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Impact of usage of Social Media on Interpersonal Relations of Higher Secondary School
Students

Dr. J.N.Baliya*
Juhi Gupta**
ABSTRACT
In India at present the usage of Social Media Platforms (SMPs) amongst school and college
going students has vastly increased and the usage of SMPs has extensive influence on these
students in numerous ways, particularly on their interpersonal relationships. Social media
platforms influence the interpersonal relationships of school students with their parents,
friends, and teachers and with others in innumerable ways. The purpose of the study is to
investigate the student’s interpersonal relationships with their parents and teachers when
SMPs is used for interaction, communication and educational purposes. The design of the
study was descriptive in nature and the tool used by the researcher was self constructed. In
the present study simple random sampling technique was employed for the selection of
sample in which 86 were males and 84 were female’s higher secondary school students from
different Kendriya Vidyalaya schools of Jammu District. The main findings revealed that the
usage of SMPs has influenced interpersonal relationships of students with their parents but
not with their teachers. Students spend most of the time in the school mainly with the
teachers, so teachers can help the students to use the social media platforms in such a way
that it does not influence their relations with their parents, friends relatives etc. Teachers
have to channelize student’s usage of SMPs in constructive way that they don’t effect
student’s interpersonal relations with others.

Keywords: Social media platforms, interpersonal relationships, school students.

*Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies, Central University of Jammu,
e-mail: jnbaliya2015@gmail.com

**Research Scholar, Department of Educational Studies, Central University of Jammu

e-mail: juhimahajan27@gmail.com
INTRODUCTION
In the last decades of the 20th century the world in general, and India in particular witnessed
a remarkable and rapid advancement of information and communication technologies. The
internet era has brought dramatic change in the modern world towards the exchange of
knowledge, data and the unknown information irrespective of their location. This has paved
the way for the growing platforms namely social media. There is lots of social media
platforms come into existence and to name a few, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram
and YouTube. These days the most commonly utilized method of communication is social
media platforms. It is being used by individuals belonging to every walk of life. Usage of
information technology in social media, increase its popularity in the youth especially in
students of colleges and universities. Social media has become ubiquitous and almost
inescapable, revolutionizing the way students communicate, interact and socialize; and has
become an integral part of their social and cultural fabric. Consequently, students are
spending a substantial part of their time on social media platforms.

In recent years use of social media has become very popular all round the world due to a
great development of technology. Not only celebrities but general public has also turned out
to be a huge user of these social media sites. Use of these interacting social media platforms
has become the routine habit of students; they spend the major part of their time on these sites
for entertainments and also concentrate on their studies. Using social media platforms
students can communicate with their friends, teachers, peers and experts in any field,
anywhere, anytime creating possible longer contact time and effective communication. They
can get unlimited wealth of data and information for their research and studies through social
media platforms. Students can also share lectures of different universities available on You-
tube and can clarify their concepts in order to enhance their grades or academic achievement.
Students also arranged online conferences, workshops in order to talk regarding the projects
after the school hours. The educational institutions have realized that social networking sites
are highly accessible to the young generation of students. Some universities embedded the
use of computers, tablets and other technology channels in their educational setup. The use of
social networking sites has been the focus of a large number of research studies. The review
of literature clearly indicates that adequate scientific investigations are not carried out on the
impact of social media platforms on interpersonal relations of higher secondary school
students. Hence, the study assumes profound academic and social significance.
In India, the trend of using social media platforms is quite alarming. More and more college
and universities students are drawn towards these networking platforms enabling both
communication and entertainment. Consequently this sets the backdrop of the study in order
to probe into this phenomenon further. Interpersonal relationships are the foundation for
learning and human development. Thus, it is crucial to analyze how far Social media
platforms influencing interpersonal relationships among secondary school students.
Also, Social media platforms sustain the relations which might have been at a disadvantage
due to the absence of geographical proximity. It enables interaction that may have been
inconceivable without it. A social media platform is like a drug to the current generation and
is certainly affecting the interpersonal relationships among students. The time spent on social
media platforms may cause distance or even conflict among interpersonal relationships, when
spending time at home together as a family unit. Individuals may be physically present in the
same room, but they may be so focused on the information they are scrolling through on the
SMS, that they could be missing important nonverbal communication cues due to
inattentiveness. Liu, Yin and Huang (2013) investigated the adolescents’ interpersonal
relationships with friends, parents, and teachers when using facebook for interaction. A total
of 740 junior high school students were invited to fill in a questionnaire and 673
questionnaires were available. Data were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance and
paired-samples t-test. The analytic result confirmed that adolescents with high frequency use
of facebook for interactions can expand their interpersonal relationships with friends than
those who with low frequency use, regardless of real-life or virtual relationships. However,
their real-life interpersonal relationships with parents may weaken if overly use Internet tools
for interactions. Manjunatha (2013) examined the influence of SNS on interpersonal
relationships of college students. Five hundred college students were selected from both
Bangalore and Mysore cities and questionnaire and interview schedule methods were used by
the researcher for the data collection and found that due to the availability of SNS the
communication between college students and their members of family, between college
students and their friends was increased. Ngonidzash (2016) investigated the excessive use of
Social Media Sites (SMS) does have a significant impact on the emotional bonds and
physical presence among family members. Britt (2017) found that the more time that the
participants spend using SMS at home lower the quality and satisfaction level of
interpersonal relationships at home. It is further hypothesized that the more time spent on
SMS at home will lower the face-to-face verbal communications with the interpersonal
relationships within the home. Social networks have removed all the communication and
interaction barriers, and now one can communicate his/her perception and thoughts over a
variety of topics. Students and experts are able to share and communicate with like-minded
people and can ask for the input and opinion on a particular topic. Furthermore, the present
study has multiple direct uses to different sections of the society. First of all, the study makes
the students aware of how does social media platforms influence them and how they affect
their interpersonal relationships. This educates students regarding the proper usage of social
media platforms. It also helps students to improve their social life with the use of social
networking sites along with members of their family, friends and teachers.

As the social media is the new area of research and is the current or need based problem. The
work in this field has been done in some developed countries like USA, UK and others and
the researcher felt that less work has been done in our country especially in the state of J&K
and the researcher felt that there is a great scope of research in this respective field. In
addition, there are hardly any studies conducted in Jammu district, which helps in assessing
the interpersonal relationship of school students in relation to specific dimensions i.e.,
parents, friends and teachers. Secondly, the present study is unique and differs from the rest
of the studies in terms of variables, population and sample.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

1. To study the main effect of gender on SMPs influenced Interpersonal Relations
among Higher Secondary School students with their Parents.

2. To study the main effect of various streams on SMPs influenced Interpersonal

Relations among Higher Secondary School students with their Parents.

3. To study the main interactional effect of gender and streams on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among Higher Secondary School students with their Parents.

4. To study the main effect of gender on SMPs influenced Interpersonal Relations

among Higher Secondary School students with their Teachers.
5. To study the main effect of various streams on SMPs influenced Interpersonal
Relations among Higher Secondary School students with their Teachers.
6. To study the main interactional effect of gender and streams on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among Higher Secondary School students with their Teachers.
HYPOTHESES OF THE STUDY

1. There will be no main significant difference of gender on SMPs influenced

Interpersonal Relations among Higher Secondary School Students with their Parents.
2. There will be no main significant difference of various streams on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among Higher Secondary School Students with their Parents.
3. There will be no significant interactional effect of gender and streams on SMPs
influenced Interpersonal Relations among Higher Secondary School students with
their Parents.
4. There will be no main significant difference of gender on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among Higher Secondary School students with their Teachers.
5. There will be no main significant difference of various streams on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among Higher Secondary School Students with their
Teachers.
6. There will be no significant interactional effect of gender and streams on SMPs
influenced Interpersonal Relations among Higher Secondary School students with
their Teachers.

RESEARCH DESIGN

In the present study, descriptive survey method was used.

SAMPLE

The total sample consisted of 170 students 84 females and 86 males’ students studying in
Kendriya Vidyalaya of Jammu district. Random sampling technique was used to collect the
data.

TOOL USED

For the present study, self-constructed tool was used by the investigator i.e; Social Media
Platforms influenced Interpersonal Relationship Opinionnaire.

STATISTICAL TECHNIQUE USED

The investigator used Two-way ANOVA for the analysis and interpretation of the data.
RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION

Table 1

SUMMARY OF TWO WAY ANOVA FOR PARENT DIMENSION IN INTERPERSONAL

RELATIONS

Source of SS Df MS F Level of Results

variables significance

SSA(gender) 62.0 1 62.0 5.84* Significant H1 is rejected

SSB(stream) 84.95 2 42.47 4.00* Significant H2 is rejected

SSAXB 83.45 2 41.72 4.17* Significant H3 is rejected

SSWith in 543.3 54 10.6

The table 1 shows that the value of F-ratio for the main factor gender has came significant as
5.8 which is higher than the table value at 0.05 level of significance at degree of freedom (1,
54) and the table values for significance are 4.03 and 7.17 at 0.05 and 0.01 level of
significance. It means that there are significant differences found on SMPs influenced
interpersonal relations among higher secondary school students with their parents in relation
to gender. Thus the null hypothesis stating “there will be no main significant difference of
gender on SMPs influenced Interpersonal Relations among Higher Secondary School
Students with their Parents” is rejected. This finding is in agreement with the Liu, Yin and
Huang (2013) and Ngonidzashe (2016), where as it is in disagreement with the Manjunatha
(2013). From the table it comes to know that, the mean value of male students i.e. 29.6 is
higher than female students i.e. 25.8 which means that male students interpersonal relations
influenced by usage of SMPs with their parents.

The table 1 shows that the value of F-ratio for the main factor Stream has came significant
with interpersonal scores. The f-ratio value for the stream has came significant as 4.0 which
is higher than the table value at 0.05 level of significance at degree of freedom (2, 54) and the
table values for significance are 3.18 and 5.11 at 0.05 and 0.01 level of significance. It means
that there are significant differences found on SMPs influenced interpersonal relations among
higher secondary school students with their parents in relation to their streams. Thus the null
hypothesis stating “there will be no main significant difference of various stream on SMPs
influenced Interpersonal Relations among higher secondary school students with their
Parents” is rejected. From the table it comes to know that, the mean value of non-medical
stream students 28.6 is higher than commerce and medical stream students i.e. 27.7 and 25.7
which mean non-medical stream students interpersonal relations influenced by usage of
SMPs with their parents.

The value of f-ratio for interaction between gender and stream on interpersonal scores has
come out to be significant as 4.17 which is higher than the table value at 0.05 level of
significance at degree of freedom (2, 54). It shows that these variables i.e. gender and Stream
combined play important role in interpersonal scores influenced by usage of SMPs among
higher secondary school students with their parents. Thus the null hypothesis stating “there
will be no significant interactional effect of gender and streams on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among higher secondary school students with Parents” is rejected.

Table 2

SUMMARY OF TWO WAY ANOVA FOR TEACHER DIMENSION IN

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS

Source of SS Df MS F Level of Results

variables significance

SSA(gender) 21.63 1 21.63 2.32 Not significant H4 is

accepted
SSB(stream) 37.7 2 18.85 2.02 Not significant H5 is
accepted
SSAXB 27.67 2 13.83 1.48 Not significant H6 is
accepted
SSWith in 502.8 54 9.31

The value of f-ratio for the main factor gender has not came significant with interpersonal
relation scores. The f-ratio value for the gender came 2.32 which is less than the table value
at 0.05 against (1, 54) df. It means that there is no significance difference found on SMPs
influenced interpersonal scores among higher secondary school students with their teachers in
relation to gender. Thus the null hypothesis stating “there will be no main significant
difference of gender on SMPs influenced Interpersonal Relations among higher secondary
school students with their teachers” is accepted.

The f-ratio value for the main factor stream is not significant with the interpersonal relation
scores. The calculated value for the various stream came 2.02 which is less than the table
value i.e. 3.18 at 0.05 level against (2,54)df. It means that there is no significant difference
found on SMPs influenced interpersonal scores among higher secondary school students with
their teachers in relation to their streams. Thus the null hypothesis stating “there will be no
main significant difference of various stream on SMPs influenced Interpersonal Relations
among higher secondary school students with their teachers” is accepted.

The value of f-ratio for the interaction of gender and stream has not come significant with the
interpersonal relations. The f-ratio value for the interaction of gender and stream came 1.48
which is less than the table value i.e., 3.18 at 0.05 level against (2, 54) df. It means that there
is no significant difference found on SMPs influenced interpersonal scores among higher
secondary school students with their teachers in relation to their gender and streams. Thus the
null hypothesis stating “there will be no significant interactional effect of gender and streams
on SMPs influenced Interpersonal Relations among higher secondary school students with
their teachers” is accepted.

MAJOR FINDINGS

1. There is main significant difference of gender on SMPs influenced Interpersonal

Relations among higher secondary school students with their Parents.
2. There is main significant difference of various streams on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among higher secondary school students with their Parents.
3. There is significant interactional effect of gender and streams on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among higher secondary school students with Parents.
4. There is no main significant difference of gender on SMPs influenced Interpersonal
Relations among higher secondary school students with their Teachers.
5. There is no main significant difference of various streams on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among higher secondary school students with their Teachers.
6. There is no significant interactional effect of gender and streams on SMPs influenced
Interpersonal Relations among higher secondary school students with their Teachers.
From the results of the study, it comes to know that the non-medical stream students
interpersonal relations influenced by usage of SMPs with their parents. It may be due to the
reason that non-medical stream students make maximum use of social media as compared to
medical and commerce students for their academic activities. The students also used SMPs to
obtain knowledge and information from different scientists, experts and other communicators
of science. They use SMPs for stay informed of events and news, update knowledge of
technology, allow ideas exchange and meet students from other universities, post projects or
models. They also used SMPs to research colleges, universities and company to get
information about all the fields they are interested in. And gender also influenced student’s
interpersonal relations with parents and not with teachers because students spend most of the
time in the school mainly with the teachers. Teachers can develop teaching strategies that
utilise social media for teaching and learning, which in turn increase student-teacher
interaction for better academic achievement.

EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS

A growing number of college students spend a lot of time on social media platforms and for
many of them it has become an inseparable part of their lifestyle, beneficial for education,
communication, finding jobs, business and entertainment. Students need to be trained in the
right use of social media for the all-round development of their personality. The implications
of the study are stated as follows:

1. Students should be encouraged by teachers, parents and relatives to use these

platforms carefully and utilize the innovative features for social interaction and
collaboration.
2. Teachers with the help of SMPs gave live lectures, increased support to student
queries, to expand and explore their own possibilities, skills and knowledge, variety
of teaching aids and also by teaching blogs and write ups.
3. Parents of students, school administrators, teachers, and guidance counsellors must
encourage students to use SMPs since it promotes good interpersonal relationships.
4. If the students interpersonal relationship with their parents influenced by SMP then
teachers can also guide the students about how to use SMPs without effecting their
relationships.
 5. Teachers should channelize their students‟ usage of SMPs in the right direction so
that they benefit from the merits of social media rather than be caught up in the evils
of social media usage.
6. Students must use SMPs properly and not just for fun and entertainment, but also for
communication with their families, friends and teachers.
7. Social media platforms should be used for personal development, where these sites
enhance IT skills and help students to keep in touch with their professionals.
8. SMPs are the most powerful media for sharing and exchanging information and
therefore, it should be used to create awareness among people in a society and to
connected groups regarding social issues.
9. Students can balance their time between studies and their usage of these social media
platforms socially and particularly for academic purposes.

CONCLUSION

Social network sites have attracted millions of users due to affordance and reach. The social
networking sites such as ‘Facebook’, ‘Twitter’, ‘YouTube’ is most widely used by students
nowadays for instant communication. The study revealed that SMPs influenced
interpersonal relations of students with their parents and siblings. Gender does not play a
significant role in SMPs influenced interpersonal relations and medical and commerce
stream student’s interpersonal relations influenced by usage of social media platforms with
parent and sibling dimensions.

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