Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges

Pioneer Avenue, General Santos City, Philippines

Email: rmmcgensan@yahoo.com
Telephone Number: (083) 301-1927

“THE EFFECT OF LEVELS OF RELATIONSHIP AND

GENDER ON CONFORMITY AMONG FIRST
YEAR LIBERAL ARTS STUDENTS IN
RAMON MAGSAYSAY MEMORIAL
COLLEGES”

A Research Presented to the Faculty of Ramon Magsaysay

Memorial Colleges - General Santos City

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for

Field Methods in Psychology
(Quantitative Research)

Tracy Rose M. Provido

Researcher

December 2021
 Acknowledgement

We would like to grab this great opportunity to recognize those persons behind

the success of this research study.

To the Father Almighty, for guiding us every day and giving us knowledge and

understanding so that we can overcome and pass through with those life challenges.

To our parents, for helping us and for giving us courage to strive hard until we

could finally prove something.

To our School Administrators for giving us a lot of knowledge and for guiding

us to finish and complete the entire research process.

To our classmates and friends, for helping us in generating ideas to come up

with this research study and for encouraging us not to give up with the given research

process.

To the Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges students, for being our

respondents and helping us to get through with this research study to be a successful

one.

Thank you and God bless us all.

 Dedication

We would like to dedicate this research study to the following:

To Father Almighty who gave us life to cherish and enjoy with.

To our parents who had granted us everything that we want all throughout our

existence.

To the School Administrators of Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges who

nurtured and moulded us to become a better person and helped us to become who

we are today.

To the students of Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges who make up most

our research and spend their time in sharing their knowledge.

To our instructor, Ma'am Vanessa Mae T. Mariano who helped us to get

through with this entire research process.

The researchers dedicate this research study to all of you who became part of

this research. May our research be that useful for future basis and purposes.

To God be the Glory.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Approval Sheet

Acknowledgement

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Dedication

Chapter Page

1       THE PROBLEM AND IT’S SETTING

Introduction

Statement of the Problem

Theoretical Framework

Conceptual Framework

Significance of the Study

Scope and Delimitation of the study

Definition of Terms

2   REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Synthesis

3   METHODOLOGY

Research Design
Locale of the Study

Research Instruments

Respondents and Sampling Used

Data Gathering Procedure

Statistical Treatment of the Study

4 PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND

INTERPRETATION OF DATA

5 SUMMARY, FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND

RECOMMENDATION

REFERENCES

Appendix A- LIST OF EXPERT VALIDATORS

Appendix B- SUMMARY OF EXPERTS VALIDATION RATINGS

OF THE RESEARCHERS INSTRUMENT

Appendix C- LETTER OF THE HEAD OFFICE

Appendix D- LETTER OF THE RESPONDENTS

Appendix E- SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE

Appendix F- CERTIFICATE OF APPERANCE

CURRICULUM VITAE
 Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING

Introduction

When we change our views, behaviours, or decisions because of other

people’s preferences, whether they are immediately present or not, we are

experiencing conformity. It may be neglected most of the time but it sure does give

social psychologist great interest.

There are various reasons on why people conform. Several researches

such as Acsh’s and Sherif’s studies were done to be able to determine these factors.

Their studies have determined two types of conformity. One being informational

conformity and the other one, normative. Informative conformity is often observed

when an individual is facing a situation or problem wherein he is highly in doubt so he

just decides to imitate what others would do as they face the same situation he is in.

Normative conformity on the other hand is observed when an individual conforms to

others’ views, behaviours, or attitudes to get a satisfying remark from them. This is

mostly for social acceptance.

Aside from those already stated, there are also other factors or variables that

may answer the question “Why do people conform?” It may be because people are

finding possible answers, for them to fit in, to be liked, or because everybody else is

doing it. It may also be because they like the group they are belonging to, because

they feel that they are all similar so they tend to go along with their decisions. Another

thing is the size of the majority. If in some point they have to decide, and an individual
finds himself alone in a stand, he may be forced to conform to the majority’s decision

even if it’s against his will. Age may also be a factor but it is often neglected as one.

Most say that those who are older have lower rates of conformity than those who are

younger.

The reason why they say this is probably because older people are much

more mature in making decisions and are far more experienced than the younger

ones.

Other factors that may also contribute on why an individual conform is one’s

gender and one’s relationship with the group. Gender, like age, is also neglected

most of the time. The effect of gender in conformity may be because of the gender-

role expectations of the society on men and women. Most of the time, people say that

men should be the one that gets to decide and that women should be the one who

obeys. This practice has been done for a long time already and most will say that

there is no reason to debate about it. But because of our changing culture, concepts

of equality arise and so this idea might also change.

As for the relationship of the individual to the majority, we could say that

people would rather go with those who he belongs to than to those who are total

strangers to him. The reason behind this is possibly because of the acceptance the

individual is already experiencing with his so called group or the similarities they

have, and the individual’s doubt if he would trust the group of strangers he is with on

that moment.
 This paper aims to find out if the levels of relationship and/or gender have an

effect on conformity. It also aims to answer whether women would have higher rates

of conformity than men and if the individual’s relationship in the group one is with

would have a varying effect on conformity. Also, it also aims to see if there is an

interaction between the two factors when it comes to conformity, whether women

would conform more with her friends or with strangers, and also if men would do so.

Findings on this paper could give additional contribution to previous findings about

conformity and the factors affecting it.

This study will conduct from April to May 2021 in Ramon Magsaysay Memorial

Colleges, Pioneer Avenue, General Santos City.

Statement of the Problem

This study attempted to find evidences about The Effect of Levels of

Relationship and Gender on Conformity students of Ramon Magsaysay Memorial

Colleges.

Specifically, the study seeks to provide an outcome to the following objectives:

1. To what extent do environmental circumstances have an impact on a student's

behaviour in terms of:

a. Gender

b. Relationship
2. What are the benefits of the students based on their Levels of Relationship

and Gender differences when conforming?

Theoretical Framework

This research was anchored from the idea of Bailey & Zucker, 1995; Sandfort,

Melendez, & Diaz, 2007 which stated that The term gender conformity describes

individuals who do adhere to the behaviours, mannerisms, traits, and attitudes that

are culturally designated as appropriate for biological male or female types.

Institutional norms pressure individuals to conform to gender stereotypes, and gender

nonconformity is commonly associated with homosexuality (Chima & Wharton, 1999;

Gordon & Meyer, 2007).

Conceptual Framework

Independent Variable Dependent

Variable
EFFECT OF LEVELS OF Freshmen Students
RELATIONSHIP AND

GENDER ON CONFORMITY  Liberal Arts

Figure 1. Conceptual
Framework

The concept above shows that the independent variable is the effect of levels

of relationship and gender on conformity and the dependent variable is the freshmen

students of Liberal Arts Department.

Significance of the study

This study was meant to give support and benefits to statements to know the

importance of this research study and to help the following individuals:

           The student. This study will help the students to realize what cures the inferior

problems regarding their social life.

           The teachers. This study will assist them to formulate plans and suggestions

regarding the social life of the first year to the online classes.

           The parents. The study will understand the side of their students 

           The researcher. This study helps the researcher to gather more information

and to give its recommendation and implications regarding the problem stated.

           The future researcher. To the future researcher, this study will give them

specific answers and a reliable source for their study that to be conducted. 

Scope and delimitations

The scope of this study focused on the the effect of levels of relationship and

gender on conformity. The participants of the study were the one hundred six (106)

randomly selected freshman students of Liberal Arts department within the academic

year of 2020-2021. The researcher formulated a survey questionnaire to acquire

different perspective related to the study.

 This research was conducted in December 2021 in Ramon Magsaysay

Memorial Colleges, General Santos City.

Definition of Terms

The following terms are defined operationally as to how they used in this study.

Conformity – behaviour in accordance with socially accepted conventions or

standards.

Liberal Arts – the study of history, literature, writing, philosophy, sociology,

psychology, creative arts, and more