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“The Relationship of Social Media to Eating, Sleeping and Study habits of Senior High School Students”AbstractThis study is about the relationship of social media to eating, sleeping and study habits that aimed to ascertain its effects to the Senior High students in Linao National High School. It li...

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“The Relationship of Social Media to Eating, Sleeping and Study habits of Senior High School Students” Abstract This study is about the relationship of social media to eating, sleeping and study habits that aimed to ascertain its effects to the Senior High students in Linao National High School. It likewise aimed to identify the significant kinds of social media were the students are prone that may be conclude to be the reason of influencing negative effects and how it interrupt to their study habits, eating and sleeping quality. This study utilized the “Descriptive Survey” in describing how social media interrupt to their eating, sleeping and study habits. (85) Students were utilized to be the respondents of this study from different tracks and strands, namely academic track with two strands (STEM) Science Technology Engineering Mathematics and (HUMSS) Humanities and Social Science, the second track is (TVL) technology and livelihood education that is subdived into three strands namely (ICT) Information and Communication Technology, (I.A) Industrial Arts and (H.E) Home economics. Researcher made and dulyvalidated instrument called questionnaire checklist. Frequency count and weighted mean is utilized to analyze the data. Result revealed that social media has an effect to their eating, sleeping and study habits, as well it was identified to be the Facebook is the most popular and preferable site were most of the students used.

There are many various changes happened in this world, that has something to do in human being especially in youth generation. We can call progress and development but behind there is humungous disadvantages. Today’s world is a global village everyone is connected to one another in this vast network generated by the internet. As said by Marshall Mcluhan, a philosopher of communication theory “The new electronic Independence re-creates the worlds in the image of global village”. This electronic independence is inherently dependent upon the internet. It illuminates the lives of the thousands of people by spreading knowledge internationally, thereby making us global citizen. Personal internet access has grown exponentially over the last decade, more recently the most prominent social revolution is the “Boom of Social Media”. Social media generally refers to a kind of technology and website that provides a platform for accessing information, sharing ideas. However different people will react to that exposure very differently. Just as women and men will be able to ignore the unrealistic standard of beauty and looks portrayed in traditional social media. And youth are the prone user of this platform. To note there are many variety of social media, and the most popular platform used by the students is “Facebook”. This Social Media affects the relationship of the students to eating in exact time, adequate sleep and also with their study habits. Yes and no, to put in perspective Social Media causes eating disorder that appears in many students having some genuinely negative effects. We cannot deny that students are very critical thinking, they were attracted from what the trend is, and the reason why they cannot maintain their good health because of the unique world of social media, causing eating disorder. They don’t eat from exact time as well skipping their meals. Hence, this was the reason of the researchers to conduct this concept paper.

According to the Huffington post, as far back as 2012, hospital admission were spiking for eating disorder like anorexia. The victims were largely young girls at age of 15 and under , which has a disturbing trend since eating disorder are the mental disorder that have the highest mortality rate among sufferance. When researchers try to find a cause, Social Media was put under the microscope. What the research found was that social media users experience an increased awareness of their bodies and weight, which can lead to being extremely selfconscious regarding how that body is treated or presented. Social media at any point was significantly related also to decreased sleep quality, however when it comes to sleep quality “Those who log at night appear to be particularly affected” study author Heather Cleland woods of the university of geosgow in Scotland said in a statement. The teenage years can be a time of increased vulnerability to poor sleeping that may contribute to the risk of this condition. Previous researches also studied and have shown the overuse of electronic media is related to sleep disorder. Moreover, some research studies shows that there is an association between Facebook dependence and poor quality of sleep. According to Wang, Chen and Liang, students use social media tools for many purposes such as access to information, group discussion, resource sharing and entertainment. On the contrary, Gross and Acquisti argue that users may be putting themselves at risk both offline (e.g., stalking) and online (e.g., identify theft). In this study, social networking and social media are used interchangeably. Social networking has only one goal. It is to encourage new ways to communicate and share information. Observation showed, however, that many students have been blaming various social networking for it affects adversely their study habits and the

steady decrease in their grade point averages. This emergent phenomenon has aroused the researcher to look into social networking and why it affects the study habits of students. Social media affects the output of the students which is the study habits and can be seen through their academic performance, which might be a negative effect. Students today have begun to rely on the accessibility of information that is available on the social media platforms specifically as well as the web in general in order to get answer. This means that there is a reduced focused on learning as well as on returning information. Sometimes students prefer to visit this site rather than to attend their class and because of being addiction. They cannot totally give their attention to focus in their study, sometimes they don’t give any care nor interest to do their assigned homework instead they spend their time to enjoy and access the world of social media. Social networking evidently has a lot of positive effects, but there are also some negative impacts. And its relevant information is the relationship of social media to eating, sleeping and study habits of the students. This is not just a little issue, it is a big deal problem that should give and take action in order to guide those students and lessen the negative effects in their daily lives. Therefor researcher was prompted to conduct this topic. The researcher aimed to identify the relationship of social media and how interrupt the eating, sleeping quality and their study habits or academic performance of the students in Linao National High School Senior High, as well by addressing the following question: 1. Is social media affects the eating time, sleeping quality and study habits of the students in learning process?

2. Which kind of social media that affects their eating, sleeping and study habits of the students? 3. What does student usually focus more in social media? Methodology The study aim to ascertain the relationship of social media to eating, sleeping quality and study habits or academic performance of the students. Researchers conduct this study in the city of Tuguegarao, the capital province of Cagayan. Particularly in the public school of Linao National High School Senior High students. Barangay of Linao Norte for S.Y 2017. The respondents of this study will be the senior students in Linao National High school. (108) students will be given questions to answer who were prone of using social media. Stratified sampling technique is employed how researchers get the total population of the respondents. Researchers prepare different steps to follow for the guide of this topic. This study will use the “Descriptive Survey”. According to Gay the descriptive method of research involves collecting data to answer questions concerning the current status of the subject under study. Which this method is the most important instrument use for conducting this study. Questionnaire checklist will be the instrument use for this study for gathering information, this questionnaire is classified into two part first is the profile of the students, which pertains to the age, name, gender and course. The second one is various questions that are related to the topic of this study. To gather data from the respondents, researchers will prepare first for questionnaire checklist after, is asking permission to the teacher, and then questionnaires will be given to the students, as well researcher will start to gather information and data will be collected.

The data will be gathered and analyze with the use of statistical tool. Called frequency count and weighted mean. Where x refers to the weighted mean; ∑x refers to the frequencies or the total of the respondents answers; and N also refers to the total population of the respondents. To determine the relationship of social media to eating, sleeping and study habits, this scale and its descriptions will use 3- 2.34 to 3.00 this will describe as Never; 2 1.67 to 2.33 describe as Sometimes; 1- 1.00 to 1.66 describe as Always. And the second one is the percentage with the use of statistical tool P is Percentage; F is the frequency and N is the total respondents.

Result and Recommendation Table 1: Students preferred sites Variable Facebook Instagram Twitter Snapchat Google Youtube

Frequency 33 8 4 13 21 6 85

Percentage 38.82 % 9.41 % 4.70 % 15.29 % 24.70 % 7.06 % 100 %

As shown on Table 1 the significant kinds of social media that is more preferable site to the respondents is Facebook with a percentage of 38.82 % and the frequency total is 33 which is the most higher respondents. Which means this site or Social media is the main reason why Social Media affects the students to their eating, sleeping and study habits. Followed by Google site with a percentage of 24.70 % and the next is Snapchat with a percentage of 15.29 % and 13 respondents. There are also 6 respondents who say that their preferable site is Twitter with a percentage of 4.70 % and the site with lower respondents is Youtube with only percentage of 7.06 %

Table 2: Students focus more on Social Media Variable Chatting with friends Uploading Pictures

Frequency 29

Percentage 34.11 %

25

29.41 %

Playing Games Watching Videos Searching information

6 12 13 85

7.06 % 14.11 % 15.29 % 100%

In this table it reveals that the most focusable ritual in Social Media is chatting with Friends, based on the computation it has 34.11 % percentage and 29 respondents. Which means that this is also the reason of spending a lot of time that affects their study habits, to eating and sleeping of the students. The second one is uploading Facebook that has a percentage of 29.41 and 25 respondents. Followed by Searching Information with a percentage of 15.29 % and 13 respondents, this means that chatting with friends is higher rather than this searching information. Watching videos also have 14.11 % and 12 respondents and the lower respondents is playing games with only 4.06 % percentage.

Table 3: Relationship of Social Media to eating, sleeping and study habits of the students

Questions 1. Do you access social media while you are in

Always

Sometimes

Never

Weighted

Descriptive

1

2

3

Mean (X)

Survey

3

62

20

2.2

Sometimes

the middle of the class? 2. Has there been a time you skipped your

8

50

27

2.22

Sometimes

2

24

59

2.67

Never

17

54

14

1.96

Sometimes

15

57

13

1.97

Sometimes

11

42

32

2.24

Sometimes

10

40

35

2.29

Sometimes

13

45

27

2.16

Sometimes

homework just to check your account? 3. Has there been a time you were not able to attend your class just to access this site? 4. Do you sleep late just to check your account? 5. Has there been a time 4 6. 7. when you feel dizzy while accessing social media in a long period of time? 8. Do you attend to your account first instead of having meals? 9. Do you skip meals or attend to your account first before eating? 10. Do you eat while checking your account?

As the table shown above the descriptive survey of the question no. 1 is Sometimes this means more respondents have been accessing social media while they are in the middle of the class that has a weighted mean of 2.2 which be scaled to Sometimes. From the question no. 2 it has a weighted mean of 2.22 scaled to sometimes that student skipping their homework just check their account, which means that there is an effect of social media to their Study Habits. In the question no. 3 the weighted mean is 2.67 and it scaled for Never, which is higher respondents say they don’t get absent just to visit their preferred site. From the question no. 4 the weighted mean is 1.96 and it scaled for sometimes that most of the respondents sleep late just to visit the site this means it has an effect in their sleep quality. The question no. 5 scaled to be sometimes, that they suffer dizziness in accessing social media with a long period of time that has a weighted mean of 1.97. From the question no. 6, 7 and 8 it shows to the table that they are the same descriptive survey measured with sometimes, which means that social media positively has an effect to their eating time which may cause to eating disorder.

Conclusion The extent relationship of social media to eating, sleeping and study habits really proved that various site has a negative effect to the students. Based on the result of the questionnaire checklist it shows that some students are using social media in times of eating meals, this implies that most of students have not realized that social media is gradually giving negative effects to their health, in fact they should maintain their good health to prevent having illness and the significant effect might be eating disorder that can lead to anorexia. It proves also that social media affects their quality sleep it reduces the time interval for them to sleep instead of accurate

time. So it is suggested that they should know to minimize their limitation accessing their preferred site. They should also avoid hanging their selves at night as well in a long period of time, just what the result interpretation from table 3 it shows that most of the students suffered dizziness. Students should utilize certain time for taking a rest for their body to maintain their good health. In study habits and academic performance of the students proved that it was affected by the social media this implies that students may have not realized the spending more time in social networking could be a hindrance to a good academic performance. In fact they have more important thing to do like school works and studying their lesson. It proved also based from the interpretation of the table that some students may sometimes skip their homework. This means that students may have established certain habits in social media. So students should use their certain time for researching or advance study aside from social networking because it also proved that the most ritual in social media were students do is chatting with their friend by the most popular preferred website is the Facebook, that has a highly respondents. It is suggested that parents should get appropriate guidance and counseling about dealing on how to develop good study habits, maintaining sleep quality and to their eating time. Healthy and sympathetic teacher-student relationship should be initiated to upgrade the level of academic self-esteem of students. Self-study should be encouraged and emphasized. The teacher should ask the students to keep the record of their progress towards their set goals and parents should always alarm their children in times of eating in exact time and counseling about the morality in

facing the food, as well being strict to keep their children safe and to minimized using their gadgets. Bibliography Mcluhan M. (1965). Communication Theory every technology has its own ground rules: Journal of communication. Huffington (2012) Eating disorder: How social media Helps spread Anorexia and Bulimia n young people Clealand H. (2016) Sleepy teens: Social media use in adolescence is associated with poor sleep. Journal of adolescence Https://www.researchgate.net? publication/303906199_sleepyteens_Social_media_use_in_adolescence_is_associated_with_poo r_sleep_quality_anxiety_depression_and_low_self-esteem?ev=prf_high Wang, Q., Chen, W. and Liang, Y (2011). The effects of Social Media on College Students. Johnson and Wales University. Retrieved from Http://scholarsarchieve.jwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=mba_student. Gross. R And Acquisti, A. (2005. November). Information Revelation and Privacy online social networks. Paper presented at the WPES’05, Alexandria, Virginia Gay, L. R. (2002). Educational Research: Competencies for analysis and application, (4th ed), New York-McMillan. [7] Tiddles, jr A. D. (2001). Why good teachers?”

Name (optional): _________________________________________

Age: ______

Track and Strands: _______________________________

Masculine

Gender:

Feminine Direction: Put a check (/) to the choice provided that fits your answer to the questions below. A. What is your preferred site? Facebook

Snapchat

Myspace

Instagram

Google (Gmail)

Tumbler

Twitter

Pinterest

Yahoo

Other please specify: _______________________ B. What do you focus more on?

Chatting with friends Uploading pictures Playing games Watching Videos Searching important information (for homework) Other please specify:________________________

C. Relationship of social media to your

Always

Sometimes

Never

eating, sleeping and study habits. 1. Do you access social media while you

1

2

3

are in the middle of the class? 2. Has there been a time you skipped your homework just to check your account? 3. Has there been a time you were not able to attend your class just to access this site? 4. Do you sleep late just to check your account? 5. Has there been a time when you feel dizzy while accessing social media in a long period of time? 6. Do you attend to your account first instead of having meals? 7. Do you skip meals or attend to your account first before eating? 8. Do you eat while checking your account?...