The Relationship between internet Addiction and Strengthening Student's Social Skills of Grade 11 Students at Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School - integrated Senior High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

People prefer to use computer, mobile phones or any gadgets so they can use the internet. When internet usage eats the time of the users, most of them become addicted to it. In other cases, social skills of many teenagers are also badly affected. The researchers made this study to know the relationship between internet addiction and social skills of the respondents.

METHODS

This study used systematic random sampling to identify the reasons of the respondents who are addicted to internet and the effects of internet addiction to their social skills. The researchers used the Slovin's Formula to have the number of respondents needed. Also, the researchers used survey questionnaires and distributed them to the respondents.

RESULTS

The result from the survey questionnaire shows that the students of Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School -Integrated Senior High School find their lives boring without using internet. It means that the internet has a great impact on their lives. In case of social skills, the researchers found out that most of the respondents are always thankful to someone who is kind to them. The overall result of the study was that the more the student is engaged with the internet, the harder they find it hard to socialize with other people.

DISCUSSIONS

The researchers found out that the student who spends most of his or her time on the internet finds socializing with other people very hard. Most of them use Facebook to entertain themselves and to explore things in the newsfeed. Some of them use Instagram to share photos or images and to view other people’s photos, too. The least usage of application of the respondents is Twitter.