The impact of social media addiction to young adults on family relationships in Guimba, Nueva Ecija
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2012
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Jennilyn A. Angel
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The average time young Filipinos spend on the internet provides evidence that half of the day is spent on social media and other mobile apps. The data show that millions of people use in the internet, in that case, social media addiction may affect family relationships and knowing how to prevent it will lead to better use of social media.
This study used non-probability sampling to select only young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 for its quantitative study and correlational research in Guimba, Nueva Ecija. For the analysis, the data were quantified and interpreted using statistical techniques, such as percentages, frequencies, means, standard deviations, analysis of variance, linear regression, and Pearson's product Moment Correlation Coefficient test. The research instruments used were the Social Media Addiction Scale and the Brief Family Relationship Scale.
The study found out that even if social media increase the number of young adults in Guimba, Nueva Ecija also the family relationship increases. The Socio=demographic characteristics only have a significant relationship with daily spent time using social media and other socio-demographic characteristics not having a significant relationship. For the Indicators of Social Media Addiction, the result found that all the indicators do have a significant relationship such as Virtual Tolerance, Virtual Communication, Virtual problem and Virtual Information.
This study explores the driving factors behind sex work, the routines of sex workers, coping strategies for societal criticisms, and the impact on their social and physical lives. Financial needs is a significant motivation for these women, who see sex work as a means to support themselves and their families. they face stigma but employ the tactic of ignoring judgements. Discrimination is suggested to provide support and protect sex workers. Young adults occur to have more social media tolerable especially since the majority of the respondents are female and are more engaged in social media than they pertain almost all of the respondents are Roman Catholic which can be applied that they giving teaching to provide them more productive rather than used all the time and energy to the social media.
The socio-demographic characteristics of the time spent on social media had significant differences in social media addiction and the age, sex, religious affiliation. Revealed further that the indicators of a young adult in social media addiction only prevailed that Virtual problem only Disagreed and the Virtual Tolerance, Virtual Communication, and Virtual Information are neither agree nor disagreed then their relationship to Family Relationship shows that all the indicators have a significant relationship to the social media addiction.
The Young adults in Guimba, Nueva Ecija must efficiently observe their time spent on social media so it does not harmful affect their relationship with families. Parents are advised to monitor their children using social media platforms to prevent them from becoming addicted. In using social media, the young adult must perceive the concept of controllable desire using social media, then communicating through face-face interaction is more efficient than using social media. This study may be applied to different research locales to differentiate if the environment they were living in impacts social media addiction in family relationships.