Philippine E-Journals

Impact of Social Media on the Health and Wellness of Learners

Mariah Jouvelle Archivido | Katherine Casacop | Justine Datinguinoo

Discipline: health sciences (non-specific)

 

Abstract:

This study provides a summary of the Impact of Social media on the health and wellness of learners, in different public integrated schools in Cabuyao Laguna. Researchers aim to know the relationship of social media on the health and wellness of the learners in using social media. According to the House of IT, a blog written in 2018, Filipinos reported socially active, thereby declared as the most active users on the web based social networking sites. This is why the country called “The Social Networking Capital of the World”. Our work was initially motivated by Dorothea Orem’s Self –Care (19592001). The theory which is considered as the act of assisting others in the provision and management of self to maintain or improve human functioning at home level of effectiveness. It focuses on each individual’s ability to perform selfcare; in that practice of activities individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf in maintaining life and wellbeing . Most previous research has focused on the negative implications and engagement to social media by means of excessive and compulsively used, (Andreassen et al., 2017). In contrast, our work specifically examines the relationship of social media on the health and wellness of learners in terms of their age, gender, year level, and time spend in social media. Furthermore, we apply relevant theory to understand thorouhly the impact of social media to the health and wellness of learners. The study utilized a descriptive method of research, over the course of two months, using questionnaires, that would assess the relationship between the independent variables namely, age, gender, year level, time spent on social media, social networking sites used and the dependent variables which the health and wellness of learners in public integrated schools in city of Cabuyao Laguna. They are selected through stratified random sampling techniques with following criteria; age 13 to 17 year old, from grade 7 to 12 junior –senior high school. We used to gather the data by means of frequency distribution, percentage, and four point likert scale. The study confirmed that the dominant members of the populations are from ages 15 years old. A female with 231 or 59.4 percent are more engage using social media raher than males with 156 or 14 percent, because it relates photo activities associated with their body image and aspirations, and it is condidered influenced message for young girls. The study shows that the grade 8 students with 109 or 28.2 percent are mostly active in social media than other gradeschools. And results suggest the dominant preceding hours using social media is 1 to 3 hours from junior to senior high schools. As a result Facebook was the dominant social media networking sites commonly used. In total the impact of social to health and wellness in terms of Self-care, Self-care Agency, Self-care Requisites, and Self-care demand was high which means, the majority of the respondents posed knowledge how to used social media wisely in which they used social media as a tool for friends and easy way to connect people to others. Hearing from their family and friends makes them feel important and loved and they know how to limit themselves using social media.