Chapter IV

Presentation Analysis and Interpretation of Data

This chapter shows the presentations, data analyses and findings from 60
questionnaires completed by some of the Grade 10 students of San Roque
National High School Batch 2019-2020. This study aims to determine the Impact
of Excessive Mobile Phone Usage. The findings are also discussed in light of
previous research findings and available literature, where it is applicable.

Windows ME 4

Windows XP 3

Windows 2000 5

Windows 7 2
Sections

Windows 98 3

Windows 95 4

Windows 8 4

Windows 10 35

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Number of Respondents

I. Profile of the Respondents Profile

Windows 95 3
Sections in Grade 10

Windows ME 4
Windows XP 3
Windows 2000 5
Windows 7 2
Windows 95 4
Windows 8 4
Windows 10 35
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Number of Respondents

Figure 1.1 Number of Respondents in Each Section

The number of respondents in each section has shown in figure 1.1. 60
students were surveyed in all grade 10 sections. The majority of the students that
were being surveyed came from Windows 10 which has 35 respondents; From
Windows 2000, 4 students; From Windows 95, Windows 8 and Windows ME, 4
respondents and Windows 98 and XP which has 3 performing students. Lastly, 2
respondents from Windows 7 has the least number of students who were asked to
answer the survey.

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Gender Frequency Percentage
Female 43 72%
Male 17 28%
TOTAL 60 100%
The number of respondents in each section has shown in figure 1.1. Sixty students
were surveyed in all grade 10 sections. Majority of the students that were being
surveyed came from Windows 10 which has 35 respondents; From Windows
2000, 5 students; from windows 95, 8 and ME there are 4 students who were
asked to answer the questionnaire. Windows 98 and Windows XP has the same
number of respondents. Table 1.1 Gender of the Respondents
Table 1 shows that no matter what the respondents’ gender is, they are still
be affected by the impacts of excessive mobile phone usage. Out of 60
respondents, there are 72% of females and 28% of males. This idea supported the
statement of BMC Psychiatry (2017) which are the factors associated with
smartphone addiction in male students were use of game apps, anxiety, and poor
sleep quality and female undergraduates were the use of multimedia applications,
use of social networking services, depression, anxiety, and poor sleep quality.
 NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS
35
29
30
2524
20
15
10 6
5 1
0
15 16 17 18

AGE

Figure 1.2 Age of the Respondentt

Based on Figure 1.2, 29 respondents are 16 years old, 24 students are 15

years old, 6 of them are 17 years old and only 1 has the age of 18. All of the
respondents are teenagers who are prone to the negative effect of excessive
mobile phone usage, in fact, according to (Cha and Seo, 2018) teenagers are at
high risk of being smartphone addicts.

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Figure 1.3
Percentage of
5% Respondents Who
Own Mobile
Students who have mobile PhonFigure 1.3
phone
Students who don't have
mobile phone Percentage of
Respondents Who
95%
Own Mobile Phone
Figure.1
presents the percentage
of students who own a mobile phone. It shows that there are more students who
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27

25

20
17

15
Axis Title

10 9
7
6
5
5 4 4
3 3
2
1
0
Less than 30 minutes 1 hour - 2 2 hours - 8 More than
30 minutes - 1 hour hours hours 8 hours
Axis Title

have a mobile phone that range up to 95% or 55 students than the respondents
who don’t have mobile phones that have 5% or 5 respondents. Therefore, almost
all of the respondents are exposed in bad effects of their phone, as specified by
Zahid Naeem (2014) mobile phones emit radiofrequency energy, a form of non-
ionizing electromagnetic radiation, which can be absorbed by tissues close to the
phone.

30
27
25

20
17
Students

15

10 9
7
6
5
5 4 4
3 3
2
1
0
Less than 30 30 minutes - 1 hour - 2 2 hours - 8 More than 8
minutes 1 hour hours hours hours
Hours

II. Excessive Mobile Phone Usage

Figure 1.4 Hours Spend on Mobile Phones
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The graph in Figure.2 illustrates the time that the students spend on
their mobile phones per day. Many of the students excessively used their phones
than the students who don’t; 3. Three students used their phone less than 30
minutes; 4four students consumed 30 minutes to 1 hour; and 9nine students spend
1 to 2 hours in their screen time which is the average time of phone usage but
27twenty-seven students occupied 2 to 8 hours on their phone and 17seventeen
students waste more than 8 hours which means there using used their phone
excessively that supported the idea of Newport (2017), the addiction landscape
has shifted to smartphones that used for about seven hours on average each day.
III. Reasong for Excessive Mobile Phone Usage
Features on Don’t Less 30 1 2 More Total
Phone use it than 30 minutes hour- hours- than
minutes -1 hours 2 8 8
hours hours hour
s
Camera 11 36 7 3 2 1 60
Internet 5 12 12 15 12 4 60
Browsing
Text Messages 20 25 4 6 3 2 60
Facebook 2 7 8 12 22 9 60
Messenger 2 10 10 12 17 9 60
Instagram 19 11 6 16 5 3 60
Twitter 27 8 10 10 2 3 60
YouTube 5 8 8 8 18 13 60
Gaming 16 9 7 14 9 5 60
Tiktok 38 9 5 4 2 2 60
Google Search 3 22 20 6 7 2 60
Wattpad 30 7 2 10 1 10 60
Music 1 11 13 13 10 12 60
Video 13 24 9 7 6 1 60

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 Documentatio 25 16 8 10 1 0 60
n
Editing 26 13 10 7 4 0 60
Table 1.2 Hours Spend in Each Features on Phone
Table.2

According to Table 1.2, YouTube is the most addicting feature in a

mobile phone that has 31 users who spend more than 2 hours which causes many
respondents to be negatively affected. Documentation got the lowest used feature
more than 2 hours where only 1 respondent will be negatively affected. Based on
Care Well Urgent Care (2020) there are likely several factors to blame, including
a sedentary lifestyle, less sleep, and generally bad eating habits when engrossed
into a screen.
IV. Effects of Mobile Phone Usage
Are you aware about the negative effects of using mobile phones
excessively in your health, academic performance, family and friend
relationship?
Yes No
53 7
Table 1.3 Awareness in Negative Effects
Table 1.3 contains the answer of the respondents if they are aware
of the negative effects of over usage of mobile phones in health, academic
performance, family and friend relationships. There is 53 student who answered
yes while 7 students respond no. From the article of Lusinski (2018), he listed the
3 worse effects of addiction in a phone such as (1) Smartphones contribute to
sleep issues; (2) Studies show that reading on a smartphone is worse for learning
and comprehension; cellphone replacing in-person communication and conflict.
Negatives Always Sometimes Rarely NeverTotal
Effects in
Health
I’m 15 29 11 5 60
experiencing
blurry vision.
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I am having 9 32 13 6 60
neck pain.
My head 10 24 17 9 60
aches.
It increases 8 25 18 9 60
my stress
level.
Having not 19 25 12 4 60
enough sleep.
It weakens 8 25 17 10 60
my immune
system.
I suffer from 3 11 17 29 60
anxiety.
I’m depress. 4 7 17 32 60
The blood 0 11 19 30 60
flow in my
fingers
decreases.
My mind gets 6 22 21 11 60
stress.
Stress on my 6 17 26 11 60
body.
I’m becoming 8 19 12 21 60
aggressive.
An inability 9 17 17 17 60
to stop the
use of cell
phone despite
knowing you
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will be faced
with negative
consequences
.
Craving more 20 15 15 10 60
time with my
phone.
Not taking 8 23 16 13 60
part in
healthy
activities.
I am having 0 2 16 42 60
Tendonitis.
It causes 1 3 24 33 60
accidents to
me.
I am prone to 0 3 7 50 60
cancer.
Can cause 1 5 10 44 60
tumor.
Disturbed my 3 11 27 18 60
brain activity.
It interrupts 16 26 12 6 60
my sleep.
It affects my 6 15 25 14 60
mental health.
Smartphones 12 20 16 12 60
make walking
dangerous.

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Smartphones 1 13 21 25 60
can make me
hallucinate.
Illness in my 2 7 25 26 60
stomach or
nausea.
 I skip meals 5 12 25 18 60
that makes
my weight
loss.
Disorders in 5 9 27 19 60
my posture.
Having 1 17 27 15 60
screen
fatigue.
Experiencing 1 6 20 33 60
heart
problems.
It leads to 0 5 13 42 60
infertility.
I have hearing 3 5 15 37 60
impairment.
I suffer from 4 4 14 38 60
skin allergies.
Having 1 7 12 40 60
infections
I’m becoming 5 20 19 16 60
less
productive.
Suffering 1 1 7 51 60
brain Cancer.
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Having 0 2 6 52 60
Glioma.
Table 1.4 Negative Effects of Excessive Mobile Phone Usage in Health
Table 1.4 indicates the negative effects of excessive mobile phone
usage in the health of the respondents and how often they experienced those
effects. John (2020) listed the 12 unexpected phone addiction symptoms and one
of them is craving more time with their phone which is always suffered by the
respondents who have the highest number of 20 out of 60 students. As explained
by Ziff Davis (2019) there are 11 reasons for you to stop looking at your
smartphone and one from it may cause neck pain that is sometimes experienced
by the 32 students which are the greatest number of respondents. Arora (2019)
stated that disturbed brain activity is one of the 8 harmful effects of mobile
phones which is the most rarely experienced by the respondents and having
Glioma is never been experienced by almost 52 respondents.
Negative Effects Always Sometimes Rarely Never Total
on Academic
Performance
Having low 6 24 11 19 60
grades.
It leads for me to 7 31 16 6 60
loss my
concentration.
Smartphones 2 14 35 19 60
makes me
unlikable.
Tempt me to 6 13 21 20 60
cheat.
It causes my loss 5 17 22 16 60
of interest on
learning.
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I am violating 18 21 15 6 60
rules. (No
cellphone
allowed in
school)
Being a late 5 17 15 23 60
comer.
Late submission 6 23 15 16 60
of outputs and
projects.
Table 1.5 Negative Effects on Academic Performance
 Table 1.5 presents the negative effects on students’ Academic
Performance that supported the article from IProject (2020) that the use of mobile
phones constituted a distraction to students and have negatively effectively
affected their academic performance. In the survey, the highest number of
respondents is 18 out of 60 who answered that they are always violating the rule
of no cellphone allowed in school; 31 students said that sometimes smartphone
leads for them to lose their concentration; 35 students respond rarely that phone
makes them unlikable, and 23 of them is never been latecomer because of the
addiction in smartphone.
Negative Effects Always Sometim Rarely Never Total
on Family, es
Friend and
Other People
Relationship
Loss of quality 7 26 19 8 60
time with my
family and
friends.

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Reason of quarrel 4 11 12 33 60
with my
boyfriend/girlfrie
nd.
Inappropriate 0 19 29 12 60
behaviors toward
others.
Victim of 1 8 10 41 60
cyberbullying.
Reduce attention 2 16 16 26 60
towards others.
Become 4 18 26 12 60
disconnected to
 the people around
me.
People expect me 8 17 27 8 60
to be online and
connected to my
phone all the
time.
I have difficulties 3 24 23 10 60
experienced in
relating with
other people.
I base my self- 1 12 16 31 60
worth on social
media likes.
I’m forgetting 2 14 16 28 60
how to date and
make friends in
real life.
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Smartphones 0 14 21 25 60
encourage fear of
missing out.
Can take a toll on 1 17 19 28 60
friendships.
I’m doing 0 8 13 39 60
delinquency.
Table 1.6 Negative Effects on Family, Friend and Other People Relationship
Table 1.6 is all about the negative effects on family, friends, and other
people relationships. Furthermore, according to Glaser (2010) killing time, killing
the moment not just from family but also friends. The time that was going to
spend with friends is mostly spent using phones. Out of 60 respondents, 8 from
them answered that people always expect them to be online and connected to their
phone all the time; 26 students respond that sometimes they lose their quality time
with their family and friends; 29 respondents who said that they rarely
experienced inappropriate behaviors toward others and 41 respondents are never
been a victim of cyberbullying.
V. Lessening the Impacts of Excessive Mobile Phone Usage
Recommendations With Check Without Check Total
Maximum of 2 hours is 42 18 60
medically recommended
in using mobile.
Take distracting apps off 31 29 60
your home screen.
Create a plan for your 47 13 60
phone use.
Offer yourself rewards 39 21 60
for less time spent on
your phone.

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Put your phone away. 37 23 60
Take a cell phone 34 26 60
holiday.
Change your thinking 28 32 60
about your cell phone.
Engage in other mood- 32 28 60
boosting activities.
Redirect your attention 29 31 60
by doing something
constructive.
Accomplish social tasks 31 29 60
in a different way.
Replace your habits. 35 25 60
Notify people about your 17 43 60
issue.
Focus on academic 42 18 60
studies.
Keep yourself on a 42 18 60
schedule.
Turn off notifications. 30 30 60
Take distracting app on 22 38 60
off your home screen.
Kick your device out of 20 40 60
bed.
Stay accountable. 26 34 60
Replace your phone time 26 34 60
with a literal hobby.
Outsmart your phone by 26 34 60
using technology to limit
your technology use.
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Put yourself on digital 21 39 60
diet.
Set up a digital schedule. 14 46 60
Use an app to find out 24 36 60
how many times per day
you check your phone.
Carry a book with you or 28 32 60
a magazine.
Put your phone on silent 30 30 60
before every meal and
then put it away so that
you can't see it and aren't
tempted to look at it.
Don't bring it in the 33 37 60
bathroom with you.
Put it away at least an 24 36 60
hour (or longer) before
you go to bed.
Don't send texts or 27 33 60
emails, or post anything
to social media, within a
few hours of going to
sleep.
If you're worried about 26 34 60
 being accessible at night,
put it into Do Not
Disturb mode.
Don't bring your phone 31 29 60
to work meetings, or to
class.
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Do not text and drive. 29 31 60
Be aware that you might 39 21 60
actually experience
symptoms of
withdrawal. Seriously;
and, tell people that
you're making a serious
effort to cut back to
establish new
expectations.
Table 1.7 Recommendations of the Respondents
Table 1.7 gave some recommendations to lessen the impacts of excessive
mobile phone usage. As stated by McCarthy (2018) to lessen the negative effects
of cellular phones, a maximum of 2 hours is medically recommended in using
mobile and limit this during weekdays. In addition, there are top 10 highest
suggestions from the respondents to avoid the disadvantages of inappropriate
phone usage such as (1) Create a plan for your phone use, with 47 out of 60
respondents; (2) Focus on academic studies, from 42 students; (3) Keep yourself
on a schedule which was also answered by 42 performing students; (4) Offer
yourself rewards for less time spent on your phone, with 39 respondents; (5) Be
aware that you might actually experience symptoms of withdrawal. Seriously;
and, tell people that you're making a serious effort to cut back to establish new
expectations with also 39 checks from the respondents; (6) Put your phone away
that from 37 students; (7) Replace your habits was suggested by 35 respondents;
(8) Take a cell phone holiday, with 34 respondents; (9) Don't bring it in the
bathroom with you was recommended by 33 students; and Engage in other mood-
boosting activities was from 32 Grade 10 respondents. These recommendations
supported the idea of Firestone (2019) that applying strict data limits reduces cell
phone usage, Cell phone providers offer inexpensive, password-activated
programs. These programs shut off cell phones at night, Tech timeouts for the
family in the evening and on the
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weekends can help, try using a “Be Present Box” at the dinner table. Turned-off
cell phones stay in the box during family time and, create a cell phone
moratorium one day a week, or even one afternoon or evening per week. On the
other hand, set up a digital schedule is the least recommended by the Grade 10
students because it has only 14 checks out of 60 respondents.
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