DIVINE WORD HIGH SCHOOL SANCHEZ MIRA, CAGAYAN

OVER-USAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

AND ITS EFFECTS TO THE
STUDY HABITS OF
THE STUDENTS

Submitted to the Faculty of the

Divine Word High School- Sanchez Mira
in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
Practical Research 1

VANNA LOUISE C. DUMLAO

November 2017
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APPROVAL SHEET

This research work entitled, Over-usage of Social Media and its Effects to the
Study Habits of the Students by Vanna Louise C. Dumlao, presented to the Faculty of
the Divine Word High School- Sanchez Mira in partial fulfillment of the requirements in
Practical Research 1, is hereby accepted.

__________________________________
PATRICIA MAE L. ABRAN
Research Adviser
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The researcher wish to express her greatest gratitude to the following persons who

extended their support for the realization of this study:

The Almighty God, for His unending and continuous guidance, and for giving

determination, faith, love and courage that helped the researcher to successfully finish her

study;

Rev. Fr. Antonio Calautit, SVD, School Director, for his words of wisdom and

heartwarming guidance for the students welfare;

Mr. Rommel F. Collado, MAEM, School Principal, for his support and

suggestion in the completion of the study and his helpful insights and concern for this

study not only as a teach but also as a family;

Ms. Patricia Mae L. Abran, Research Teacher, for her unending provision for

inspiring the researcher, for sharing her time,, words of wisdom, and encouragement;

Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Dumlao, for their unending support, guidance

and spiritual pieces of advice, financial support, and especially the love they give;

Her classmates and friends who played important roles along the journey, as they

mutually engaged in making sense of the various challenges and in providing

encouragement;

The Faculty and Staff of Divine Word High School of Sanchez Mira for nurturing

her morally and academically.

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ABSTRACT

The Internet has undergone rapid development, with significant impact on social

life and on modes of communication. Social media refers to the means of interactions

among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual

communities and networks.

This study will inform the readers about the advantages and disadvantages of over-

using the social media to the students of Divine Word High School as well as the effects

on their study habits. In order to study this matter, the researcher randomly distributed 15

questionnaires among the junior high school students of the Divine Word High School -

Sanchez Mira who are currently enrolled during the School Year 2017-2018.

The importance of this study is to inform the readers and other students about the

effect of over-using social media and how it affects their study habits.

According to the results of the study, the researcher figured out that the students

who spend their leisure time on using social media affects their study habits by getting

lazy, being distracted to their studies and don't have enough time to do other tasks.

There are only several advantages and disadvantages that were figured out during

this study. The advantages of over-using social media are that, they gain more

information by using these and they can use it for research purposes. Disadvantages, on

the other hand, that were figured out are that, they tend to forget their lessons and have a

low academic performance.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents Page

TITLE PAGE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- i

APPROVAL SHEET -------------------------------------------------------------------- ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -------------------------------------------------------------- iii

ABSTRACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ iv

TABLE OF CONTENTS --------------------------------------------------------------- v

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------------ 1

Background of the Study ------------------------------------------------------ 1

Statement of the Problem ----------------------------------------------------- 2
Significance of the Study ------------------------------------------------------ 3
Scope and Limitations --------------------------------------------------- 3

Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ------------------------ 5

Chapter 3 METHODOLOGY ----------------------------------------------------- 8

Research Design ---------------------------------------------------------------- 8

Locale and Respondents of the Study --------------------------------------- 8
Data Gathering Procedure ----------------------------------------------------- 8
Data Gathering Tools ---------------------------------------------------------- 9
Treatment of the Data ---------------------------------------------------------- 9
Conceptual Framework -------------------------------------------------------- 9

Chapter 4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS ------------------------------------ 10

Chapter 5 CONCLUSION --------------------------------------------------------- 14

Chapter 6 RECOMMENDATIONS ---------------------------------------------- 15

BIBLIOGRAPHY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16

APPENDIX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17

CURRICULUM VITAE -------------------------------------------------------------- 19

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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

The definition of social media is the relationships that exist between network of

people (Walter & Riviera, 2004). In the last ten years, the online world has changed

dramatically. Thanks to the invention of social media, young men and women now

exchange ideas, feelings, personal information, pictures and videos at a truly astonishing

rate. Seventy-three percent of wired American teens now use social media websites

(Oberst, 2010). Schill (2011) states that the social media sites encourage negative

behaviors for teen students such as procrastination (catching up with friends), and they

are more likely to drink and drug.

Social media is still a new phenomenon with a lot of areas still in need of study.

Additionally, new technologies rapidly emerge each year and create cause for further

research. With that said, some research has already been conducted on social media. The

existing research examines social network sites and their effect on offline social circles

including the emotional closeness with those offline circles. Pollet, Roberts, and Dunbar

(2011) looked into the question of SNS and their effect on offline relationships. Their

results found that for participants who did use an IM [instant messenger] or SNS, there

was no significant correlation between time spent on IM and online social network size

(Pollet, Roberts, & Dunbar, 2011, p. 255).

Social media nowadays has made an enormous impact on the lifestyle of

individuals around the globe. It has already been a huge contribution to the daily social
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routine of the people in various types of communities. High and middle class society is

now into social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Tumblr and etc. Even

low-class people are into these social networking sites as well. Actually, these social

networking sites have played a big part to the global community in terms of

communication purposes.

Some use these sites in order to communicate to their loved ones across the globe,

in different countries as possible. Companies and business people use it for selling and

advertising products and for gaining customers. Some also use it as a media for gaining

friends and for engaging in relationships and others use these internet sites for gaming

purposes. But what is bothersome today is the way students use these networking sites.

Social Networking is helpful among students in ways such as communicating

about projects and tasks in school but some students cross the boundaries of using such

sites. They use it for sexual and intimacy purposes. Some use it for gambling purposes.

Misuse of such sites are what makes the social networking world hazardous to all people

involved in it especially to students of minor ages. Whats more harmful is that it seldom

leads to the destruction of the students foundation for their future which is education.

Statement of the Problem

Generally, the study aims to determine and explain the effects of over-using the

different social media applications on the study habits of the students in DWHS SM

with the following questions:

1. What are the effects of over-using the social media applications to the

students study habits?

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2. How does it affect to the students study habits?

3. What are the advantages of over-using these applications?

4. What are the disadvantages of over-using these applications?

Significance of the Study

During the course of this study, the researcher was able to found out what are the

advantages and disadvantages of over-using the social media applications. The study can

also help to identify on how it affects on the study habits of the students. Results of this

research would be beneficial specifically to the following:

Students - students who are the respondents and are the main concern of the

study. With this, they will be able to and be informed and they can assess whether if the

impact as well as the effects of social media to them is somewhat good or the other way

around;

Researcher - the researcher can have a final say and can gain more knowledge

about the said study. Curiosity can be driven away and also, the researcher can come up

with the idea of how do over-using social media affect students study habits.

Scope and Limitations

The study focuses on the effects of over using the different social media

applications to the study habits of the students. It is a common topic but covers a lot of

factors. The research further explains the positive and negative impacts of social media

applications to the study habits of the students. The study considers the student's personal

information such as their name, age, sex, year and section.

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The researcher limits the study to 15 students enrolled in the first semester of S.Y.

2017- 2018 in the Divine Word High School Sanchez Mira. The students were

randomly picked considering all the grades and sections of the said school. Each of the

respondents was given questionnaires.

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Chapter 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Social media refers to the means of interaction among people in which they

create, share, exchange and comment among themselves in different networks. Andreas

and Michael (2010) are of the opinion that social media is a group of internet based

application that builds on the ideological foundation and allows the creation and

exchange of users generated content.

The increased use of Social Networking Websites has become an international

phenomenon in the past several years. What started out as a hobby for some computer

literate people has become a social norm and way of life for people from all over the

world (Boyd, 2007). Teenagers and young adults have especially embraced these sites as

a way to connect with their peers, share information, reinvent their personalities, and

showcase their social lives (Boyd, 2007).

With the increase of technology used for communicating with others and the

popularity of the Internet, Social Media has become an activity that is done primarily

on the Internet, with sites like MySpace, Face book, Bebo, Friendster, and Xanga (Coyle

et al., 2008).

According to Kuppuswamy and Shankar (2010) social medias grab attention of

the students and then diverts it towards non-educational and inappropriate actions

including useless chatting. Based on the above statement we can say that social

medias may badly affect the academic life and learning experiences of the student.
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Trusov, Bucklin, and Pauwels (2009) noted that the Internet is no doubt evolution

of technology but specifically social networks are extremely unsafe for teenagers, social

networks become hugely common and well-known in past few years.

Arnold and Paulus (2010) found that even when social media is used for an

educational purpose, students incorporate the technology into their lives in a way that

may differ from the intentions of the course instructor.

The internet usage effect of social media, in views of Nielsen (2012) is that,

students continue to spend more time on the social media than any site. The total time

spent on social media across mobile devices increased by 37%, 121 billion minutes in

July 2012 compared to 88 billion minutes in July 2011.

Social networking and their educational uses are of interest to many researchers.

Living Stone and Brake (2010) in their opinion said social medias, like much else on the

internet representing a moving target for researchers and policy makers.

Teenagers now use the Internet for the majority their daily activities and

information gathering, as opposed to older generations who used resources like the

television or newspaper (Lewis, 2008).

Kirschnera revealed that students who multi-task between social media and

homework are likely to have 20% lower grades than a student who does not have a social

media in visual range. Kirschnera believes that even running a social media on the

background on a student's PC while studying or doing homework could lower a student's

grade. He believes that "the problem is that most people have Facebook or other social
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media accounts, their e-mails and maybe instant messaging constantly running in the

background while they are carrying out their tasks" (Enriquez, 2010).

An ever increasing growth rate of SNS not only calls for the parental and teacher

monitoring of student users but also attracting the focus of academicians and researchers

towards this phenomenon. Students use of social media continues to create challenges

and issues for higher education professionals and keeping abreast of these challenges has

proved difficult because of the speed at which new technologies are being introduced

(Bugeja, 2006; Cariccioso, 2006; Finder, 2006; Quindlen, 2006; Shier, 2005). There is

evidence that higher education institutions have taken initiatives in disclosing information

about online social networking involvement to their students (Read et al., 2006).
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Chapter 3

METHODOLOGY

Research Design

The researcher used qualitative research to conduct this study entitled Over-usage

of Social Media and its Effects to the Study Habits of the Students.

Locale and Respondents of the Study

The respondents were 15 randomly selected junior high school students of the

DWHS SM who are currently enrolled for the School Year 2017-2018. The

respondents ages range from 14 16 years old.

The study was conducted at Divine Word High School Sanchez Mira.

Data Gathering Procedure

At first, the researcher looked for necessary resources that could help her in this

study. She did an intensive reading from the internet and asked opinions from her friends

and teachers. From these, she was able to construct ideas and questions for the

questionnaire.

A questionnaire was prepared and was submitted to the Practical Research teacher

for the approval of producing and distributing the questionnaire.

After checking and approving, the researcher produced 15 copies of the same

questionnaire with a letter requesting permission from the respondents to be a part of the

study. The questionnaires were then distributed randomly.

Data Gathering Tools

The tool used in data gathering is a questionnaire essay type. The questionnaire

was the primary tool on the gathering of data. It was given to know the perception of the

respondents on the subject.

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Treatment of the Data

The answers of the respondents were carefully tallied, tabulated, and organized. The

data were well presented, analyzed and interpreted.

For percentage calculation:

P = (f/n) 100

Where: P = Percentage

f = number of respondents on every item

n = total number of respondents

Conceptual Framework

Research Information

Getting updated with lessons

Advantages and
More resources for homework Disadvantages of Over-
and projects using Social Media

Distraction to studies

Forgetting the lessons and

homework
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Chapter 4

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter presented, analyzed and well interpreted all data that were gathered

from this study. The presentation of the data was completed using pie chart.

Figure 1.0

Question #1: Do you use any social media

applications?

YES
NO

100%

Figure 1.0 shows that all of the randomly selected respondents answered Yes to

the question if they use any social media applications.

Figure 2.0

Question #2: How many social media applications do

you use?

6.67%
1 - 2 applications

3 - 4 applications
40.00%

more than 5
53.33%
applications
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Figure 2.0 shows that majority of the respondents use 3 4 social media

applications which gave 53.33%. A total of 40.00% uses more than 5 applications, and

only 6.67% only uses 1 2 applications. This shows my result that most of the students

only uses not more than 5 social media applications.

Figure 3.0

Question #3: How many hours do you usually spend

on the different social media you have?

1 - 2 hours
20.00%

46.67% 3 - 4 hours

33.33% more than 5 hours

Figure 3.0 shows that out of 15 respondents, a total of 46.67% spends more than 5

hours using the different social media applications, and 33.33% of them spends 3 4

hours, while the remaining 20% spends at least 1 2 hours in using these applications.

Figure 4.0

Question #4: How does spending your leisure time on

using social media affects your study habits?

Getting lazy

20.00%
26.67% Distraction to
studies
20.00% Don't have enough
time to do other
33.33% tasks
Others
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Figure 4.0 shows that 33.33% of the 15 respondents answered that spending their

leisure time on using social media can affect their study habits by easily getting distracted

by it and cant concentrate to studies, while 26.67% answered that they get lazy. 20.00%

answered that they dont have enough time to do their other tasks, and the remaining

20.00% answered differently from the others, like they get being creative to their

homework and such.

Figure 5.0

Question #5: What is the advantage of using social media to

your study habits?

46.67% Research purposes

53.33% More information

Figure 5.0 shows that majority of the respondents answered that the advantage of

using social media to their study habits is for research purposes which gives a result of

53.33%, and the remaining 46.67% answered that the advantage of using social media to

their study habits is for more information to gain.

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Figure 6.0

Question #6: What is the disadvantage of using social media

to your study habits?

13.33% Forgetting the lessons

Low academic
26.67% performance
60.00%
Others

Figure 6.0 shows that majority of the respondents answered that the disadvantage

of using social media to their study habits is they tend to forget their lessons. Low

academic performance as a disadvantage got 26.67%, and the remaining 13.33% is for

the other answer, like competence of time between studies and social media and such.
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Chapter 5

CONCLUSIONS

Based from the presented results and findings in the discussion of the study, the

following conclusions are derived:

1. Using the different social media accounts are prevalent, and that the students

are not over-using the different popular social media.

2. The study habits of the students are slightly affected by over-using the social

media; however these are seen as a good learning tool in a way that they gain

more information by using these applications.

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Chapter 6

RECOMMENDATIONS

Based on the given conclusions, the following are being recommended:

1. Students should limit more themselves in using the social media.

2. Students should know that not all they see or read in social media are good or

will help them.

3. Students should know the consequences they might get from over-using the

social media.

4. Students should know their responsibilities when over-using the social media.

5. Parents should watch and guide their children as to how they react or change

through over-using the social media.

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APPENDIX
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Name: ________________________________________________________
Sex: _______________ Age: ____________ Year & Section: ____________
1. Do you use any social media applications?

2. How many social media applications do you have?

3. How many hours do you usually spend on the different social media
you have?

4. How does spending your leisure time on using social media affects
your study habits?

5. What is the advantage of using social media to your study habits?

6. What is the disadvantage of using social media to your study habits?

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Background

Name: Vanna Louise C. Dumlao

Address: Centro 02, Sanchez Mira, Cagayan

Date of Birth: September 11, 1999

Place of Birth: Namuac, Sanchez Mira, Cagayan

Father: Louis C. Dumlao

Mother: Vivian C. Dumlao

Sister: Alyssa Belle C. Dumlao

Educational Background

Elementary: Sanchez Mira Central Elementary School

Year Graduated: 2012

Junior High School: Science High School

Cagayan State University
Sanchez Mira, Cagayan

Year Graduated: 2016

Senior High School: Divine Word High School

Sanchez Mira, Cagayan

Year Graduated: 2018