CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLGY 3.0 Introduction This chapter shall discuss the research methodology of this study. Basically, this chapter included the research design, the population and sample, research instrument that has been used, the pilot study, the data collection procedure, and data analysis employed in this study.
3.1 Research Design Research design is the basic plan or strategy of research (Oppenheim, 1999). In this study, survey research was used as the research design. The survey research is suitable for describing a large population in a certain place. The researcher proposes to use the descriptive survey design to gather data relating to the impact of social media among the youth on behaviour change,
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The questionnaires only consist of close-ended questions with English language. For this research, the questionnaire consisted of six sections (Section A, B, C, D and E). Table 3.1 showed the designation of the questionnaire.
Section Item
A Demographic
B Social Media and How Respondents Have Used It
C Benefits of Social Media
D Effects of Social Media
E Risks of Social Media
Table 3.0 Division of the questionnaire
Likert-type format was used because it provides more straightforward method of scale and index construction. Likert scale consisted of items with which people are likely either to agree or disagree. The items were typically presented in graphic format, which being labelled “agree” and “disagree” (Dane, 1990). In this study, respondents were given fives choices as shown below:
Section B, C, D and E:
1 2 3 4 5
Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree
Table 3.1 Likert scale
i) Part A
The demographic factors referred to the respondent’s personal details. The total items consisting four questions are used for this section such as gender, age and course and year of
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The questions are direct because the researcher would like to know about the benefit that the youth will get by using social media as their routine. iv) Part D
This section was contained more about the effects of the social media. The question consists of the positive and the negative effects of social media in youth daily life.
v) Part E
This part was focused on the risks of social media in youth’s life. Respondents have to indicate their level of agreement based on a scale given. The result obtained can determined whether the social media is risky to use by the youth or vice versa.
3.4 Pilot Study Reliability test will be conducted in questionnaire before it can be distributed to the respondents for the actual study and it is necessary to prior to the exact data collection. The purpose of the pilot test is to examine the reliability of the design of the questionnaire so that the data could be drawn accurately and the unclear and misleading questions can be avoided. A good research strategy requires careful planning and a pilot study will often be in part of this study. Joppe (2000) also defined reliability as how consistent the results are when the experiment is repeated a number of times under same methodological conditions, then the instrument is said to be
How do you think your world would be without social media? If you didn’t know there are real dangers when students use social media. Another reason is social media can harm your reputation. Some people are mistaken about social media because it can help you by putting you in social groups, you can even make friends on social media. But teens should not use social media because of dangers, harm to reputation, and mental illnesses.
Some people say that social media is dangerous for kids because it changes their behaviors and more importantly it affects their learning for school. It is dangerous because, they never know who they are chatting with online. Social media changes children 's behaviors because they do unhealthy things that are intended for people over 18 years of age. It also affects their education in a bad way by using abbreviations or slang that threatens their skills in writing. However, others say that social media is beneficial for kids because researchers see them expressing themselves on it.
The researchers who happens to be Millennials came up with the study for the reason that they noticed the increase of social media activity of the said generation specifically in Facebook, like constantly changing their display photos, posting their every life event, sharing and liking different kinds of pages and even updating their breakfast on their status. In accordance the researchers also observed the western ideology reflecting their online activity as well as the simplification of people to this young generation. The researchers wanted to know if those stereotypes really apply to Millennials by analyzing their theme status updates, liked pages, the qualities and factors that affects their identity formation online and lastly how they present themselves on social media. The researchers will be studying the Millennial Generation born between 1982 and 2001 (Strauss and
Empirical data was collected using a survey tool through structured face to face interviews. The qualitative data obtained shows while social media has its benefits, there are negative impacts on the
It is about sharing and broadcasting your life online, conversing with friends as well as strangers. III. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA Positive effects of Social Media:- 1. Social media as a tool for
Social Media is Deterrent to the Progression to Humanity Social media is a term used to depict the connection between groups or people in which they create, share, and here and there trade thoughts over the internet and in virtual groups. The impact of social networks on youngsters is huge. Social media have increased astonishing overall development and prominence which has prompted to drawing in consideration from assortment of researchers comprehensively. In spite of the fact that with time all eras has come to grasp the progressions social network has realized, teenagers and youthful adults are the most aficionado users of these sites (Taylor).
So many people are on one network online, social media has essentially become a second world. That being said, social media should not be encouraged to the public. At first use, social media does not seem dangerous, but it is. These sites diminish its user’s privacy to the point that it is accepted (Anderson 1). Not only do social networks hurt us, but users use it in a way for emotional self-harm.
Social media is becoming an ubiquitous in today’s society and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using some sites to access in a public life. Social media 1 Negative effects of social media on education A lot of students are using some sites that can distract them from their doings especially on their studies. Yes, social media gives everything what a person will need. Social media is a great way to have a person communicating with another person but we also do know that it could give us a big impact that could be problem to our studies. Nowadays, a lot of students are multi-tasking especially whenever they are doing some things that are related to their studies.
Does social media have a positive impact on society Social media, a form of electronic communication channel which is useful for sharing information, pictures, personal texts, ideas, is one of the most popular technologies today. However, in recent years, the question of whether social media is a positive or negative trend has been raised. Although some people argue that social media has a negative impact on society, I believe that social media is beneficial for society in a number of ways. Firstly, social media makes communication a lot easier than before. In the past, most people used phones and letters for communicating with others; they were not an effective way of communication because they were time consuming and not instant.
Imagine that 20 years ago the only way to stay in touch with a person was to mail a letter. In a modern world with the invention of social media, people can converse with someone using the internet and get a response within seconds. Although in the course of time all generations have started to take advantage of the novations that social media has brought about, teenagers and young adults are the most active users of these networks. According to numerous research studies in the area of online social networks, it has been shown that such sites are impacting the lives of the youth significantly. Understandably, there are a lot of different opinions about its positive and negative influence.
In the fast developing contemporary world, it seems to be that people cannot spend a day without social media, despite the fact of its numerous negative effects. The vulnerable teenagers should limit the use of social media by spending less time on the Internet as it can cause a number of negative consequences: it can lead to health as well as social problems. Proponents, however, argue that social media changed lives to the better as it made communication easier and faster and there are no negative effects from social media. They might also say it is impossible to withdraw from the Internet at all. This may be true and their argument is valid, nevertheless, all the negative impacts on one’s physical as well as mental health and social life outweigh the mentioned advantages.
With the internet being invented and undoubtedly taking huge precedence in our lives, there is inevitably going to be a way for people to waste their time on the internet. That time waster, also known as social media, is one of the most beneficial and also one of the worst things that has entered the lives of people as a result of the internet. People everywhere use social media. They use it to feel connected to people who are far away, to promote their businesses, and for a plethora of other reasons. Social media has begun to be increasing used in school, the workplace, and also just in peoples own homes.
Especially teenegers who are looking for his identity. Social media influence the behavior of adolescent who are looking for his or her identity. The first i will explain discuss about negative impacts of social media The first, social media mates us anti-social, spending more time with social media make us less and more interacting with other people in the real world.
Chapter 1 Background of the Study Introduction In the contemporary world, most people use social media for news, entertainment, to seek information and to be updated every day. Nowadays, the use of social media has greatly changed how people interact with other people. Today, most people only consider the benefits that the social media brought to the people without thinking about the possible negative implications of using it.
Singapore has an average population of 5.4 million people and there are 4 million users of Internet. Statistics shows that 74% of Singaporeans uses social media regularly, and more than 31% of users are aged between 25 and 34 years old. Based on various researches and studies in the field of social networks, it has been revealed that social Media are impacting the lives of youths greatly, and there