A Survey on the Response and Actions of the Junior High School Students in St. Mary's College, Quezon City towards the Different Types of Bullying

Abstract

The occurrence of bullying varies by age and gender group of any individual. As such, the descriptive study aims to determine the response of the students regarding the cases of bullying, to promote awareness to the community so they will be able to properly address the issue. The study was conducted using a survey questionnaire given to Junior High School students batch 2017-2018 in St. Mary's College, Quezon City. The researchers performed a school-based stratified random sampling of the population. Data shows that55.83% out of the 120 respondents have witnessed or experienced bullying in school. The percentage of verbal bullying in grades 7 -10 is 75.83%, followed by 32.5%for physical bullying, 25%for social bullying, and 23.33% cyber-bullying. 70.83% of the population answered with not-reported while 16.67% answered reported. The highest percentage of reasons why students have not reported the incident is 49.17% to avoid quarrels, while the highest percentage for those who answered to whom it was reported was to the parent/sibling with 48%. According to the results, verbal bullying is the most recurrent type of bullying. Students either reported the incidents of bullying to the parent/sibling, or not-reported to avoid quarrels among the other students and bullies.