Philippine Christian University

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

DASMARIÑAS CAMPUS
AY.2018-2019
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
RATIONALE

IMPACTS OF STRESSFUL SITUATIONS TO THE BEHAVIORAL

PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED GRADE 11 HUMSS

STUDENTS OF PHILIPPINE CHRISTIAN

UNIVERSITY DASMARIÑAS,

A.Y 2018-2019

Description of the Title

Stress is the way of your body responding to any kind of demand; it is also a
state of mental or psychological behavior. It changes the mental health and emotions of
one’s mind. It is the mental issue that we need conquer. This work aims to address
impacts of stressful situations to the behavioral performance of selected grade 11
HUMSS students of J-Obadiah.

Problem Investigation

The perspective of the researchers is to know the impacts of stressful situations

to the behavioral performance of selected HUMSS 11 J- Obadiah students in Philippine
Christian University Dasmariñas, Cavite A.Y 2018-2019. The researchers also want to
elaborate the effects of the behavior performances of the students who are experiencing
stress. The focus of this research is to state issues or factors that may lead an individual
to undergo stress.

Purpose of Research

As a student, we can experience stress that sometimes it may lead into serious
mental health problems. The purpose of this research is to know and discover the
impacts of stress to HUMSS 11- J Obadiah and distinguish some of the effects of stress.
It answers sets of questions and problems that are needed to know in a research.
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INTRODUCTION

A.BACKGROUND OF STUDY

Stress is one of the common psychological problems that an individual can

experience due to everyday and rare life events whether it is positive or negative. In
psychology, stress is a feeling of strain and pressure. Stress is a type of psychological
pain (Wikipedia, 2010). It means that, stress is an experience that can occur to us in our
daily lives, it can affect to the people around us by having such pressures and tension
that we can sense and feel. Having such issues and problems to ourselves and the
people we interact with like our friends, family, colleagues and etc. It hugely affects a
person’s way of thinking, reaction and their interaction within the environment. Stress is
a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may
be a factor in disease causation (Merriam Webster, 2018). In other words, stress is also
can be serious in terms of factors that can affect us; it can affect our daily activities, our
thinking, how we act and how we feel that can lead to unjust behavior of ourselves.

Most of the people undergo in stress without even noticing it and they just ignore
their condition that sometimes it gets worse and serious. Stress might lead to worst
mental health problems. The impacts of why people specially students suffer from this is
because of loaded school works that may influence the factors that may affect students’
mind and behavior. These are the things that students commonly experienced.
Examinations, deadlines, pressure of combining paid work and study and etc. (Oxford
Brookes University, 2006). For that reason, stress can affect the students’ way of
thinking and behaviors. One of the factors is school works which means activities, doing
essays, submitting paper works, reviewing for the exams or taking exams. We, students
undergo in these types of situations in school and stress happens every time we do
tasks in school.

“But not all stress is bad. We each function best and feel best at our own optimal
level of physiological arousal we need some stress to get everyday things done. Too
little can lead to boredom and “rust out” – but too much can lead to “burn out”
(University of St. Andrews, 2018). Despite of all that, stress had some positive
outcomes to us students. We can get our school works and activities done. Being busy
and not being bored out by doing school works yet too much stress can lead us to much
more mental health problems. According to other researchers, adolescents, specifically
students, are having a hard time on perceiving their stress as individuals and learners.
Exposure on too much stress can be related to psychological symptoms such as
depression and anxiety (Charbonneau et al. in Moksnes et al. 2010). Furthermore,
having stress in such young age like us students, we should be careful not to overdo
things in school. Experiencing too much stress can lead us to extreme negativity and
angst towards the people around us including ourselves also. Concerning and affecting
to our behaviors, performances and activities we do so in our daily lives.

The researchers came up to know what are the typical impacts of stress to the
students are, aim to know if stress can affect to the academic performance of a student.
The researchers also want to know when do stress start and what are the possible
outcomes. Also have the knowledge what are the consequences that those students
undergoing when they are suffering from stress. There are questions that concern the
researchers have observed in behavioral performances on stress of students; there
should be a stable and concrete discernment of the impacts of stress and to find out the
reasons. In that case, there will be in greatest resolve to give an answer for the benefit
of the research study and moreover present and to show each bunch of people.

B.STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
This research study is entitled "Impacts of Stressful Situations to the Behavioral
Performance of Selected Grade 11 HUMSS Students of Philippine Christian University
Dasmariñas" aims to provide answers to the following questions along the research
period, A.Y 2018-2019:
1. What are the possible impacts of stress?
2. Why do we need to know more about stress?
3. How does stress affect the behavioral performance of selected students?
4. What are the stressful situations that students usually encounter?
5. Why the students experience stress?
6. What are the possible ways to manage and deal with stress?

C. SCOPES AND LIMITATIONS

The researchers have conducted this study to know the impacts of stress on the
behavioral performance selected grade 11 students of HUMSS J- Obadiah: with that,
the coverage of the study will revolve only on this aspect. This study focuses only to 43
students that take the strand of humanities and social sciences. This research will use is
descriptive method which is survey.

On the other hand, there are some areas of this study will not be included about
psychological thinking on stress. It will mainly focus on behavioral performance of
students on stress. This will not deal with mostly on effects of stress. Additionally, the
outcome of what stress affects the students will not be directly covered onto the
research. The issue of study is impacts of stress on the behavioral performance study
will be conducted in this academic year 2018-2019 of the Philippine Christian University.

D.SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

In this research study, it is provided by method of interviews, observation,

research and surveys. This research will be benefitted to the following:

HUMSS 11 J-Obadiah Students - These students can benefit by this research

because they are experiencing stress. They will know about the impacts of stress that
they are struggling. This research can really help then to clarify what is stress.

PCU-Dasmariñas Campus- Philippine Christian University and also in some schools

can also help them to know and discover stress. Just like HUMSS students, they are
also suffering from stress because of their academic subjects and due to school works.
They would definitely benefit from this study to spread awareness and understanding of
impacts of stress.

HUMSS teachers- Teachers also suffering from stress because of the students they
are handling and because of school works. Teachers’ job is also hard and can make
them stress. They are handling academic subjects so it is stressful for them. Teachers
can also learned and benefit from this study. By this research any group of people can
also benefited by this. Because a lot of people experiencing stress not just only for
students but also to all people. They will learn to discover and know stress and its
impacts.

Parents- In this study parents will be benefitted because of their children who are
experiencing stress or not. They may have an idea or knowledge what are the things
that he/she will do to lessen the stress of her/his children struggling from stress.

Future Researchers- The results of this study may benefit them and enable them to
know the impacts of stress and also the stressful situations that may concern them. To
be able to recognize their behavioral performances of themselves in school. This will
also serve as a reference or guide in their expected research paper. For them to identify
the use of writing a research paper and conduct the research properly.
 Philippine Christian University
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
DASMARIÑAS CAMPUS
AY.2018-2019
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

IMPACTS OF STRESSFUL SITUATIONS TO THE BEHAVIORAL

PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED GRADE 11 HUMSS

STUDENTS OF PHILIPPINE CHRISTIAN

UNIVERSITY DASMARIÑAS,

A.Y 2018-2019

Researchers:

Moreno, Jeanelle

Vargas, Michelle

Gallego, Shaira

Resco, Raniel

Espiña, Nelsie

Inojales, Kim

Palma, Maui