Chapter 3

METHODS OF STUDY AND SOURCES OF DATA

This chapter shows the methods used by the researcher, the designs of the study,

sources of data, as well as the instrumentation.

Research Design

This study was a qualitative study which makes use of a narrative design.

Narrative design is a type of qualitative research that weaves together a sequence of

events usually from just one or two individuals to form a cohesive story. It is presented as

a story in a narrative form with themes, and reconciles conflicting stories and highlight

tensions and challenges which can be opportunities for innovation.

Research Locale

The study was conducted in the house of the bashers. The place was chosen

because the respondents wanted to get interviewed privately. The respondents were

interviewed in different time and place. They were interviewed in a different time and

place because the researcher respects the demands of the respondents.

Respondents

The 2 respondents were students of Tarlac National High School Main. The first

respondent was a girl, 17 years old. The second respondent was a 16 year old boy. Both
confirmed that they were bashers and done bashing in their lives. The respondents were

chosen because of their experiences doing bashing or social media bashing.

Research Instrument

The data of the study were gathered through the use of interview. The question

that the researcher used was a self made interview.

The self made interview was used to gauge the profile of the bashers. The

researchers also focus on the reasons why bashers or the respondents bash personalities.

The researchers also deal with the effects of social media bashing to the social media

users: emotionally and psychologically. In addition, the present study desires the

implication of the study to the social media users and to the bashers.

The questions made in the interview were a lot because even though there are

only few points that the researchers wanted to know, the researchers created a bunch of

questions to help the respondents to answer those questions in an easy way.

Data Gathering Procedure

The interview was done with the permission from the adviser of the researchers.

After the permission from the adviser, the researchers made a letter of approval for

interviewing the 2 bashers or the respondents. The letters made for the respondents were

sent to their Facebook accounts and also in the form of e-mail. When the researchers

received the decision of the respondents which was a go signal, the researchers

immediately set the date, time and place of the interview.

 For the respondents, in able to answer the first goal of the study which was the

profile: Age, gender, family relation, social status, educational attainment and economic

status, the researchers asked the respondents like in a form a job interview or answering a

slam note. In order to answer the social status, the researchers asked if the respondents

were popular in their school, if they are famous in facebook and if they have a huge

number of followers in their social media accounts. In answering the educational

attainment, basically they were still students, but the researchers also want to know what

the achievements of the respondents in their school were. Lastly, the researchers asked

the economic status of the bashers, if they were rich, poor, or in the middle, if they were

able to fulfil their wants and likes.

In answering the reasons of the bashers, the researchers asked them what was the

effect of doing bashing in their own life, if the bashers feel complete when they were

bashing personalities, if they feel satisfaction in doing social media bashing.

The next goal of this study was to identify the effects of social media bashing to

the social media users. The respondents were asked what the result was after doing

bashing to the person. The researchers asked the bashers how the victims react with

bashing, if the victims got hurt, losses confidence and low self-esteem in order to figure

out the effect of bashing to the victims emotionally. The researchers also asked the

respondents what the things were done by the victims after receiving the negative

comments to them, if they were sharing sad statuses, posting bad quotes, sharing

depression testimonies in order to come up an answer in the psychological effect of

bashing to the victims.

 Lastly, the present study wanted to know what would be the implication of this

study to the bashers and to the social media users. The researchers want to share or to

spread information about what are the reasons of the bashers why bashers were bashing.

They want to share the testimonies of the bashers in able to got understood by the society.

To the social media users, the study was aimed to warn the social media users to be

responsible or to act properly when they were receiving negative comments. Bashers

could be anyone. Social media users should take care with their image.