The Impact of Facebook Interaction On Self-Esteem of Teenagers in Mandaue City

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THE IMPACT OF FACEBOOK INTERACTION ON SELF-ESTEEM

OF TEENAGERS IN MANDAUE CITY

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A Research

Presented to

the faculty of

ACLC College of Mandaue

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In Partial Fulfillment

of the course

Practical Research 2

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By:

Laurence Pleños

Rhygenald Pepito

Ivan Manlangit

Jefferson Dionson Morong

Shawn Patrick Dayanan


Chapter I

Introduction

Rationale

 According to Burke and Stets (1999) commitment is a very important part

of social life. The participants consisted of 286 couples out of a nonrandomized

sample of 574 couples from Washington State. All couples were currently in their

first three years of marriage. The mean ages of the participants were 24-26 years

old, mostly. Surveys were administered as well as a few personal counseling

sessions to gather qualitative data in addition to the quantitative data. Researchers

discovered that trust is an important mechanism in the development of self-

verification in which brings about commitment. It was also discovered that

depression and distress reduces trust in a spouse and self-esteem and mastery

increase trust (Burke & Stets, 1999).

 Frost, Stimpson, and Maughan (1978) studied power, control, affection,

inclusion, self-esteem, and trust. Power was one of the main factors and has

previously been defined as having direct impacts on social relationships. Power

and trust were then hypothesized to be directly correlated. The participants were

taken from Brigham Young University with a sample size of 59 undergraduate

students. Seven groups were made with eight to ten students in each group, one

group having six. Each group completed various surveys and questionnaires. To
obtain validity, the questionnaires and surveys were completed at the end of the

semester so that there was ample time to form relationships with the people in

the group that involve power and trust, Frost, Stimpson, and Maughan results

show that a person who is “trusted” is someone who is influential in social

situations, has internal control, but also does not have the need to control others,

giving those individuals a sense of respect. People who are trusted also have a

higher sense of self-esteem and is not limited to his own influence, but is open to

other’s opinions as well.

Having a low self-esteem gives you lack of confidence, lack of control, negative

social comparison, self-doubt and fear of failure.

Social media are interactive technologies that allow

the creation or sharing/exchange of information, ideas, career interests, and other

forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. While challenges to

the definition of social media arise  due to the broad variety of stand-alone and

built-in social-media services currently available. Festinger’s Social Comparison

Theory can be related to the study. When using Facebook, people tend to compare

themselves—either in a manner of upward social comparison or in a manner of

downward social comparison—toward the information they see. Although these

comparisons can have advantages to them, these can also cause people to consider

themselves asinsufficient (Vogel, Rose, Roberts, & Eckles, 2014).


It has affected and changed the way people interact with others. Doing such with

other people has never been effortless due to the fact that they can now connect

with the world and get to know and create relationships with other people in just

one, simple click (Vogel, Rose, Roberts, & Eckles, 2014). Facebook has also

made it easier for people to communicate with another person or group of

persons. They can now chat with another person through the means of their

devices even if that person is located on the opposite side of the world (Baruah,

2012).

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