SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT IN RELATION

TO PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL - BEING

AMONG GENERATION Z

PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

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Document ID: 2023PEMJ1294
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10032354
Manuscript Accepted: 2023-20-10
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Research Article

Social Media Engagement in Relation to Psychosocial

Well - Being Among Generation Z
Rhea Jane A. Pescadero*, Mark Mauris E. Cabahug
For affiliations and correspondence, see the last page.
Abstract
Daily usage of various social media platforms for most people especially for generation Z has become a
routine. As generation Z are considered as digital natives, the possible disruption of those social media sites
to their psychosocial well-being is uncertain. The study sought to determine the relationship of social media
engagement to the psychosocial well-being of generation Z in Cortes, Bohol. A quantitative methodology
with a descriptive design was utilized in the research with a total of 364 randomly selected respondents.
Four hypotheses were treated using the Chi- square, Spearman rho, Friedman Test, and Kruskal Wallis Test.
The study result showed that Generation Z of Cortes, Bohol were moderately engaged to social media. Out
of four dimensions, entertainment got the highest rating while socialization got the lowest. While generation
Z obtained a very high psychosocial well-being. Subjective well-being topped among the dimensions while
psychological well-being was the least rated. There is a significant degree of correlation between the social
media engagement and psychosocial well-being of the generation Z. It implies that social media engagement
and psychosocial well-being are significantly correlated. It means that when the generation Z increasingly
engaged themselves to social media for academics, socialization, entertainment and informativeness, the
likely they would have a very high psychosocial well-being.

Keywords: social media engagement, psychosocial well-being, generation z, and intervention plan

Introduction have found strong relationship between social media

Social media continues to flourish all over the world.
The latest social media statistics show that there are
3.78 billion social media users worldwide in 2021 and
this number is only going to continue growing over the
next few years (Statistica, 2020). Rouse (2012) define
social media as a collective term for websites and
applications that focus on communication, community-
based input, interaction, content sharing and
collaboration. In addition, people employ these media
to help to fill the barriers of communication and better
access to information which leads to social media
engagement. Social media engagement is the process
of communicating in an online community through the
use of social media. Mostly, people are engaged on
various social media platforms such as Instagram,
Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, and Pinterest.
engagement and the psychosocial well-being.
Psychosocial well-being refers to the quality of life of
a person which includes the subjective, psychological
and social components while well-being includes how
people feel, think, relates, and create objectives for
themselves, and it can have a significant impact on
how they live their lives.In line of the foregoing, the
researcher as a social science teacher found the interest
to determine the relationship of social media
engagement and psychosocial well-being of the
Generation Z in order to formulate an intervention plan
out from the empirical findings of the study which can
help the parents, community, authorized agencies and
the teachers to assist Gen Zs’ attainment for holistic
well-being.
Research Questions

Generation Z or known as Gen Z is one of youngest
generational cohorts identified by Howe (2014) which
was born in late 1990’s to middle 2010’s next to
millennials. They are also referred as iGeneration,
iGen, zoomers or Post-Millenials. They are described
as multi-tasker, independent and competitive bunch of
individuals. Gen Z has been exposed to the rapidly
changing face of technology since birth and known as
“digital natives.”
Social media sites open the opportunity for the Gen Z
for collaborative learning, a place for creative ideas
and tool for communication, thus several researchers
The main purpose of this study was to determine the
relationship of Social Media Engagement and
Psychosocial Well-Being among Generation Z of
Cortes, Bohol. The findings of the study served as the
basis of providing a Proposed Intervention Plan.
Specifically, the study sought to answer the following
questions:
1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents
in terms of:
1.1 Age;
1.2 Sex;
1.3 Highest Educational Attainment;
1.4 Social Media Utilized;

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1.5 Number of Social Media Utilized;
1.6 Social Media Intensity of Utilization?
2. What is the level of Social Media Engagement of
the respondents in terms of the following dimensions:
2.1 Academic;
2.2 Socialization;
2.3 Entertainment, and
2.4 Informativeness?
3. What is the status of Psychosocial Well-Being of the
respondents in terms of the following components:
3.1 Subjective well-being;
3.2 Psychological well-being; and
3.3 Social Well-being?
4. Is there a significant degree of relationship between
the selected respondents profile and the following:
4.1 Level of social media engagement;
4.2 Sstatus of Psychosocial Well-Being?
5. Is there a significant degree of correlation between
social media engagement and psychosocial well-
being of the respondents?
6. Is there a significant degree of variance among the
different dimensions in the:
6.1 Social media engagement; and
6.2 Psychosocial well-being?
7. Is there a significant degree of variance of
psychosocial well-being when respondents are
grouped according to:
7.1 Number of social media utilized; and
7.2 Social media intensity of utilization?
8. Based on the findings of the research, what
intervention plan could be proposed?
Methodology
To meet the objectives of this research, a quantitative
researched was used. To gather the data, four modified
standardized questionnaire were combined and
utilized. To measure the respondents Social Media
Engagement, the study used the Social Networking
Usage Questionnaire by Gupta, S., Bashir, L. (2018).
To measure the dimensions of the Psychosocial Well-
Being, standard tool by Deiner, E., (2021) Subjective
Well-Being Scale , Ryff, C., (2005) Psychological
Well-Being Scale for the psychological well-being
and Keyes, C.,Wissing M., Potgieter, J.P.,Temane, M.,
Kruger, A., and van Rooy, S.(2008) Mental Health
Continuum Short Form for the social well-being. The
study was conducted in the town of Cortes, Bohol, one
of the coastal municipality of the province. The
respondents were 364 generation Z aged 13-24.
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The first part of the instrument was a researcher-
constructed questionnaire in which the respondents
were simply required to fill up the profile items and
the intensity of utilization. The second part and third
part was a standardized instrument that was modified
by the researcher on a four point Likert-scale. To
measure the respondent’s level of engagement, the
study utilized the Social Networking Usage
Questionnaire by Gupta, S., Bashir, L. (2018). The
study reveals that social networking usage can be
divided into four dimensions: academic, socialization,
entertainment and informativeness.
To measure the psychosocial well-being of the
respondents, the researchers adopted the three
modified standardized tool. To assess the subjective
well-being, the researchers used the Deiner Subjective
Well-Being Scale by Diener, E. (2021) with 8-item
statement. For the Psychological Well-Being Scale, it
is consists of 6-item statement which is from the tool
by Ryff, C. (2005) corresponds the 6 dimension of
psychological well-being of a person. To determine the
Social Well-Being, Mental Health Continuum Short
Form by Keyes, C.L.M., Wissing, M., Potrgieter, J.P.,
Temane, M., Kruger, A. and Van Rooy, S. (2008) was
used which four weight equivalent of 4,3,2,1 to the
different description had used:
The said questionnaires were subjected to pilot testing
to the Generation Z who are not part of the actual
respondents of the study. The data gathered during the
pilot test were subjected to Cronbach Alpha to ensure
its validity and reliability. The result of the Cronbach
Alpha test was .798 for the social media engagement
and .824 for the psychosocial well-being. Therefore
the questionnaire were reliable.
Data Gathering Procedure
First, the researcher asked permission from the office
of the Dean of the University of Bohol Graduate
School, Dr. Buenaventurada Libot and the Vice
President for Academics Atty. Marlumina B. Teh. The
researcher also sent a letter to the DepEd School
Division Superintendent, to the District Supervisor,
and to the School head of Lourdes High School and De
La Paz High School as well as to the Municipal Mayor
for the permission to conduct the research through a
formal letter signed by the researcher, research
adviser, and the dean of graduate school. Upon
approval, the researcher wrote a consent form for the
respondents’ parents and assent forms for minor
respondents. To the respondents 18 years old and
above, they were asked to fill out an informed consent.
The researcher ensured to discuss unto them the
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objectives of the research and made sure that their
rights were not violated during the study.
For the distribution of questionnaires, it was included
in their weekly modules and students had four-days to
answer and were retrieved on the fifth day. For 18-24
years old, the researcher distributed the questionnaire
through face-to-face and Google forms for
convenience.
The researcher followed the given protocol by the
Department of Health and IATF regarding the
Covid-19 to ensure the safety of the people involved in
the study. The following were the protocols that were
followed: (1) the researcher, the interviewer, and the
respondents wear a face mask during the interview and
one person per meter of unimpeded space was
observed; (2) the researcher performed a temperature
check of the respondent. The temperature should not
exceed 37 degrees Celsius; and (3) the use of hand
sanitizer was observed. To achieve the protocols, the
researcher provided the necessary thermometer, face
mask, and alcohol to be used.
This study used the Statistical Package for the Social
Sciences (SPSS) to manage quantitative computation
and analyze textual interpretation of the data gathered.
The gathered data were subjected to a normality test
using Kolmogorov- Smirnova to determine the
appropriate statistical tools to be employed. The data
were skewed or normally distributed; moreover, the
non-parametric tools were utilized.
A Percentage formula was used to analyze the
respondents’ demographic profile and the frequency of
their answers on the listed items in the questionnaire.
Weighted Mean in measuring the respondents’ level of
social media engagement and status of psychosocial
well-being. In answering the inferential questions of
the study, it utilized the following:
Chi-square Contingent Test. This was used to the
relationship of the selected respondents’ profiles, and
their level of social media engagement and status of
psychosocial well-being.
Spearman rho. This was used to test the significant
correlation between social media engagement and
psychosocial well-being.
Friedman Test. This was used to analyze the variance
among the different dimensions of social media
engagement and status of psychosocial well-being.
Kruskal Wallis. This was used in testing the variances
among the different dimensions and components of
social media engagement and psychosocial well-
being.
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Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test. This was used for the
normality test, and the result shows that there was
normal distribution of data between the two variables,
which were social media engagement and psychosocial
well-being.
Results and Discussion
Profile of the Respondents
Age. With a frequency of 158 or 43.41%, the highest
number of Gen Z belonged to the age bracket of 15-19.
It was followed by the age range of 20-24, which had a
frequency of 145 or 39.84% and lastly by the age
range of 13-14 with a frequency of 61 or 16.76.
Sex. There were more female Gen Z which had a
frequency of 209 or 57.42% compare to male Gen Z
which has a frequency of 155 or 42.58%. This is line
with the recent statistics that our population is
dominated by females.
Highest Educational Attainment. With regards to
the highest educational attainment, a big number
belonged to Gen Z who were senior high school
graduate with a frequency of 113 or 31.04% closely
followed by junior high school graduate with a
frequency of 111 or 30.49%; then by elementary
graduate with a frequency of 98 or 26.92%; college
degree graduate with a frequency of 41 with 11.26%
and the lowest is an Alternative Learning System
graduate of 1 or 0.27%.
Social Media Utilized. Majority of the Gen Z were
engaged to facebook with a frequency of 353 or
96.98%. It is then followed by Youtube of 265 or
72.80%; Tiktok with a frequency of 218 or 59.89%
and then followed by Instagram of 173 or 47.53%;
Twitter with a frequency of 80 or 21.98%. Snapchat
plays the 6th rank with a frequency of 54 or 14.84 and
then by Whatsapp of 23 or 6.32%.
Number of Social media Utilized. Most of the Gen Z
utilized two social media platforms which had a
frequency of 77 or 21.15%; closely followed by three
social media with a frequency of 75 or 20.60%;
followed by four social media which had a frequency
of 74 or 20.33%; five social media with a frequency of
16.21%; then followed by one social media with a
frequency of 55 or 15.11%; six social media which had
a frequency of 20 or 5.49% and lastly seven social
media which had a frequency of 4 or 1.10%.
Social Media Intensity of Utilization. Majority of the
gen Z utilized social media averagely for 3-6 hours
every day with a frequency of 141 or 38.74%; then
followed by a duration of 31 minutes up to 2 hours
with frequency of 126 or 34.62%. Moreover, 51 or
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14.01% used social media in less than 30 minutes
while 37 or 10.16% gen Z spends approximately 7-12
hours. Lastly there were 9 or 2.47% utilized social
media for 13 or more hours.
Level of Social Media Engagement
The data disclosed that students were highly engaged
to various social media platforms for watching movies,
getting relief from academic stress, sharing pictures,
looking at funny sharing, keeping in touch with the
relatives and getting information regarding current
social events. The overall composite mean of the level
of social media engagement is 3.1273 or Moderately
Engaged. Out of the four dimensions, entertainment
got the highest composite mean of 3.3413 with an
interpretation of Highly Engaged. The other 3
dimensions got a Moderately Engaged rating as
follows: Informativeness with a composite mean of
3.0763; Academic with a composite mean of 3.0621;
and Socialization with a composite mean of 3.0291,
the lowest-rated dimension. The result pointed out that
out of 364 gen Z, 184 or 50.55% of them were Highly
Engaged while 122 or 33.52% of them were
Moderately Engaged. Meanwhile, 50 or 13.74 of gen Z
were less engaged and only 8 of them were Not
Engaged. The social media engagement agrees with
the survey of Statista Dixon (2023) that Facebook and
YouTube were the two most visited social media
platforms in the world. Market leader Facebook was
the first social network to surpass one billion
registered accounts and currently sits at more than 2.9
billion monthly active users. Meta Platforms owns four
of the biggest social media platforms, all with over one
billion monthly active users each: Facebook (core
platform), WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and
Instagram.
Table 1. Level of Social Media Engagement Summary
Table n=364
The social media engagement according to the study of
Carpenter et al. (2016), and Karle (2012) asserted that
social media is primarily created to assist young
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people in their activities, especially the multitasking
ones. Social media has become a part of students’
everyday life as it serves various applications,
including entertainment and learning purposes. It also
adheres to the belief of Celik et al. (2014) that using
social media in education is beneficial for student
achievement, motivation, performance, and
participation in the learning activities. Social media
platforms also feed creativity instead of encouraging
them to plagiarism. It provides a more effective and
efficient communication opportunity and induces
productivity.
Whiting et al. (2013) said that Social Media sites have
evolved a powerful instrument in building and
sustaining social ties through exchanging of ideas and
opinions. Social media sites also help to fulfill the
human desire to build and maintain relationships with
others, communicate, seek information, and socialize.
People use social media to connect with family and
friends, interact with people they don't often see, chat
with old acquaintances, and make new friends.
Furthermore, young generation’s social media
engagement is evident in this finding, which concurs
with the proposition of Taylor (2015) that Generation
Z is a significantly younger group of people that grew
up in the social media era. Supported by the theory of
Erik Erikson, early and later adolescence conforms to
a peer group in which social media has become the
place for content sharing and relationship formation.
Young people aged 14 to 25 are more likely than other
generations to prefer online social sites to
communicate and interact with other people they
know. Young adults are happy and feel committed in
providing dynamic feedback and comments about the
brands/services/issues they use or are involved with in
some way. They also value the opinions of others
(Brenner, 2013).
Status of Psychosocial Well-Being
The data shows that the respondents had a Very High
Psychosocial Well-Being. Two components earned
with the same descriptive value of Very High
Psychosocial Well-Being which comprises the
Subjective Well-Being with a composite mean of
3.2954 in the first rank and Social Well-Being with a
composite mean of 3.2720 in the second rank.
Meanwhile, the only component which received an
interpretation of High Psychosocial Well-being was
the Psychological Well-Being with a mean of 3.1877.
Out of 364 Generation Z, 198 or 54.40% of them have
Very High Psychosocial Well-Being, 139 or 38.19%
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have High Psychosocial Well-Being, 24 or 6.59% have

low Psychosocial Well-Being and only 3 or 0.82%
have Very Low Psychosocial Well-Being.

Table 2. Status of Psychosocial Well-Being It was found out that the following profiles namely:
Summary n=364 age, highest educational attainment, number of social
media utilized and social media intensity of utilization
have a significant relationship with the level of social
media engagement. While Generation Zs’ sex profile
did not have a significant relationship to the level of
social media engagement.

Relationship between Selected Profile and Status of

The result shows that Gen Z has a very high Psychosocial Well-Being
psychosocial well-being. It conforms to the study of
Chen and Li (2017) that social use of different social To test the relationship between selected profile and
media services shows a positive impact on users’ status of psychosocial well-being, the data acquired
subjective well-being. It also agrees with Bonsaksen et were subjected to Chi-Square Tests.
al. (2023) that social media platforms caters to
opportunities for decreasing social isolation. Watching Table 4. Relationship between Selected Profile and
videos and images, it maximizes interpersonal Status of Psychosocial Well-Being Summary of Results
connectivity among people. Furthermore, social
networking sites can provide adolescents with valued
settings for social connection.

Relationship between Selected Profile and Level of

Social Media Engagement

To test the relationship between selected profile and

level of social media engagement, the data acquired
were subjected to Chi-Square Tests.

Table 3. Selected Profile and Level of Social Media

Engagement Summary of Results
The result revealed that profiles namely: age, sex,
highest educational attainment, number of social
media utilized and social media intensity of utilization
have significant degree of relationship with the status
of psychosocial well-being. Meanwhile, the sex profile
did not have a significant relationship with their status
of psychosocial well-being. It coincides with the
previous research conducted by Lengkong et al. (2021)
that age influences the usage of social media as young
individuals are the most active social media users.

Degree of Correlation between Social Media

Engagement and Psychosocial Well-Being

To test the degree of correlation between social media

engagement and psychosocial well-being, the data
acquired were subjected to Spearman Rho Test.

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Table 5. Degree of Correlation between Social Media

Engagement and Psychosocial Well-Being

significance. It goes to show that there is a significant

degree of variance among the different dimensions of
social media engagement. Thus, the null hypothesis is
The computation shows that the resultant p-value of rejected. The various dimensions, namely academic,
0.000 is lesser than the 0.05 level of significance. This socialization, entertainment, and informativeness, vary
implies that there is significant correlation between significantly.
social media engagement and psychosocial well-being
leading the rejection of the null hypothesis. It means Table 6. Analysis of Variance on the Different
that social media engagement and psychosocial well-
Dimensions of Social Media Engagement
being are significantly correlated. It implies that
engagement to social media affect their status of
psychosocial well-being.

It coincides with the study of Chandani et al. (2018) ,

which stated that social use of different the social
media services shows a positive impact on the users’
emotional well-being. Social use of social media could
boost user’s perceived bridging social capital and
subjective well-being.

More so, it also agrees with the study of Boyd (2014)

that social media can provide adolescents with valued
settings for social connection. It also offers an
alternative venue for lonely and socially anxious in
relationship building (Bonneti et. al. 2010).
Furthermore, social media encourages supporting of
Analysis of Variance on the Different Components
communities at any time and has become a venue for
showcasing talent and creativity. of Psychosocial Well-Being

Analysis of Variance on the Different Dimensions
of Social Media Engagement
To test the variance in the different dimensions of
social media engagement, the Friedman Test was
conducted.
The result of the test displayed the p-value of 0.000
which is lesser than 0.05, the set level of significance.
It goes to show that there is significant degree of
variance among the different dimensions of social
media engagement. Thus, the null hypothesis is
rejected. It means that the different dimensions namely
academic, socialization, entertainment, and
informativeness vary significantly.
To test the variance in the different dimensions of
social media engagement, the Friedman Test was
conducted.
The computation using the Friedman Test reveals the
p-value of 0.000 which is lesser than 0.05 level of
significance. Thus, there is significant degree of
variance among the different dimensions of
psychosocial well-being leading to the rejection of the
null hypothesis. It implies that the different
dimensions of the psychosocial well-being
significantly vary.

To test the variance in the different dimensions

of social media engagement, the Friedman Test was
conducted. The test result displayed the p- value of
0.000, which is lesser than 0.05, the set level of

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Table 7. Analysis of Variance on the Different

Components of Psychosocial Well-Being
Analysis of Variance of Psychosocial Well-being in
terms of Social Media Intensity of Utilization

Table 9 shows the analysis of variance of psychosocial

well-being in terms of social media intensity of
utilization.

Table 9. Analysis of Variance of Psychosocial Well-

being In terms of Social Media Intensity of Utilization

Analysis of Variance of Psychosocial Well-being in

terms of Number of Social Media Utilized

Table 8 shows the analysis of variance of psychosocial

well-being in terms of number of social media utilized.

It can be gleaned from the table that the result of the

computation using the Kruskal-Wallis Test reveals a p-
value of 0.000 which was lesser than the 0.05 level of
significance. It means that there was a significant
degree of variance of psychosocial well-being if
grouped according to number of social media utilized
thus the null hypothesis is rejected. It implies that the
psychosocial well-being significantly differ according
to the number of social media utilized.
As revealed in the table, the obtained p-value of 0.003
Table 8. Analysis of Variance of Psychosocial Well- is lesser than the 0.05 level of significance. This means
being In terms of Number of Social Media Utilized that there is significant degree of variance of
psychosocial well-being when grouped according to
social media intensity of utilization. Hence, the null
hypothesis is rejected. It shows that the psychosocial
well-being significantly differ according to the social
media intensity of utilization.

Discussion

Embedded on the aforementioned findings, the

following conclusions were drawn: (1) As to the
profile of the gen Z, greatest percentage belonged
to the age bracket of 15-19. Females exceeded in
number than males. With regards to the highest
educational attainment, a big number belongs to
the gen Z who were senior high school graduate.
Majority of the Gen Z utilized the top three social
media platforms namely: Facebook, YouTube and
Tiktok and most of them were engaged into at
least two social media sites. Larger number of
zoomers make use of social media within 3-6
hours.

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(2) Gen Z of Municipality of Cortes were moderately
engaged to social media. Out of the four dimensions,
entertainment dimension got the highest rating while
socialization dimension got the lowest. Gen Z were
highly engaged to social media to entertain themselves
mainly to watch movies, to cope from academic stress,
to share pictures and to look at funny sharing. Out of
364 gen Z, 184 of them were rated highly engaged to
social media while 122 claimed to be moderately
engaged, 50 of them were less engaged and only 8
were not engaged. (3) The psychosocial well-being of
the gen Z are interpreted as Very High. Subjective
well-being topped among the components while
psychological well-being was the least rated. Out of
364 zoomers, 198 had a very high psychosocial well-
being, 139 got high psychosocial well-being, 24 had
low psychosocial well-being and only 3 obtained very
low psychosocial well-being. (4) It is established that
there is a significant degree of relationship between the
age, highest educational attainment, number of social
media utilized and social media intensity of utilization
profile of the gen Z to their level of social media
engagement. It implies that the above mentioned
profile of the gen Z influenced their level of social
media engagement. Meanwhile sex profile doesn’t
determined their level of social media engagement.
(5) It is established that there is significant degree
of relationship between the age, highest educational
attainment, number of social media utilized and social
media intensity of utilization profile of the gen Z to
their status of psychosocial well-being. It implicit that
the above mentioned profile of the gen Z affect their
status of psychosocial well- being. Meanwhile sex
profile doesn’t determined the status of psychosocial
well-being of the zoomers. (6) It is established that
there is significant correlation between social media
engagement and psychosocial well-being. It means that
social media engagement and psychosocial well-being
are significantly correlated. It conveys that the higher
engagement to various social media platforms, the
higher their psychosocial well-being. The result
proves that when social media is used for positive
purposes such as for academics, socialization,
entertainment, and informative it highly contributes to
the psychosocial well-being of the Gen
Z. (7) It is established that there is a significant degree
of variance among the different dimensions of social
media engagement. It means that the different
dimensions namely academic, socialization,
entertainment, and informativeness vary significantly.
(8) It is established that there is a significant degree of
variance among the different dimensions of
psychosocial well-being. It entails that the different
dimensions of the psychosocial well-being namely
subjective well-being, psychological well-being and
social well-being significantly vary. (9) It is
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established that there is significant degree of variance
of gen Zs’ psychosocial well-being when they were
grouped according to number of social media utilized.
It intends that the psychosocial well-being of the Gen
Z significantly differ according to their number of
social media utilized. It is established that there is
significant degree of variance of gen Zs’ psychosocial
well-being when they were grouped according to
social media utilized. It shows that the psychosocial
well-being of the Gen Z significantly differ according
to social media intensity of utilization
From the findings and conclusions, the following
recommendations are herein provided.
(1) Information and dissemination of the research
findings are encouraged. (2) Educational institutions of
the municipality through the initiative of the teachers
may employ social media platforms for sharing
announcements and live lectures on the topic for better
comprehension. Utilize Facebook pages for school
updates, homework assignments, and discussion.
Teachers can also write blogs to give an opportunity to
the students to connect and comment on the lesson
properly. Schools shall also incorporate different
social media platforms for easy feedback to the parents
about their children's progress in school. (3) The Local
Government Unit may generate indoor and outdoor
activities by assimilating both online and face-to-face
modalities to establish Gen Zs’ social and
communication skills. The Rural Health Unit shall also
perform psychosocial support programs that nurture
both the parents' and Gen Zs’ relationship for better
well-being. (4) Parents may monitor their children’s
online activities by familiarizing themselves with the
different apps. They shall also set internet rules and
regulations in using various social media platforms,
like limiting the number of hours spent on social
media every day to avoid the negative effects of
excessive usage of social media. (5) According to
Argyle (2001), physical exercise steers to higher
subjective well-being. In connection, the Rural Health
Unit in the coordination of Barangay officials shall
organize physical and sports activities such as Sports
League and Zumba Fitness Program that will help the
youth and the Gen Z to be physically active. Rewards
and recognition should be given to the deserving
participants to encourage participation. (6) The Rural
Health Unit may provide free training and seminars to
the teachers on how to perform the Psychological First
Aid (PFA) to broaden information and awareness of
the psychosocial issues. Schools should form a
committee headed by the designated guidance
counselor who shall be responsible for executing
quarterly Psychological first aid (PFA) to assist
students in attaining holistic well-being and social
needs. Schools shall provide a safe and conducive
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school environment for every student. Schools shall
conduct training and workshops for the teachers and
teaching staff on how to utilize the different social
media platforms in blended learning and in education
to attain interactive and effective learning from the
students. (7) The Local Government Unit, school
personnel, teachers and parents may encourage their
student and children to participate in the different
community organizations that will help to boost their
sense of fulfilment and confidence. (8) School and
Rural Health Unit may educate the parents in the
psycho-education and awareness raising on
psychosocial issues to appropriately respond to their
children’s subjective, psychological and social needs.
(9) Teachers may also be informed and trained on the
different social platforms and their usage to integrate
beneficial media in delivering the lesson effectively
and efficiently. The implementation of the proposed
intervention plan is genuinely desired by the
researcher to be used by the Local Health Unit, Rural
Health Unit, community, and schools to support and
assist the Gen Z in their attainment of holistic well-
being.
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Department of Education – Philippines
Mark Mauris E. Cabahug, LPT- MAT-SOCSCI
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