FACTORS AFFECTING INTERNET ADDICTION AMONG GRADE 12

STUDENTS OF NORTHERN ANTIQUE VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS

A Research Paper

Presented to:
 
 
ROGELIO A. CADUT, JR, SHS T-II
Course Facilitator
 
 
 
 

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Subject

Research Report

(Inquiries, Investigations and Immersion)

 
• This research paper entitled FACTORS AFFECTING INTERNET ADDICTION
AMONG GRADE 12 STUDENTS OF NORTHERN ANTIQUE VOCATIONAL
SCHOOL are prepared and submitted by Jessielyn Ratera, Jenny Dalangbayan,
Jhoniel Sido, Erico Angelo Francisco, Rica Joy Entico,and Shienna Marie Revilla
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the subject research report (Inquiries,
Investigation, and Immersion), has been examined and is recommended for
acceptance and approval for oral examination.
 Research problem
•This study aims to determine the factors affecting the internet addiction
among Grade 12 students of Northern Antique Vocational School

•What is the level of Internet Addiction among Grade 12 students of Northern

Antique Vocational School according to their gender?

•What are the factors affecting Internet Addiction among Grade 12 students of
Northern Antique Vocational School?

•How does Internet Addiction affect the studies of those Students?

• The beneficiary of our research are the Grade 12 students of Northern
Antique Vocational School because many students are faced with severe
academic problems because they spend a significant amount of study time
surfing irrelevant websites using social media, and playing interactive
games on the internet. These students had problems completing homework
assignments, studying for exams for the class in the next morning due to
late night internet use.
 Theoretical framework

• The theoretical framework that this study used to discuss about internet
addiction will be Uses and Gratifications theory. The application of Use and
Gratifications (U&G) Theory explained how the social factor (peer influence)
affect the students engage in internet use and how to lead to internet
addiction. Besides, above review also pointed out that many factors which
cause one addicted to internet. The most influential factor could be social
support group. The review discusses about how the peer influence affects
most adolescents on risky behavior. One of the risky behavior which is being
discussed above is overly using internet, which will lead to internet addiction.
In addition, the gender difference is also playing a role in internet addiction.
 Research paradigm

• Internet Addiction, One of the studies of Hamade (n.d) showed the distribution
of students among three levels of internet addiction. It showed that 75.6% of
female no sign of addiction compared to only 46.6% of males. Besides that, less
than 25% of females are addicted to the internet and more than 50% of male
students are addicted.
• Moreover, about 18% of males are highly addicted to the internet but females
only 6% are highly addicted. In other words, male students are more addicted to
the internet than female students and the reason could be that male students
enjoy more freedom than female students such as spend time outside the house
and with friends, and visits internet cafes, game networks and other places.
 Methodology
• This chapter presents the research design, locale of the study, the
respondents, data gathering instruments, data gathering procedures, and
data analysis procedures.

Research design
• In this study, data will collect by using survey method. This study will use the
cross-sectional design whereby all variables will collect at the same point of
time. One set of the questionnaire which is Internet Addiction Test (IAT) is
used for this study. This non-experimental study that has demographic
variables, such as gender.
 Analysis

• The data collected were analyzedGENDER

using the statistical methods.
NO. OFLevel of Internet Addiction
RESPONDENTS among Grade 12
PERCENTAGE
students of Northern Antique Vocational 100 using percentage .
FEMALE School, was analyzed 50%
Profile of the respondents
Figure 1 MALE 100 50%
Respondents profile by Gender
TOTAL 200 100%

• Figure 1 shows the profile of respondents by their gender. Female students of Grade 12 of
Northern Antique Vocational School with 50% answered the questionnaire. While 50% of Male
students answered the question correspond to the Factors Affecting Internet Addiction of Grade
12 students of Northern Antique Vocational School
 Figure 2
Respondents profile by Age Group

AGE GROUP NO. OF RESPONDENTS PERCENTAGE

17-18 YEARS OLD 123 61.5%

19-20 YEARS OLD 69 34.5%

21-22 YEARS OLD 8 8%

TOTAL 200 100%

Figure 2: it shows that the profile of respondents by their age group. Most of the age 17-18 years old with the

61.5% respondents of the survey conducted. 19-20 years old with the percentage of 34.5% and the respondents

aged 21-22 years old has the less percentage with 4% of 8 respondents.
Figure 3
Level and factors affecting internet addiction of grade 12 students of NAVS

FEMALE MALE

In graph 1 its shows that; 89.7% of female answered Often or Regularly, 32.4%

answered Sometimes or Regularly and 82.3% answered Never or Rarely.

In graph 2, it shows that 84.4% of Male answered Often or Regularly, 33.7%

answered Sometimes or Regularly, 79% answered Never or Rarely.

 Conclusion

• As conclusion, Female students is highly addicted to the internet and

highly distracted by the social media compare to the male students. They
are addicted in Internet because of the boredom, lack of attention by their
parents, influenced by peers and because of social media. It’s because of
the severe impact of technology and it can affect the academic
performance of the students.

• More than one third of study population is addicted to internet, majority

are mild addicts and factors like female gender, time spent on internet per
day and expenditure on internet were associated with internet addiction.
 RECOMMENDATION

• Female students should be given more attention in institution

regarding their internet usage and the sites they access. Parents
should consider the spending of their children on internet to
assess the possibility of addiction. Authorities of institution
should consider organizing awareness session regarding
internet addiction and its effect on their students.
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• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480687/

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 Acknowledgement
• In the accomplishment of this paper, the researchers would like to extend their profound gratitude to
the following people.
• To our subject teacher, Mr. Rogelio Cadut for the unending support and for sharing his knowledge to
us.
• To our critic teacher-adviser, Mr. John Wayne Calawod, thank you for criticizing our research report
and for correcting our grammar.
• To our Respondents, thank you for participating and for your willingness to answer our questions.
• To our family and friends, thank you for encouraging and supporting us financially, emotionally and
spiritually. Thank you so much for giving us confidence to do our research paper.
• To all the administration and staff especially to our beloved principal who signed the letters for us and
to the assistant principal of SHS Sir. Rochel Tumangday thank you for teaching us and for the support
for our research paper.
• To our Almighty God, thank you for giving us strength, for the guidance and good health, for the
graces and blessings that help us to perform our task as part of our research report.