Rogationist College

Junior High School Department

Basic Research 10

Members:
Batino, Mario, O.
Mara, Jayrilo, A.
Tugap, Jonathan, D.
Zosima, Robert, R.
Salazar, Ralph Enric
Legisniana, Andrei Joseph, D.
 Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introductory Paragraph*
Introduction:

Change is something that is inevitable and the same is all true in all
aspect of development. The rise of globalization paved way to the change
in platforms where people can communicate or connect with each other.
For the past year social media sites has helped people be entertained and
connect to others. The rise of their social media sites gave a new place for
people to voice out, tell their stories, share and influence. These people
are called influencers or a person or people that influence another.
Different business often reach out these influencers to market their
products to the mass media. The emergence of this pandemic has forced
people to have more time with their gadgets and social media accounts,
thus. Increasing their exposure to social media influencers. In the same
way, student’s mode of learning was also transferred in an online platform.
According to the studies made by Frontiers Influencers may inspire minors
to behave pro-socially or more healthy, but they may also show bad
examples of smoking, drinking, or even criminal behavior. In addition,
influencer content may also affect minors' psychological well-being,
materialism, body satisfaction, but how influencers impact the academic
productivity of the students. Social Media Influencers affects the students
academically. The productivity in academic of the students may change
because of the influencers.

This pandemic has brought a lot of stress to the people more so to

the students. According to studies, one of the ways of the students in
coping with their stress or entertaining themselves is by watching social
media influencers. With the students learning mode and still coping
mechanism in the same arena, it is sometimes inevitable that time is being
given/divided among the two. We conduct this research at the Rogationist
College because according to the school they prepare for this situation,
that’s why they come up at many solutions. Having said that the
researchers would like to know the impact of social media influencers on
the academic productivity of the grade 12 students of Rogationist College
of the school year 2021-2022
Statement of the Problem:
This study aims to determine the impact of social media influencers
on the academic productivity of the grade 12 students of Rogationist
College of the school year 2021-2022.
Specifically, the researchers aim to answer the following questions:
1. What is the demographical profile of the respondents in terms of:
1.1 Gender
1.2 Frequency of watching social media influencers
2. What is the impact of social media influencers to you in terms of:
2.1 Academic productivity?
2.2 Academic performance?
Framework of the study:

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

What is the By conducting a survey “The impact of Social
demographical questionnaire through Media Influencers to the
profile of the google form Academic Productivity of
respondents in terms the Grade 12 students of
of: the Rogationist College
-Gender? S.Y. 2021 – 2022”

What is the impact of

social media
influencers to you in
terms of:
-Academic
productivity?
-Academic
performance?
Significance of the Study:

Grade 12 Students – The students will be aware of what are the impact of
Social media influencers to their Academic productivity. This Research may
be their guideline in managing the impact of social media to their Academic
productivity.
Guidance Counselor - This Research may give the more objectives in
conducting seminars related to academic productivity and seminar about
responsible social media use.
Future Researchers – This Research may serve as their basis on doing
their research and will serve as their guidelines in conducting the research.

Scope and Delimitation of the Study

This study will be focusing only on the Grade 12 students of
Rogationist College. This research will determine the impact of Social
Media Influencers to the Academic Productivity of the Grade 12. This will
be conducted during August 2021 – April 2022
However, it will not discuss other factors that social media influencers
influence like study habit and the like. This research would like to give
awareness to the students especially the grade 12 of how Social media
Influencers affect their Academic productivity.