"THE IMPACT OF ANXIETY TO LONER STUDENT THAT AFFECT THEIR

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF GRADE 12 STEM OF ASIAN DEVELOPMENT

FOUNDATION COLLEGE"

A Research proposal

Presented to

The Senior High School Department of

Asian Development Foundation College

A Research Proposal
Presented to:
Ma’am Desiree L Donila

By:

Vijay Nagpal

Ram Hexel Peleno

 ABSTRACT

The impact of anxiety to loner student that affet their academic performance is having
tension, fear to face on the school activities because of they are scared to be judge. Anxiety
mostly affect students academic performance also.called academic anxietyit is a well
established significant predictor of academic performance. Students with high levels of
anxiety are unable to perform at the best of their ability.when student is experiencing
anxiety majority of their mental capacity is used to create and process worrisome Thoughts.
Wich detracts from their learning abilities.

Main reasons for anxiety to attack is stress, stress causes increases in the hormone
cortisol, The stress hormone wherein it plays many important roles it includes regulating
your body's stress response. Next, problems in heart can also causes anxiety, physical heart
problems can contribute to anxiety. Approximately 70-80% of people who have suffered
from a heart attack have greater levels of anxiety.

In conclusion, there are a lot of causes of anxiety to attack from mental, verbal, and
physical. Most affected was student who is friendless has less of attention from family and
peers.
 CHAPTER I

Rsearch Problem

Background and Rationale of the study

Anxiety cause people to feel fightened, distressed, or uneasy during situation in wich
most people would not feel that way. Left untreated, anxiety disorders can make it hard for
stydents to study. It may affect their relationships with peers and teacher. In some cases students
with anxiety disorders miss a lot of school days or they may avoid school altogether. Common
anxiety disorders That affect students are, generalized enxiety disorders (GAD) where in
students have many worries symptoms are most likely, headaches, stomachaches, muscle
tension, or tiredness. Second is phobias, a phobia is an intense unrealistic fear of a specific thing.
Third is social anxiety, students have social phobia have an intense fear of being judge, it affect
them in social communication. They will avoid that they need to meet new people and to do
activities wirh them. Selective mutism where in some student are too fearful to talk at all in
certain situation. Panic disorder some students have panick attack, a sudden and intense episode
of fear. They can include physical symptoms like a pounding heart and shortness of breath that
can happen unexpectedly. Separation anxiety children who have experience a separated family
and last beyond the early school age until they grow up, they might have trouble coming to
school or even going to friends houses student's bwith anxiety disorder may show symptoms that
fit into one or more of these troubles, have trouble concentrating in class or completing class
works, feel self concious and avoid certain situation, may need to work with a school counselor
or theraphic.
 There are a lot of cases of anxiety from children To adult's bur mostly are students, like
mike is a 20 year old who is depressed and is experiencing is a significant amount of stress about
school. He spends much of his day in his dorm room playing video games and has a hard time
identifying what if anything is enjoyable in a typical day. Where in he rarely attend to class and
has avoided reaching out to his proffesors. Mike has always been a self described shy person and
has a very small and cohesive group of friends from elementary through high school. When he
began college he has a hard time concentrating on the interaction because he always worry about
what they will thimk of him. He assumed that they will find him dumb, boring or a loser. This
example already tells how anxiety make one life suffer.

Anxiety is common among college students but that doesn't mean you have to take it
lying down. Getting involved in school activities, making new friends, and leaning on your loved
ones can help. reaching out to a campus counselor or local therapist who can suggest coping
strategies or treatment according to healthline. The researcher find more information on how to
cope with anxiety students needs to keep physical active by doing exercise it reduces level of the
body's stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol, it also stimulates the production of
endorphins. Chemicals in the brain that are the body's natural painkillers and mood elevators.
Avoiding alcohol, alocohol is a reinforce of anxiety as it make worsen the depresion and
problems. recreational drugs, drugs makes brain chemicals that affect thoughts, emotions, and
action. Without the right balance of these chemicals, there may be problems with the way you
think, feel or act,. Drug can cause anxiety while you are taken by the person. Quit smoking,
Smoking nicotine cause heart rate and blood pressure to spike. Heart has to work harder making
it difficult to relax. When one person haven't had a cigarette for a while, they experience
withdrawal symptoms like iniritability, poor concentration and cravings. stress management and
relaxation techniique Like having zumba or meditation make sleep priority and eat healthy food.
The researcher mentioned the things that students in modern generation usually Do that can
trigger anxiety to attack. Even a loner student no one can recognize What is going on inside their
minds. There may be loner students cam stay as a loner and introvert, but there are loner students
that can not be judge based on what is unexpected action they do.
 Consequently, mental illness has become the third mkst common disability in the
philippines, wherein six million filipinos live with depression and anxiety. Because of this, the
country has the third highest rate of mental disorder in the western pacific. Among Filipino
Children aged 5 to 15, 10% to 15% are affected by mental health problems. According to the
world health organization (WHO), 16.8% of Filipino students aged 13 to 17 have attempted
suicide at least once within a year tge 2015 global school-based student health survey. When the
pandemic hits its also gives anxiety attack to many people especially to students, that make every
single life of a student change. That also makes their communication skills less in a reason that
they need to stay inside the house for safety. The Philippine mental health burden has increased,
with 35.89% of the filipino population exhibiting moderate to severe amxiety symptoms during
the COVID-19 pandemic. Finding back up research that shows that lockdowns and the shift to
online learning That students are experiencing will lead to psychological issues like frustration,
stress, and depression, especially among those without pre-existing mental health conditions who
have become increasingly socially isolated. Factors including social restriction, low self rated
health, poor sleep quality, higher percieved stress load, less family support, and unsteady family
income are associated with decreasing mental health. Pandemic may also the reason why loner
student became loner up until their present time in a reason that they need to stay inside their
houses with no one to talk epecially when their Parents are busy with their works online and they
are only child, that makes them feel alone.

The department of health (DOH) expressed alarm over mental health cases in eastern
visayas with men belonging to the working class comprising the majority of the patients. DOH
eastern visayas regional director Minerva Molon said about 60% of those who sought
consulation in government clinics in recent years are males who are adolescent intil 60 years old.
"We are concern because most of those males suffering mental health disorder are breadwinnirs
of their families" Molon said in an interview tuesday. Since 2012, government mental health
experts in the region have been examining about 1000 patients a year. While anxiety is a
common and normal reaction to stress, anxiety disorders can distrupt students. Surveyed said
anxiety negatively impacted their performance in class during the last 12 months. For some
children, the fear and worry associated with school anxiety are related to a specific cause, such as
being bullied or having a bad experience at school. For others, the anxiety may be more general
and related to social or performance anxiety. Students can adopt problems that causes anxiety
attack to them. They can get either in society or in school.

Statement of the problem

The general Question of this study is to know how anxiety affect the academic
performance of Grade 12 STEM loner students.

Specifically this study aims to answer the following question.

1. What kind of feelings do loner students feels everytime their anxiety attack?

2. What do loner students do to overcome their anxiety?

3. How anxiety affects to academic performance of loner student?

4. Everytime your anxiety attack have you ever think of talking to someone? Why yes? why no?

5. How do anxiety change your self as a loner student?

Significance of the study

This study is beneficial to the following,

Student. Especially to the loner students who has less friends and have lack of attention from
their family and peers. Who has no confidence in meeting new people and joining activities with
them.With this research it might help to brighten their minds to have socialization with others to
have someone everytime they are in need.
Community. For them to know how anxiety attacks and destroy one dream of one students.
They will be aware on who needs attention, love and care. Society also plays a big role in one
persons life, being part of a community everyone should help one another everyone should be
aware of what is Happening In todays generation.

Teacher. Teacher plays a big role in the life of students as the second parent of their students.
Teacher should know how one activity affects one student, special who have mental illness.
Teacher should know the quality and the heaviness of their activities they should also lift up their
students in times of fall down of their students.

School Administration. For them to take an action by making organization that ca enhance the
students confidence on them self. School administration should not only focus on making
decision, plan making, and making things right. They should also look at the situation of their
students on how they can help and how they can change one students personality.

Future Researcher. This may help the future researcher to get ideas on what topic will be
meaningful to the society. With this step, making a topic that is relevant in today's generation
might help the future researcher to come up with an idea in the next generation by having an
inspiration from themselves to others in elders and youths.

Scope and delimitation of the study

This study focuses on what is the effect of anxiety to the academic performance of loner
student in Grade 12 Science Technology Engenering and Mathematics (STEM). This study will
be conducted inside the school of ASIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION COLLEGE
(ADFC) Tacloban City. The researcher will get all the Grade 12 STEM to be the respondent.
Afterwards the researcher will pick the student who is highly suffering from anxiety and showing
synptoms being a loner student. This research is quantitative type of researcg as it involves
surveys. The study will be done in the S.Y. 2023-2024.

Definition of Terms

The definition of terms below are based on how the researcher used words in their
research paper.

Anxiety - a feeling of fear, dread, and uneasiness. An emotion characterized by feelings of

tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes like increased blood pressure. People with
anxiety disorder usually have recurring intrusive thoughts or concerns.

Loner Student - Student who do not socialize and have less friends. Someone who prefers being
alone than spending time with other people. A loner is a person who does not seek out, or
actively avoids, interaction with other people. There are many potential reasons for their solitude.
Intentional reasons include introversion, mysticism, spirituality, religion, or personal.

Academic Performance - The way how student act on class. The measurement of student
achievement across various academic subjects. The academic performance involves factors such
as the intellectual level, personality, motivation, skills, interests, study habits, self esteem or the
teacher-student relationship. When a gap between the academic performance and the student
expected performance occurs, it refers to a diverging performance.
Asian Developmen Foundation College (ADFC) - Is a private educational institution in
Tacloban City. Is an Educational institution dedicated to the development of able professionals,
competent leaders, progressive, efficient and responsible citizens of the country and of the world