Hope Science and Technology College, Corp.

Exploring the relationship between parental perception of

internet and its effects on their children’s well being: A

quantitative study

Presented to the Faculty of Hope Science and Technology College, Corp.

In partial fulfillment of the requirements

In Practical Research 2

Researchers:

Vale, Arvin D.

Padua, Rosalie A.

Escala, Jerico V.

Virtus, Arvin

Sayno, Jay Ann

Artuz, Nicole C.

Dela Gracia, Raniel

Bacolor, Elry

November, 2022

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Abstract

The internet is a vast database filled with education, fun and danger. Parents

have a difficult time protecting their children against the dangers they can be face on

the internet.

(e.g., cyberbullying, sexual victimization, addiction, unwanted pornography). This

study's purpose was to better understand the effects on their children's behaviour. The

parents perceptions using the internet and for the effect of this to his/her children and

knowing the advantages and disadvantage. 68% of parents believe social media

affects their teen's ability to socialize normally. 56% believe their teen has an

unhealthy desire for attention/approval via social media. in this research the most

attention is paid to the parents' view of using the internet and what is its effect on the

children who use it and how will it affect health and learning and what will be the

advantages and disadvantages of the internet among young people, the most

respondents here are the perception and the impact of the use of the internet by young

people and how it can be solved, let's do a survey for parents so that we can know

more and expand our perspective what is the opinion of parents on using the internet

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Acknowledgement

I would like to thank our adviser Mrs. Grace Henilza Villar for approving our

research title and for giving us the opportunity to do research and providing guidance

throughout this research. Her dynamism, vision, sincerity, and motivation have deeply

inspired to us.

I would like to thank you Mr.JC who taught us methodology to carry out the

research and present the research works as clearly as possible. I would also like to

thank him for his friendship, empathy, and great sense of humour.

I'm extremely grateful to my group mates who's participate to this research

paper and to our parents supporting us thank you.

Finally,I would like to thank God for letting us through all the difficulties I

have experienced your guidance day by day. You are the one who let us finish this

research. We will keep trusting you for our future.

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 Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING

Introduction

The Internet is a wonderful invention for human beings. However, it has lots

of negative effects on teenagers. First, young people are likely to get addicted to the

Internet. Second, the rate of having myopia is higher than before. The last effect and

also the most obvious one is the deterioration of social skill of teenagers. These

negative effects are prevalent in modern urban societies.

Internet addiction is a serious problem for teenagers. Young people are getting

used to doing everything on the Web, such as making friends, and buying clothes.

Sometimes they may get addicted to the fictitious cyber world. It seems that the

Internet is a great attraction for teenagers. The Internet is a tool for them to get in

touch with the world. However, spending too much time checking information from

friends is a waste of time. I believe there must be more important things in our life

than surfing the Net.

Myopia is a common disorder of teenagers and the age at which children get it

has become younger. The Internet has become a part of young people’s life. However,

the more time they spend on the Internet, the more chances they will have myopia.

The eye disorder is bad for teenagers’ study and health. Blurred vision will disturb

their learning, and they cannot pay attention to what the teacher is talking about. It is a

problem which parents should be concerned about.

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 The Internet has changed our way of communication. Face-to-face interaction

is not necessary through the Internet. Teenagers may feel more comfortable to

communicate online. Nevertheless, teenagers’ ability of social skill is weaker than

before. They do not know how to contact with others. Teenagers may set up a good

relationship with strangers on the Internet, but in the real world it may become

difficult for them to build good personal relationships.

The Internet causes many impacts on our life. Especially for teenagers, the

negative effects are more than the positive ones. However, I believe having good time

management is the only way to solve these problems. It is not a problem only for

children. Parents should take this issue seriously too. In conclusion, the Internet is a

great invention for human beings. Using the Internet in a proper way, everyone will

receive more than before.

Parents tended to use (or allow) media consumption as a way of structuring

their hectic lives. We identified three ways that media provides this structure. First, it

structures attention—media consumption keeps one or more family members focused

on something. Second, media consumption structured physical location—media can

keep family members in a particular spot. (In both of these cases we identified that

families attribute value to shared experiences and physical proximity.) Third, media

consumption structured time, and keeps family members occupied for a set duration.

All three of these roles can be beneficial to a parent who is trying to create order out

of a chaotic time at home.

When considering family policies for media consumption in the home, parents

are understandably cautious. If unregulated, video game play, MP3s, and TV viewing

can promote weaker family relationships, poor communication and subject the family

to unwanted immoral influences. Peace and order in the home can be threatened as

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well when media consumption patterns trump the daily routines that make orderly

households tick.

The negative impact of the internet on society

Irresponsible and indiscriminate use of the internet and also negatively

impacts society. Here's how and we have also the advantages Interactive websites and

games help children learn to solve problems as they work their way through the

challenges presented to get to the next level. Even simply using the devices makes

them more adept at this, learning how to solve problems like programs not working

correctly or connection issues.

What are the disadvantages of the Internet?

Addiction, time-waster, and causes distractions....Bullying,trolls, stalkers, and

crime....Spam and advertising....Pornographic and violent images....Never being able

to disconnect from work....Identity theft, hacking, viruses, and cheating....Affects

focus and patience, Anxiety, sadness, and depression: Children who spend most of

their time in the virtual world gradually withdraw from the real world. They soon

become dependent on the internet to feel upbeat, accepted, and heard. And, when they

are unable to access the Internet, they start experiencing anxiety, sadness, and

depression.

The internet is also known as a global system of computer networks and

information superhighway which have become a very important tool and required

based, society present the contemporary for information management, information

search, communication and research learning. In the present study was to better

understand now parents perceived the effects of using the internet and the effects on

their children's health, And also using internet we have a positive and negative

impact.

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 Negative Impact Studies show the internet has had a net positive impact on

education but has been negative when it comes to morality and politics. Also, people

who spend excessive amounts of time on social media platforms tend to be lonely and

socially isolated. Excessive internet engagement can also impact self-esteem.It can be

addicting and it can hurt our communication skills.

Positive Impact The internet has a vital impact on student academic outcomes

as it helps students to access journals and articles which otherwise are not made

available in the libraries. The study concluded that increase in internet use was very

useful in the improvement of the learning outcomes. For all of us, it is a blessing in

disguise since it makes communication simple and everything happens instantly

because of the internet. The internet permeates every part of our life and has a

significant impact on how we continually interact with people. For all of us, it is a

blessing in disguise since it makes communication simple and everything happens

instantly because of the internet. The internet permeates every part of our life and has

a significant impact on how we continually interact with people.The positive impacts

of the internet include the following: It provides effective communication using

emailing and instant messaging services to any part of the world. It improves business

interactions and transactions, saving on vital time. Banking and shopping online have

made life less complicated.

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Statement of the problem

1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of:

a. Age

b. Sex

c. Occupation

d. Civil status

e. Purok

2. What are the respondents specific source of internet?

3. What are the Parents perceived effects of internet in their children in

terms of:

a. Study Habits

b. Behavior

c. Physical

4. What specific intervention can be made base from the findings of the

study?

Scope and Delimitation

This research aims to determine the parents perception on the internet: its

effects on their children. This study will employ random sampling and 50 randomly

selected Parents of Brgy. Borabod will be taken as respondents.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

This research aims to explore parent’s views of their child’s Internet

behaviors, knowledge of the Internet, attitudes toward the Internet, strategies for

monitoring their children’s Internet behaviors, and perceptions of support from

schools and/or the community for curbing risky or problematic Internet use.

Significance of the study

The study is focused on explaining the parents perception of the internet and

its effect on their children. The result of the study has been beneficial to the

following:

The children: Our study is important to all children so they can know the possible

result of using internet, this can be positive or negative effects of internet to them.

Also for them to be aware of using the internet properly and know the limitations.

The parents: The significance of our study to parents is for them to be aware to the

cause and effects of internet to their children, So that they can guide their children in a

proper using of internet.

The society: This will serve as a prior knowledge and information to them in about the

two face of internet that can cause in children in using internet.

The researcher: As a teenagers this will be useful for us to take a deeper knowledge

and new information on the effects of internet not only in children but also to all the

user of internet.

The future researcher: this will serve as a reliable and valid form of information

useful in their future research.

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Definition of terms

The terms found below were defined conceptually and operationally for the

better understanding of this study:

Perception - This is the data or the say of the parents of Barangay Borabod that you

can gather. This are the measurement of the awareness of parents on effects of

internet and their children.

Effects - Effects is the negative or positive result of internet and children that parents

must be aware of. This is also a data that we can gather from parents.

Parents - They are the subjects or respondents of this study. They are located in

Barangay Borabod which where we can gather data. They are beneficiaries of this

study or research.

Children - Children are the affected of the result of the internet they are also a

beneficiary of this study.

Internet - This have negative or positive effects on children. This can be helpful or

destructive to children. This can be helpful because this can help them in their

academics and this can be destructive because of addiction.

Awareness - This refers to the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be

cognizant of events. More broadly, it is a state of being concious of something.

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 Chapter 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

The literature and studies cited in this chapter tackle the different concept,

understanding, and ideas, generalization or conclusions and different development

related to study.

Review Related Literature

Foreign

International Journal of Psychology and Education (2021) cited that the

connections between children's sleep, stress, depression, and internet use. Parents

believe that sleep effectively reduces children's stress, while children instead insist

that internet use is effective for reducing their stress. Based on that argument, this

study has three purposes: to examine whether sleep or internet use is more effective at

reducing children's stress, examine whether stress is related to depression, and

examine whether sleep affects depression through children's stress as a mediating

factor. To this end, this study gathered a sample of 1,796 children from 32 elementary

schools--all fourth- to sixth-graders who volunteered to take the survey--and

measured their stress level, depression level, sleep hours, and hours of internet use.

The Daily Stress Scale of Korean Children, Korean Child Depression Scale, hours of

sleep on average per day (sleep), and hours of using electronic devices per day

(internet use) were used as the measurements. Regarding the statistical analysis

methods used in this study, linear regression was used to examine the regression

effect of both sleep and internet use on stress and the regression effect of stress on

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depression. Path analysis, one of the structural equation models, was also used to find

direct, indirect, and mediating effects between variables. The study results show that

(i) sleep, not internet usage, effectively relieves children's stress; (ii) stress is an

important influence on depression; and (iii) sufficient sleep reduces stress, which

reduces depression. It is recommended that future studies consider the quality of sleep

and quantity of sleep for more valid data analysis and carry out follow-up research

with wider age groups.

Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal (2021) In this study, we

investigate the mediating effects of children's Internet use on the relationship between

family socioeconomic status and their academic achievement, and whether the

mediating effects vary across different academic subjects. We used the data from the

China Family Panel Studies on the socioeconomic status of children's families,

children's Internet use, and their academic performance. In the 2014 sample, there

were 2,686 participants (females=1,272). In 2016, there were 2,330 participants

(females=1,069), and in 2018, there were 2,485 participants (females=1,151). The

socioeconomic status and the Internet use were measured by a questionnaire.

Standardized tests measured the academic performance. Our findings showed that

family socioeconomic status was positively related to math performance, but not

significantly related to Chinese performance. The results also indicated that Internet

use did not significantly mediate the relationship between family socioeconomic

status in 2014 and math performance in 2016, while the frequency of Internet use to

study in 2016 partly mediated the relationship between family socioeconomic status

in 2016 and math performance in 2018. Our findings suggest that Internet use can

only mediate the relationship between family socioeconomic status and math

performance and the mediating effects become stronger over time.

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 International Journal of Information and Communication Technology (2021)

stated that the aim of the study is to understand the effect of Internet addiction on

student's academic engagement. There are numerous studies explaining the negative

relationship between Internet addiction and academic performance still very few

studies could explain how the excessive use of the internet disrupts students' academic

engagement. This study focuses on two aspects, each of academic engagement viz,

dedication, and vigor and Internet addiction viz, emotional, and cognitive

preoccupation with internet and loss of control, and interference with daily life. Data

was collected from 152 students in an Institute in India through questionnaires. The

data was analyzed using correlation and regression. The analysis showed that Internet

addiction has a significant, negative impact on vigor and dedication. Interestingly, it

was found that emotional and cognitive preoccupation with the internet is not a

significant predictor of Internet addiction as loss of control.

Local

"Parental Perceptions of Internet Use and Cyberbullying Among Adolescents

in the Philippines" by Mary Ann M. Maputi and Marita C. Maputi, published in the

Philippine Journal of Psychology in 2015, is a study that explored the perceptions of

Filipino parents regarding their children's internet use and the risks of cyberbullying.

The study found that many parents were concerned about their children's online safety

and the negative effects of excessive internet use, including decreased face-to-face

communication and decreased attention to schoolwork.

"Parenting in the Digital Age: A Qualitative Study of Filipino Parents'

Perceptions and Practices Regarding Children's Internet Use" by Maria Teresita N.

Lapuz and Liza Corro, published in the Philippine Journal of Psychology in 2018, is a

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study that examined the perceptions and practices of Filipino parents regarding their

children's internet use. The study found that many parents were concerned about the

potential risks and negative effects of the internet on their children, including online

predators, cyberbullying, and exposure to inappropriate content.

"Internet Use and Parental Monitoring: A Study of Filipino Adolescents" by

Maria Teresita N. Lapuz and Liza Corro, published in the Philippine Journal of

Psychology in 2019, is a study that investigated the internet use patterns and parental

monitoring practices of Filipino adolescents. The study found that many parents were

concerned about their children's internet use and attempted to monitor their online

activities, but also faced challenges in understanding and effectively managing their

children's digital lives.

Review Related Studies

Foreign

Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA) (2017) entitled “Internet risks

for children: Parents’ perceptions and attitudes: An investigative study of the Saudi”

in their findings internet has become a part of our children's daily activities at home

and at school. The benefits of the Internet for children are huge and include education

and entertainment. However, the same technologies also pose some risks that parents

need to identify and guard against. A lack of awareness can cause children to

encounter serious danger and become victims of Internet criminals. To the best of the

authors' knowledge, no previous research has been conducted in Saudi Arabia on

parent's awareness of the risks of Internet use to their children and how Saudi's

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parents seek to mitigate those risks. This paper investigates the associations and

correlations between what parents do and what children say about online risks. It

compares and contrasts parents' mediation strategies and their children's online habits

with the aim of investigating which parental mediation strategy has taken place to

reduce the risk of online activity against children. The findings indicate a substantial

gap between what children do online and what their parents know. The majority of

parents are interested in monitoring their children's online activities and collaborating

with their children on those activities, but most parents also do not have a strategy for

accomplishing this. The survey indicated an absence of collaboration between parents

and children to ensure online safety. This is not a result of a lack of interest, but rather

a result of a shortage of resources due to time constraints, and poor knowledge of the

Internet, or lifestyle choices.

International journal of education and information technologies (2008) entitled

“Parents’ views about internet use of their children” cited that Parents’ views are

primarily important for children’s effective and secure use of Internet and protecting

them against the threats of Internet. Therefore, this study aims at determining the

views of parents about the Internet use of their children who attend a private

elementary school in Turkey. Carried out through the qualitative research method, the

research data of the study were collected from 33 parents and were analyzed by

running descriptive analysis, which is one of the qualitative data analysis methods. As

a result of the analysis, it was revealed that parents regard Internet as the most

developed technology, a window opening to the whole world, and as a tool to attain

information. Moreover, parents reported that Internet has positive and negative effects

together. Parents stated that Internet use of their children has positive effects in terms

of providing support to education, attaining information, establishing communication,

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and entertainment, while it has negative effects in terms of content and of individual,

psychological and physical aspects. Based on parents’ views, this study provides

some suggestions regarding how children can use Internet safely.

Base on University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, (2017) entitled “Parents

perceptions of the internet and its effect of their children”, the Internet is a vast

database filled with education, fun, and danger. Parents have a difficult time

protecting their children against the dangers they can face on the Internet (eg,

cyberbullying, sexual victimization, addiction, unwanted pornography). This study’s

purpose was to better understand how parents perceived the Internet and also see how

they understand the effects on their children’s behaviors. The study was an online

social media survey and had both quantitative and qualitative aspects. This study

included 28 parents of children eight and older in the school system. Participant’s

responses were examined using measures of central tendency and grounded theory

analysis. The study had three main themes: caregiver’s experiences, perceived level of

safety and how parents maintain that level, and community resource and support

needs. These findings were discussed and compared to past research.

Recommendations for future research studies, policy use, and implementations for

social work practice are described are discussed.

Local

"Parental Perceptions on Internet Use and Cyberbullying: A Study of High

School Students in Metro Manila" by Maria Theresa O. Barrera and Rachel C. David.

This study, published in the Philippine Journal of Psychology in 2016, surveyed high

school students in Metro Manila and found that while the majority of parents had

positive perceptions of the internet and believed it to be an important tool for

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education, they also had concerns about their children being cyberbullied and exposed

to inappropriate content.

"Internet Use and Parenting Styles: A Study of Filipino Adolescents" by Maria

Lourdes Quizon and Ma. Corazon Tan. This study, published in the Asia Pacific

Education Review in 2009, surveyed adolescents in the Philippines and found that

parental supervision and communication were important factors in determining the

impact of the internet on children. Adolescents whose parents were more involved

and had open communication about their internet use reported fewer negative effects,

such as reduced school performance and increased aggression, compared to those

whose parents were less involved.

Theoretical Framework

This study align itself in the Perception Theory by Saul Mcleod and Theory

about problematic internet use by Marcantonio Spada.

In order to receive information from the environment we are equipped with

sense organse.g. eye, ear, nose. Each sense organ is part of a sensory system which

receives sensory inputs and transmits sensory information to the brain. A particular

problem for psychologists is to explain the process by which the physical energy

received by senseorgans forms the basis of perceptual experience. Sensory inputs are

somehow convertedinto perceptions of desks and computers, flowers and buildings,

cars and planes; into sights,sounds, smells, taste and touch experiences.

A major theoretical issue on which psychologists are divided is the extent to

which perception relies directly on the information present in the stimulus. Some

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argue that perceptual processes are not direct, but depend on the perceiver's

expectations and previous knowledge as well as the information available in the

stimulus itself. This controversy is discussed with respect to Gibson (1966) who has

proposed a direct theory of perception which is a 'bottom-up' theory, and

Gregory (1970) who has proposed a constructivist (indirect) theory of perception

which is a 'top-down' theory.

Psychologists distinguish between two types of processes in perception:

bottom-up processing and top-down processing.

Bottom-up processing is also known as data-driven processing, because

perception begins with the stimulus itself. Processing is carried out in one direction

from the retina to the visual cortex, with each successive stage in the visual pathway

carrying out ever more complex analysis of the input.

Top-down processing refers to the use of contextual information in pattern

recognition. For example, understanding difficult handwriting is easier when reading

complete sentences than when reading single and isolated words. This is because the

meaning of the surrounding words provide a context to aid understanding.

Problematic Internet use (PIU), which has become a global social issue, can be

broadly conceptualized as an inability to control one's use of the Internet which leads

to negative consequences in daily life. The aim of this paper is to give a brief

overview of the gradually evolving body of literature on PIU. This shows that the

definitions and diagnostic criteria that have been proposed, and the assessment tools

that have been developed, stress similarities between PIU, addictive behaviours and

impulse-control disorders. Disagreements regarding diagnostic criteria and the lack of

large epidemiological studies have resulted in difficulties in establishing the

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prevalence of PIU in the general population. Studies suggest high comorbidity rates

between PIU and numerous psychiatric disorders highlighting the importance of

focusing on comorbidity in treatment. There is growing evidence that genetic,

personality and individual differences in automatic and controlled aspects of self-

regulation may promote the development of PIU. Pharmacological and

psychotherapeutic treatments specific to PIU have received limited testing in large,

rigorous studies however preliminary evidence suggests that both

psychotropic medications (Escitalopram, Naltrexone and Methylphenidate)

and cognitive behaviour therapy may have some utility in the treatment of PIU. More

research is needed on areas which remain unclear and contribute to the prognosis of

PIU, in particular the temporal relationships between psychiatric disorder and PIU,

mechanisms of comorbidity and the more subtle psychological changes that occur

through Internet use.

Over the last twenty years global Internet users have grown to almost two and

half billion (Internet World Stats, 2013). In the UK and USA over 80% of the

population has access to the Internet (International Telecommunications Union, ITC,

2013). Similar access rates have been observed in Asia (particularly Japan, South

Korea and Taiwan) and lower rates, in the range from 45.0 to 55.0%, in South

America (ITC, 2013). Internet use is comparatively lower in Africa and the Middle

East but respectively grew by more than 3600% and 2600% between 2000 and 2012

(Internet World Stats, 2013).

The growth in Internet use has been paralleled by emerging concerns about

problematic Internet use (PIU), also variously termed Internet addiction (Brenner,

1997, Young, 1998), pathological Internet use (Davis, 2001) and Internet dependence

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(Scherer, 1997). PIU can be defined as “use of the Internet that creates psychological,

social, school and/or work difficulties in a person's life” (Beard & Wolf, 2001, p.378).

Scientific understanding of PIU has lagged behind media attention mainly because of

inconsistencies in defining PIU, disagreement about its very existence, and the

variable methodological approaches used in studying it (Aboujaoude, 2010). In spite

of this, a global body of data unequivocally highlights the Internet's potential to bring

about considerable psychological harm (Aboujaoude, 2010).

Theoretical Paradigm of the study

Theory about problematic internet

Perception Theory
use

Parents awareness on effects of

internet to their children

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Conceptual Framework

This section provides the conceptual framework of the study with components

such as the input, the process, the output, and the feedback. Input consists of

demographic profile of the respondents, questionnaire, and survey.

The process includes gathering of data through survey questionnaire and

interview, research, treatment of data, presentation, analysis and interpretation of data

gathered.

The output of the study will be proposed reading material and other

recommendations in this study.

The result of the output is based on the input and process by which provide

inter-motion in the form of feedback to continue the cycle of the study.

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 Conceptual Paradigm of the study

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

 Profiles of the  Gathering of data

respondents  Treatment of data
 Questionnaire  Presentation of data Article
 Surveys  Analysis of data
 Interpretation of data

FEEDBACK

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