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Chapter 3
Chapter 3
This chapter shows the methods used by the researcher, the designs of the study,
Research Design
This study was a qualitative study which makes use of a narrative design.
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
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
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
Research Instrument
The data of the study were gathered through the use of interview. The question
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.