Philippine E-Journals

The relationship between the use of Facebook and Instagram and the level of self-esteem of Grades 10 and 11 Students

Tricia Mae C. Zafra | Reynilda Salandanan

 

Abstract:

Despite the convenience being brought by different technological advancements such as social media, there have been studies that revealed that social media has both positively and negatively impacted the self-esteem of its users. In relation to this problem, this study aims to investigate the relationship between social media usage of the respondents, the Grades 10 and 11 female students of SPUQC and their self-esteem. To determine the relationship of adolescents’ social media usage, the researcher used the Social Networking Time Use Scale (SONTUS), which is a 29 item scale that measures the time they spent on social media. The researcher also used the Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale (RSES) which is a 10 item scale intended to measure self-esteem which is answered using a four point likert scale. The results of the questionnaires were computed using the Mean and Standard Deviation for the descriptive statistics. The researcher also used Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (Pearson’s R) to measure how the selected variables are significantly related to the respondents’ self-esteem. Lastly, Cronbach’s Alpha was used to establish the reliability of the SONTUS Scale and Rosenberg’s Self Esteem Scale. The results revealed that even though both set of respondents from Grades 10 and 11 have SONTUS scores ranging from average to high, they still obtained a generally high self- esteem score. Findings of the study indicate that social media usage is not the sole factor that contributes to the self-esteem of the respondents. These results also show that high social media usage does not necessarily mean that the users of these social media platforms have a low self-esteem. Results also indicate that the respondents’ self-esteem is significantly correlated with all the 5 SONTUS components. Each SONTUS component is also significantly correlated with one another.