La Consolacion University Philippines

City of Malolos, Bulacan

EFFECTS OF EXCESSIVE USAGE OF INTERNET TO THE STEM STUDENT’S

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN LA CONSOLACION UNIVERSITY PHILIPPINES

By:

CASTILLO, BILLEE ANDREI

FAROCHILIN, HANNA YVONE

LOPEZ, ANNE

SARMIENTO, JET ANNE

TANJUAN, ANTHONY
 CHAPTER 1

PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

I. INTRODUCTION

This chapter presented the introduction, statement of the problem, significance of the

study, and scope and delimitation of the study.

II. BACKGROUND

Students become highly dependent on the internet. For instance, surfing the internet for

their study, communicating with their cliques and for plain entertainment. Internet offers

everything to get rid of boredom and stress, it make things easier and efficient. But when there’s

light there is shadow. Despite the fact that internet is very convenient, the description itself being

easily accessible is the intrinsically imperilment Almost everything in moderation is safe and

good but as for heavy usage, immoderate use of internet has its consequences that most of the

students don’t notice or even if they notice, it does not hindered them for the uncontrollable use.

Factors that may affect the internet overuse is Physical and mental health outcomes, Psycho-

social functioning and Work productivity. This study aims to collect information, provide the

data and conclusion to know more about the consequence that tends to be settle aside. It also

aims in finding what triggers for heavy internet consumption the most and reasons that the

STEM students rejoice in for the heavy internet use.

III. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study will give an idea about the excessive internet usage among STEM students.

This will aid the following beneficiaries:

Students: It will give them information about the negative causes of excessive usage of

internet and its possible effect on their studies. This paper will help them to know the truth and

clear about the misconceptions or wrong idea. Furthermore, it will also give a better

understanding about proper internet consumption.

Parents: This study will help the parents to enable them to guide and identify the causes

of excessive usage of internet to their child. It also make the parents aware that they area a huge

factor to control their children’s action.

Teachers: It will enable them to realize their role in educating, protecting and diverting

the students from indulging excessive usage of internet. This study will also make the teachers

aware that they can inform how important to lessen the use of internet for the development of

every students.

School: This study will also benefit the school to provide them information of the

importance of knowing the major factors behind excessive usage of internet and its possible

effect on educational development of every students. It’s one way that the school will improve

the knowledge of their teachers through seminars so that they can deal well with the students to

avoid excessive usage at an early age.

Community: It will also benefit the community, it may lessen the amount of students

who’s very addicted to internet and to let them know how harmful it may be for them.
IV. FRAMEWORK

The research paradigm of the study is shown in figure 1.1. The research visualized the

process into two parts, the cause and effect (causal)

Dependent Variable Independent Variable

Consequence of internet use

EXCESSIVE a. Physical and mental health outcomes
INTERNET b. Psycho-social functioning
USAGE c. Work productivity

This research paradigm simply discuss the information that the researcher may gather in

the survey in the next chapter. Also, to indicate some data that will help the researchers to

achieve the goal and support the recommendation that several studies has been applied in this

field.

V. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study aims to determine the negative effects of excessive internet consumption of

the LCUP STEM students. This study aims to answer the following questions:

1. What triggers the heavy internet consumption the most and reasons that the STEM

students rejoice in for the heavy internet use?

2. What are the consequences that tends to be settle aside by the STEM students?

3. What are the activities that inclined in the internet that causes the students to spend

their time in surfing and effects their decision for overtime use?
 4. How it affects the STEM students behavior as a whole?

VI. DEFINITION OF TERMS

Cliques - a small group of people who spend time together and who are not friendly to other

people.

Imperilment - to put (something or someone) in a dangerous situation.

Intrinsically - belonging to the essential nature of a thing.

Psycho-social - relating to the interrelation of social factors and individual thought and behavior.

VII. SCOPE AND DELIMITATIONS

This study will catch the attention of the STEM students of LCUP. This study provide an

impression of factors triggering internet use, internet related activities, and consequence of

internet use and will tackle the students point of view to its negative effects.

The number of respondents is exactly one hundred and all those respondents are selected

students from LCUP. The researchers use a handful of respondents to provide more accurate,

precise and better result. The method used in data gathering is survey to determine other students

perspective based on their experience. The goal of the study is to produce knowledge or deepen

the understanding of a topic and change the behavior of every students

 The study is delimited to a group of grade 11 STEM students from the school of LCUP.

Perspective of excessive usage is delimited to senior high school students everyday experience

on internet.

CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

 This study shows the review of related literature and studies within local and foreign

sources that will add a relevance and depth to the research study

"Excessive internet use" is described as "obsessive,uncontrolled,excessive and problematic

behavior arising from use of digital technologies "(Lobe, et al., 2012).Excessive and inefficient

use " of the internet is considered to be a " symptom of internet addiction " (Hansen, 2002).

Excessive internet use not only means use of the internet for extended periods, but also a

condition of " inability to control online activities, with an emphasis on negative consequences

arising from lack of self-control " (Smahel et al., 2012) " It is a problematic condition in the

frame of its " adverse effects on balanced life " , " posing an addiction risk " , " self-control

ability in online activities " , and " use with negative consequences " (Watson, 2005;Brey,

2006;Xiong, 2011;Smahel et.al., 2012)..a " potential addiction " (Griffiths, 2000).. However, in

more closely delineating the concept of a compulsive or a pathological addiction or a

dependence, the diagnosis of such impulsecontrol disorders has moved beyond this narrow

conceptualisation to include a number of clinically abnormal behaviours that do not directly

involve an intoxicant, such as compulsive gambling (Mehroof & Griffiths, 2010), video game

playing (Keepers, 1990 ), overeating (Lesieur & Blume, 1993), overexercising (Morgan, 1979),

unhealthy love relationships (Peele & Brodsky, 1979 ), and inveterate television viewing (Winn,

1977). The notion of both Technological Addiction and Internet Addiction, and their acceptance

as legitimate medical disorders is a fairly recent phenomenon where, over the past decade, a

growing body of peer-reviewed scholarly literature has developed, adapted, and popularised

the key terms and diagnoses of the condition (Hansen, 2002 ). Key derivatives of technological
addiction related to the pathological use of the Internet, either as the primary source of

obsessive impulse-control behaviour or, in its excessive compulsive usage, as the medium to

fuel other addictions include Internet Addiction Disorder, Pathological Internet Use, Excessive

Internet Use, and Compulsive Internet Use (Widyanto & Griffiths, 2007)

Excessive internet use reduces study skills in students

About 25% of the students reported that they spent four hours a day online.They were anxious

about exam tests and was less motivated to engage with their studies. This effect was made

worse by the increased feelings of loneliness that use of digital technology produced."The results

suggest that students with high levels of Internet addiction may be particularly at risk from lower

motivations to study, and, hence, lower actual academic performance," said study researcher Phil

Reed from Swansea University in UK (Indo-Asian News Service). The main uses of the internet

for the student were social networking(40%) and information seeking (30%). Loneliness has a

big role in positive feelings about academic life in higher education. (IANS Delhi).

Excessive Internet use - overview

We don’t always hear the clock ticking when we’re online and young people are no exception.

Between doing research for homework, talking with friends, updating social networking pages

and playing games, it’s easy to see how kids and teens might lose track of time. Excessive

Internet use, however, can negatively affect young people’s school work, health and social lives.

Unfortunately, adults don’t usually discover this problem until it’s become serious .Parents know
that children and young people can easily become ‘hooked’ on online activities such as gaming

and using Facebook, but is this really an addiction? While some experts refuse to use the term

“addiction” to describe excessive use of the Internet (because it doesn’t entail physical

symptoms) it is increasingly common to refer to excessive Internet use as a behavioural

addiction, which is defined as losing the ability to stop going online to the point where it impacts

on other areas of your life, including relationships, emotions, social life, school, and so on.It is

also now recognized that there are different forms of addiction based on the type of Internet

activity – for example downloading, forming online relationships, compulsive shopping,

accessing pornography and gaming.For young people, online role-playing games lend

themselves particularly well to excessive use because these games have no end and there is

always someone available to play with. In addition, in role-playing games players are often

members of groups, which mean they need to stay engaged so everyone can advance. If a child

or teen is obsessive about playing a certain game it can be worrisome, however there can be

benefits to keep in mind. Some psychologists believe that games may support and help young

people through adolescent changes, for example the avatar representing them could allow them

to explore new identities. It’s also important to acknowledge the confidence that comes with

mastering a game and in role-playing games, the more time spent playing, the more skilled the

players become

Social Networks Use, Loneliness and Academic Performance among University Students

The world is extensively changed by Social Networks Sites (SNSs) on the Internet. A large

number of children and adolescents in the world have access to the internet and are exposed to

the internet at a very early age. Most of them use the Social Networks Sites with the purpose of
exchanging academic activities and developing a social network all over the world. But the

excessive internet usage can lead to negative outcomes such as poor school performance,

depression and loneliness. It indicated that internet addiction was positively associated with

loneliness among students. At the same time we found a significant positive relationship between

social networks and loneliness, but negative relationship between social networks and low

academic performance. There was no correlation between social networks, loneliness and high

academic performance. It has been concluded that internet addiction predicts loneliness among

university students

Psychometric Validation of Internet Addiction

The past few years have witnessed great developments in Internet infrastructure, which have led

to increased Internet usage among people of various age groups. However, at the same time,

there have been some negative implications associated with increased Internet usage for some

individuals. "Internet addiction" (IA) is one such negative consequence of excessive Internet use

among users.

Identification of Internet Usage and Dependency Level of Physical Education and Sport

Teaching Students

The excessive internet usage that interrupts social relations, physical characteristics and mental

conditions of individuals is called as internet addiction. At the previous studies, it is reported that

university students are at risk of Internet addiction due to their uncontrolled lives without

families and killing their time surfing the internet. It is confirmed that internet addiction of male
students is considerably higher than female students. It is ascertained that students who have

Internet and a social media account are under higher risk of internet addiction. It has been

emerged that there is no significant relation between the age/ monthly income of the family and

the internet addiction level.

Excessive Internet usage or'Internet Addiction'? The implications of diagnostic categories

for student users.

The new psychological'disorder'of Internet Addiction (IA) is fast accruing both popular and

professional recognition. These extend the reach of the disorder from excessive (and

nonproductive) use-in-general to encompass a range of different online activities. This research

project is primarily concerned with the effects of 2 of these categorizations: cyber-sexual

addiction and cyber-relationship addiction.

An examination of Internet usage on two college campuses

Some individuals use the Internet beyond reasonable expectations and suffer from Internet

Addiction Disorder (IAD), which produces significant, negative consequences in the daily lives

of these individuals.

Technically, addictions are linked to the ingestion of chemicals, such as heroin, cocaine,

nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, and so forth (Schelling, 1992). What about those other" addictions"

we hear about so often (Blume, 1992): gambling, jogging, eating, and watching soap operas on

television, for example? Certainly, they are not based on the ingestion of chemicals. Our
definition of addiction has expanded to include almost any type of compulsive behavior (Foa &

Kozak, 1995). Viewed in this context, it is not surprising to find there individuals who have

become addicted to the Internet (ie, Internet Addiction Disorder, IAD). IAD symptoms are

similar to those experienced by individuals suffering from other types of addiction (Goldberg,

1997): development of tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, accessing the Internet for progressively

longer periods of time, ineffective attempts to decrease Internet use, expenditure of considerable

amounts of time on Internet-related activities, social and occupational responsibilities suffer,

behavior persists even though the sufferer acknowledges its negative impact.

Internet use among college students: An exploratory study

1,300 college students surveyed in classrooms to identify how the students' use of the Internet

has affected their social or academic lives. Although the typical Internet-using student uses the

Internet for 100 minutes per day, a small group of students use the Internet to a degree that

interferes with other aspects of their lives.

Internet usage and internet addiction in students and its implications for learning

Various types of hacking and computing addiction indicate that ‘addicts’ tend to be socially

unskilled male teenagers who have little or no social life and/or self-confidence. Recent surveys

have confirmed majority of Internet users are in fact male. Two recent studies have examined

excessive Internet use among a US student population. Students are considered high-risk for

problems because of ready access and flexible time schedules (Moore, 1995).Scherer and Bost

(1997) surveyed 531 students about their Internet use. Results indicated that 49 respondents
(13%) scored three or more and that the majority of these were male (71%). Thirteen percent of

the sample reported Internet use had interfered with either their academic work, professional

performance or their social lives. All surveys examining addiction have failed to indicate that it

exists mainly because the criteria chosen appear to be only peripheral to the core concepts of

addiction. Previous research by some of the authors (Griffiths, 1995; 1996; Griffiths & Sparrow,

1997) has shown that the Internet may be addicting. One of the objectives of this research project

(funded by Nottingham Trent University) is to determine the object of the addiction and the

implications it may have for impeding student learning.