asked for the permission of the Senior High School Principal to conduct

the study. After the approval, consent form was distributed to each section indicating that

they were permitting the researchers during their vacant time. It was followed by the

distribution of the instruments wherein the researchers would like to determine how

social media affect their behavior. The respondents are given 15 minutes to answer the

questionnaires.

After that, the data were gathered, tallied, tabulated, analysed and checked by the

researchers and interpreted by with the helped of the statistician. The researchers used

mode and mean to analyse the data to determine how the social media can affects their

behavior.
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Results and Discussion

Supporting the study of Khurana, (2015) that the research shows how effectively has the

usage of social networking sites affected the youth by evaluating both of its positive and

negative aspects.

The table 1 shows the usage of social media used by the students. Most of the students

used social media all the time. Watching TV shows, movies and stuff range 10 or they do

it all the time. Same as searching video, images and news that rate 10 which have a

descriptive rating of never and playing games on a computer. The lowest rating is 1 and

with a descriptive rating of never are send, receive and read emails. share their own

media files on a computer, play games on a computer, video game console or smartphone

with other people in the same room and play games on a computer, video game console

or smartphone with other people online.

Table 1: Usage of social media by the students.

USAGE Mode Descriptive Rating

Send, receive and read emails. 1 Never
Check personal email. 2 Once a month
Check your work or school email. 2 Once a month
Send or receive file via email. 3 Several times a month
Watch TV shows, movies, etc. on a TV
10 All the time
set.
Watch video clips on TV set. 10 All the time
Watch TV shows, movies, etc. on a 10 All the time
Watch videocomputer.
clips on a computer. 10 All the time
Download media files on a computer. 2 Once a month
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Share your own media files on a

1 Never
computer.
Search the Internet for news on any
10 All the time
device.
Search the Internet for information on
5 Several times a week
any device.
Search the Internet for videos on any
10 All the time
device.
Search the Internet for images or photos
10 All the time
on any device.
Play games on a computer, video game
10 All the time
console or smartphone by yourself.
Play games on a computer, video game
console or smartphone with other people 1 Never
in the same room.
Play games on a computer, video game
console or smartphone with other people 1 Never
online.

Table 2 supports the study of Kaya and Bicen (2015), it was found out that social media

played a major role on behavior change of the respondents. In this table shows that 3.71%

of the students agree that they feel that it is important to be able to find any information

they want. 3.72% agree that they like to finish one task completely before focusing on

anything else. 3.58% agree that they feel it is important to be able to access the internet

anytime they want and 3.50% agree that new technology makes people waste too much

time using the social media. While 3.32% said that they neither agree nor disagree that

they think it is important to keep up with the latest trends. 3.36% said that they neither

agree nor disagree that they get anxious when they don’t have a phone. 3.33% said that

they get anxious when they don’t have internet connection. 3.08% said they depend on

the technology. 3.26% said that the technology provides them anything. 3.39% said that

they neither agree nor disagree that technology can help the accomplished things. 2.94%

said that social media makes life more complicated. 3.42% said that they prefer doing
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things several times a day instead of switching to another while 3.04 said they prefer

switching things in a day. And 3.08% said that when they have a task to complete they

like to break up and switching to another task. And table 2 has an over-all mean of 3.33%

with a descriptive rating of neither agree nor disagree.

Table 2: Effects of social media on the behavior of students.

Effect Mean Descriptive Rating

I feel it is important to be able to find any
3.71 Agree
information whenever I want.
I feel it is important to be able to access the
3.58 Agree
internet anytime I want.
I think it is important to keep up with the
3.32 Neither
latest trends in technology.
I get anxious when I don’t have my
3.36 Neither
cellphone.
I get anxious when I don’t have the internet
3.33 Neither
available to me.
I am dependent on my technology. 3.08 Neither
Technology will provide solutions to many
3.26 Neither
problems.
With technology anything is possible. 3.15 Neither
I feel that I get more accomplished because
3.39 Neither
of technology.
New technology makes people waste too
3.50 Agree
much time.
New technology makes life more
2.94 Neither
complicated.
New technology makes people more
3.39 Neither
isolated.
I prefer to work on several projects in a
day, rather than completing one project and 3.42 Neither
then switching to another.
When doing a number of assignments, I
like to switch back and forth between them 3.04 Neither
rather than do one at a time.
I like to finish one task completely before
3.72 Agree
focusing on anything else.
. When I have a task to complete, I like to
break it up by switching to other tasks 3.08 Neither
intermittently.
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Over-all mean 3.33 Neither

Conclusion

This research revealed that the students use social media all the time, it is highly used as a

tool to help them communicate, play games and for supporting learning environment.

Also the research found out that students neither agree nor disagree that social media can

affect their behavior. And lastly, there is no significant relationship between the usage of

social media by the students and in the effects on the students’ behavior. Which means

the effects of social media on the students’ behavior does not only relies on the usage of

social media but also it relies on how responsible the user is because just like anything

else social media has a negative and positive side.

Recommendations

i. Parents must monitor the usage of social media by their child not only how

often they use it but also the applications they use, for them to know if this

helps their child positively or negatively.

ii. Students must be more engaged in actual activities and personal socialization

than being more active in social media.

iii. Further study must be done in different age brackets.

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Appendix

Plate 1: Distribution of questionnaire to Grade 12 Agri-fisheries.

Plate 2: Distribution of questionnaire to Grade 12 Home Economics section A and B.

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Plate 3: Distribution of questionnaires to Grade 12 STEM.