Research I
Research I
The Effect of Broken Family to the Academic Performance of the Junior High
School Students of Saint Theresa College of Tandag, Inc.
A Research Study Presented to the Faculty of the Senior High School Department
Saint Theresa College of Tandag, Inc.
Tandag City
In partial fulfilment
Of the requirements for the Applied Track Subject
Research I
Submitted by:
Regina D. Yparaguerre
Ricklyn Jay J. Dua
S.Y. 2017-2018
SAINT THERESA COLLEGE OF TANDAG, INC.
Senior High School Department
Tandag City, Surigao del Sur
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The researchers would like to express their greatest gratitude and appreciation to
the following personalities who have been part and contributed them to their overall
success.
The researchers were very grateful to the Almighty God for his given wisdom
This research could not have been completed successfully without the
They are extremely indebted to their adviser Mr. Glen Prado Serrano for his
invaluable assistance, guidance, comments and immeasurable suggestion and for the
lectures that were helpful during the course which made this research work possible.
Their gratitude also goes to their family who offered pieces of advices and
The Researchers
SAINT THERESA COLLEGE OF TANDAG, INC.
Senior High School Department
Tandag City, Surigao del Sur
DEDICATION
The researchers would like to dedicate this research firstly to the Junior High
Broken family. Also to their parents for the undying support, physically, morally
knowledge as an adviser who guided and molded them, throughout the work.
And lastly, to the Almighty God who gave them strength, courage and wisdom.
His undying love and guidance gave us the courage to make this research a successful
one.
The Researchers
SAINT THERESA COLLEGE OF TANDAG, INC.
Senior High School Department
Tandag City, Surigao del Sur
ABSTRACT
Children who belong to a broken home are the ones who suffer the most. When
the parent decides to separate, the children will be affected emotionally, mentally and
socially. According to Ruksana Saikia a Research Scholar from India, children who
make problem, rivalry and discontentment in the school or other gathering place are
To be broken in the family, there must be some crises which are arisen out of
anything else that interferes with the upbringing of children that may lead to separation,
serious case that needs attention and needs to take a call of action. Broken homes are
experience by some of the students not only with those in poverty line families but same
The study focuses on the reasons behind a child’s academic performance that
belongs to a broken family and what are the changes happened to a child after the
separation. We will gather information about children affected by this issue through the
our study is to seek data and learn how broken family affects a child in terms of
educational aspect and anything else about it to gain an efficient result for
recommendation.
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what we aim to unveil. These study primarily looks on to probable out comes that a
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
CHAPTER I
Introduction
where a person first learns good values and morality, where the psychological, moral,
and spiritual foundation of a child lays. It is where we start to build blocks to create our
own life, seek for meaning of our existence and perform roles as a part of something
greater than ourselves. As such, it becomes the antecedent of our identity. But for those
who had less than this ideal situation growing up, much likely to visualize family as
happily be with their parents and children appreciated the love of their parent towards
them and one of the tasks that should be fulfilled by parents is to educate their children
because the education of children does not start from school. This is because live
schooling of students started from home. A home is the walls of the house but the
people who live on it make a home. A house only become a home when if complete. A
HEMM (1970), a broken home means a heroic in which the parents separated or
divorced or are no more by either as a result of death. Children from such home lack
proper care and security. The suffering of such children could be seen in differed
dimension.
A disunited home is a place where vital parts are unfortunately missing. Where
family value is lacking and household ties are hostilely and inevitably cut. Being into a
broken family gives a lot of effects in a teenager. The emotional stress of a divorce
alone can be enough to stunt your child’s academic progress, but the lifestyle changes
and instability of a broken family can contribute to educational outcomes. Giwa (1997),
have also investigated the various factors within the students home background or
family that affect their academic performance in school, variable such as socio-
economic status, family size, birth order, parental attitude child rearing practices
parental absence or presence have been found to affect social and intellectual learning
performance academically. It would appear, then, that broken homes may present a
very serious danger to the emotional, personality, and mental adjustment of the young
The aim of this paper is to throw some light about the effects of broken home to
the academic performance of a child. In this study, it would create sympathy to a child
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who is a member of a broken family. Also, this would make an essential conclusion on
The piece of work hitched on the theories and concepts that are akin to the
study. After the classification of children who belong to broken family, the process of
distributing the research materials follows. The data will then gathered and will be used
The study is main pointing on how broken family affects a child in terms of
academic performance. The purpose of the study is to examine the impact or the effects
Shown in the conceptual framework, the box with a green color contains the main
of a child, how broken family affects. The three boxes with yellow color contain the
effects of the issue to a certain child (behavioural, emotional and mental). After the data
will be gathered from the survey, the data will be interpreted that will become as the
main basis that would derived from the outcome of the study.
The last lower box contains the result of those behavioural, emotional, and
Broken Family
The primal intention of having this study is to know the consequences of broken
family to a child’s academic performance and to derive with good conclusions and
The study only focuses on the effects of broken homes to a child’s academic
performance. The scope of it is limited only to the students of Saint Theresa College
who are experiencing the issue of broken family. The respondents are also bounded in
number as of the survey questionnaires only have 20 copies. The survey will be
conducted in the said school and the information gathering will be done on the month of
March 2018.
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sympathized but to be attended properly with all the might to help and understand the
behaviour they’re showing. This study would be beneficial to students who suffer from
low academic performance due to a broken family. Teachers will be more informed of
the aftermath of broken homes to a child’s learning and will show a better approach to
At the end of the data analysis, recommendations will be made for immediate
action so that children from such homes will be able to benefit from school learning.
Definition of Terms
To understand clearly and easily grasp this study, the following terms are defined:
Domestic violence – the cause of physical injury by one family or household member.
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Efficient – capable of producing desired results without wasting materials, time and
energy.
Family – the basic unit of society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their
children.
Rivalry – a state of situation in which people or groups are competing with each other.
Chapter 2
The forgoing literatures and studies are relevant to the present study because
the concepts, findings, and conclusions explain further the summary, observations and
Related Studies
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illegitimacy of children, the label of adopted child, broken home, divorce and parental
deprivation. Such abnormal conditions of the home, are likely to have a detrimental
effect on school performance of the child he asserts. Schultz (2006) noted that if
adolescents from unstable homes are to be compared with those from stable homes, it
would be seen that the former have more social, academic and emotional problems.
Levin (2001), also states that parents are probably the actors with the clearest
extent, there simple evidence to show that marital instability brings about stress,
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Some children irrespective of home background or structure may work hard and
become successful in life. Moreover, Ayodele (2006) stated that the environment where
a child finds himself/herself goes a long way in determining his learning ability and
stimulating, some students find it difficult to cope in school and may eventually dropout
of school. Ichado (1998) notes that the environment in which the students come from
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But not all children who came from a broken home are affected negatively. But
according to Dacey and Travers not all children from a broken family exhibits negative
effects, some of them grow strong and healthy and later they are one who supports their
family.
and negative or poor performance. The factors namely habits, family background,
perseverance, attitudes, interests – all these affect academic achievement in school and
concluded that if these variables are modified and attitude changed positively, then the
Related Literature
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Accepting the idea of having a broken family can cause some emotional
problems to children, this problem sometimes end up of having trouble in meeting their
(“Growing Up with a single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps” Harvard University Press
1994), Children who have divorced parents are approximately two times more expected
to drop out of high school than those children whose parents are intact.
Ajila and Olutola (2007), Nzewuawah (1995) are of a similar opinion that the
home environment has been recognized as having a relationship with the academic
achievement of students. Scales and Roehlkepartain (2003), are of the opinion that the
family and its structure play a great role in children’s academic performance. In most
academic performance.
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have a more difficult time catching up with their studies and their extra-curricular
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activities in school rather than individuals who have a complete family or blended
in school; I don’t let my parents’ separation be a reason for me to destroy my life just
Insights Gain
We learned that having a broken family is not easy and it can affect the academic
performance of those who are part of this line. And as we observed, mostly, they take it
This dilemma may build a gap between the closeness of the parent and the child
that eventually may cause an everlasting damage to their relationship. But not all
children who came from a broken home experiences failure in their academic
performance some of them are not affected much of the situation. Like, instead of
feeling down they make it their inspiration to strive hard. We know that once a family
splits caused by a conflict, every member is affected and it is their choice on how to
react in this situation and we’ve realized that not all individuals treat this condition as the
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presented the research design which utilized the research
environment and respondents, the instrument used, data gathering and statistical
treatment.
RESEARCH DESIGN
This study made use of the descriptive method since it described the existing
data gathered through the giving of questionnaires and after which it was interpreted
and evaluated.
Tandag Inc. who was experiencing the problem of broken family. 20 respondents
coming from Junior High school will be selected using Purposive sampling.
Figure 1
Table 1
Research Environment
Tandag City has two operating Colleges School, one is the Surigao Del Sur
State University (SDSSU) was located in Barangay Rosario Tandag City and the other
one is the Saint Theresa College of Tandag Inc., Dagoc-doc, Tandag City. But this
study fucoses on the Junior High School Department of Saint Theresa College.
Figure 2
LOCATION MAP
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
which was made by the researchers with the guidance of the research adviser.
After the construction of the survey questionnaire, copies are printed clearly and
were distributed to the chosen 20 respondents of Saint Theresa College of Tandag Inc.
The respondents were requested to answer the survey questions with full honesty and
gave it to the researchers for interpretation and analysis. In order to reach the expected
time of the research to be finish, the group of the researches was divided into three
in categorizing the questions and finding appropriate sentences in order for the
respondents to easily comprehend the research questions. For this reason, the
researchers spent a lot of time and efforts for the fulfilment of the research goals.
The following statistical treatment was applied in order to analyze and interpret
the data:
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The simple percentage and ranking was the result of the number of respondents
who answered his/her chosen letter per item which was the frequency and then divided
it to the overall number of respondents and multiplies it with 100 which was the
constant.
The formula:
P= f/n x 100
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SAINT THERESA COLLEGE OF TANDAG, INC.
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QUESTIONNAIRE
This questionnaire has been designed to collate views from Junior High School
Please check [√] or supply the necessary answers as required. All information
2) Age .........
specify.................................................................
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5) If you are not staying with both parents, why are you not?
THE PROBLEM
specify…………………………………..
7) If you are staying with a guardian, how many children does your guardian
have?
A) 1 [ ] B) 2 [ ] C) 3 [ ] D) 4 [ ] E) 5 or more [ ]
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8) If you live with a guardian, are you in any way related to your guardian?
Yes [ ] No [ ]
A) Uncle/Aunt [ ] B) Grandmother/Grandfather [ ]
C )Deceased[ ] D) Other
specify………………………….
12) Would you say that conditions at home affect your performance at school?
Yes [ ] No [ ]
D) Other, specify……………………………………………………..
14) If your parents are divorced, do you think they are aware of the problems
Yes [ ] No [ ]
16) If your parents are divorced, do you think that will prevent you from