The Negative Effects of Bullying to the Grade 7 Learners in Paliparan National High S.Y. 2018 - 2019

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Bullying is still rampant, and it seems to be a never-ending issue in our society, particularly inside the school premises. Young learners are the most active and involved, either as victims or bullies. And this was proved by the widespread news about schools' bullying incidents recently. This occurrence only signifies that those learners who are involved, the victims and bullies, do not fully understand its consequences and its negative effects. Therefore, it is important for the school to re-inform and strengthen the students' awareness on negative effects of bullying, so it will lessen and eventually end.

METHODS

The researchers used Descriptive Survey Research Design to be able to identify the negative effects of bullying on the forty-five (45) learners from Grade 7 level of PNHS. Purposive sampling was utilized on the research for the study is focused only on the identified learners who experienced bullying who based on the survey result are mostly Grade 7 students. A survey questionnaire was also employed to determine the harmful effects of bullying to the learners of Grade 7 level in PNHS. The Result of the survey questionnaire was tabulated and Graph was used to show the ranking of the respondents' answers.

RESULTS

The result shows that the most dominant type of bullying in school is verbal which affects 19 respondents out of 45. In terms of reason, the most prevailing reason is that those who bully others are said to be just having fun. And the alarming negative effect of bullying leads to absenteeism, low academic performance, and dropping out of school.

DISCUSSIONS

The research shows that that verbal bullying is the most common type experienced by the learners from their schoolmates or classmates. 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.