Impact of Human Needs to the Motivation of Unemployed Filipinos in North Caloocan

Vol.3, No.1C

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between human needs and the motivation of unemployed Filipinos in North Caloocan City. To analyze and collect data for the study, the researchers created a survey questionnaire, which was used as the main instrument for data collection through purposive sampling of 200 unemployed Filipinos living in North Caloocan. Three licensed Psychometricians validated the survey questionnaire: Ms. Candice Laine D, Martin, RPm Mr Alex Adrian Cabradilla, RPm, and Mr. Renz Appolo Gallano, RPm. 

The questionnaires were administered to the respondents through Google Forms. To find the respondents participating in this study, the researchers posted online the information about the study in a group explicitly created for the residents of North Caloocan. The information of every respondent will be kept and used confidentially. 

Results showed no significant relationship between the independent variable (autonomy, relatedness, competence) and the vii-dependent variable (intrinsic, extrinsic motivation). The researchers assessed respondents' human needs and motivation by asking how strongly they agreed or disagreed with a specific question or statement. The Numerical Value (3, 2, 1), Verbal Interpretation (agree, neutral, disagree), and Overall Weighted Mean (2.34-3.00, 1.67-2.33, 1.00-1.66) comprise the Likert Scale.

According to the data gathered by the researchers, the respondents in this study range in age from 18 to 27 years old, got the highest percentage which is sixty-one percent (61%), with the majority being male with fifty-four-point five percent (54.5%), and single as their civil status with one hundred seventy-one (171) with eighty-five percent (85%). In terms of respondents' unemployment status, the researchers concluded that the majority of respondents have been out of work for 9 to 12 months due to the closure of working establishments during the pandemic forty percent (40%) or eighty (80) out of two hundred (200) respondent, for the Unemployment reason of the respondents, is due to closure of the working establishment during the pandemic fifty-six point five percent (56.5%) with one hundred and thirteen (113) respondents. 

According to the data, they had a moderate level of autonomy at ninety-seven percent (97%), competence at fifty-six percent, and relatedness as human needs at fifty-point five percent (50.5%). A moderate to a high level of intrinsic motivation was forty-seven-point five percent (47%), and a moderate level of extrinsic motivation was forty-seven-point five percent (47.5%).