The Socialand Behavioral Correlation of Social Media among Grade 10 Students in Anselmo A. Sandoval Memorial National High School
Keywords:
Social BehaviorAbstract
INTRODUCTION
Social media becomes the predominating ally of the existence of mankind nowadays. Likewise, it possesses multi-tasking functions. It plays an essential role in particular to social and behavioral aspects of an individual. Since it caters most the teenagers, as observed in Anselmo A. Sandoval Memorial National High School, this study was aimed to determine the correlation of social media to social and behavioral aspects of Grade 10 students and make the necessary activities to lessen its adverse effect to the students.
METHODS
The descriptive method through a quantitative method was used among 60 Grade 10 respondents taken from 10 sections in random sampling in Raosoft formula. Moreover, the statistical tools used were weighted mean, rank and Pearson r.
RESULTS
Social and emotional features of social media were identified. In like manner, it was found that social media has no significant relationship to the social aspect of Grade 10 students; however, social media has a significant relationship to their behavior. Moreover, activities will be applied to lessen the negative effects of social media on students' behavior.
DISCUSSIONS
The result needs to pay attention so that the adverse effect of social media to behavior will be lessened/be avoided.