Impact of Watching Teleserye to the Holistic Development of Teenager Students of Balligui High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

To an extent, teleseryes are healthy remedy because it diverts the attention of the viewers, and in some instances help a person transform itself into something different. Teleserye as a literary work is being used by the youth as their guide to coming up with the day-to-day changes in their social environment. Most telescopes aired in television stations depict present-day realities, the typical way of life, or an introduction on a new culture. It is also observed that in some teleserye, philosophical concepts are introduced g to make something acceptable, despite being objectionable in real life.

METHODS

The descriptive survey research design was used for this study to provide a quantitative (numeric) description of trends, attitudes, and opinions of a population by studying a sample of a population. Here, an adapted questionnaire was used by the researchers to determine the impact of watching teleseryes on moral, emotional and social aspects and the actions to be done in order to lessen the identified impacts. There were 49 randomly selected respondents in this study.

RESULTS

Many of the respondents were affected in their moral aspects especially when they attempt to incorporate these values in real life, usually, imitate how the character acts and others. They were affected when the protagonist was being abused or hurt by the antagonists and inspire to become a responsible adult. In their emotional aspects, most of them were affected by the impression that wealthy members of society are wicked and mean. Lastly, such teleserye enables them to communicate with others by convening every morning to talk about the scenes in the previous night, an obvious impact on their social aspects.

DISCUSSIONS

The results proved that the students are emotional and can be affected by what they watch. Whether such effect is on their emotional, moral or on other aspects of their personality, it should be underscored that adult guidance specifically the parents and teachers, should be provided to ensure that such teleserye will not cause any negative effect to the holistic development of students.