Notre Dame of Tacurong College

Senior High School Department

City of Tacurong

UNDERSTANDING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT'S STRATEGIES FOR

MANAGING ACADEMIC STRESS AND PERFORMANCE PRESSURE

Name of member:
Leader: Mamalangkay, Omaher D. Tamparong, John Jairo A,
Falle, Gregorio C. Tudon, Sittie Ayesha B.
Panizales, Charles A. Valdez, Geoffrey R.
Rala, Mariel Keith M.

Question #1: State the question

Participants Transcription Translation

Armiah
1. Have you ever Yes as a student yung mga Yes, as a student, the common
experienced common experiences ng mga experiences of the stress that I have
academic stress stress na na experience ko sa experienced in school is the Peer
and pressure in school is yung Peer pressure at pressure and also, what do you
your school? As a saka, yung tawag dito hmm.. yung called this hmm.. the too much
student, what are too much responsibility na responsibility that I do in school as I
the common ginagawa ko sa school bilang Lagi always become a leader. (Followed
academic stress akong nagiging leader. (Followed up question) - because I have not
that you had up question) - kasi hindi lang only felt it for a while, it seems like I
experienced? siyang pang saglitan na nafefeel have really experienced it for days.
How can you say ko, kumbaga parang days ko that I would really cry and I really
that you are talaga siya na eexperience. na had a breakdown.
experiencing iiyak talaga Ako at nag-breakdown
academic stress? talaga ako
2.Having Not really. Kumbaga mas naga Not really. I think I strived even
experience in strive pa gani ako. (Followed up harder. (Followed up question) - I
stress and question) - I can say so kasi nga can say so because through my
pressure, does through may experiences. Hindi experiences. I'm not pinned down by
these pin you naman ako Gina pin down ni tong this stress, it seems that I'm more
down stress na ito, kumbaga mas na encouraged to strive for the best. To
academically? eencourage pa ako na mag strive show people who put pressure on
How can you say ng best. Para ipakita sa mga tao na me that I can do it.
so? Can you give naga pressure saakin na kaya ko.
 an example?
3.As a senior high Hmmm.. Yeah does academic, Hmmm.. Yeah does academic, those
school student, is those strategies is useful naman strategies are useful for me to use
it necessary for para gamitin ko kasi with those because with those strategies I can
you to utilize strategies I can cope up. and with cope up. and with those strategies I
those said those strategies Hindi ko don't want to be pinned me down
strategies to help inaayahan na ma pin down ako academically by the stress that I
in dealing with academically ng stress na, na have experienced.
the academic experience ko.
stress and
pressure that you
are experiencing?

Question #2: State the question

Participants Transcription Translation

5.If these stress hmm... Like I said sa una is, hmm... Like I said in the first one is,
are pinning you hmm... does stress that I am hmm... does stress that I am
down? Can you experiencing is not actually experiencing is not actually pinning
explain exactly pinning me down but hmm.. yeah me down but hmm.. yeah that's not
how you Hindi nga yon Hindi Ako Gina pin really Pinning me down by that
experience those down ng stress na yon. hmm... I do stress. hmm... I do experience stress
kinds of experience stress but Hindi naman but I don't feel down under that
pressures? ako pini pin down Nung mga stress.
stress na yon.

6.If these stresses hmm... Like I said Yung mga
are holding you stress na, na experience ko are not
back, can you holding me back, instead actually
resist the pressure Gina motivate Ako Nung stress na
you got to have yon. hmm... do I experience
an academic pressure I can resist naman sa
performance? pressure kasi I have hmm...
suffered I expect and with it that
suffered expect I can prevent my
self from hmm... na damahin
masyado yung pressure na
binibigay saakin ng mga tao.
hmm... Like I said, the stresses that I
experienced are not holding me
back, instead they actually motivate
me. hmm... do I experience pressure
I can resist the pressure because I
have hmm... suffered I expect and
with it that suffered expect I can
prevent my self from hmm... feeling
too much the pressure that people
give me person.

Question #3: State the question

Participants Transcription Translation

7.In what ways Hmm.. so yong ways na mga Hmm.. so the ways I coped up with
do you cope with coped up Ako with regards to regards to stress and academic
academic stress stress and academic pressure is by pressure is by sleeping, meditating
and pressure? sleeping, meditating hmm.. hmm.. exercising. So with
Can you give an exercising. So with exercising
example? hmm... minsan pag uwi ko ng
bahay ginagawa ko ito pag
exercise nito, pero most of the
time meditating kaya kung gawin
since yon lang Yung kaya ng body
ko.
8.Are these mechanism na ginagawa ko
coping effective talaga siya sa problem ko
mechanisms of kasi hmm... nakaka survive ako
yours effective on and dahil dito sa coping
your problem? mechanism na ito hindi Ako na
How can you say pipindown hindi ako hmm... na
so? didiscourag. and naga continue
parin Ako.
Are the effects of Sometimes I still feel the same
your coping pero meron din mga times na
mechanism good uplifted yung spirit ko. Like Hindi
for you or do you siya the same na, na dodown ako
still feel the and wala ako na fefeel actually,
same? How so? pero meron talaga mga times na
Can you explain parang wala talagang hmm... Wala
further? siyang masyadong na gagawa .
Kumbaga meron mga times na
rock bottom na talaga yong mga
problems and hindi siya kayang I
kwan ng coping mechanism ko
pero meron din naman mga times
na. Like I said nga dahil sa coping
mechanism ko is naga help din
siya talaga.
exercising hmm... sometimes when I
get home I do it when I exercise, but
most of the time I'm meditating so I
can do it since that's all my body can
do.
Hmm... what about the coping
mechanisms that I do, they are really
effective in my problem because
hmm... I can survive and because of
this coping mechanism, I'm not the
one who's going to be kept down,
I'm not the one who is hmm... the
one who's going to be discouraged.
and I still continued.
Sometimes I still feel the same but
there are also times when my spirit
is uplifted. Like it's not the same
anymore, I'm down and I don't really
feel like anything, but there are
times when it seems like there's
really nothing hmm... It doesn't have
much to do. It seems that there are
times when the problems are really
rock bottom and my coping
mechanism can't handle it, but there
are also times. Like I said, because
of my coping mechanism, he really
helped.