Impact of Social Media Addiction to the

Scholastic Performance of High School

Students in Science
Mindajao, BY

Gone are the days when traditional students

carry only school supplies with them in
schoolnow a days with gadgets too!

Why pursue this study?

There has been an increase in the number of social media

users around the world which dominated by students.
The increase in number of students using facebook is
feared by many researchers to affect the scholastic
performance of its student users.
Philippines is considered as social nation because of its
enormous social media users. Large part of its total social
media populace are students.
Over the years agency monitoring the scholastic
performance of students through standardized test like
TIMSS had observed a very low performance of the
Philippines in STEM subjects which includes Science.
San Roque National High School has observed a decreasing
trend in the NAT result in science for 2 consecutive years
(2013, MPS= 64) & (2014, MPS=50). The years of
decreased NAT results are also the years of the increase of

Researcher wished to

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The main objective of the study is to
determine the impact of social media
addiction to the scholastic performance to
High School students of San Roque
National
High
School,
San
Roque,
Macrohon, Southern Leyte.
The researcher specifically aims to:
Get the final mean rating of students in
science;
Identify the common social media platforms
used by high school student; and

REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE
Social Media/ Social Networking
Sites.
Social Media Addiction
Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale
Social Media Use by Students
Science Education in the Philippines
Effects of Social Media to Students

FRAMEWORK OF THE STUDY

Maslows Theory of Motivation

Hypothesis

The study hypothesized that higher level of social media

addiction results to low scholastic performance in science.

METHODOLOGY
Research Design
cross-sectional correlation research
design

Locale of the Study

San Roque National High School, San
Roque, Macrohon, Southern Leyte

The Population
413 junior high school students

METHODOLOGY
The Sample
65% of the total 216 population of grade
9 & grade 10

Research Instrument
adopted survey questionnaire

Data Collection:
Data Analysis
Point biserial

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Table 1
Demographic Profile of Respondents
Year Level
Grade 9

Grade 10

Sex

Male

33

24

Female

39

28

Male

32

23

Female

35

25

Table 2
Mean Rating of Respondents

Year Level
Grade 9
Grade 10

Sex

Rating
Mean

Male

80.9

Female

83.2

Male

78.4

Female

81.3

Table 3
Social Media Addicts and Nonaddicts
Social Media Addiction
Year Level

Grade 9

Grade 10

Sex

Social Media
Non-addicts

Social Media
Addicts*

Male

18

15

Female

21

18

Male

19

14

Female

20

15

*Students who scored the average of 3 in 4 out of 6 categories of Bergen

Facebook Addiction Scale

Table 4
Social Media Users among
Respondents in a Week
Social Media Users
Year Level

Grade 9
Grade 10

Sex

1 to 2 times a
week

3 to 5 times 6 to 7 times
a week
a week

Male

18

Female

17

10

12

Male

19

Female

16

12

Table 5
Relationship between Social Media
Addiction and Scholastic Performance
of Students
Year Level

Grade 9

Grade 10

r-Value

- 0.033

- 0.195

Description

Negative; weak

Negative; weak

p-Value

Description

0.795

Not significant
relationship; Fail
to reject H0

0.110

Not significant
relationship; Fail
to reject H0

Note: When r-value is greater than or equal to 0.01 or less than or equal
to 0.30 means weak relationship between variable. Negative r-value
means negative or inverse relationship between variables. P-value
greater than the 5% alpha means the study fail to reject the H 0
hypothesis.

CONCLUSION
After gathering all the data and doing the
analysis, the researcher concludes that social
media addiction alone is insignificantly related
to students scholastic performance. Though
the study gathered insufficient data to prove
the hypothesis, yet it strengthens the claims
of Maslows theory of motivation and Turel and
Serenkos
Socio-cognitive
model.
Both
theories emphasize that the students
prevalent addiction to social media are caused
by their pursuit of fulfilling their social needs.

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