VARIABLES
Visual marks, icons, or characters used alongside or instead of written words
Digital Symbols
What's our Research Design? Non-experimental research design used to describe symbol usage and test relationships
Descriptive-Correlational
Scope and Sample Size
30 HUMSS Students who use these
The main focus of SOP 3.
What is checking for a significant relationship between symbol types and intended emotional expression?
The group that benefits by gaining insights into connecting with students and guiding online behavior.
Educators/Teachers
Abbreviated words or phrases used by students to convey ideas concisely.
Acronyms
The statistical test used to answer SOP 3 regarding relationships between variables.
Pearson R
What's our Theoretical Framework? The underlying sociological theory created by George Herbert Mead and Herbert Blumer used in this study.
Symbolic Interactionism Theory
The study's stance regarding the relationship between symbol types and emotional expression
"there is a significant relationship"
The group that benefits by bridging communication gaps regarding online emotional expression.
Parents
Keyboard character combinations like :) or T_T used to represent faces
Emoticons
The statistical tool used to analyze SOP 1 and SOP 2 to measure agreement levels and frequency
The specific generation group born between 1997 and 2012 that participants belong to.
Generation Z
The sub-variable of SOP 2 that evaluates how well the perceived emotion matches the symbol's intended meaning.
Accuracy of Emotion
The group that benefits by obtaining reference material for upcoming digital communication studies
Future Researchers?
The variable measuring how distinct and easily recognizable a conveyed feeling is.
Clarity of Emotion
The rating scale format utilized in the study's survey instrument
6 point likert-scale
The specific school location where respondents were drawn from
Cielito Zamora Senior High School
The three specific symbol categories evaluated under SOP 1.
What are Emoticons, Emojis, and Acronyms?
The group that benefits by gaining insights to craft better school policies for online behavior.
School Administrators
The dimension of emotional expression describing the strength or magnitude of a feeling from mild to extreme.
Intensity of Emotion
The first step in the data-gathering procedure before teacher validation or scheduling.
Submitting a formal letter to the Principal/administrators for permission?
The primary reason why students rely on digital symbols during text-based communication.
to make up for missing non-verbal cues (facial expressions, tone, body language)
The group explicitly excluded from the study population due to their generational birth range (1981–1996).
Millennials
The step in gathering data required for survey questionnaires before administration
Validation