Analyzing Mobile Legends' Impact on Academic Performance of Criminology Students at

Concepcion Holy Cross College

Background of the Study

Mobile gaming, particularly games like Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB), today has

been a necessity of daily life amongst millions of youth and college going students. Mobile

Legends was developed in 2016 by Moonton and has gained thousands of fans in a small period

of time, primarily owing to its availability to mobile players. Stake and strategic elements, soon

with friends and team plays, and ability of real-time chatting make this game very interesting. It

has therefore tended to draw a wide demographic of players; in this case, college students are for

instance one of the biggest communities. In Concepcion Holy Cross College, most Criminology

students – like students around the globe – heavily engage with playing Mobile Legends. One

can note that young people become particularly interested in playing the game since it has first

and foremost stimuli and allows to communicate and compete with other people. However,

leisure Internet gaming is an acceptable form of entertainment and stress relieving activity for

many people, there are increasing problems concerning the interference of gaming with

academic life. Concepcion Holy Cross College Criminology covers a lot of courses, takes in a lot

of hours from the students, and entails much cognition and academic engagement in conceptual

sessions, quizzes, investigation, and actual practice. This is because in addition to meeting class

requirements, students of Criminology must always invest their time to subjects that will aid

them when carrying out related activities in their area of interest. But generally, Mobile Legends

requires time; each match may take 10-20 minutes on average, and to practice more, several

games need to be conducted at once.

There is evidence that too much gaming reduces students’ concentration, and with mobile

games being particularly popular, this problem is only going to get worse. This could be

attributed to; poor study time management, sleep loss due to night gaming, and poor focus on

lectures or tasks at hand . Possible results of playing mobile legends are most often associated

with poor performance and low scholarly achievements, or problems such as, for instance,

procrastination. At the same time there are other views suggesting that all the gaming

experiences are negative. Mobile Legends is a team game, which entail on communication,

planning and decisions making thus according to some scholars it has implication in developing

skills for student’s academic work and future life endeavour. However, it may be quite useful to

students of Criminology because there are certain figures of skills that can be useful in their

studies As for specifics, potential uses of these skills in learning may include case analysis,

research, or team work. The disparity of the studies conducted suggests the need for a us study

on the impact of the game Mobile legends to the studies of students in Concepcion Holy Cross

College. While many students love the social and perceptual recreational patterns of gaming, it is

important to map out time for leisure and focus on the academic pursuits especially in

competitive academic courses such as Criminology. The conceptual frame work of this study is

aimed to understand how Criminology students from Concepcion Holy Cross College balance

their academic activities and their gaming profile. This research seeks to establish whether

Mobile Legends has a positive impact, no impact or a negative impact on the students’

performance by analyzing the given results: The time spent on Mobile Legends, deductions on

class performance due to Mobile Legends, changes in study schedules due to Mobile Legends,

and academic engagement as influenced by Mobile Legends.

in students’ personal lives and academic performance. Do students know the consequences of too

much gaming? Does it make them think that abilities coming from game such as Mobile Legends

are useful one in the academic or professional facets? If one is able to determine the type of

attitude students have towards gaming, it would enrich the future research concerning the impact

of such a phenomenon for students’ academic lives. This research is relevant as more mobile

games are incorporated into students’ daily lifestyle and with the advancement in technology,

leaning relies massively on mobile apps. Therefore, this research will help in filling the existing

literature gap and help understand the correlation between mobile gaming, Mobile Legends in

particular and academic performance. The research findings could help educators and parents

explain to students, how possible it is to balance between gaming and academic work so that

gaming does not turn to be an academic related hindrance. Also, the study could help to create

policies or plans in academic institutions to moderate play in balancing intellectual concentration

on lesson materials. This study therefore sought to fill this knowledge gap through a study on the

effects of Mobile Legends on Criminology students’ performance in their courses, with hope of

providing valid information that would be of great importance when thinking of long-term

implications on students’ performance.

Statista. (2023). Mobile Legends downloads worldwide. Retrieved from [Link]

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Mobile game is a hot issue of conversation among youth, including college students in

Metro Manila, and Santos and Cuerpo (2020) tried to establish its connection with academic

performance among college students. According to the study, the students who took over fifteen

hours on mobile video games had lower grades than those who spent less time on video games.
These students argued that gaming paved way for lack of time management, procrastination and

getting inadequate sleep they all of which effected their scholastic obligations. According to

Santos and Cuerpo (2020), the type of mobile games, such as Mobile Legends that allow play for

a long period of time can interfere with students’ learning and their academic performance.

In the same regard, and in the context of Philippines university students, Cruz et al.,

(2019, authored their study on the effects of mobile games on students’ academic performance.

In the current study, it was noted that the “over-users of mobile games” have a tendency of

performing dismally in their studies. These effects, they explained were due to the fact that

extended gaming time limited the time the students spent on their books and also caused the

students to be weary hence they could not concentrate during their classes.

Cruz, M. L., et al. (2019). The effects of mobile gaming on academic performance of university

students in the Philippines. Asian Journal of Social Science, 47(3), 112-121.

Santos, E. R., & Cuerpo, D. M. (2020). The impact of mobile gaming on college students’

academic performance in Metro Manila. Philippine Social Science Journal, 8(3), 73-85.

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Mobile gaming has come not only as an influence in influencing the Filipino youth, but

most notably students. The learners of Concepcion Holy Cross revealed that those studying

criminology tend to use gadgets more particularly for leisure, entertainment, recreation, and

friendship by playing mobile games. However, the increasing popularity of games like Mobile

Legends : Mobile has been found to have some effects which raises a question whether the

effects impact on performance.

affects the student in that he or she records poor performance when the gadget is overused. Some

preliminary results suggest that time spent on mobile games has been associated with aspects that

negatively affect time use regarding the study time, focused class listening, class performance

and low academic achievement. Mobile game usage for the games that need frequent use of the

mobile has been realized to lead to the poor time management hence low GWA as noted by

Southern Baptist College study.

However, there has not been lacks of finding some favourable outcomes of mobile

games. Of these, amicable features like strategic thinking and various forms of teamwork are

easily scalable for positive achievement in academe if the gaming feature is moderated. The

biggest challenge is to balance the time between gaming and the school and/or work. To students

of criminology who must have heard of the task awaiting them, I inferred from the above rules

that what is prohibited is moderation and well timed planning.

This research therefore aim at finding out the level of mobile gaming impact on the

academic achievements of Concepcion Holy Cross Criminology students in its positive and

negative aspects.

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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study is significant to the following stakeholders:

Students: It provides insights into how mobile gaming may positively or negatively affect their

academic journey, helping them make informed choices about managing leisure activities.

Faculty Members and Administrators: The findings can guide strategies to enhance student

engagement and performance, including policy development and counseling programs.

Parents: Understanding the influence of mobile gaming will help parents support their children

in balancing recreational and academic responsibilities.

Future Researchers: This study serves as a reference point for future studies on similar topics

in different educational settings.

Statement of the problem

The study seeks to examine the relationship between Mobile Legends gaming and the

academic performance of Criminology students at Concepcion Holy Cross College Inc.

1. How many hours per week do Criminology students spend playing Mobile Legends, and

how does this correlate with their academic performance?

2. What are the main reasons that Criminology students engage in playing Mobile Legends

in terms of:

a. Stress relief

b. Socializing

c. entertainment
3. Are there any significant differences in academic performance among students who play

Mobile Legends during study hours compared to those who play during their free time?

4. How do Criminology students manage the balance between academic responsibilities and

playing Mobile Legends?