THE EFFECT OF BULLYING IN THE BEHAVIOR OF HIGH SCHOOL

STUDENTS ON CAPIZ NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL YEAR 2016-2017

Submitted to Ms. Veronica P. Capote, Faculty of Filamer

Christian University, Secondary School
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for

Elective 9
Research and Statistics

Dominique Leigh Babis

Patricia Joy Cecil
Kaira Soquiño
Earl John Alimpolos

March 2017
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER Page

I. INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Significance of the Study

Objective of the Study

Statement of Hypothesis

Scope and Limitation of Study

Time and Place of Study

Definition of terms

II. REVIEW OF PELATED LITERATURE

III. METHODOLOGY

Materials and Tools

Method of Research

Procedure

REFERENCES

APPINDENCES

Questionnaire

Time Table
 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Bullying is one of the most common problems in schools

that should be a big concern to everybody no matter how

small form of bullying is done. It doesn’t only happen in

schools but can happen anywhere, anytime, could be done by

anyone, and should be stopped.

According to what I have observed, bullying can be

done by both opposite sex. Males tend to physically abuse

their targets and at the same time, females seem to

verbally abuse and emotionally scar their victims. Bullies

often choose their victims who they thought are below them

that they can look down on. If the bully is rich or smart,

he would often bully someone poor or that has below average

grades. Physical appearance, status, age, and gender are

one of the possible factors of what are being bullied.

These factors may not be the only reasons why there are so

many victims of bullying. It is psychologically studied

that it can also be a reflection of the bully’s

personality, his personal life, and how he is treated at

home. Most people who discriminates everyone and tries to

make them feel inferior are possibly spoiled by their

parents, feels superiority towards his peers, self-

righteous, insecure, or lack of affection and discipline.

Because who knows, what if underneath that bully’s

egotistical and domineering exterior who keeps putting

everyone down is a depressed, insecure, and lonely person

that feels unloved. If that’s the case, then bullies may

think that the only solution to solve the hindering pain

they feel is to throw the burden on other to ease the pain,

thinking it’s the best solution .Ignorant from the truth

that it only affected others negatively. Bullying does not

only affect the victim but the bully as well. Still, this

should be stopped for bullying is only giving a negative

outcome in this generation.

As what is written on the website of Phil Star, it’s

is reported by the Department of Education that there are

over 31 records of bullying incidents each day in the

Philippines. These incidents could be any higher seeing

that there are many bullying victims that are hesitant to

report the assaults. Bullying is a deep concern, no matter

what form of bullying. It should be taken seriously because

bullying in physical violence can be just as harmful and

deadly than verbal and cyber bullying. It is true that

physical abuse can harm your body but words can emotionally
scar you as well, which is just as worse than physical

bullying.

(www.philstar.com/opinion/2015/09/29/1505078/editorial-

bullied)

Due to bullying, these incidents can lead to dangerous

circumstances such as victims committing suicidal attempts

and ending their lives. The fact itself that a lot have

took their lives by will all because of bullying is a large

concern enough. In 2014, the department has recorded that

there are over 6,363 reports about bullying from both

public and private high schools over the year. The reports

have increase for more than 21 percent which is higher than

the 5,234 complaints that were recorded in 2013.

Due to the negative outcome of bullying, the

government had established The Republic Act 10627 or the

Anti Bullying Act of 2013 and on September 6, 2013 is the

day that President Benigno Aquino II signed the Anti

Bullying Act into law. Despite the law, there are still

several cases of bullying that occurred until now. The

purpose of this study will express my opinions about how

bullying should be addressed and stopped, and will

hopefully reach other people’s hearts.

 Significance of the Study

The result of the study will greatly benefit the following:

Students-Children and young people will be acutely aware of

different forms of bullying and actively try to prevent it
from occurring

Parents-Parents will feel more confident that policies are

proactive rather than reactive and that as a result their
children are safer.

Teacher-Teachers will be able to learn more about their

students and can make a solution how bullying can be

prevented.

Bullies-Bullies will be more aware of the negative

consequences of their actions and will hopefully learn a

lesson from this.

 Objectives of the Study

Generally this study aims to determine the effect of

bullying in the behaviour of high school students of Capiz

National High School for the year 2016-2017.

Specifically, this study sought to answer the following

questions:

1. What are the possible reasons of bullying?

2. What type of people is directly affected by bullying?

3. What are the effect of this to one’s individual

growth? (emotional and physical)

4. How does it affect our community and society?

Statement of Hypothesis

1. Bullies come from dysfunctional families: A

dysfunctional family is not a guarantee that a child
will become a bully. However, a large number of bullies
come from homes where there is little affection and
openness. They may often witness their parents being
aggressive toward friends, siblings or other members of
the family.
Bullies need to be in control: Kids who push others around
are often driven by the need for power. They enjoy being
able to subdue others. These types of kids are typically
impulsive and hot headed and they thrive when their
victims cower in their presence.
Bullying behavior gets rewarded: Most people don’t do this
intentionally; however, the perpetrator is inadvertently
rewarded anytime victims give up their lunch money or
belongings. They also get rewarded by gaining popularity,
attention, or the power of having others afraid of them.
These unintentional rewards reinforce bullying behavior
and encourage the perpetrator to keep pushing others
around.
Bullies don’t care how others feel: Some children either
lack empathy or just relish seeing others in pain. When
they hurt someone, they have no sense of what the victims
or the people around them are feeling. Sometimes a
perpetrator may even get pleasure from seeing a child yelp
as he kicks him down the hallway. The reactions of the
victims give the bully a sense of accomplishment, so he
continues the behavior.
Bullies can’t regulate their emotions: When people get
frustrated and angry, they can usually stop themselves
from doing things that will hurt others. When kids don’t
have the ability to regulate their emotions, small
annoyances can provoke them and cause them to severely
overreact. For example, a child may be innocently walking
down the hall and accidentally bump into a bully. Even
though the child apologizes, the bully may lose his temper
and slam the victim into the wall.

2. Being different! Many children are bullied simply because

they are different. That may be due to race, religion,
sexuality or just because they are smaller or taller than
the rest.

Being clever!Clever children are often bullied just because

they get better grades. Of course, that is just stupid
jealousy, but it can hurt the victims so much that they try
to hide their cleverness or deliberately make mistakes.

Being slow! That includes having a learning disability. As

soon as children seem to be less clever than the rest, they
can become a target of bullying. Even if a dyslexic child
is the best in math, he can be bullied for his weakness in
reading and writing.

Being introverted! Introverts seem to be weak so they

become targets of bullies quite often. The louder a person
acts, the less likely he is bullied.

3. When children experience bullying, they have a tendency

to become emotionally withdrawn. In cases where they were
already quiet, shy and self-contained, they may become
 even more so, to the point where they have trouble
interacting with their peers. Regular exposure to hurt,
humiliation, and social isolation may cause them to sink
deeper into a world of their own.
This world is not a happy one, however: it is filled with
anxiety, depression, sadness and loneliness. Children may
have trouble sleeping or eating, and may become unable to
enjoy activities they once did. Academic performance
plummets, and they may even skip class or drop out of
school. It is also important to note that anger and rage is
one possible emotional response to bullying. Many reports
following school shootings have found that the child
shooters were bullied by their peers.
On the outside, the child may appear more anxious, may seek
to avoid settings where bullying frequently occurs, and may
fall ill (or seem to) more often than normal. If they had
friends, they may isolate themselves from them. They may
even be at increased risk of suicide

Scope and limitation of the Study

The extent of this study that it will help us find

ideas of how to manage these bullying incidents and what we

should do to prevent the bullying get worse.

The limit of this study is that it can only give out

ideas and words to help the victims of bullying. But it

cannot entirely prevent the bullies from bullying their

peers.
 Definition of Terms

o facilitate better understanding of the study, the

following terms were defined conceptually and

operationally.

Bullying- it is an act that uses superior strength or

influence to intimidate someone, typically to force her or

him to do what one wants.

Anti-Bullying Act 2013- is a legislation enacted to

help reduce and eliminate bulling. This legislation may be

national or sub-national and is commonly aimed at ending

bullying in schools or in work places.

Abuse-to treat a person or an animal with cruelty and

violence, especially regularly or repeatedly.

 CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Case 1

As bullying comes in many form, one of them in the physical

bullying which is defined as doing something that will harm

the victim. This incident took place valley college in

Taguig. The first bullying incident happened in july 2013,

when the girl’s classmate pulled away her chair just as she

was about to sit on it. This cause the girl to fall. The

girl’s parents complained and the school promised to

separate the two kid’s.

Four months after the incident, another classmate poked the

girl’s right palm with a pencil. The girl was given first

aid by a teacher, and not the school nurse. When the girl’s

father came to fetch her, he noticed that the lead point of

the pencil was stuckin the girl’s right thumb. The father

took her to an emergency room to have the lead removed.

Then the girl’s parents complain again to the school. This

time, the vice principal said that the child who poked the

girl with a pencil would be transferred to another

classroom. But that didn’t happen. Instead, the school

recommended a one-week leave of absence for 5-year-old girl

and the child who hurt her, calling it” cooling off

period.” Then the school assigned an intern to watch over

the bullied girl. After the school year as the

valedictorian of her kindergarten class, the girl

transferred to another school. But her parents want to make

sure that Fisher Valley College takes complaints about

bullying seriously, which is why they have filed a formal

complaint at the Department of Education.

The little girl has also began to seeing a psychiatrist,

who confirmed that she was experiencing a lot of anxiety.

Until now, no updates were reported yet.

 CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

Materials

Questionnaire

Tools

Method of Research

Descriptive Method
used to describe characteristics of a population or
phenomenon being studied. It does not answer questions
about how/when/why the characteristics occurred. Rather it
addresses the "what" question (what are the characteristics
of Minnesota state population or situation being
studied?The characteristics used to describe the situation
or population are usually some kind of categorical scheme
also known as descriptive categories

Procedures
REFERENCES:

APPENDICES:

APPEDIX 1

QUESTIONNAIRE

APPENDIX 2

TIME TABLE

Date Activities Remarks

September 2016 Students Survey