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Study of The Effects of Having Pets on Selected Grade 11 AMA

Senior High School Students’ Mood

HUMSS-A

Nerecina, Michelle S.

Sison, Adrian James

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 TABLE OF CONENTS

PRELIMINARIES…………………………………………………………PAGE
TITLE PAGE…………………………….…………………………………...1
TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………….2

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION……………………………………………3
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM…………………………………………..4
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK……………………………………………...5
HYPOTHESIS…………………………………………………………………5
SCOPE AND DELIMITATION………………………………………………6
DEFINITION OF TERMS…………………………………………………….6
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES…………...…………..7
STUDIES………………………………………………………………………7
SYNTHESIS…………………………………………………………………..8
CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY………………………………………...9
RESEARCH DESIGN………………………………………………………...9
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT…………………………………………………9
DATA GATHERING PROCEDURE………………………………………...10
RESPONDENTS OF THE STUDY…………………………………………..10
SAMPLING TECHNIQUES………………………………………………….10
STATISTICAL TREATMENT……………………………………………….11
PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION…………………………………………….11
WEIGHTED MEAN…………………………………………………………..11
PEARSON CORRELATION…………………………………………………12
CHAPTER IV: PRESENTATION OF DATA……………………………..13
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION……………23
 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Introduction

Mood is an emotional state that may last anywhere from a few minutes to

several weeks. Mood does not only affect our emotions, it also affects the way we

perceive others around us for example a depressed mood creates a bias in favor of

responding negatively. According to Forgas & Eich, (2013) mood potentially has a

serious impact on learning, memory, decision-making, and allied cognitive processes.

Students’ mood is unpredictable because of different factors affecting one’s mood

maybe because of his/her academics, or the surrounding where he/she belongs to.

According to an article by Bert Stoop, the most common reasons for keeping pets are

because it gives you a companion in life and it helps you to make socializing with

others easier. People are more inclined to start a conversation when they can focus

their attention on the animal in a moment of silence.

The proposed study is said to focus about the effects of having pets to the

selected grade 11 students’ mood in AMA Computer College Caloocan Campus. The

researchers will study the correlation between a pet/s to a persons’ mood.

Statement of the Problem

This study seeks to determine the effect of having pets to selected AMA

senior high school students’ mood in Caloocan Campus School Year 2017-2018.

Specifically, it answers the following questions:

1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents:

1.1 Gender

1.2 Strand

1.3 Age

2. What are the effects of having pet/s in terms of:

2.1 Student’s mood

3. Is there any significant relationship of having pets in students’ mood?

Conceptual Framework

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

The proponents will There is

An Analysis on give a survey significant effects
the Relationship questionnaire to all of having pets to a
between having pets the respondents students’ mood, like
to AMACC grade and after that they the students tend to
11 students’ mood will interpret all reduce sadness
the data that they because of his/her
gathered. pets.

The conceptual framework shows how the researchers process assessments in

conducting the study. By the process of giving the respondent a survey questionnaire,

and the researcher interpreted all the data that they gathered, there is a transformation

of the inputs. While the output will be the result of the said process. The researchers

used the Pearson as the statistical tool.

Hypothesis

Ho, There is no significant relationship between having pets to the selected

AMA grade 11 students’ mood.

Scope and Delimitation

This study aims to know the effect of having pets, different kind of pets to

the selected grade 11 students of AMA Caloocan campus’ mood. This study will only

focus on the grade 11 students, it was selected because the researchers will only give a

survey to the students who is currently having pets or experiencing having pets.

Definition of terms

Allied- ahaving or being in close association (https://www.merriam-

webster.com/dictionary/allied)

Bias- the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair

way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment

(https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bias)

Cognitive- of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as

thinking ,reasoning ,or remembering). (https://www.merriam-

webster.com/dictionary/cognitive)

Companion- person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom

one travels.(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/companion)

Correlation- relation existing between phenomena or things or between mathematical

or statistical variables which tend to vary, be associated, or occur together in a wanot

expected on the basis of chance alone. (https://www.merriam-

webster.com/dictionary/correlation)

CHAPTER II
 REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES

Related Studies

The study “The Effect of Dogs on College Students’ Mood and Anxiety” by

Mariah J. Picard (2015) at the University of Maine, the purpose of the said study was

to determine whether positive mood, negative mood, and anxiety would be positively

affected after playing with a dog to the first-year college students’ A sample of 35

first-year college students, aged 18-19 years old, was being assessed by completed

different scales like the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Pet Attitude Scale, Positive and

Negative Affect Schedule-Expanded Form, and the Perceived Stress Reactivity Scale

to evaluate their animal preferences, mood, anxiety, and stress. Data were analyzed to

investigate the hypothesis that direct interaction with a dog would lead to college

students experiencing improvements in mood and reductions in anxiety. The result of

this study, first is the students’ mood, they stated that “The participants in the dog

condition experienced a significant increase in positive affect following their

interaction with the dog. However, participants in the control condition did not exhibit

an improvement in positive affect.” Then in the students’ anxiety, “The participants in

the dog condition and control condition did not experience a significant decrease in

anxiety following their interactions.”

As stated in the study of Alexandra Kennedy, “Impact of the Emotional Support

Animals on Students Stress” this study used a specific animal that is an Emotional

Support Animal (Mini Rex Rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (April 2015) to measure the

effects to the college students’ stress. The result is that there is a beneficial in terms of

stress reduction that an emotional support animal can have on an individual.

Cass Beasley (August 2013) “The Effects of Animal Assisted Therapy on

Students” at School of Arts and Sciences, St. John Fisher College. This study

examined the benefits of using animal assisted therapy student behavior/concentration

to read and their motivation to read. It was conducted by the researcher in the

students’ homes with the use of a therapy dog during reading and writing activities by

observations, student and parent questionnaires, and examination and analysis of

student work. As a results students motivation to read and write increased, Another

theme that become visible was that students seemed to be more motivated to read and

write by staying on task and being engaged when the therapy dog was present.

Synthesis

In the first study is about the effects o dogs to college’s mood anxiety, this ones

really related to this research because it includes mood even when they only use one

kind of pet which is a dog.this tells that there is a significant effects to the peoples’

mood but not in anxiety. Also the two remaining studies turned out positively about

the effects animals to the students’ stress and those student who study the art and

sciences.

This study was closely related to our study as the other study also finding the effects

of animals to people

CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

Introduction
 This chapter will explain the methodology that is adopted by this study. Including

the research design that was chosen for purpose of this study and the reasons for this

choice. The selection of sampling technique and the research instrument that will use in

collecting data was being mention in this chapter. The methodology plays an

important role in executing this research study accordingly. The details of the

methodology are clarified in detail in this part of the research.

Research Design

This study designed as a quantitative descriptive method, this research method

involve the collection and analysis of numerical data that is obtained from surveys

aiming to understand the effects of having pet/s to a students’ mood. The descriptive

research design is a study designed to depict the participants in an accurate way to

answer the questions of the study. The researcher will use survey questionnaire to

answer the questions that they want to answer.

Research Instrument

The researcher will use a survey questionnaire as a medium to collect the data

needed to conduct the research. This survey questionnaire was structured using the

Likert format with a five-point response scale. A Likert scale is a rating scale that

requires the subject to indicate his or her degree of agreement or disagreement to a

state. The survey questionnaire is divided into two parts. First group of

questionnaires about the attachment of the pet to their owner and the next group of

questionnaires are about the effect of having a pet to one’s mood.

Data Gathering Procedure

 The researchers gathered the data by using survey questionnaire where in the

consent form to have a survey and the questions about the study are included. The

researchers distributed the questionnaire to the respondents room to room to conduct

the survey, after the collecting all the data the survey was being tallied and tabulated

by the researcher and will use as the basis to prove if there is a effects of having pets

to students’ mood.

Respondents of the study

The respondents of this study are the selected grade 11 students of AMA Computer

College Caloocan Campus. The selected students was the students who are currently

having pets. The respondents of this study have the total of 108 students who came

from the different strands in the Grade 11.

Sanpling techniques

The purposive sampling technique was being used in this study. A purposive sampling

also known as a judgemental or selective sampling which is a non-probability sample

that is selected based on characteristics of a population and the objective of the study.

Like in this study, it only needs respondents who are having pets.

Statistical Treatment

Percentage distribution

The percentage distribution is the table showing how frequencies are

distributed over values. It is showed the result in distributed percentage. To determine

the number of times it occurs in some dataset. The table summarizes the distribution
of values in the sample.

Where:

P = percentage

f = frequency of response

N = total number of respondents

Weighted mean

The Weighted Mean formula used to calculate the average value of a

particular set of numbers with different levels of weight.

∑ w i xi
X w=
∑ wi

Where:

 X w= Weighted item

 w i= weight of ith item x

 x i = value of ith item x

Pearson Correlation

To interpret the gathered data, the researchers will use Pearson’s correlation

(r). It can be used to determine the relationship between two variables – wearing

makeup and self-confidence using the formula:

 Where:

n =

∑xy =

∑x =

∑y =

∑x^2 =

∑y^2 =

Chapter IV

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

The focus of this chapter is the presentation of all the data gathered by the

researchers. The total respondents is 110 (one hundred ten) selected Grade 11 Senior
High School Students. All the data gathered, was presented through graphs and

tables.

The first table and two graphs includes the demographic profile of the

respondents that the researchers requested to them.

What are the students profile in respect to:

1.1 Strand

1.2 Age

1.3 Gender

1.1 Strand

STRANDS

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21 23
18
10

ABM ICT GAS HUMSS STEM

Series 1

This first table summarizes the number of the students who responds

in this study by their strands, As we can see the Ict strand has the lowest

number of students with only 10 (ten) person that are currently having a pets

and in Stem strand has the highest number of pet owners that followed by the

Humss strand that having a total of 23 (twenty-three) respondents. In between

 the five strands, Gas was in the middle with the total of 18 respondents.

1.2 Age

AGE

27;
15-16 yrs old
27% 17-18 yrs old
73;
73%

Most of the respondents of this study are in the range of 17-18 years of age

with the total of 80(Eighty) respondents that is the 73% of the whole students who

participate in this study and only the one forth of the whole respondents are in the

range of 15-16 years of age with the total of 30 respondents, and 27% in terms

percentage.

1.3 Gender
 GENDER

45
55
45%
55%

female male

Female has the most number of respondents than the male, male has 49

(forty -nine) number of respondents while the girls has 61 (sixty-one) in total of

110 (one hundred-ten)

Table.2.1 Frequency distribution of the attachment of pets to the pet owners

statement 4 3 2 1 total
1.1 38 53 17 2 110
1.2 45 47 17 1 110
1.3 36 43 28 3 110
1.4 60 38 12 0 110
1.5 34 42 31 3 110
1.6 10 29 36 35 110
1.7 7 11 37 65 110
1.8 16 18 24 52 110
1.9 9 18 49 34 110
1.10 6 25 30 49 110

The table 2.1 is about the frequency distribution of the attachment of the
 pet to the pet owners. The researcher tallied all the data, the number inside the

box indicate the number of students who answers in every statement where in

4 is the strongly agree,

3 is the agree, 2 is the disagree and 1 is the strongly disagree.

Table 2.2 The frequency distribution about the pets, to the student’s

mood.

4 3 2 1 total
1 22 54 24 10 110
2 47 51 9 3 110
3 62 39 9 0 110
4 51 42 17 0 110
5 12 40 31 27 110
6 12 40 40 18 110
7 11 20 42 37 110
8 6 24 31 49 110
9 46 38 20 6 110
10 16 21 24 49 110

This table 2.2 has the same pattern as the table 2.1, but this table deals

about the effects pets to a person’s mood, this data depends to the response of

the selected 110 (one hundred ten) students.

Percentage of the Scale for the Selected Grade 11 Students.

Statement 4 3 2 1 Total

1.1 35% 48% 15% 2% 100%

1.2 41% 43% 15% 1% 100%

1.3 33% 39% 25% 3% 100%

1.4 55% 35% 10% 0% 100%

1.5 31% 38% 28% 3% 100%

1.6 9% 26% 33% 32% 100%

1.7 6% 10% 25% 59% 100%

1.8 15% 16% 22% 47% 100%

1.9 8% 16% 45% 31% 100%

1.10 5% 23% 27% 45% 100%

Table 3.1
 Table 3.1 shows the percentage of the answers each statement. The statement 1.4 has

the highest percent in terms of strongly disagree and the lowest percent in the strongly

disagree cause none of the respondents answered strongly disagree in that statement

Table 3.2
 Table 3.2 presents the percentage of the gathered data about the pets to a students

mood. None of the respondents voted for strongly disagree to the statement number 2.3

and 2.4, and statement 2.3 has the most strongly disagree. While the statement 2.10 got

4 3 2 1
total

2.1 20% 49% 21% 9% 99.5%

2.2 42% 46% 8% 3% 99.5%

2.3 56% 35% 8% 0% 99.5%

2.4 46% 38% 15% 0% 99.5%

2.5 11% 36% 28% 25% 99.5%

2.6 11% 36% 36% 16% 99.5%

2.7 10% 18% 38% 34% 100%

2.8 5% 22% 28% 45% 100%

2.9 42% 35% 18% 5% 100%

2.10 14% 19% 22% 45% 100%

 the highest strongly disagree.

Weighted Mean for the Effects of Having Pets to the Selected Grade 11 Senior High School

Students’ Mood

Table 4.1

statement WM ranking

I spent my day with my pet/s 2.87 3

I have no problem in spending time to my pet/s 2.94 2
I am the one who feed my pet/s 2.74 4
I feel worried every time my pet/s is sick 3.13 1
I am the one who clean my pet/s 2.7 6
I don’t mind if me and my pet/s don’t see each other for a 1.92 5
long duration

I don’t feel any love for my pet/s 1.48 10

I get uncomfortable when my pet/s is close to me 1.80 8
I feel distant to my pet/s 1.82 7
If necessary, I would be able to give away my pet without any 1.70 9
difficultie
If necessary, I would be able to give away my pet without any
difficultie
If necessary, I would be able to give away my pet without any
difficultie
Sometimes, it comes to my mind that if necessary I would
give away my pets without any difficulties
 Table 4.1 presents the weighted mean of the attachment of pet to it’s owners, as a result

the statement number 4 has the highest weighted mean which lead it to become the rank 1, most

of the respondents got worried every time their pets are sick according to the statement. While

the lowest weighted mean is the statement number 7 where the least of the respondents don’t feel

any love from their pets.

Table 4.2

statement WM ranking

I always have my mood swings 2.52 5

My mood always changes positively when my pet is with me 2.95 3

When I’m sad, my pet/s makes me happy 3.13 1

When I come home exhausted, my pet always takes away my 2.98 2

tiredness

Whenever I’m studying, my pet/s always disturbing me 2.1 7

I get irritated when my pet is so active and making mess in my 2.11 6

house

I always feel that pet/s should keep outside 1.85 8

My pet/s didn’t give me any relaxing feeling 1.7 10

I talk to my pet/s to express my feelings 2.85 4

My pet is just a pet for me and doesn’t affect me at all 1.83 9

Table 4.2 presents the weighted mean about having pets to a person’s mood. As a
 result the statement number 3 has the highest weighted mean which lead it to become

rank 1, most of the respondents, said that when they are sad the pets make them happy.

While the lowest rank is the statement number 8, because it is statement who gets the

lowest weighted mean of 1.7, least of the respondents said that their pet didn’t give them

a relaxing feeling.

Pearson Correlation

Table 4.3

Computed Tabular
N Mean L = 0.05
Value r Value Decision
Attachment 110 There is

of pets to its 25.51818182 significant

owners 0.195 relationship Reject

About the 110
0.584056958
between having Ho
pets to the
25.51818182 pets to a
students’
students’ mood
mood

Table 4.3 shows the mean of two variables, their computed value r and tabular value.

This table present that there is a significant relationship between having pets to a persons’

mood due to that conclusion, the null hypothesis will be rejected.

 Chapter V

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

This chapter of this research shows the summarize of the study and the conclusion of the

data gathered and the researchers recommendation

Conclusion

The conclusion of this study is the outcomes outcomes according to the researchers’ findings.

This are the outcomes of this study:

The researchers conclude that there is a significant relationship between having pets to the

selected grade 11 senior high school students’ mood based on the survey questionnaire that the

researchers’ conducted. The researchers concluded that there is a positive effects of having pets

to a person’s mood because using the percentage, frequency, and in the weighted mean. Those

sentences who has the highest frequency and percentage in the strongly agree part turned out that

that statements are the positive statement and in opposite of that the negative statement has the

lowest frequency, percentage or ranked in the strongly agree but it got the highest ranked in the

strongly disagree. Just like in the statement number 4 in the first part where we can see that the

pet owners are getting worried whenever their pets is sick. This statement got the highest rank in

terms of weighted mean. In the second part of the survey the got the highest rank states that

when the student pet owners are sad, their pets keep them happy, and second to the highest states

that when the pet owners came home exhausted their pets takes away their tiredness. The

researchers also include this statement because this statement didn’t receive strongly disagree

from the respondents.

Recommendation

Base on the findings of the study the researchers recommended the following:

1. Future researchers should seek more about the students’ mood to give a deeper explanation

about it, and also conduct tests other than survey questionnaire.

2. Future researchers can use a specific pet, example is the therapy tests to the specific group of

people

3. Researchers recommended to add more like emotional behavior or physical health of a person

correlates to the pets, by this way if your research turned out positively it can be one of the

reason for the people to love more their pets.

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