FACTORS OF

INTERNET ADDICTION IN SOCIAL MEDIA

An Undergraduate Research

PHINMA-ARAULLO UNIVERSITY
Cabanatuan City

In Partial Fulfilment
Of the Requirements for the Strand
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS

(STEM)

Members:

Kenneth Atienza

Leoncio Capola III

Irish Pearl Dignos

Kristein Pevy Esguerra

Rodalyn Villacorta

Presented to

Mr. Jaycee Pangan

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Introduction

Internet is now the biggest thing that is happening

today. It helps us to make our task easier and faster.
It evolves so fast that almost everything can do with
the use of internet. Through the evolution of the
internet, social media was formed. It is a group of
websites or applications that involves interaction
with each other in a community. It helps us to contact
faster, to meet new people and even to talk to people
that are thousands miles away. But here is the thing,
it can cause addiction. The overuse of it has a
serious effect on individuals resulting damage to
oneself. Social networking sites such as Facebook,
MySpace, Twitter and dozens of others allow people to
stay in touch like never before.However, some people
spend so much time on these sites that it begins to
interfere with their lives.Psychologists are referring
to this as a social networking compulsion or addiction.
Internet addiction in social media is being a problem
in the community. It is used by smart phones laptops
and computers. Social media help us to be updated for
something and by using the internet via gadgets its
will be more faster to connect to social media.

Nowadays we can easily have internet by loading our

smart phones we used it in our daily life because the
smart phones are the only gadgets that easy to hold
and because of that we use it constantly. We use our
gadgets with internet in social media anywhere and
everywhere and by using it always we easily forgot out
limitations.

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Review Related Literature

- “Social Media Addiction can cause a serious

effect on individuals “ ( Dr. El Wilson, 2013 )

According to that quote that Dr. Wilson said, it is

not essential for us human beings to be addicted to
something. But social media addiction is bigger than we
think. It destroys the youth and their time with their
families.

Cognitive-behavioral model:This model emphasizes that

‘abnormal’ social networking arises from maladaptive
cognitions and is amplified by various environmental
factors, and eventually leads to compulsive and/or
addictive social networking.

Social skill model:This model emphasizes that ‘abnormal’

social networking arises because people lack self-
presentational skills and prefer virtual communication to
face-to-face interactions, and it eventually leads to
compulsive and/or addictive use of social networking.

Socio-cognitive model:This model emphasises that

‘abnormal’ social networking arises due to the
expectation of positive outcomes, combined with internet
self-efficacy and deficient internet self-regulation
eventually leads to compulsive and/or addictive social
networking behavior.

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 Based on these three models, Xu and Tan suggest that
the transition from normal to problematic social
networking use occurs when social networking is viewed
by the individual as an important (or even exclusive)
mechanism to relieve stress, loneliness, or depression.
They contend that those who frequently engage in social
networking are poor at socializing in real life. For
these people, social media use provides such people
continuous rewards (e.g. self-efficacy, satisfaction)
and they end up engaging in the activity more and more,
eventually leading to many problems (e.g., ignoring real
life relationships, work/ educational conflicts, etc.).
The resulting problems may then exacerbate individuals’
undesirable moods. This then leads such individuals to
engage in the social networking behavior even more as a
way of relieving dysphoric mood states. Consequently,
when social network users repeat this cyclical pattern
of relieving undesirable moods with social media use,
the level of psychological dependency on social
networking increases.

A behavioral addiction such as SNS addiction may thus

be seen from a biopsychosocial perspective.Just like
substance-related addictions, it would appear that in
some individuals, SNS addiction incorporates the
experience of the ‘classic’ addiction symptoms, namely
mood modification (i.e., engagement in SNSs leads to a
favorable change in emotional states), salience (i.e.,
behavioral, cognitive, and emotional preoccupation with
the SNS usage), tolerance (i.e., ever increasing use of
SNSs over time), withdrawal symptoms (i.e., experiencing
unpleasant physical and emotional symptoms when SNS use

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is restricted or stopped), conflict (i.e., interpersonal
and intrapsychic problems ensue because of SNS usage),
and relapse (i.e., addicts quickly revert back to their
excessive SNS usage after an abstinence period).

It is generally accepted that a combination of

biological, psychological and social factors contributes
to the etiology of addictions that may also hold true
for SNS addiction. From this it follows that SNS
addiction shares a common underlying etiological
framework with other substance-related and behavioral
addictions. However, due to the fact that the engagement
in SNSs is different in terms of the actual expression
of (internet) addiction (i.e., pathological use of SNSs
rather than other internet applications), the phenomenon
may be worthy of individual consideration, particularly
when considering the potentially detrimental effects of
both substance-related and behavioral addictions on
individuals who experience a variety of negative
consequences because of their addiction.

Research into social networking addiction has been

relatively sparse. According to a recent review the
twenty or so empirical studies examining SNS addiction
fall into one of four types: (i) self-perception studies
of social networking addiction, (ii) studies of social
networking addiction utilizing a social networking
addiction scale, (iii) studies examining the
relationship between social networking and other online
addictions, and (iv) studies examining social networking
addiction and interpersonal relationships. The review

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noted that all the studies suffered from a variety of
methodological limitations. Many of the studies
attempted to assess SNS addiction, but mere assessment
of addiction tendencies does not suffice to demarcate
real pathology. Most of the study samples were generally
small, specific, self-selected, convenient, and skewed
with regards to young adults and female gender. This may
have led to the very high addiction prevalence rates (up
to 34%) reported in some studies as individuals from
these socio demographic groups are likely to be more
heavy social networking users. Consequently, empirical
studies need to ensure that they are assessing addiction
rather than excessive use and/or preoccupation.

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Statement of the problem

This study entitled “Factors of Internet Addiction in

Social Media” As the usage of the internet is growing

rapidly each year and internet addiction in social media

becoming a problem specially to the senior high

this sought answer to the following questions:

1.How may the senior high students be described in terms

of:

1.1 age

1.2 gender

1.3 grade&section

2.The Good effects of:

2.1Using facebook

2.2Using Youtube

2.3Using Google

3.The Bad effects of:

3.1 Using facebook

3.2 Using Youtube

3.3 Using Google

4.How to prevent the internet addiction in senior high

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Significance of the study

This research provide significance to the following:

School Administration- they would be know that this study

that will make helpful, they may start to be aware of

this problem in internet addiction of social media so

that can try to control their students.

Araullo University students This study will serve as

their instrument for their academic and it is very useful

for user to find information for their current work.

Researcher- this study will serve as their guide in

making future researches and program development. Their

experience

in this writing will help them to discover the effects

of addiction in social media.

Scope and delimitation of the study

This study focuses on the internet addiction in

social media. This discussed the students based on

academics and personal aspects.

The methods use was the descriptive method and the

questionnaire served as the research instrument in

gathering data.

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Purpose description

There are many studied about internet use and

internet addiction and it is one of the things that

influence our daily life. This study examines the

internet addiction on Senior high school level students

with as their academic track. The sample consisted of 100

students in Araullo University.