The effect of social approval gained through facebook to the self-esteem of adolescents / 6
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Jan Carla Z. Corpuz.
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Thesis: (B.S. Psychology)- Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 2018.
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ABSTRACT: Social approval gained through Facebook is a recognition that an individual receives in the form of likes, reactions and positive comments to the Facebook activities the users made. The researcher hypothesized if there is a significant effect on the self- esteem when adolescents undergo a treatment condition using Facebook as a medium for receiving social approval. Using purposive sampling, 72 adolescent students were employed as participants, 36 in the treatment group and 36 in the control group. These participants undergone pretest and posttest using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), and only the treatment group received treatment condition of checking their Facebook activity feedback for social approval. After statistical analysis of the gathered data through paired t-test in SPSS, the results show that there is statistical significant differences among the scores from pretest to posttest.