THE IMPACT OF TIKTOK APPLICATION TO THE JUNIOR HIGHSCHOOL

LEARNERS OF MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY LANAO NATIONAL

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND TRADES

Research methods
presented to
DR.SHAMSEDA AZIS TABAO
Mindanao State University
Lanao National College of Arts and Trades
Marawi City

In partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Bachelor of Technology Livelihood Education
Major in Industrial Arts

ALIKHAN D. DIANGCA

May 2022
Abstract

Tiktok is now one of the most popular and common use app by all of the people
nowadays and obviously a rapid increase day by day use mostly by the teenagers just to
gain popularity and boredom followed by youtube,snapchat and instagram that is why
tiktok is the 4th most downloaded social app in the world today.Social media tiktok is a
video sharing application that provides various interesting fascilities of video and music
effects,it can relieve stress,boredom and the users can also develop their talents and
creativity.The app was developed in China and is owned by Byte Dance and the usage of
this app has resulted many several health issues to the teenagers especially when it comes
to mental health.The paper will use descriptive correlation research to know the impact of
tiktok application to the junior highschool students of Mindanao State University Lanao
College of Arts and Trades along its positive and negative effect.The study proposes a
conceptual framework as schematic diagram for the dependent and independent variables
which will used to the respondents and a micro-fame roadmap of titktok to the statement
of the problem.

Keywords:Tiktok,Teenagers,Microfame,Popularity
 CHAPTER 1

Rationale

This Tiktok application is one of the world’s most used app today for creating a

short-form of mobile videos in every continent such as in Asia and even other parts of the

world.This app is also known as Douyin in China and the founder of this app is no other

than Byte Dance.Previous studies conducted show that Titkok application leads to several

health issues especially to the mental health like eating disorders,body

dissatisfication,and narcissistic personalities etc.The usage of this application also

resulted in child pornography,cyberbullying,and parental disengagement.It is true that this

app gives many oppurtunities and positive impact to the user’s that also it can be source

of their income for their businesses or chances to become part of any industries to get

fame.But using this app undiscipline will result to a huge negative impact especially to

the teenagers performance,lifestyle,dignity.health,privacy and culture.

Most of the content in Tiktok is negative said by Rudiantara especially to the

children and even to the teenagers and it is also the reason why there are some countries

that blocked this app like the country of indonesia because the content in it is not suitable

for children and teenagers and not educational.This app also contains “pornographic and

inappropriate contents” that the children and teenagers were vurnerable and might get

uncovered to the sexual predators (Economic Times 2019).Undiscipline using this app

will surely cause a negative impact to all the youngters who are addicted to this app that

will lead their future in danger and the mindset will be ruin.

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 This app also will expose the children and teenagers to cyberstalking,online

predators and criminal offense.It will not just effect the youngters mental health but also

the performance too in studies and there time management and even there proper daily

expenses that instead they will use there time and money for the studies,they will use it to

buy load to have access in tiktok.It is true that a lot of content in tiktok is negative but

there are also positive impact that tiktok could bring to the children and teenagers when it

is used for educational purposes and with the guide of parents and teachers to ensure that

the children and teenagers will surely learn and have a positive effect to them like the

teaachers can use this app in classrooms as a tool to illustrate ideas and examples which

would work easily in schools (Brittany Marklin,2008).

In order to study this topic,it’s needed a lot of time and effort to conduct some

research in any reliable sources such as articles,published works,ideas,journals and books

that are related to the topic.It is requires also a lot of money for the expenses to the

internet connection to get more sources and printed papers for the survey.It is important

also to read some previous studies related to the topic so that the ideas and knowledge

will develop which the paper will be more reliable and understandable.

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Theoritical Framework

In this section,it will discusses the theoritical perspectives that will used to

analyzing.Different theories have evolved to explain why tiktok application suddenly

gain a massive user base.A study conducted on the Tiktok app suggested the user-centric

theory which is a repetitive procedure that focus more on the users and their needs.

Jiang Xia Yu (2019) shows that this app is not only used as a social network but

focus more on user’s innovation and and provides the users by offering them to easily

convey their imaginations.

Gennaro Cuofano (2018),the first thing that makes Tiktok different from other

media app is with the availability of several kinds of music’s,challenges,dance

videos,magic tricks,and funny videos that fascinate the youths to connect with the app.

They have used a big data analysis to understand the liking of the users so that

they can suggest diverse contents to them which is easy for the users to select what they

prefer (Hou Liqian,2018).

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Conceptual Framework

The study will be conceptualized the Impact of Tiktok application to the junior

highschool learners of Mindanao State University Lanao National College of Arts

and Trades.There are two variables involved which are the independent variables that

consists of respondent profile such as grade, age, gender etc.The independent and

dependent variable consisted of the student to the impact of tiktok application.

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 RESPONDENT’S
PROFILE
Implementation

Grade of tiktok
The Impact of Tiktok
Age application in
application to the junior
Gender the classroom
highschool leaners of
Family’s monthly
Mindanao State
income:
University Lanao
Father’s educational
National College of Arts
attainment:
and Trades
Mother’s educational

attainment:

Figure 1.A schematic diagram showing the conceptual framework of the study

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Statement of the problem

This study sets out to answer the following research questions.

1.Respondent’s profile

1.1 Grade

1.2 Age

1.3 Gender

1.4 Family’s monthly income

1.5 Father’s educational attainment

1.6 Mother’s educational attainment

2.What are the impacts of using Tiktok Application for the Junior Highschool Learners in

terms of:

2.1 Academic performance

2.2 Social Influencer

2.3 Personal health

3.What are the implication can be drawn on the results of the study.

Scope and Limitations

This study focused on the impact of tiktok application to the junior highschool

learners of Mindanao State University Lanao National College of Arts and Trades.

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Significance of the study

The purpose of this study is to know the impact of tiktok application to the junior

highschool learners in Mindanao State University Lanao National College of Arts and

Trades interms of academic performace the negative and positive effect on it,the social

skills and the personal health.

This study was expected to be able to give some advantages for the learners,

teachers, readers,and future researchers.Hopefully,this research will be a reliable or useful

reference for those who want to study the impact of titkok application to the learners that

also will give them an idea from this study.

The teachers also can be benefit to this study cause it could help them to

represents the students about this topic.

The results of this study will provide knowledge and ideas to the learners or

students about the application of tiktok and it’s impact.

The readers will be have a good benefit also to this topic cause they will get some

knowledge about the tiktok application on how it becomes so popular and get massive

attentions to the people today.

For the future researcher this paper or study could help them as a guide and source

about the topic to get more information.

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 Chapter 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter deals with the studies previously and a review of relevant theories

I.RELATED LITERATURE

Jiang Xiao YU (“Research on TikTok APP Based on User-Centric Theory”,2019),

has made an attempt to analyse the reasons behind the huge success of TikTok. The

author has employed User centric theory to explain the vast usage of TikTok app.

The author describes that the app has got the best out in terms of human -

computer interactive, interface design, UGC and OGC and PGC content production

model and content micro narrative models etc which satisfies the user’s needs and

demands.The author concludes the study by stating the app based on the User centric

Theory satisfies and enhances user loyalty among the undergraduate and post graduate

students.

The positive impacts are that TikTok has a chance in the field of education where

the teachers can use this app in classrooms as a tool to illustrate an idea or example,

which would work easily for students in schools (Brittany Marklin,2018).

TikTok is one of the top media apps which gives an opportunity to people who

can showcase their acting skills and other talents through this app which may help the

users to get chance in acting in film industries.

As TikTok contains more negative influences than positive influences. An article

published by The New Indian Express (2019) announce that in December alone 36 calls

from children and adults was received by the counsellor of Tamil Nadu at the 104

helplines regarding TikTok bullying, harassment and addiction. A 23- year-old who
committed suicide in Vyasarpadi in Tamil Nadu, he took the dangerous step after he was

teased online for dressing up like a woman and posted on TikTok. Most targeted audience

in this app are school students who are often seen in school uniforms posting videos of

themselves in classrooms which give an opportunity to stalkers to guess which school

they go to.

Another article from The Economic Times (2019) states that the court of India

ruling to ban the app TikTok from downloading as it contains “pornographic and

inappropriate contents” said the government.Youngsters who are getting addicted to

TikTok or other similar apps, their future is in danger and because of this the mindset of

the young children are ruined. It also exposes kids and Indian teenagers to cyberstalking,

online predators and being victims of criminal offense.TikTok can captivate anyone who

is using the app and can cause something like an addiction, where you do not want to get

off the app.

The more time per week that people spend on social media, the more they become

addicted to social media (Ciplak, 2020).

The commercialization of short video app is an inevitable trend. “If someone pays

attention to video, there will be promotion content." (Wan, 2017, p 60).

From the angle of entertainment short video, Zhi (2018) mentioned the advantages

of the entertainment short video. When life speeds up, many people have to be under 17

the tremendous pressure from life and work. Hence, these entertainments short videos

help them relieve stress and make them get positive to life. For example, some positive

funny short video, although on the surface it is funny, but actually it transfers positive

energy.Hui (2017), however, talked about the disadvantages of the entertainment of short
video. With the appearance of more and more short video apps, in order to attract more

users, many vulgar parody videos increased rapidly. Teenagers become addicted to video,

and follow suit. The wrong concept of life is transmitted, which seriously affects the

physical and mental health of teenagers. For example, some teenagers who are pregnant

shoot related entertainment video which brings wrong values to teenagers.

Zhi (2018) summarized three features that make Tik Tok different from other

short video apps.The first one is taking music as main line of the app, with various types

of background music to attract more young people to join.

Garnett (2016) stated music is an embodiment of people's spiritual pursuit since

ancient times. Various forms of music can give people different experiences and help

people relax their bodies and relieve stress. Young people living today are more likely to

use music to regulate their emotions. For example, on the subway, young people are seen

wearing headphones and listening 19 to music.

Rothstein (1975) also mentioned that music plays an indispensable role in life and

it is an expression across borders and time which give people a high degree of

participation.

the product uniqueness is also the key point of the combination of internal factors

(Li, 2017).

The main characteristic of Tik Tok is music which is different from other short

video apps. The analysis of big data can recommend the content that users are interested

in according to their preferences, and the video time is mostly 15 seconds which

increases users’ stickiness through the use of user fragmented time (Jia, 2017).

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 The contents of Tik Tok come from every aspect of life and different contents

bring different experiences to users. For example, funny content can bring about users’

entertainment, and users also want to shoot the same content to deliver happy emotion to

others. Otherwise, the content of teaching also can bring about the users’ life skill; for

example, some cooking short video can teach users to cook and then apply these cooking

skills to their daily life (Jia, 2017).

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 Chapter III

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents the research design,research locale,respondents of the

study,research instruments and its validity,data gathering procedures and statistical tools.

RESEARCH DESIGN

This study was a descriptive type of research, which attempted to find out the

impact of tiktok application to the junior high school learners in Mindanao State

University- Lanao National College Arts and Trades.

It is also descriptive research design because it’s main concern is to know the

impact of tiktok application to the junior high school learners in Mindanao State

University Lanao College of Arts and Trades that can be characterized to a simple attempt

to describe or to identify what is.

RESEARCH LOCALE

This study was conducted in Mindanao State University Lanao College of Arts

and Trades,it is one of the government school or public school which is one of the branch

schools of Mindanao State University Main Campus,Marawi City.The school is located at

Panggao,Saduc Marawi City.

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 Figure 2:Research Locale of the study

Historical background

The Lanao National College of Arts and Trades stands 3,700 ft. above sea level in

the lofty and healthful City of Marawi. The school was the former Lanao High School

then later become Lanao Provincial High School, established in the early part of 1920. It

was the first educational Institution of the Province of Lanao. It has given out several

outstanding outputs which now are the national figures of our country.

The school was converted into National School of Arts and Trades known as the

Lanao School of Arts and Trades in 1956 by virtue of R.A. No. 1567 as amended by R.A.

No. 3049. Later became Lanao National College of Arts and Trades.

In 2001, MOA integrating CHED Supervised Institutions (Region XII) to MSU

System was signed by the MSU System President and the CHED Regional Director. This

was in compliance and consonance with the provision of R.A. No. 7722, otherwise

known as Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997, as in pursuant to Resolution

No.131-2000 mandating the integration of CHED Supervised Institution to chartered

state colleges and universities.

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Map Locale of the Study

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Respodents of the study

The respondents that was selected to this study were the junior highschool

students in Mindanao State University Lanao National College of Arts and Trades.

HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE

RESPONDENTS
Grade 7 30 30%

Grade 8 20 20%

Grade 9 30 30%

Grade 10 20 20%

TOTAL 100 100%

Figure 3: Showing the respondents and its number with percentage.

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Research Instrument

Questionnaire is the instrument of this study.It will be composed of two major

parts,namely;The first part will be dealth with the profile of the respondents in terms of

grade,age,gender,family’s monthly income,father’s educational attainment,and mother

educational attainment.The second part will be dealt with the challenges encountered

impact of tiktok application to the junior highschool learners in Mindanao State

University Lanao National College of Arts and Trades.

Data Gathering Procedure

In conducting this study,the research asked permission from the school dean of

Mindanao State University Lanao National College of Arts and Trades and the advisers of

every grade level of junior highschool.As soon as the permission was granted,the

researcher distributed the questionnaire to the junior highschool students,the respondents

of the study.

Statistical Tools Used

Responses from the questionnaire are statistically treated using simple frequency

counts and percentage equivalents.

The data that are gathered are analyzed interpreted through the use of the following

statistical measures.

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1.Frequency and Percentage Distribution

This describes the profile of the participants using formula:

Percentage (P) = Frequency (F) x 100

Total of the Respondents (N)

Where;

P = Percentage N = Total of respondents

F = Frequency of the respondents 100% = is constant in computing percentage

2. Weighted Mean

This utilizes to determine the Digital transformation of education in the covid19

process and its psychological effect on grade 7 junior high school learners in MSU

LNCATS. Below is the formula.

Formula:

Fx
X=∑
N

Where;

X = Weighted mean fx = Sum of all the product of f and x where

is the frequency of each score and

x = Weighted of each score F = Frequency

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Definition of Terms

Tiktok-is an application where anyone can post and share their short videos in

stream and public.

Psychologist-people who study the human behavior

Artificial Intelligence-a technology that is made with human intelligence

Uniqueness-it refers to the features of the Tik Tok which are different from other

types of similar applications.

Content variety-It refers to the Tik Tok’s specific content, there are so many

contents to provide to the users, it can be concluded in to three big types: a. teaching: that

means teach users dancing cooking and other life skills b. entertainment: that means some

interesting short music video to entertainment users c. promotion.: that means some key

pinion leader and stars promote some product to the users, like cosmetic promotion .

Short music video-means short video length to count in seconds, mainly relying

on mobile intelligent terminal to complete rapid shooting and editing upload, which can

be used in social media, short music video is refer to the app which based on the music

and the content is vertical to the music.

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