Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Radio waves are not the only reason for such symptoms it is the sad reality, that
nowadays many people especially youth, experience lack of human contact, and they
try to intercourse. Adolescence is not an easy period of life and that time a young
person is vulnerable. Excessive uses of smart phones can disrupt your sleep, which can
have a serious impact on your overall mental health it can damage your memory, affect
your ability to think clearly and reduce your cognitive and learning skills. Smartphone’s
can be a healthy productive tool; compulsive use of smart phones can interfere with
work, school and relationships. When you spend more time on social media or playing
games than interacting with real people or you can’t stop yourself from repeatedly
checking texts, emails, or apps, even when it has negative effect in your life, this is the
time to compromise the use of technology. Addiction sometimes known as
‘’homophobia’’ fear of being without a mobile phone, it is often fuelled by an internet
oversize problem or internet addiction disorder. After all, it is the phrase itself that
creates the compulsions; hot rather games, apps and online games that connect to us.
Smartphones addictions can encompass variety to control problems including virtual
relationships, addiction to social media, dating apps, texting and messaging sometimes
online friends become more important than real life relationship. Information overload,
compulsive web surfing, watching videos, playing games or checking newsfeeds can
lead to lower productivity at work or school to isolate you from people that surrounds
you. Smartphones are being used everywhere because these materials use the
physical cable/wire that is demanded for the communication purposes. Their demand
for the electromagnetic radiation for receiving and transferring the data in the air either it
is a network or sound or a sound data mobile phone have been good personally and
mobile phones have positively impact to education and the economy. Mobile phones
help the people to stay in touch with faraway friends and family and keep them enforced
of the latest news and information. At the same time, people’s positive attitudes are
paired with concerns about the impact on children. In today’s fast moving and globalized
world it is impossible to manage our day to day living without mobile phones. It may
cause headaches, decreased attention, shortness of temper, sleep disorders and
depression mostly among teenagers.

1.2 Statement of Objectives

This study aimed to investigate the Senior High School students of Northeastern Cebu
Colleges to cope the impact of excessive use of smartphones:

 To find out the effect of mobile phones due to persistence use on human health
 To study the relationship between persistent use of mobile phone and its effect
 To study the relationship between persistent use of mobile phones and its effect
on attention and concentration
 To study the relationship between persistent use of mobile phones and itseffect
on physical mental alertness

1.3 Significance of the Study

This study will benefit the following:

 Student - This study will serve as awareness or guide to the students who are
being addict to the smartphones.
 Youth–This study will help them to aware and to help them for being a social
media addict.
 Future Researcher –This research will be useful as a reference for the future
researcher to this topic.

1.4 Scope and Delimitation

This study focuses to the Senior High School students in Northeastern Cebu Colleges
the selection of respondents is limited to 50 respondents only, 25 boys and 25 girls.
This research study is all about the impact of excessive uses of smartphones to the
students in Northeastern Cebu Colleges. This study is mainly using quasi experimental,
started on November 18,2019 and ended on January 2020.
 Chapter 2

REVIEW LITERATURE

2.1 Related Review Literature

According to Golberg, 1996, Young 1998, smartphone addiction considered to root in

Internet addiction due to similarity of the symptoms and negative effects on users.
Internet addiction defined as an impulse control disorder. Characterized by pathological
internet use. Smartphone addiction could categorize as a behavioural addiction such an
internet addiction. Behavioural and chemical addiction have seven core symptoms in
common, that is salience, tolerance, mood modification, conflict withdrawal, problems
and relapse, these common points are not integrally researched, but each symptoms
has been found in smartphone addiction studies.

According to Wargo, (2012), the students checked their phones 34 times a day. People
may check their phones out of habit or compulsion, but habitually checking can be a
way to avoid interacting people. Some people can experience withdrawal symptoms
typically associated with substance abuse, such as anxiety, insomnia and depression,
when they are without their phones and all these are embedded to the course of
academic relapse of students who fall into this category. These addictions take strong
toll on the students without them noticing it and some of them find it hard to believe that
they are addicted to their phones. Thus, giving more credence to the amount of time
meted out to these phones than academics.

According to Choliz, (2010) pointed out that excessive use of and dependency on
the smartphones may be considered on addictive disorder. Theory on adolescent
egocentrism pointed out heighted self – consciousness during adolescence.
Adolescents are highly critical of authority figures, unwilling to accept criticism and quick
to find fault with others. Most students like to keep track ahead of their pears or to have
an ontological balance in their peer group which they find themselves. At the expense of
their notions, they try to live the life which is expected of them in the social settings
which they find themselves instead of the ideal life by pushing them to the limit
2.2 Theoretical Framework
Smartphones
Addiction
Health
Students
2.3 Conceptual Framework
Evaluation of the Proposed a development
respondents ideas and action plan for the
thoughts: possible Impact of
Excessive Use of
Smartphones to the
Questionnaire students.
Anxiety
Youth
The development program
activities and projects for
this study are the following:
Proposed a awareness
towards the students being
addict to smartphones.
Proposed a seminar to
the students whose health
has been affected.
 CHAPTER 3
METHODOLOGY

3.1 Research Design

Quantitative design will be used in this study because as the researcher conducted the
survey regarding the impact of excessive use of smartphone, the researcher will be
used a questionnaire test instead of essays which are a great example of quantitative
design because it puts a lot of series of interview in which people see it more hustle to
answer quantitative research usually has more respondents than qualitative research. In
this study, the researcher used numbers that applied statistical analysis in order to
validate the hypothesis. Quantitative made this research study less to do because the
ideas gathered in the survey for the hypothesis is proven through quantitative design.
This design also helps to get the numbers to prove the general points of the research
through this design it emphasized objective measurements and numerical analysis of
data gathering numerical data and generalizing it across group of people.
This study used quantitative design using quasi – experimental approach. The study
started by looking the impact of excessive uses of smartphones to the students through
the instruments that were used, the researchers are going to find out on validity of the
previous researches. The researchers see this study as quasi – experimental it involves
the cause and effect relationships.

3.2 Context and Participants

The researchers conducted the study in Northeastern Cebu Colleges on November
18,2019 to January 2020. The participants were limited in this study which is a total of
50 respondents, the range of the participants is in between 17 to 19 years of age, 25
females and 25 males students from Senior High School students in Northeastern Cebu
Colleges Inc. will be the respondents in this study.

3.3 Instruments
The tool to be used in this study is test questionnaire:
Test questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions for the
purpose of gathering information from respondents. Test questionnaire are often
designed for statistical analysis of the respondents. Test questionnaires have
advantages over some other types of surveys. This type of research instrument do not
require as much effort from the questionnaire. Test questionnaires are also sharply
limited by the fact that respondent must be able to read questions and respond to them.
3.4 Data Gathering Procedure
In test questionnaire, first the researchers have to collect questions regarding the
topic which is Impact of Excessive Uses of Smartphones to the Senior High School
Students. Second step is identifying the general question and specific questions. Next is
finalizing the questions then conduct the survey to at least 50 respondents, specifically
students. After conducting, analyzation of data will be done.

3.5 Data Analysis

In this context analysis the researchers were able to use as a test questionnaire to
gather information from the 50 respondents. The researchers prepared a guide
questions to get the information about the impact of excessive uses of smartphones.
This analysis where the researchers interpret the data by group or individually it shows
the different insight of students regarding the issue, it also helps in the data collected to
be reduced and simplified at the same time producing the result that the researchers
may measures using the Quantitative Research Design.

CHAPTER 4

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, and INTERPRETATION

This chapter presented, analyzed and interpreted all the data gathered in this study.
Presentation was done through the use of tables and graphs.

Shows the gender profile of the respondents

Table 1

Gender Profile
 P= (Frequency ÷ Total no. of Respondents) 100%

SEX FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE

Male 30 60%

Female 20 40%

TOTAL : 50 100%

The table 1 shows the sex profile of the respondents, the table shows that there were
30 or 60% males and there were 20 or 40% females and a total of 50 or 100%
respondents.

The above data shows that all of the respondents were males and females. This implied
that there were 30 males and 20 females are cooperated with the researchers during,
the study and it was conducted at Northeastern Cebu Colleges.

Table 2

Distribution of respondents according to age

P= (Frequency ÷ Total no. of Respondents) 100%

AGE FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE

17 28 56%
 18 17 34%

19 5 10%

TOTAL : 50 100%

As shown in Table 2 it is clear that the age that ranges 19 years of age has the lowest
frequency with 5 or 10% followed by the range 18 years of age with 17 or 34% and
finally, the age ranges 17 years of age has the highest frequency with 28 or 56% with a
total of 50 respondents.

Figure 1
Does using smartphones can affect your health and in your academics?

Percentage of respondents

100
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70
60
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40
30
20
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Yes No

Percentage

Figure 2 shows that 100% students were truly affected by the smartphones.
Figure 2
Have you ever checked your phone for the time, get destructed of the notification
on the screen while on class?

Percentage of respondents

100
90
80
70 64
60
50
40 36
30
20
10
0
Yes Percentage No

Figure 3 shows that 64% in this study were getting destructed by their phones, even if
they are in a class. The remaining 36% were not getting destructed by their phones
even if there were a notification on the screen.

Figure 3

Do you consider yourself addicted to smartphones?

Percentage of respondents

100
80 80
60
40
20
20
0
Yes No
Percentage
Figure 3 shows that majority of the respondents 80% in this study were truly addicted to
the smart phones. The remaining 20%were not consider their self being addicted by
smart phones.

Figure 4
As a students how does it affect your health?

Percentage of respondents
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Forgot to Eat Sleepless Nights PercentagePoor Eyesight Headaches

Figure 4 shows the rates of the students of how does it affect to their health, 32% were
experiencing sleepless night, 30% were experiencing poor eyesight, 24% were
experiencing headaches and 14% they forgot to eat because of using smart phones too
much.

CHAPTER 5

Summary, Findings, Conclusions and Recommendation

The succeeding pages are the most important part since it provides the findings the
researchers study. The gathered data were summarized, interpreted and generalized
the form of conclusion. The recommendation for the solution was then formulated.
5.1 Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of excessive uses of smart
phones to the students, and to extrapolate peoples point of view about the researchers
chosen study. It is particularly conducted at Northeastern Cebu Colleges on November
18, 2019. To know what would be the possible solutions to prevent excessive uses of
smart phones. This study is the way to inform the students on how does excessive uses
of smart phones can affect to their health.

The researchers conducted a quantitative design with 50 respondents and a test

questionnaire.

The test questionnaire contains the investigation about the impact of excessive uses of
smart phones.

5.2 Findings

The findings of the study are based in the result of the data collected were carefully
analyzed and interpreted in the next page has a total of 50 Senior High School students
coming from Northeastern Cebu Colleges. The respondents was chosen randomly.
Most of the respondents was 60% males and 40% females ages from 17 to 19 years of
age.

5.3 Conclusion

The aim of this study is to know and determine the impact of excessive uses of smart
phones to the Senior High School students in Northeastern Cebu Colleges. The
researchers conclude the effect of the excessive uses of smart phones, it has the
possible facts that can cause sleepless nights. It can affect to their health. The
researchers discussed and conducted the impact of excessive uses of smart phones to
the students and it leads them to aware towards their addiction on using smart phones.
This study aims to contribute a awareness to the students who are affected to excessive
uses of smartphones.

5.4 Recommendation
Based on the result of the findings, some recommendations was made for the early
teens, students and for youth.

 As for early teens, they should have a awareness towards the effect of using too
much smart phones.
 As for students, every students should have their own limitations for using too
much phones.
 As for every youth, they should have an awareness towards addiction of smart
phones to help the addiction of every students.