Abstract
Literature has cited several challenges of social media usage in the educational process of the students. Aim: The paper aims to determine the influence of social media usage on nursing students' academic performance. Likewise, to identify factors which influence social media usage in the learning process of tertiary-level education. Methods: This paper utilized descriptive-correlational design. Using G power analysis, a total of 246 nursing students were computed to partake in this study. Mindanao State University, Mindanao Institute of Healthcare Professionals, and Saffrolah Dipatuan Academy were considered as research locale. Frequency, mean, and standard deviation were utilized for descriptive analysis while Pearson correlation was used for inferential data analysis.
Results: Most of nursing students highly perceived that they use social media basically as past time and leisure (x) over bar =3.28, SD +/- 0.488) and also for education and research purposes (x) over bar =3.28, SD +/- 0.584). While some nursing students perceived that they use social media for communication (x) over bar =3.04, SD +/- 0.646) and entertainment (x) over bar =3.14, SD +/- 0.658) purposes only. Most nursing students highly perceived that social media usage have a positive (n=128 or 52.0%) and negative effects (n=163 or 66.3%) on their academic performance.
Conclusion: The study recommends future researchers and further studies about the need to explore more about the association among demographic profiles, reasons for social media usage and academic performance of the nursing students. Copyright (C) 2019, Jonaid M. Sadang.