MC - MentalIllness - Chap123 - Ver3 REVISED

PORTRAYAL OF MENTAL ILLNESS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
A Thesis Proposal Presented to

School of Arts and Sciences
La Consolacion College Manila
In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirement for THESIS
DARLENE KIRSTY S. ADOREMOS
JAYBEE MARI G. ORMASA
2019
LA CONSOLACION COLLEGE MANILA
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SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Background of the Study
Philippines, according to We Are Social and Hootsuite’s latest Global
Digital report (2019), ranked first as the country who spends most of their time in
social media usage. Social media has become a platform of different contents
like news updates, life events sharing, communication, self-expression, business,
etc. On the other hand, people tend to misuse the purpose of it by spreading fake
news, cyberbullying & scamming. Using too much social media leaves a lot of
digital footprints because they can easily make a profile out of you based on the
things you like, sites you visit and things you buy online. You can easily publish
something not credible and in a span of a few minutes, it can easily spread-out.
On the disadvantages mentioned, every people on social media can be affected
with these. According to Viner (2019), “our results suggest that social media itself
doesn’t cause harm, but that frequent use may disrupt activities that have a
positive impact on mental health such as sleeping and exercising while
increasing exposure of young people to harmful content, particularly the negative
experience of cyber-bullying (Asmelash, 2019).
According to Journal of Health Communication (2017), mental illness is
portrayed in social media as a problem of an individual rather than societal issue,
society often stigmatized the people who are suffering with mental health
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problems. People who do not have mental illness expect them to depict a specific
conditions. For example, people assume a person with depression is always
having suicidal thoughts. When a person posted something about depression on
social media, they think that they know what a person is going through. Mentally-
challenged people tend to be offended when society labels them without knowing
what they are going through (Saleh, 2019).
Having this said, usage of social media comes hand in hand with different
social factors that each individual encounter within their lifestyle which means it
can affect one’s own perspective on a specific social phenomenon or topic, in a
specific manner. Abrams (2018) quoted, "if you spend most of your time scrolling
through your newsfeed checking out other people's lives and compare them to
your own, you become more at risk of developing (or having worsening)
symptoms of depression or anxiety”. When it comes to society's depiction of
mental illness, people who spend their time in social networking sites often tends
to have influenced opinions based on what they are seeing on the internet which
leads to people having negative impression about mental illness. Also, netizens
lessen the importance of it when other people have already influenced the
general meaning of mental issues. Hence, this may also alter the general
meaning and idea of the mental illness to the said individual. Social media gives
an impression to mental health issues through sharing posts relating to their
personal experiences. According to Forest et. al (2012), people who use social
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media more often tend to self-evaluate themselves and lower their self-esteem
that came from comparing themselves to other people.
Social media tends to have a lot of negative impact on people, but people
keep on forgetting the advantages of it. It helps an individual to have a sense of
connection and community through email and video chatting, it helps people to
keep in touch with their families and friends that are living in distant. It also helps
people to express and promote their achievements and talents. Sharing
accomplishments can lead people in leaving comments to show encouragement
and support, a little validation can help build up self-esteem and boost
confidence. Being on social media is actually helpful for people who fear of
missing out on trends and issues. But with these, people who use social media
needs to keep a balanced lifestyle between online life and real lived experience
to help our emotional wellbeing (Eason, 2018). Social media can help people
with mental illness by inspiring healthy life changes. Encouraging other people by
posting goals on a daily basis can inspire them on having goals on their own. It
can also create a support system with families and friends of their own. With this,
other people may like to achieve similar goals. Having a shared goal can
promote a person to stay focused and to increase the chance of success. As of
today, a lot of therapists and psychiatrists are extending their reach by using
social media. These professionals are increasingly using social media to connect
with people who are seeking for help, and communicate to other professionals in
the online community. Social media also provides motivational messages that
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can boost their confidence (Naruse, 2017). With these a lot of people might feel
better and not feel alone.
The aim of the researchers for this study is to raise social awareness
against adapting the stigma that circles around mental illness caused by the
significant amount of time spent on certain social media platforms.
Statement of the Problem
This study will determine the portrayal of mental illness on social media as
observed by Senior High School and College students of La Consolacion College
Manila.
Specifically, it will answer the following questions:
1. What is the profile of the students in terms of:
1.1. Sex,
1.2. Age,
1.3. Level/Strand/Course,
1.4. Number of Social Media Platforms, and
1.5. Social Media Exposure?
2. In what form do people perceive the portrayal of mental illness
on social media?
2.1. Artwork presentation,
2.2. Photo display,
2.3. Narratives,
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2.4. Music portrayal, and
2.5. Videos?
3. Is there a significant difference in the portrayal of mental illness
in social as perceived by the respondents when grouped
according to profile?
Hypotheses
The hypothesis of this study will be tested at α = 0.05 level of significance.
H01: There is no significant difference in the portrayal of mental illness in
social as perceived by the respondents when grouped according to
sex.
age.
level/strand/course.
the number of social media platforms.

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social media accounts.
Significance of the Study
This study determines the portrayal of mental illness on social media to
the Senior High School and College students of La Consolacion College Manila.
This study will benefit the following groups:
The students of La Consolacion College Manila, that they may read
and be aware of the portrayal of mental illness on social media. Morevover, this
research will give them guidance of social media use.
The school’s Guidance Counselors that they may keep on eye of the
students of La Consolacion College Manila, and also to talk about their mental
well being.
The Professors and Faculty Members of La Consolacion College
Manila that they may read and be aware of their students mental well being and
lessen the exposure of their students on triggering topics.
To the parents that they may be aware of their children’s mental well
being, and provide them proper care and guidance.
The Social Media content developer / creator that they may be aware
of their users’ posts or shared posts about sensitive topics. Also, that they
provide well-built guidance about their applications. This study may provide some
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high light of how students are exposed of sensitive topics of their application.
Their application may benefit the student on using social media as a way for
them to vent out their emotions.
The Future Researchers that the recommendation given by this study
may help them improve their future researches.
Scope and Limitation
The researchers will investigate on the perceived portrayal of mental
illness on social media within the Senior High School and College Students of La
Consolacion College Manila. Low score on internal validity is to be expected.
The respondents of the study are 30 College students, 15 females and 15
males ranging from 20 years old to 25 years old and 30 Senior High School
students, 15 females and 15 males ranging from 15 years old to 20 years old of
La Consolacion College Manila regardless of sex, age, level, exposure to social
media like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube and used social media
platforms in a form of artworks, photos, narration, music and video presentation.
The study will utilize present yielded data from methodology rather than
archival data involving portrayal of mental illness in social media.
The researchers will focus on the most utilitized social media platforms
such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

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CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF RELATED WORKS
Thematic Review
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook in 2004. He was a Harvard
student who made a site who violated the policy of the university, two days later
he come up with a URL http://www.thefacebook.com. Facebook is an online
social networking site, and it became the largest social networking site in the
world with 2.45 billion monthly active users as of 2019. Facebook became a
convenient tool to communicate to other people who are on different parts of the
world, and it was purposely made to become transparent to show the true identity
of the user, not only this, but to also share ideas, information and build a friendly
relationship and society (Hall, 2019).
The researchers used this social media platform for their study because
there are estimated forty-four million (44,000,000) users of Facebook in the
Philippines (Sanchez, 2019) Many of these people share their ideas through this
website. Facebook became an outlet of venting out their emotions by sharing
posts and updating their status on the said social media platform.
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Twitter
The idea came from Engineer Jack Dorsey, and by the help of Evan
Williams and Biz Stone they developed Twitter in 2007. Evan Williams created a
web authoring tool called Blogger, he then experimented on the podcasting
venture Odeo of Google (a short messaging service (SMS)) then he came up
with Twttr. He built a company called Obvious Corp. to further develop Twttr.
After Jack Dorsey joined the team they debuted the final website in March 2007
which we call Twitter today. It is an online microblogging site, it relates the
aspects of social networking. Twitter was made to communicate and talk about
the day the users’ had with brief messages or “tweets” with just 280 characters.
Twitter users can tweet any subjects that they like. It can follow other accounts,
topics, and news that can be seen through the users’ timeline (Augustyn et. al.,
2019)
When people discovered Twitter, the first purpose of the website is to
narrate the users’ experience. They transferred to Twitter because it is less
complicated and it requires less effort in sharing your thoughts compared to
Facebook.
Instagram
Kevin Systrom developed the idea of Instagram, but his idea came from
his app called Burbn that is based on a Foursquare’s check-in service. Micheal
Krieger evolved Systrom’s idea and they decided to just focus on the camera
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feature. Instagram took only eight (8) weeks to create. It didn’t take too much
time for the application to gain users because in just few hours, there are already
one million users (Woods, 2013). Instagram was developed for photographer
enthusiasts and later on, it evolved to sharing photos and art.
Instagram became a gateway for the artists and photographers to share
their works and inspirations.
YouTube
YouTube was developed in 2004, and it was launched 2005.
The idea was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Karim
shared the idea of what to post on YouTube, to embarrassing events to news
and devastating events (Dickey, 2013) YouTube was created for all forms of
entertainment, educational purposes that people leads to create video tutorials to
their knowledge to others.
Amongst any other social media platform, YouTube is the-go-to website
not only for people who want to find and entertaining and educational videos but
also for those content creator.
Time
In 2012, the amount of teenagers spends on social media has increased
to 62.5 percent. Just last year, the percentage grew and was estimated as 2.6
per day. According to Sarah Coyne, a professor of family life at Brigham Young
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University, more screen time can increase depression and anxiety to teenagers
(Coyne et al., 2019).
Students
Jacob Barkley, professor of health sciences at Kent State University
quoted “Interaction on social media is not beneficial. It’s electronic, the higher the
cellphone use, the more time spent on social media, and the higher the anxiety.
Peer relationships actually get worse the more you use your phone.” Jean
Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, revealed that
students who are dissatisfied with their lives spend more time using smartphones
and other electronic devices while students who engage in face-to-face social
interaction have the opposite effect (Barrett, 2018).
Social Media
Based on the recent statistic count from GlobalStats (2019) statcounter for
October 2018 to October 2019 of social media use, Facebook has the highest
percentage of 89.76%, followed by Twitter (6.01%), Youtube (1.64%), and
Instagram (0.74%). Most of the teenagers and young adults are spending time on
these social media platforms as part of their daily life.
The benefits and purposes that the social media users gain from social
media is being aware about the things that happen in their surroundings, their
relatives and the trends and interesting topics that they might want to know. They
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might also acquire the negative effects of social media, or spending too much on
it.
Depiction of Mental Illness
Most of the students who spend most of their time on social media, see a
lot of shared posts about mental illness that sometimes they become confused
on what to believe. As time passes by, mental health issues increase by the use
of social media. Jean Twenge quoted on one of the article, “We found that teens
who spent five or more hours a day online were 71 percent more likely than
those who spent less than an hour a day to have at least one suicide risk factor
(depression, thinking about suicide, making a suicide plan or attempting suicide).
Overall, suicide risk factors rose significantly after two or more hours a day of
time online.” (Barrett, 2018). In her statement, she explained that because social
media has become part of most of the students’ daily lives, there could be
chance of them acquiring mental health problems including anxiety and
depression.
The common mental illness that is circulating on social media platforms
are depression and anxiety. These mental illness became a trend on social
media due to many teenagers and young adult vent out on these specific social
media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. According
to the Department of Health (DOH) there are 4.5 million cases of depression
reported in the Philippines in 2004. The World Health Organization (WHO)

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reported over 2,000 suicide cases from year 2000 to 2012 and the ages of the
victims from the said report are between 15 to 29 years old.
A chief resident of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Department of
Psychaitry and Behavioral Medicine, Dr. Constantine Chua shared her personal
belief that, mental health is not just the role of doctors or clinical
psychologists….The whole community will really play a role – that includes the
family, the teachers, the students themselves.
Synthesis
In the United States, 50% of its adult population can experience defined
mental disorder, and in over a year, 30% of these population will experience a
disorder, these disorders under Psychological Disorder (PD) includes anxiety,
and depression; it accounts to 25% of the recorded mental disorders in the span
of 12 months. The said disorder has been a point of interest for those bridging
the gap between the use of ICT and mental health. However, most of these
studies are not based from the symptoms of PD and other measures of
depression and anxiety. (Kessler et al.)
Social media can lead to an increase of negative influence to youth that
can lead to exposure and engagement of self-harm behavior, they can also
engage and adapt self-harming practices from shared videos. The more the
youth waste their time on social media, the more that they are at risk in having
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higher psychological distress, an unattended support for mental health, and can
increase suicidal ideation (Memon et. al., 2018).
People have a different perspective of why they have different beliefs
about mental illness. Developing countries mostly neglect the idea of having
mental health problem and their specific disorders. One (1) out of every four (4)
people can acquire mental illness through the way they think and function.
Altering the minds of the people who neglect mental illness letting them to
understand the personal knowledge about mental health, and interact with a
person who is diagnosed with mental illness (Choudhry et. al., 2016).
People who doesn’t believe or neglect the idea of mental illness have a
negative opinion about this that leads to them believing that mentally challenged
people are being pretentious about how they feel (Bracke et. al., 2019).
Theoretical Framework
Marshal McLuhan is one of the scholars who introduced the Medium
Theory, together with Joshua Meyrowitz and Neil Postman. It focuses on the
ways in which the media communicates with different medium, besides having a
different messages to convey. Medium Theory is having the same content but it
is shown in different media, it also has different effects to the viewers or
audiences that can misinterpret depending on the media it shown. The theory
focuses on how people perceive the message of different mediums having the
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same content (Meyrowitz, 2019). They tend to give meaning according to the
medium because different mediums have different interpretation.
McLuhan believed the idea of the statement “The medium is the massage”
which means that the media disrupts the message when it is conveyed, due to
developing of views and senses of each person due to evolvement of technology,
society may misinterpret the message depending to the use of the medium. He
stated that the media played a major role in the development of human society
and it is depended on how the information allocate the people.
The researchers used this theory for their study because it shows the
different perspective of the people on each medium. It relates to the study
because it depicts that the portrayal of mental illness on social media is being
shown upon different types of medium.

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Conceptual Paradigm
Independent Variable
Independent Variable
Determining the relationship of two independent variables which is
the social media. It represented by various forms like photo display, artwork
presentation, narratives, music portrayal and videos. The other Independent
variable is the students’ profile which represented by age, sex and level / strand.
The framework also showed the other variable which is time, how it affects the
development of our outcome which is the mental illness. It will show if there
significant importance between the time exposure and the severity of our
outcome.
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Definition of Terms
Social Media – it is used as the independent variable for it aims to
manipulate the mediums (e.g. artwork presentation, music, narratives, etc.).
Mental illness - a disease condition which primarily affects your state of
being how you feel and think
Portrayal – it is used as the dependent variable in this study for it
measures how individuals display their emotions into different forms (e.g. artwork
presentation, music, narratives, etc.).
Perceive - the way how people see
Suicidal Ideation - is formed when there is an unattended support for
mental health.
Suicidal Thoughts - is formed when someone is having depressive
symptoms.
Depression - according to the study, people can acquire this disorder in
spending too much time on social media.
Anxiety - studies show, anxiety is somehow linked to depression.
Netizens - these people are the one who’s giving the perception to mental
illness that is portrayed in social media.

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CHAPTER 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the research method used, the respondents, the
instrument to be utilized in the pursuit of the study, preparation and validation of
the questionnaires, procedures in gathering data and the statistical methods to
be applied in analyzing and interpreting the data gathered.
Research Design
The study will use quantitative design,descriptive comparative method.
Descriptive comparative design will be appropriate because the intention is to
describe the mental illness as it aims to identify the level among Senior High
School and College students. Comparison are made between perceive portrayal
mental illness on social media as observed among senior high and college
student. This method helps in obtaining complete and precise information.
Research Locale
This study will be conducted inside the campus of La Consolacion College
Manila as this area is the most accessible for the researchers. The school is
located in Mendiola, Manila which is administered by the Augustinian Sisters of
Our Lady of Consolation (ASOLC).

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Participants
In this research the respondents are Senior High School and College
students in La Consolacion College Manila which has an exposure to social
media like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube and used social media
platforms in the form of artworks, photos, narration, music and video
presentation. A total of 60 respondents which is 30 senior high school students
and 30 college students ranging from 15 years old to 25 years old.
Sampling Technique
The sampling technique used in this study is non-probability sampling
method. Purposive sampling is a non-representative subset of some larger
population, and is constructed to serve a very specific need or purpose. A
researcher may have specific group with specific knowledge and experience to a
certain study.
Research Instrument
A researcher-made questionnaires will be used to gather the necessary
data to be able to answer the questions of the study. It is a list of planned written
questions related to a particular topic intended for submission to a number of
persons to reply. A checklist is also used as a list of item for choice, verification,
or other checking purposes. The entire questionnaire will contain two parts. The
first part consists of the demographic profile of the respondents. The second
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portion contains a lickert scale on how frequent the respondents see the
portrayal of mental illness in different forms.
Data-Gathering Procedure
Step 1: Permit/clearance. A letter was sent to the Dean of the School of
Arts and Sciences.
Step 2: Distribution procedure. The questionnaires were distributed
personally by the researchers to the respondents and they can answer the
questionnaire any time of the day when the questionnaire is given to them.
Step 3: Collection and collation. Respondents were given enough time
to complete the questionnaire then it was collected by the researcher/s
personally.
Step 4: Data processing. Data gathered will be presented in tables and
graphs and appropriate statistical treatments will be used.
Method of Data Analysis
To answer Statement of the Problem No. 1, frequency and percentage
distribution will be used:
Percentage
f
Formula: P  x 100
n
Where: P = Percentage
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f = Frequency
n = Total number of respondents
To answer Statement of the Problem No. 2, weighted mean and standard
will be used:
Weighted mean
f (4)  f (3)  f (2)  f (1)

Formula: M 
n
Where: M = Weighted mean (summation of the weighted frequencies)
f = Frequency
n = Total number of respondents
The following ranges with their corresponding verbal interpretation will be
as follows:
Range Numerical Equivalent Verbal Interpretation
3.30 – 4.00 4 Always
2.51 – 3.29 3 Often
1.71 – 2.50 2 Sometimes
1.00 – 1.70 1 Never
Standard deviation
Formula:
Where: SD = Standard deviation

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Σx2 = Summation of x squared
Σx = Summation of all scores
N = Total Population
To answer Statement of the Problem No. 3, t-test (for difference) or
product moment correlation coefficient or Pearson’s (for relationship) will be used
for two variables while Analysis of variances (ANOVA) (for difference) and chi-
square (for relationship) will be used for three or more variables.
t-test
Formula:
Where: S1 = Sample mean of the first group
S2 = Sample mean of the second group
 X1 = Summation of the first group
 X2 = Summation of the second group
N1 = Number of cases in the first group
N2 = Number of cases in the second group

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Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Formula:
Step 1: Computation of the various sums of squares (SS):
1.1.
1.2.
1.3.
Step 2: Computation of the degrees of freedom (df) for the various
sums of squares:
2.1. df for “total” = N - 1
2.2. df for “between” = k - 1
2.3. df for “within” = df for “total” – df for “between”
Step 3: Computation for the various mean of squares (MS)
3.1. MSB = SSB / dfB
3.2. MSW = SSW / dfw
Step 4: Computation for the F-ratio.
Fc = MSB / MSW
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PORTRAYAL OF MENTAL ILLNESS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

A Thesis Proposal Presented to

DARLENE KIRSTY S. ADOREMOS

JAYBEE MARI G. ORMASA

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Background of the Study

Philippines, according to We Are Social and Hootsuite’s latest Global

like news updates, life events sharing, communication, self-expression, business,

On the disadvantages mentioned, every people on social media can be affected

positive impact on mental health such as sleeping and exercising while

increasing exposure of young people to harmful content, particularly the negative

experience of cyber-bullying (Asmelash, 2019).

According to Journal of Health Communication (2017), mental illness is

portrayed in social media as a problem of an individual rather than societal issue,

conditions. For example, people assume a person with depression is always

having suicidal thoughts. When a person posted something about depression on

what they are going through (Saleh, 2019).

can affect one’s own perspective on a specific social phenomenon or topic, in a

symptoms of depression or anxiety”. When it comes to society's depiction of

an impression to mental health issues through sharing posts relating to their

that came from comparing themselves to other people.

keep on forgetting the advantages of it. It helps an individual to have a sense of

people to express and promote their achievements and talents. Sharing

accomplishments can lead people in leaving comments to show encouragement

promote a person to stay focused and to increase the chance of success. As of

better and not feel alone.

significant amount of time spent on certain social media platforms.

Statement of the Problem

observed by Senior High School and College students of La Consolacion College

Specifically, it will answer the following questions:

1. What is the profile of the students in terms of:

1.4. Number of Social Media Platforms, and

1.5. Social Media Exposure?

2. In what form do people perceive the portrayal of mental illness

2.1. Artwork presentation,

2.2. Photo display,

2.4. Music portrayal, and

3. Is there a significant difference in the portrayal of mental illness

in social as perceived by the respondents when grouped

The hypothesis of this study will be tested at α = 0.05 level of significance.

H01: There is no significant difference in the portrayal of mental illness in

social as perceived by the respondents when grouped according to

H02: There is no significant difference in the portrayal of mental illness in

social as perceived by the respondents when grouped according to

H03: There is no significant difference in the portrayal of mental illness in

social as perceived by the respondents when grouped according to

H04: There is no significant difference in the portrayal of mental illness in

social as perceived by the respondents when grouped according to

the number of social media platforms.

H05: There is no significant difference in the portrayal of mental illness in

social as perceived by the respondents when grouped according to

social media accounts.

Significance of the Study

This study determines the portrayal of mental illness on social media to

This study will benefit the following groups:

The students of La Consolacion College Manila, that they may read

research will give them guidance of social media use.

The Professors and Faculty Members of La Consolacion College

lessen the exposure of their students on triggering topics.

being, and provide them proper care and guidance.

them to vent out their emotions.

The Future Researchers that the recommendation given by this study

may help them improve their future researches.