Philippine E-Journals

Social Media Use, Perceived Depression and Academic Performance of College Students in a Philippine Higher Education Institution

Jean Cyril V Salisi | Ma. Crizyl V Aravejo | Gelain C Eguia | Rebecca Shandie B Maranan | Myriam R Du

 

Abstract:

The study aimed to determine the relationship between social media use, depression, and the academic performance among college students. A descriptive-correlative design was applied to study 194 randomly selected Nursing and Medical technology students from a tertiary health educational institution in the CALABARZON area using an adapted survey questionnaire. The data were treated using frequency and percentage, weighted mean, Pearson's r and regression. Results revealed that the College of Allied Medicine students showing good academic performance are active social media users with one to ten social media platforms, spending an average of one to two hours per engagement in search for information. Facebook still is the most popular social media platform site among this population group. Most of the students do not show evidence of perceived depression despite the number of engagements in social media platform. There is no significant relationship between perceived depression and social media use among allied medicine students. Social media use and depression are not predictors of academic performance.