Republic of Philippines

Department of Education
Nabua National High School
San Miguel, Nabua, Camarines.Sur
S/Y: 2019-2020

CAPSULE RESEARCH PROPOSAL

TITLE
Psychological Impact of Using Mobile Phone to SHS Student of Nabua National High School

STATEMENT OF THE This study aims to determine the psychological impact of using mobile phone to Senior High School students of Nabua National High School
PROBLEM Specifically it aims to answer the following questions:

1. What is demographic profile of SHS student along:

a. Age
b. Gender
c. Section
2. What are the Psychological Impact of Using Mobile Phone of SHS students along:
a. Mental Capacity
b. Stress Management
c. Persistence
3. What are the experiences of SHS student in using mobile phone?
4. What Intervention measures can be crafted to ease the Psychological burden?
ASSUMPTIONS OF THE This research study was premised on the following assumptions:
STUDY
1. The demographic profile of SHS student’srespondents in term of age, gender and section varied.
2. The use of mobile phone has psychological impact such as mental capacity, stress management and persistence of student.
3. The use of mobile phone that affect psychological health of students.
4. The crafted intervention measure in this study will help students to ease the psychological burden of using mobile phone.
 1. Students - The students 2. Parents – The 3. School 4. Future 5. 6.
SIGNIFICANCE OF may be the most benefited result of this study Administrator– The Researchers - The
THE by this study, because in will also affect the result of the study will result of this study is
STUDY using mobile phone can parents because of provide a hoped to serve as
now have the easiest access their children who supplemental material source of
to educational information, spent more time that can help to the information
they can also develop using mobile phone student to minimize regarding the needs
positive discipline in using instead of doing the rate of excessive and importance of
mobile phone at the same house hold chores, it using of mobile phone having a cleaning
time the student can control also affect the among students. This program in
their time and behavior behavior the children supplementary maintaining the
towards using mobile because they over material decreased the cleanliness of
phone, and this will help use it. The overuse negative effect of comfort room, as
them to be aware and of mobile phone mobile phone in the well as the
prevent addiction of the might bring conflict health of the student importance of
student in using mobile in the relationships in Nabua National discipline in the
phone. of the family High School that behaviour and
because of lack of make them more attitude of the
communication. disciplined. students that will
lead to cleanliness.

THEORY AUTHOR YEAR OF UNDERLYING RELEVANCE REFERENCES

PUBLICATION KNOWLEDGE

THEORIES
RELATED Stress and life It will serve as a
satisfaction guide to the
1.Psychological Impact Kurt Finsterbusch 2012 theories. Stress researchers in making
Theory theory describes the Theoretical
process whereby Framework and
environmental Theoretical Paradigm
 events or forces of the study.
threaten an
individual's well-
being and the
individual responds.
Meanwhile life
satisfaction focuses
on dissatisfaction or
unhappiness rather
than stress.
When we are It will serve as a
2. Cell Phone Theory distracted with guide to the
Alan Brown 2010 something, we researchers in making
subliminally take in Theoretical
what's around us but Framework and
may not truly Theoretical Paradigm
register it of the study.
consciously. Then,
when we are able to
focus on what we are
doing, those
surroundings appear
to already be
familiar to us even
when they shouldn't
be.
Provided the It will serve as a
3. Politeness Theory Brown &Levinson framework for guide to the
1978 analyzing focus- researchers in making
group transcripts in Theoretical
which college Framework and
students discussed Theoretical Paradigm
their perceptions of of the study.
cell-phone use by

4. Mobile Phone
Addiction Theory
friends while in one
another’s presence
and their responses
to friends’ usage.
Findings revealed
that this context is
inherently face
threatening in terms
of both positive and
negative face.
Phone addiction is It will serve as a
prevalent among guide to the
young adults. Also it researchers in making
Theoretical
is positively related
Framework and
to negative emotions Theoretical Paradigm
and interpersonal of the study.
problems mediate
the effects of mobile
phone addiction
level on negative
emotion.

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

 Input of the study refers to 1.) Profile of The process of the study contains data Output of the study includes the supplemental
respondents in terms of age, gender and gathering through the distribution of survey material titled MOBILE PHONE
CONCEPTUAL section.2. The Psychological Impact of Using questionnaires, analysis and interpretation of ADDICTION: You’re Psychological health is
data. in Danger!
FRAMEWORK Mobile Phone of SHS student in term of
mental capacity, stress management and
persistence 3. The experiences of SHS student
in using mobile phone

Anxiety- A feeling of worry,
nervousness, or unease, typically
DEFINITION OF about an imminent event or
TERMS something with an uncertain
outcome.
Behavioural- It refers to array of Insomnia- is a sleep disorder that Mobile Phone- is a phone that
every physical action and is characterized by difficulty can make and receive telephone
observable emotion association falling and/or staying asleep. calls over a radio link while
moving around a wide geographic
with individuals as well as human
area.
race.

Psychological Health- related to Stress Management- is a wide
the mental and emotional state of spectrum of techniques and
a person. psychotherapies aimed at
controlling a person's level
of stress, especially chronic stress,
usually for the purpose of and for
the motive of improving everyday
functioning.
Supplementary Material- is used
to add detail, background, or
context to an article by providing
the problem of their research.
Technology – is the sum of
techniques, skills, methods, and
the process used in the production
of goods or services or in the
accomplishments of objectives,
such as scientific investigation

This study is limited only in the Senior High School students of Nabua National High School due to the impact of using mobile phone; as a basis
SCOPE AND for a proposed intervention measures that will help students to manage the time they spent in using mobile phone. The conduct of this research
DELIMITATION only focuses on the discipline of the Senior High School regarding on using mobile phone by means of printing and distributing of survey
questionnaires with the number of respondents coming from SHS student of NNHS. The study involved SHS students of Nabua National High
School in the strand of GAS, ABM, STEM, HUMMS and TECH-VOC; 10 from STEM strand, 10 from ABM, 10 from GAS, 10 from HUMSS
and 10 from TECH-VOC.
 LOCAL YEAR CONCEPT REVIEWED RELEVANCE REFERRENCE
AUTHOR PUBLISHED

1.

2.

RELATED
STUDIES
3.
 FOREIGN YEAR CONCEPT REVIEWED RELEVANCE REFERRENCE
AUTHOR PUBLISHED

1. Zahra Babadi-Akashe,
Showed that BibiEshratZamani, YasaminAbedini,
Based on the studies entitled HojaetolahAkbari, and NasimHedayati
The studies of was
2014 with increased “The Relationship between relevant to the present Babadi-Akashe (2014) The
and improved Mental Health and Addiction study that cellphone Relationshipip between Mental
mental health, to Mobile Phones among addiction reduced if Health and Addiction of to Mobile
the student’s University Students of student mental health is Phones among University Students
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reduced. of cell phone addiction reduced.
Therefore the study resulted that
it is necessary that the university
authorities and higher education
institutions develop training
programs, and make efforts to
maintain physical and mental
health of student as well as
psychological health.
2. Showed that a A recent study published in
new mobile Clinical Psychological Sciences
gaming app showed that a new mobile
based on an gaming app based on an
emerging emerging form of cognitive
form of therapy could offer measurable
cognitive mental health and behavioral
therapy could benefits for people with
offer relatively high levels of anxiety.”
 measurable
mental health.

3. 2013 Showed that “A Study on some

the common Psychological Health Effects of
mental Cell-Phone Usage among
symptoms College Students’’ Headache
included lack was found to be the commonest
of symptom (51.47%) followed by
concentration irritability/anger (50.79%). Other
and academic common mental symptoms
performance, included lack of concentration
insomnia, and academic performance,
anxiety etc. insomnia, anxiety etc. “The study
confirms that the younger
generation, who are the most
frequent cell phone users, needs
to be aware about the adverse
health effects of cell phone usage
esp. the mental aspects and take
preventive measures to minimize
and control the same. . Less
dependence on the device, a
curtailing time period spent on
talking, communicating more by
texting, etc. are some of the
practical measures suggested.”
 Showed that Study determined that “Overuse
College
of wireless mobile devices
students is the
most avid (WMDs) may be associated with
consumers of
a form of psychological
WMDs,
might be dependency, of which a
susceptible to
prominent feature may be anxiety
the negative
effects of arising from separation from
WMD
these devices. College students,
overuse
who are among the most avid
consumers of WMDs, might be
susceptible to the negative effects
of WMD overuse” the study
concludes that excessive use of
mobile phone can lead to anxiety
and it has many negative effects
among student’s life.

LOCAL YEAR CONCEPT REVIEWED RELEVANCE REFERRENCE

AUTHOR PUBLISHED

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Family M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
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AUTHOR PUBLISHED

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 SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES
SYNTHESIS OF THE
STATE-OF-THE-ART

UNIQUENESS OF THE STUDY

GAP BRIDGE
The researcher reviewed of Related Literature and Studies have been made have an idea regarding the Mobile phone addiction
from the contents of related literature and related studies. This study aimed to determine if excessive use of mobile phone has direct
impact on psychological impact on health of individual. It was observed that the current studies were focused of the negative impact of
excessive use of Smartphone. The researcher will find out if there is a psychological impact of using Mobile Phone to student’s health.
Among the previous research, the researcher’s first to conduct this research because this study is differ in setting, specific in topic,
realistic in this generation and the researcher constructed a structured questionnaire that will ask respondents with specific question that
will suggest any solution to the research problem of this study.

The research uses mixed method to analyse and interpret the psychological impact of using mobile phone as a basis for development of
RESEARCH DESIGN supplemental material. This research is a non-experimental research design where descriptive type of research is used. The primary
objective is to provide factual data and accurate information as much as possible. The data gathered were organized and analyzed until
significant conclusions were obtained.

The study includes the Research Design, Respondents of the Study, Instrument of the Study and Statistical used to analyze and interpret
METHODOLOGY the responses of the respondents about the issue being discussed.

In this study the methods used in selecting respondents is a non-probability sampling. Researcher used “Quota Sampling” where the
SAMPLING METHOD researcher quota is only 50 students from Senior High School Departments. Researchers used a quota sampling where only the target
population is selected in this study. The respondents of the study are from Senior High School of Nabua National High School with the
same experiences towards excessive use of mobile phone and the characteristics of target population are involved in this research.
 In this study, first the researchers had focus group discussions about the topic of research. Also the researchers observe the
DATA COLLECTION students mobile phone usage in their respective classrooms. Interviews are useful in this study because of the questionnaires we give to
the selected respondents they can share their experiences and thoughts about the said research problem. Researchers used a structured
interview in gathering the data for the study. It used the observational methods to understand phenomena of student’s action and
behaviour in using mobile phone. Then the researcher analysis a documents that is based on existing sources in internet, like government
reports, articles in newspapers, thesis and any information from internet that is related to the research study. As a result of the
respondents' response, researcher’s gathered information online to further clarify the purpose of doing this research.