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

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

An issue about bullying is still rampant and seems a never-ending matter to 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 the involved learners both the victims and bullies don't fully understand its consequences and they are not fully aware on its negative effect. Therefore, it is important for the school to re-inform and strengthened the students' awareness on negative effect 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 to 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 based on the survey result -given to Grade 7 level population. 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 to show the ranking of the respondents' response on the study.

RESULTS

The result shows that the most dominant type of bullying in school is Verbal which affect 19 respondents out of 45. In terms of reason, the most prevailing reason for being a victim of bullying is just having fun. And the alarming negative effect of bullying leads to absenteeism to low academic performance and drop out.

DISCUSSIONS

The research found out that verbal bullying is the most common and dominant experienced by the learners from their schoolmates or classmates per se. The leading reason why the respondents experienced bullying from their classmates or schoolmates are just having fun of them. It was also discovered on the research that the prevailing negative effect of bullying to the Grade 7 learners of PNHS is resulting to rampant absenteeism as their only way to avoid bullying which eventually leads them to have low academic performance and some resorts to drop out of school.