Long Distance Parenting of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and Its Impact to the Academic Performance of Pupils in Bayabasan Elementary School Nasugbu, Batangas: Input to an Action Plan

Authors

  • Ronald Ramos

Keywords:

Long distance parenting, OFW

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are known to be the new heroes of this generation. One of the problems encountered by this group of people, which made them decide to work abroad, is the unstable economic status of the country. OFWs are Filipino workers who work abroad to earn a living in order to sustain their families here in the Philippines. A child usually seeks for the attention of the parents. In a typical household, the parents are the ones in-charge to take care of the child. But having an OFW parent/s affects the academic performance of the child.

METHODS

The study includes the description of the respondents, research instruments, construction of the instrument, data gathering procedure, and statistical treatment of data. The study has of five parts namely: research design, respondents of the study, data gathering procedure, research instrument, data analysis and statistical treatment.

RESULTS

Most of the respondents have low performance in their academic grades due to lack of guidance from their OFW parent. There is significant relationship between parental involvement and academic performance of the pupil-respondents during the migration of the OFW parent. There is significant relationship between responses of respondents regarding long distance parenting and profile variables.

DISCUSSIONS

There is significant relationship between impact of Long Distance parenting and profile variables of the respondents. The computed significant value of 5.16, 5.64 and 5.70 were all greater tom the t-tabular value of 2.31 with 8 degree of freedom at 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected. This implied that pupils who were far away from their parents developed a behavior, which might affect their school performance and their discipline.

Published

2019-01-18