The Five-Pillars ofSelf-DisciplineanditsRelationshipto Students' Academic Performance

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, students tend to perform poorly if not fail due to habitual tardiness, cutting of classes, refusal to do assigned tasks, failure to submit outputs like project and other activities. Not only that these students do not perform well in class, these same students do not show respect for authority in and outside the school. These can be due to poor development of moral character of the students. Self-discipline is one of the most important and useful skills everyone should possess. This skill is essential in every area of life, and though most people acknowledge its importance, very few do something to strengthen. In this study, the factor that affects learning outcome and performance of a learner is obviously lack of self-discipline. Lack of self-discipline is a source of lowself-esteem of a learner becomes poor, it may be the cause of deterioration in studies.

METHODS

This is a descriptive study that made use of an adapted survey. The study was conducted in three national high schools in Laguna. In order to identify the respondents of the study, Slovin's formula was used, the computed total population of the respondents was 260. The instrument used underwent content validation as well as reliability test using the Cronbach's Alpha. Also, Pearson product moment correlation was utilized to determine whether there is a significant relationship between the Five-Pillars of Self-disciplines and Students' Academic Performance.

RESULTS

The study showed that the academic performance of Grade 10 students is "Satisfactory". Based on the findings some of the indicators Acceptance, Hard work and Industry have a significant relationship towards students' academic performance thus the null hypothesis was rejected. Will power and persistence were found out to have no significant correlation with academic performance and the null hypothesis that any of these dimensions have no significant correlation with academic performance was sustained.

DISCUSSIONS

The researcher recommends the School/teachers to maximize the student's potentials to enhance the self-discipline and improve academic performance, lessen failed and dropout students, motivate the students, to increase students' interest towards their studies, careful monitoring needs to be adopted and students' concerned should be referred to immediate guidance and counseling.