SLIIT International Conference on Advancements in Sciences and Humanities [SICASH] 2023

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    Approach or Avoid? A Quantitative Study on the Dualistic Nature of Social Media Envy in Undergraduates in a Non-state University in Sri Lanka
    (Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2023-11-01) Perera, R; Abeysinghe, N; Galappaththi, K
    Envy is a complex emotion studied recently, especially with the impact of social media. This study explored the dualistic nature of social media envy in Sri Lankan undergraduates from a nonstate university. Using a quantitative design, data from 155 participants were collected via Google Forms and analysed with Spearman’s Rank test. Results indicated statistically significant positive moderate relationships between social media usage and both benign envy and malicious envy. However, social media only accounted for 20% of benign envy and 8.8% of malicious envy, suggesting it’s only one of many contributors. Furthermore, the association between social media usage and benign envy was stronger than that with malicious envy, implying social media envy may be less severe than perceived in Sri Lanka. The study acknowledges limitations, such as sample size and focus on one university. Future research should address these limitations and explore the dualistic nature of social media envy in different populations and contexts. Overall, the study emphasises the need to understand the complexity of envy and how social media can amplify or alleviate it. Findings have implications for social media usage, regulation, and interventions promoting emotional well-being.
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    A Study of the Factors that Cause Lower Performance in Grade 11 Mathematics: A Study Conducted in the Gampaha District
    (Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2023-11-01) Perera, R; Rosa, S.R.D.
    This study was done to find the factors that affect the poor mathematics performance of the Grade 11 students in the Gampaha district of Sri Lanka. To do this, the best-performing and the poor-performing zones in the Gampaha district were selected and a school was selected from each zone through simple random sampling. The data was collected through questionnaires and interviews. Thirty grade 11 students were selected at random from each school as the sample. Five students from each school were interviewed and 25 students from each school responded to the questionnaire. The major findings of the study were poor student-teacher interactions, no practice in solving sums, lack of basic knowledge, low motivation in students, and no instructional materials were used by the teachers when teaching. Therefore, the findings suggest that the teachers should be advised and trained on the ways to maintain good interactions with the students and on the ways of using instructional materials to deliver lessons. Moreover, workshops can be held to revise the basic knowledge. The parents and the teachers can be advised through workshops on the ways that they can motivate the students to learn mathematics and the ways that they can make the students practice more.