CHAPTER III

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

This chapter is concerned with the presentation and analysis of data gathering through the use

of questionnaire distributed to the respondents. This included the data about the demographic

profile of the respondents with regards to age, strand and GWA in first semester.

This study answered the following research questions;

1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of age, strand and GWA?

2. What are the factors that contribute to cyberbullying?

3. What are the effects of cyberbullying to your academic performance?

4. What are you doing to avoid being a victim of cybercrime?

Analysis of Demographic Data

The following table are composed of the respondents answers. This table shows the answer of

every respondents about their demographic profile.

Age Frequency Percentage

16 1 0.96

17 28 26.92

18 69 66.34

19 6 5.77

Total 104 100

Table 1. Presents the distribution of the different ages of the Grade 12 respondents. As

to their age, 1 respondents (0.96%) fell under the age of 16, while 28 respondents (26.92%) at

the age of 17, 69 respondents (66.34%) were at the age of 18, and 6 respondents (5.77%)

were at the age of 19. Therefore it is obvious that respondents with the age eighteen (18) is

dominant.

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Table 2. Strand of the respondents

Strand Frequency Percentage

St. M0ichael (HUMSS) 26 25

St. Uriel (STEM) 26 25

St. Raphael (STEM) 26 25

St. Gabriel (ABM) 26 25

Total 104 100

From the table above, out of 104 respondents it shows that 26 respondents (25%) are

from St. Michael (HUMSS), while 26 respondents (25%) from St. Uriel (STEM), 26

respondents (25%) are from St. Raphael (STEM), and 26 respondents (25%) are from St.

Gabriel (ABM). Basically, the four mentioned strand has the same respondents.

Table 3. Academic Performance of the Students

Academic Performance Frequency Percentage

100-95 6 6

94-90 68 65

89-85 29 28

84-80 2 1

Total 104 100

The table shows the first semester academic performance of Grade 12 students in San

Francisco Javier College (S. Y 2022-2023). 6 respondents (6%) were at the grade of 100-95,

while 68 respondents (65%) were at the grade of 94-90, 29 respondents (28%) has a grade of

89-85, and 2 respondents (1%) were at the grade of 84-80.

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Question 2. What are the factors that contribute to cyberbullying?

Factors Frequency Percentage

Because of incorrect 35 28.92

grammar I posted

unintentionally

The way I look online 54 44.62

I shared a lot of facebook 32 26.44

post

Total 121 99.98

Table 2. Presents the factors that contribute to cyberbullying. Out of 104 respondents, 35

of respondents (28.92%) states that it is because of incorrect grammar they posted

unintentionally while 54 respondents (44.6%) states that it is because of how they look online

and 32 respondents (26.44%) shows that it is due to sharing a lot of facebook post.

Question 3. What are the effects of cyberbullying to your academic performance?

Effects of cyberbullying to Frequency Percentage

academic performance

School avoidance 25 13

Stress 41 21

Unable to concentrate on my 18 9

studies

Negative thoughts 56 29

Low self-esteem 52 27

Total 192 100

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 From the table above, it is shown here the effects of cyberbullying on their academic

performance. Out of 104 respondents, 25 respondents with the percentage of 13% states that

the effects of cyberbullying to their performance is School avoidance while 41 respondents

(21%) chose Stress, 18 respondents (9%) says that they are unable to concentrate on their

studies, 56 respondents (29%) experienced negative thoughts and 52 respondents (27%) had

low self-steem. This actively demonstrate that having hegative thoughts as the effect of

cyberbullying is dominant.

Question 4. What are you doing to avoid being cybercrime?

Ways to avoid being Frequency Percentage

cybercrime

Ask help from parents 16 6.75

Block their accounts 47 19.83

Do not respond to the bully 57 24.05

Unfriend them on facebook 46 19.40

and other social media

Report the bully to the 26 10.97

authorities

Stay offline 7 2.95

Report their account on 38 16.03

facebook

Total 237 100

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From the table above, it represents the ways of respondents to avoid being cybercrime, 16

respondents (6.75%) asking help from their parents while 47 respondents (19.83%) blocking

the bully's account, 57 respondents (24.05%) do not respond to the bully, 46 respondents

(19.40%) unfriend the bully on facebook and other social media, 26 respondents (10.97%)

reports the bully to the authorities, 7 respondents (2.95%) stay offline and 38 respondents

(16.03%) report the bully's account on facebook.

Key Findings

1. Most of grade 12 students have their own phone and most of the prone to cyberbullying

most were 18 years old.

2. Out of 104 respondents, 68 of them has a general average of 90-94 in first semester.

3. Almost half of the respondents stated that they were being bullied because of their looks

online.

4. According to the survey result, these are the effects of cyberbullying on students academic

performance: Negative thoughts, low self-esteem, stress, school avoidance and unable to

concentrate on their studies. But negative thoughts as the effect of cyberbullying is dominant.

5. The study revealed that the majority prefered not to respond to the bully in order to avoid

being cybercrime.

Secondary Findings

1. Research revealed that even students has been cyberbullied and half of the respondents still

got general average of 90-94 in first semester.

2. Students who often being cyberbullied results to low self-esteem and afraid to participate

in class thats why some of the respondents got a general average of below 85.

3. As more children or students have contact with their devices, the likelihood of

cyberbullying has become more prevalent.

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 CHAPTER 1V

DJSCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

The main objective of this study was to determine the effects of cyberbullying on the

academic performance of grade 12 students in San Francisco Javier College. Survey research

design was adopted using questionnaire for gathering the data. Following the analysis of data

and discussion of findings, this chapter presented the summary of findings, conclusion and

recommendation.

Summary

This study was conducted to determine and answer if cyberbullying affects academic

performance of the grade 12 students in San Francisco Javier College. The quasi-

experimental research design was used in the study. A sample of 104 respondents was

selected from the total population of 153 grade 12 students in San Francisco Javier College.

The researcher used non-probability sampling technique for this study. To get the desired

data, researcher used survey questionnaire, and it was personally distributed by the

researchers. The data collected were evaluated with the use of descriptive statistics of

frequency and percentage.

Through the findings of this study the reseachers discovered that out of one hundred four

(104) respondents, sixty-nine (69) respondents is at the age of eighteen (18), while twenty

eight(28) of them were at the age seventeen (17), followed by six (6) respondents at the age

of nineteen (19), ang one (1) respondents at the age of sixteen. The section of St. Michael

(HUMSS), St. Gabriel (ABM), St. Uriel (STEM) and St. Raphael has the same 26

respondents. Also sixty eight (68) respondents has an average grade of 94-90, while twenty

nine respondents has an average grade of 89-85, six (6) respondent has an average of 100-95,

and two respondents has general average of 84- 80). The most dominant factors that

contribute to cyberbullying is the way they look online with fifty-four (54) respondents,

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followed by thirty five (35) respondents that experienced cyberbullying because of incorrect

grammar they posted unintentionally, and thirty two respondents state that they shared a lot

of facebook post. The dominant effects of cyberbullying performance of the respondents that

revealed from this study is Negative thoughts with the respondents of 56, followed by Low

self-esteem with the respondents of fifty two (52), Stress with the respondents of forty one

(41), School avoidance with a respondents of twenty five (25), and unable to concentrate on

their study with 18 respondents. The effective way to avoid being cybercrime is do not

respond to the bully with 57 respondents, followed by blocking the accounts with a

respondents of forty seven (47), Unfriend them on facebook and other social media with forty

six (46) respondents, Report their accounts on facebook with thirty eight (38) respondents,

Report the bully to the authorities with twenty six (26) respondents and the last is seven (7)

respondents that stay offline.

Findings of the Study

The salient findings of this study to the specific questions are as follow:

Problem 1. What is the demographic data of the respondents in terms of age, strand and

general weight average?

Age

As to their age, 1 respondent (0.96%) fell under the age of 16, while 28 respondents

(26.92%) at the age of 17, 69 respondents (66.34%) were at the age of 18, and the remaining

6 respondents (5.77%) were at the age of 19. Therefore, it is obvious that the respondents

with the age of eighteen (18) is dominant.

General Weight Average

Six (6) respondents has an average of 95-100, while sixty-eight (68) respondents has

an average of 90-94, twenty-nine (29) respondents has a grade of 85-89, and the two (2)

remaining respondents has 80-84 general weight average.

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Problem 2. What are the factors that contribute to cyberbullying?

Out of 104 respondents, 35 of the respondents (28.92%) state that it is because of

incorrect grammar they posted unintentionally while 54 respondents (44.6%) answered that it

is because of how they look online and 32 respondents (26.44%) answered that it is due to

sharing a lot of facebook post. It is obvious that the most dominant factors that contribute to

cyberbullying is because of incorrect grammar.

Problem 3. What are the effects of cyberbullying to your academic performance?

Based on the study, out of 104 respondents, 56 answered that the effect of

cyberbullying to their performance is negative thoughts (29%), 52 answered low self-esteem

((27%), 41 answered stress (21%) and school avoidance with a respondents of 25 (13%). The

majority of the respondents experienced negative thoughts.

Problem 4. What are you doing to avoid being cybercrime?

Base on the study, 16 respondents (6.75%) asking help from their parents while 47

respondents (19.83%) block the bully’s account, 57 answered (24.05%) do not respond to the

bully , 46 respondents (19.40%) unfriend the bully on facebook and other social media, 26

respondents (10.97%) reports the bullies to the authorities, 7 respondents (2.95%) stay offline

and 38 respondents (16.03%) report the bully’s account on facebook. It is obvious that the

most effective way to avoid being cybercrime is do not respond to the bully.

Conclusion

This study has demonstrated that the grade 12 students in San Francisco Javier College are

aware about cyberbullying and its effects. This study was conducted to examine the effects of

cyberbullying on academic performance of grade 12 students. The result from the findings

revealed that cyberbullying doesn't affect academic performance and the grades of the

respondents. The alternative hypothesis of this study is rejected therefore the researchers

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determine that there is no significant effect of cyberbullying on the academic performance of

grade 12 students in San Francisco Javier College.

Recommendations

Based on the findings drawn from this study the researchers made the following

recommendations:

1. Grade 12 students should avoid the use of social media when not exactly needed.

2. The students should wisely choose the person that they view and follow online.

3. Students should not be friends easily to people that they do not know online.

4. Grade 12 students should focus on their studies and avoid over exposure online.

5. Students should accept and be thankful to what they have and avoid thinking negative

thoughts for them to focus on good ones.

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 CHAPTER V

ACTION PLAN

Given the result of the study, the researchers has suggestion to the administration and faculty

staff to enhance and strengthen the awareness of the students about cyberbullying. We, the

researchers created an awareness campaign program with an objective of helping the students

about proper usage of social medias and ways to secure their online account which will help

them to avoid to become a victim of cyberbullying. The said program campaign will be held

at San Francisco Javier Collage-AR Narra, Palawan, Inc.

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