ASSESSING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GRADE 7 STUDENTS OF SAAMI WITH

BULLYING EXPERIENCE AND THEIR MANAGEMENT FOR THE EFFECTS OF

BULLYING ON THEIR MENTAL HEALTH

A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH SUBMITTED TO THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

DEPARTMENT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS
SAN ANDRES ACADEMY OF MARAMAG INC.

PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2

AMANTE, NATASHA THANIA F.

GUINANAO, MARIEL S.
LANTICSE, GEORGIE L.
LEYSON, JESSA S.
MINOZA, MARIGOLD S.
MONTANO, RENALYN C.

DECEMBER 2023
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

Title page I

List of Tables II

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study 1

Statement of the Problem 2
Objectives of the Study 3
Significance of the Study 3
Scope and Delimitation 4
Definition of Terms 4
Conceptual Framework 5
Schematic Diagram 5

CHAPTER 2

Review of Related Literature 6

CHAPTER 3
METHODOLOGY

Research Design 7
Participants of the Study 7
Research Locale 7
Ethical Consideration 8
Data Gathering Procedure 8

Chapter 1
 INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents the background of the study, the statement of the problem,

the objectives of the study, the significance of the study, the scope and delimitation, the

definition of terms, and the conceptual framework.

Background of the study

“Bullying is dangerous and most cases happen in schools. Bullying in schools

has been a major problem in a lot of countries around the world.” (Hall,1997;

Hooks,1996; Kivel,2002; Robino, Lindsey & Terrel, 2002.). Bullying is an aggressive act

of discrimination and assault towards someone who is considered weak or a victim.

Most students suffer from this, both the one who is influenced by the bullying and the

one affected by it. Bullying has major effects on the mental health of the person.

The researchers in San Andres Academy of Maramag, Inc. observed throughout

the time that bullying incidents happen too frequently among the Grade 7 students of

our school. Since SAAMI is a catholic school, we found the purpose of conducting our

study to spread awareness about the effects of bullying. As mentioned, bullying is

dangerous since it affects the student’s mental health and could cause some major

mental health issues. Having mental health issues during the adolescence stage which

the Grade 7 students are facing is a real struggle since they are still maturing and

cannot think wisely. Not many young teens have enough mental capacity to cope and

deal with mental health issues.

“There is no one reason why a child may become a bully, but environmental

factors can lead to the development of bullying behaviors. Because this behavior is

learned and it can also be unlearned” (Sarazen, 2002). It states that in most cases,

bullying is not done by choice, but because of the influence of the environment. Most of

the time, not all bullies are bad, most of them are also struggling with mental health

issues and some may have possibly been bullied in their past. When peace was not an

option for them, the only coping mechanism that was present in their mind was to hurt

others.
 The victims of bullying became highly affected to the point where the bullying

issue became present in their homes. Most parents who experience bullying of their

children expect that the discipline and awareness of the principal and teachers have a

positive effect on the situation. It does not end that well most of the time. The situation

will only worsen and the relationship between the family and the school has become

even more fractured (Hein,2014).

As has been mentioned, the goal of the researchers is to spread awareness

about the effects of bullying on the mental health of grade 7 students. To manage and

assess the total number of grade 7 students of SAAMI who experience bullying. Given

that it is a catholic school, the researchers found the purpose and opportunity to

conduct this research. In this generation, the number of cases of bullying is increasing

and many adolescents are struggling with how to cope with the suffering from the

effects of bullying that distracts them and negatively influences their mental health.

Statement of the Problem

This study aims to manage and assess the total number of grade 7 students of

SAAMI who experience bullying.

Specifically, the goal of this study is to give answers to the following problems:

1. What is the exact population of grade 7 students having mental health issues?

2. What is the total number of grade 7 students who experienced bullying based on

their gender?

3. How does the grade 7 students manage the effects of bullying on their mental

health?
Objectives of the Study

To be exact, this study aims to spread awareness about the effects of bullying on

the mental health of students. Also, the goal of this study is not only to help the

students, but also the teachers, parents, guardians, and future researchers to advise

and guide students who are experiencing bullying and also to make bullying incidents

lesser.

Specifically, this study aims to:

1. To determine the exact population of grade 7 students having mental health

issues.

2. To quantify the total number of grade 7 students who experienced bullying based

on their gender.

3. To successfully determine the management of grade 7 students in dealing with

the effects of bullying on their mental health.

Significance of the Study

Generally, this study is significant to its beneficiaries since it will provide

valuable information on assessing the number of students who experience bullying and

help them manage the effects on their mental health. Moreover, it will inform the readers

and recipients of this study whether bullying is the significant cause of grade 7 students'

unnecessary behaviors. Specifically, this study is beneficial to the following recipients,

STUDENTS: This study will specifically help the Grade 7 students in

managing their mental health when dealing with bullying. The Grade 7 students will be

able to freely express themselves whenever they open up about their experiences with

bullying.

TEACHERS: This study will help the Grade 7 advisers and subject teachers

in dealing with their students who are unaware of the effects of bullying on their mental

health. Also, it helps the teachers manage and discipline their students who bully each

other with awareness about the impact on how they deal with the situation.

PARENTS AND GUARDIANS: This study will help parents and guardians to

be aware of the cause of the sudden changes in their children’s behavior and attitude.
The parents and guardians will help improve the interactions between the parents and

guardians with their children.

FUTURE RESEARCHERS: This study will benefit the future researchers as

a source of information regarding to the topic about assessing the total number of grade

7 students with bullying experience and their management for the effects of bullying on

their mental health. This could help the future researchers to have a deeper

understanding about the effects of bullying towards the mental health of adolescence.

Scope and Delimitation

Scope

GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE: This study will focus specifically on SAAMI Purok

5A North Poblacion, Maramag, Bukidnon, Philippines, and will not include other

schools.

VARIABLE SCOPE: This study will assess the total number of grade 7

students of SAAMI who experience bullying, as well as help manage the grade 7

students in dealing with the effects of bullying on their mental health

TIME SCOPE: This study will focus on the 2022-2023 phase of grade 7

students and accumulating data from their experience, and data collection will be

conducted in December 2023.

Delimitation

This study will be conducted at San Andres Academy of Maramag Inc. among

grade 7 students. We, researchers, chose to focus on the grade 7 students for the

purpose of our concern with the number of students experiencing bullying and the

number of students who are suffering from mental health issues. We, researchers,

would like to be able to manage and assess the total number of grade 7 students of San

Andres Academy of Maramag Inc. who experience bullying.

Definition of terms

1. Adolescence – it is the period of transition between childhood and adulthood

 2. Mental health – includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It

affects how we think, feel, and act.

3. Quantify – express or measure the quantity of.

4. Assessing – to judge or decide the amount, value, quality, or importance of

something.

Conceptual Framework

This study involves two variables of which two are independent and the other is

dependent. The independent variable is bullying and mental health issues and the

dependent variable is the Grade 7 students.

Bullying, according to the Australian Human Rights Commission is when people

repeatedly and intentionally use words or actions against someone or a group. Of

people to cause distress and risk to their wellbeing.

Mental Health issues, according to the Mayo Clinic also called mental health

disorders refer to a wide range of mental health conditions that affect your mood,

thinking, and behavior.

Grade 7 students, according to Collins English Dictionary, is the seventh year of

school, when students are 11 to 13 years old.

Schematic Diagram

INDEPENDENT VARIABLE DEPENDENT VARIABLE

Bullying

Grade 7 Learners

Mental Health Issue

 Figure 1. Schematic Diagram showing the relationship between the independent and

dependent variables of the study.

CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This part presents the review of the related literature of the study. It shows an in-
depth review of the existing knowledge and information regarding our chosen research
topic.

Bullying

(Celeste et al., 2019; Bisnar & Javier, 2019) states that “The most common
forms of bullying identified are covert and verbal bullying. Although there are some, who
verbalized to have experienced physical and cyberbullying. Physical bullying is common
among boys while verbal bullying is common among girls.” This practically states that
the effects of bullying may vary depending on the ways that it is done to someone;
Verbal bullying, Physical bullying, and Cyberbullying. However in this study, we
researchers focus more on the grade 7 students’ experience with bullying without
depending on the way it is done.

Mental Health Issue

(Dallman et al., 2003; McEwen and McEwen, 2015) states that “Being the target
of bullying activates the stress system centered on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
(HPA) axis”. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal or HPA is the main stress response
system. Although stress may not be normally considered a mental health problem,
however, there are other ways in which it is related to our mental health: Stress can
lead to mental health issues and could be a cause of some serious problems in a
person’s state of mind. This statement explains the cycle-like process of the effect of
bullying; bullying-stress-mental health issues.

Grade 7 Student

“The leading reason why the respondents experienced bullying from their
classmates or schoolmates are just having fun. It was also discovered that the
prevailing negative effect of bullying to the Grade 7 learners of PNHS is rampant
absenteeism. Victims want to avoid their bullies. This leads to low academic
performance and sometimes dropping out of school.”(Sena & Sol 2019). This explains
how bullying heavily impacts the students’ mental health, this includes the way they
think and how they respond to the pain that they receive. As stated, absenteeism is one
of the effects caused by bullying just so the ones being bullied could avoid their bullies,
which leads to failing of academic performance, having low grades, and possibly drop
out of school.

CHAPTER 3
METHODOLOGY
This part presents the research design, participants of the study, research locale,
research instrument, data gathering procedure, and ethical considerations.
Research Design
This study employs a quantitative research design. This design is a quasi-
experimental research design. The researchers opted to use this design since the
researchers aim to (1). Regulate the data gathered from the respondents, (2) asses the
exact amount of grade 7 students who experienced bullying and, (3) manage the grade
7 students in dealing with the effects of bullying on their mental health.

Participants of the study

The respondents of the study will be the entire grade 7 students. The
researchers intend to choose them as the respondents of the study since the focus of
the presented study is to assess and manage the total number of grade 7 students of
San Andres Academy of Maramag Inc. who experience bullying. Total population
sampling will be used to determine the sample of the study. Using the survey
questionnaire, the researchers will select the 99 total population of grade 7 learners.

Research locale
This study will be conducted at San Andres Academy of Maramag Inc. P-5A
North Poblacion, Maramag, Bukidnon. This school is a private catholic institution
founded by a Jesuit missionary priest, Fr. James Cawley s.j. in 1951. This school has
elementary, high school, and senior high school departments. The school building has 3
floors. The first floor is where the elementary and senior high school levels and the
library are located. The grade 7 and 10 high school level, the computer laboratory, and
the audio-visual room are located on the second floor. The third floor is where the grade
8 and 9 high school levels are located.
 Figure 2. Map of the Resear

Ethical consideration
The researchers will make sure that ethical protocols in the conduct of the
research will be observed. Permission from the school principal and classroom adviser
and consent from the respondents will be sought first before the conduct of the study.
Respondents will be encouraged to participate in the study but will never be coerced to
do so if they refuse to. In other words, the researchers will ensure that all respondents
who will answer the questionnaires will participate in the study voluntarily. The
researchers will ensure that the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information of
the respondents will be properly observed. No personal information from the
respondents will be divulged. No data in the study will be falsified or fabricated. Any
form of deceit must be avoided. To ensure the originality of the work, the researchers
will have their manuscript. Examined by plagiarism software. All these ethical issues
must be avoided and all ethical protocols will observed by the researchers to come up
with a quality and ethically bound study.

Data gathering procedure

A letter of request to conduct the study was prepared. The researchers will ask
permission from the school principal by writing a communication letter at the onset of
the study. If given permission, the researchers will immediately ask for the consent of
the respondents and their research adviser for the conduct of the study. After retrieving
the questionnaires, the researchers will tabulate the answers of the respondents. This
tabulation will then be sent to the statistician for analysis of the data. Interpretation of
the result will be done as soon as the researchers receive the result
of the statistical analysis.

CHAPTER 4
RESULTS
This chapter presents the result of the study organized according to the
sequence of the research objectives and the variables being studied. The results are
presented in pie graph and tabular form.
1st independent variable
Graph 1 presents the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of their
bullying experience with a population of 78 out of 86 respondents. The pie graph shows
the total number of grade 7 students who answered yes and the total of students who
answered no.

Bullying experience

9.30%

90.70%

bullied students who didn’t experienced bullying

Graph 2 presents the demographic profile of the respondents from their bullying
experience in terms of gender. The graph presents that 48 respondents are females
and 38 are males .
PERCENTAGE OF GIRLS
PERCENTAGE OF BOYS

8.33%
10.53%

91.67% 89.47%

bullied didn’t experienced bullying bullied didn’t experienced bullying

Table 1.1 presents the management of grade 7 students in dealing with the effects of
bullying on their mental health.
YES NO
2. Do you use music, food, or games to cope as a victim of 63.95% 40.70%
bullying?
3. When dealing with the bullying, did you consider to ignore the 77.91% 36.05%
bully and just carry on with your life?
4. Have you considered making “bullying” an experience that 61.63% 38.37%
makes you stronger and a way to deal with struggles in life
better?
5. Have you ever decided to boost your mental health by 76.74% 23.26%
improving your overall lifestyle such as taking care of yourself?
6. Did you ignore the negative thoughts that sometimes makes 65.11% 34.88%
you want to hurt yourself?
( if non-Catholic, please proceed to answer the Management)
7. Have you ever asked God for help and guidance? 98.83% 1.16%
8. Do you consider God as your inspiration that motivates you? 96.51% 3.49%

SCORING PROCEDURE
The respondents will be able to answer a questionnaire for bullying and
mental health using a dichotomous scale. Below is a tabular presentation of the scale to
be used with interpretation since it is only a yes and no questionnaire.
SCALE INTERPRETATION
YES This means that the respondents
agree or comply with the statement
within the questionnaire.

NO This means that the respondents

disagree with the following statement.