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CHAPTER 1Introduction

Cases of bullying are common these days and mostly retain horrible

memories of their school life, in some or large part is due to the bullying they

experienced, and this affects who that person will become physically, mentally,

emotionally, and academically.

Bullying can come in many forms or ways, but it always follow its definition

that makes it bullying, which is “the use of superior strength or skill or influence to

intimidate someone or to force him or her to do what one wants”(Wikipedia). All

those forms of bullying play a large impact on a person and will surely affect his or

her growth and worth as a human being and this is a must that people should tackle

and look into and people or children or teens must not keep silent about, but instead

gain the courage to fight it. To feign ignorance of it when others are being bullied is

no different than being the bully as well. “If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a

mouse and it says he’s neutral, the mouse won’t appreciate its neutrality”(Desmond

Tutu).

Statement of the Problem

The purpose of this study is to identify the different cases of bullying among

College of Engineering and Technology students at the University of Saint La Salle

for academic year 2015-2016.

Specifically, this study seeks to answer the following questions:

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1. What are the different types of bullying among students?

2. What are the perceived causes of bullying among students?

3. How does bullying affect a student’s physical, mental, and academic

performance?

Significance of the Study

This research is important to the following;

University of Saint La Salle College of Engineering Students. Data in this

study gained may help them be aware and wary against bullying and may proceed

to have the abilities to stand up against bullying.

USLS Teachers. The findings wil help the teachers have more awareness

towards bullying among the students.

Parents and Guardians. This research may help the parents or guardians of

the said students to have more awareness among them.

Scope and Limitations

This study focuses on the cases of bullying among female and male college

Engineering students at the University of St. La Salle for the first semester of the

acaemic year 2015 – 2016. Respondents are commonly aged 16 – 21 years old, and

will be chosen to answer the survey questions. The study will cover the causes of

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bullying among the students, the different types of bullying, and how it affects the

students in terms of physical, mental, and academic aptitude.

Because of limited resources , respondents, and their personal privacy, this

study will not be able to cover a broader range of bullying and its more specific

causes and effects. This study will also not be covering the specific factors affecting

the emotions that cause bullying. The research wil be conducted during the month

of September throughthe month of October.

Definition of Terms

Bullying. Conceptually, bullying is the use of superior strength or skill or influence to

intimidate someone or to force him or her to do what one wants(Wikipedia).

In this study, the term refers to the act or doing of the student respondents

or group of students making use of their physical or mental or academic

Material or other items to influence and intimidate another individual

or group of individuals by force and make them obey to what one wants.

Bully. Conceptually, a bully is a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who

habitually harass and intimidate smaller or weaker people.

In this study, a bully refers to the student or group of students commiting

the act of bullying wherein the said student/s intimidate or harass other

students.

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CHAPTER 2Review of Related Literature

Definitions of Bullying

        Bullying refers to the act of one person or group of people to demonstrate superior

prowess in terms skill or power or intelligence or ability or talent or etc to another group of

people or individual to force dominance. Bullying takes many forms, it can be physical

bullying where the physical body gets harmed, mental bullying where a person’s mental

state (emotion) are being harmed as well, it can be prejudicial or racial where one’s race is

the subject of bullying, it can be cyber where bullying takes place on the internet, it can be

social bullying where one is being cast as an outcast from among the social group, or being

backbited or the creation of false rumors, it can also be sexual bullying wherein unwanted

sexual gestures are being forced on a party.

        Bullying can also be with the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or

aggressively dominate others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential

prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical

power, which distinguishes bullying from conflict. Behaviors used to assert such domination

can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be

directed repeatedly towards particular targets, rationalizations for such behavior sometimes

include differences of social class race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, appearance,

behavior, body language, personality, reputation, lineage, strength, size or ability. If bullying

is done by a group, it is called mobbing.

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        Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK has no legal definition of

bullying. while some U.S states have laws against it. Bullying is divided into four basic types

of abuse - emotional (sometimes called relational, referred also as mental), verbal, physical

and cyber. it typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation. bullying

ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may

have one or more “lieutenants” who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully, in

his/her activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse and

may come in ranks. Those undergoing bullying will have different effects depending on the

type of bully, ranging from body harm, depression, suicide, rage, anxiety, change in mental

state, and sometimes becoming the bully themselves. (“Bullying”, 2015)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying

Causes of Bullying

        There Are Different Causes to Why Bullying Happens, It Depends Entirely on the

bully’s being, his/her life, past experiences, perspectives, emotions, attitude, behavior,

family, friends, people around him/her and his/her personalities, and most of the time there

are always intentional or unintentional motives, that the bully does, these ranges to a bully’s

reason for doing so, for a bully always has a reason unconscious or not for Bullying another

person or party. Bullying becomes a behavior a person commits, and becomes his/her

hobby since “Bullying is a learned behavior. Home is where kids get their first lessons in

moral education”(Coloroso, 2002).

Barbara Coloroso (2002).

        “Some people bully to get power, they think if you push people around and make them

do what you want them to do you will get noticed. They think that gets their name out there

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that makes them feel cool they get attention they become popular.but some bullies do it just

because they like to hurt people see the victim cry and if the victim has to the nerve to not

respond the bully has no pity.Most people think if you are popular you can get away with

things that they know isn't right.Some common causes of bullying is when kids don't have

enough supervision they think they can get away with anything, other causes is that some

people just have an aggressive personality, and because they have they low self-confidence

issues.”.

        A dysfunctional family is not a guarantee that a child will become a bully. However, a

large number of bullies come from homes where there is little affection and openness..

Bullies can sometimes be in need of control for they want power.  Kids who push others

around are often driven by the need for power. They enjoy being able to subdue others. Also

in addition that may cause Bullying to spread is that Bullying behavior gets rewarded. Most

people don’t do this intentionally; however, the perpetrator is inadvertently rewarded anytime

victims give up their lunch money or belongings. They also get rewarded by gaining

popularity, attention or the power of having others afraid of them. Bullies can also come from

their emotions irregularity if not properly controlled or sometimes Some children just either

lack empathy or just relish seeing others in pain (sadistic).

http://nobullying.com/common-causes-of-bullying/

http://umshw.usd116.org/groups/stellarbullyproject/wiki/542c3/

Causes_and_Effects_of_Bullying.html

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Studies on Bullying

    Everyone knows that school bullies torment their peers to compensate for low self-

esteem, and that they are scorned as much as they are feared. But "everyone" got it wrong,

according to Jaana Juvonen, a professor of developmental psychology whose decade of

groundbreaking research on mean kids and their hapless victims is changing the way

parents and schools think about bullying. Most bullies have almost ridiculously high levels of

self-esteem, Juvonen’s research has found. What’s more, they are viewed by their fellow

students and even by teachers not as pariahs but as popular — in fact, as some of the

coolest kids at school.

Juvonen shared highlights of her myth-busting research earlier this week with a rapt

audience of faculty and staff colleagues at the Faculty Center as this year’s featured lecturer

in the Emerging Research Series. A collaborative effort among the Academic Senate, Staff

Assembly and Campus Human Resources, the series began four years ago as a way to

bring faculty and staff together for an engaging, educational forum.

Bullying — which runs the gamut from physical aggression to the spreading of nasty rumors

via cyberbullying — is a subject of growing public concern. Yet Juvonen recalled that when

she and her UCLA colleagues began their research a decade ago, "it was very much a

challenge for us to convince our audiences that bullying is a problem. Ten years ago — and

even today in some parts of the country and in some families — there was a belief that

bullying is just part of growing up … and that these experiences are even needed by the

victims because they ‘help build character.’"

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To the contrary, she said, "we have learned that bullying can have devastating

consequences" — most tragically, those cases where victims of bullying have committed

suicide (Lin, 2012).

Judy Lin (2012)

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/bullying-jaana-juvonen-233108

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CHAPTER 3Methodology

Research Design

    This study sought to determine the different cases of the problem, specifically the different

cases of bullying, how bullying affects, and how and why bullying takes place among the

selected University of Saint La Salle Engineering Students, during the first semester of

academic school year 2015-2016. Data were gathered through survey with the aid of

research-made questionnaires

Respondents

    Participants Involved Are 40 Engineering Students From University of Saint La Salle.

Composing of 20 Male Students and 20 Female Students, Ranging From Years 16-21, they

were selected to answer the survey questionnaire during their free time on U-Week.

Research Instruments

    A Research-made Questionnaire was created to conduct a Survey and Gather

Information and Data, it is the main and only instrument of the study. The questionnaire was

composed with a total of 5 questions, which 2 of the 5 had sub questions, providing these

questions with answers, we would be able to answer the specific and general objectives of

the study. The Research Questionnaires was approved and validated by a class adviser

before survey was conducted and reproduced.

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Procedure for Data Collection

      The Following Steps Were Done During Data Collection:

1. The different questions on the questionnaire was made by basing it on the specific

and general objectives of the study, it was approved and validated by the subject

teacher and a letter was added to the final paper before being reproduced asking for

the participant’s consent to answer the questionnaire.

2. after determining the amount of participants which is 40, and after getting the main

research questionnaire validated and approved, the questionnaire was reproduced

into the number of participants for the survey

3. participants were asked around the campus during U-Week on their free time, asking

a moment of their time and their consent on answering on the survey questionnaires.

after they were done answering, we collected the papers

Data Treatment and Analysis

    Information gained from the survey were organized, and analyzed.  Final results were

presented in tabular and graphical form.  Frequency and percentage counts were used to

determine the cases of bullying, specifically the different cases of bullying, how bullying

affects, and how and why bullying takes place among students.

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CHAPTER 4

Presentation, Analysis, and Interpretation of Data

The main objective of this study is to identify the causes of smoking among

selected college students of the University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City.

Respondents totaling 40 students aged 17-21 years old both male and female from

the College of Business and Accountancy were chosen to participate in the survey.

The following tables illustrate the major findings. Discussions and implications

of the findings are also provided.

Table 1. Are you aware of Bullying? What kind?____________________________________________________ Cases of Bullying                Frequency                 Percentage____________________________________________________ Physical 36 90Cyber 36 90Sexual 30 75Emotional 34 85Racial 31 77.5Others 3 7.5____________________________________________________                                                       40 100% ____________________________________________________              

Table 1 presents the awareness of the respondents on what types of bullying

are they aware of. Most of the respondents are fully aware of physical and cyber

bullying which is the common bullying case. While sexual bullying are the least

bullying cases.

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Table 2. Have you experienced bullying?____________________________________________________ Experienced Bullying                Frequency                 Percentage____________________________________________________ No  12 30Yes 28 70____________________________________________________                                                        40                                100% ____________________________________________________              

Table 2 show on how many of the respondents have experienced bullying

and as expected most respondents have experienced bullying. Out of 40, 28

respondents have experienced bullying while the rest did not experienced bullying at

all.

Table 3. What kind of bullying have you experienced?____________________________________________________ Cases of Bullying                 Frequency                 PercentageExperienced____________________________________________________ Physical 16  40Cyber 8 20Sexual  1 2.5Emotional 15 37.5Racial 5 12.5Others 1 2.5____________________________________________________                                                       40                            100% ____________________________________________________              

Table 3 shows on what cases of bullying does the respondents who said yes

have experienced. It shows here that most of them experienced physical and

emotional bullying. While the least experienced is being sexually bullied.

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Table 4. What are the effects of bullying?____________________________________________________ Effects of Bullying                Frequency                 Percentage____________________________________________________ Depression 34 85Academic Problems 26 65Decrease of Self-Esteem 31 77.5Injuries 19 47.5Breakdown 21 52.5Nervousness 24 60Suicidal Thoughts 28 70Anger 29 72.5Mental Change 27 67.5____________________________________________________                                                       40                                100% ____________________________________________________              

Table 4 shows on what are the effects of bullying to the one who are being

bullied and the common effects are Depression and Decrease of Self-Esteem. And

the least effect are injuries although physical bullying is the most common case of

bullying.

Table 5. Factors that starts bullying?____________________________________________________ Effects of Bullying                Frequency                 Percentage____________________________________________________ Family 23 85Other Bullies 26 65Neglection 21 77.5Peers 29 47.5Mental State 26 52.5____________________________________________________                                                 40 100% ____________________________________________________              

Table 5 shows that being bullied is the reason why some people also bullies other people, but neglection are the least factor that starts bullying.

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CHAPTER 5 Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations

Summary of Findings  

    From the foregoing discussions, the following statements highlight the major

findings:

1. Most of the cases of the bullying are physical and cyber bullying and the least

cases of bullying is sexual bullying.

2. Most of the people have experienced bullying in their life and 12 out of 40

have not experienced being bullied.

Conclusion

    Based on the major findings, the following conclusions were drawn:

1. Data appears that peer influence can greatly motivate teenagers to engage

in smoking             (Ching, 2011).  

2. It seems that a majority of the respondents are quite knowledgeable about

the causes of smoking. This perhaps could be attributed to their exposure to media

and educational propaganda (Cruz, 1998).

Recommendations

    On the basis of the preceding findings and conclusion, the following

recommendations are set forth:

1. It is recommended that students who engage in smoking on a regular basis

be informed seriously of the negative effects of smoking on their physical

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well-being. This can be done by asking them to attend health seminars at

school and in their immediate or nearby communities.