Practical Research
Practical Research
INTRODUCTION
Rationale
severe consequences to the human health. It is part of the life of Filipino adults and
even university students because for them, it plays a vital role in the social world. It
can make you an outcast if you refuse to engage. In fact, most of the university
teenagers quite arises because nowadays, adolescents are more likely to take risks
According to Drinkaware (2014), there are several reasons why young people
drink. During puberty, it hits the higher risky behaviour of an individual and that time,
young people tend to take risks inaccurately because of their struggles to the two
important alteration of their brain. It is found that many of the teenagers drink to be
like their friends or in basically speaking, they want to fit in. They can also be
bombarded by examples such as in television, magazines and social media but the
most influential among them is social media which can spread images and ideas and
drinking is treated as one of a trend for them. On the other hand, some of them drink
to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, drinking may give a
positive feelings and relaxation however, it will only stay for a short term. When a
person remains drinking to cope up its stress, it is the time that the problem will
arise, instead of calming your nerves it will lead to medical and psychological
The presence of alcohol in the life of adolescents has negatively affected its
way of living which includes their studies. We are all aware that adolescence is the
most sensitive part in the life of an individual in which peers and even environment
has a big chance to influence its perspective. In addition, according to the Alcohol
Policy MD (2019), environment influences on alcohol use due to its acceptance and
facile availability such as its cheap price, presence of many outlets, and server
practices. This is why a numerous of teenagers are entail in the usage or even turn
who consume alcohol progressively increases with age and that the onset age is 12
years old. Scientific evidence suggests that early onset is associated to future
accidents, driving under influence, absenteeism at school and increased risk to use
aversion and peer pressure sensitivity, adolescents have a significantly higher risk of
binge drinking compared to most other age groups. (RehabSpot, 2010). According to
the Better Health Channel (2015), young people are at greater risk of harm from
alcohol compared to adults and drinking alcohol as a child will significantly increase
the risk of damage to the developing brain as the brain continues to develop into
your mid-twenties. It can also lead to drug problems later in life. The substance
adult identity, gaining parental and social autonomy, and learning how to construct
use may have negative effects on the physical development of brain structure that is
neurological research suggests that underage drinking can directly affect education
by altering the structure and function of the developing brain with far beyond
adolescence. (Brown et al., 2000; White & Swartzwelder, 2004). The usage of
alcohol also has an impact on the performance of a student through reducing their
Alcohol affected the teenagers too much in many aspects. In fact, in America,
alcohol is the number one “drug of choice” and more likely can kill more young
people than illegal drugs combined. Alcohol can change the lifestyle of a student,
instead of focusing in their studies, they much prefer to go out and drink with peers.
There are a lot of cases where teenagers involve to an accident because of drunk
driving, some also got an unintentional injury, engage in a physical fight and the
year-old girl has been gang-raped by her 6 drinking buddies. This is because alcohol
can lead to increase your sexual desire, change how you act and will make it hard
for you to think carefully and choose a good decision. It will also lead you to become
In the Philippines, there is a law which sets the minimum legal age for drinking
at 18 but there is still a widespread use of underage drinking. Many of them can get
alcohol from home with or without permission from their family. They can also get it
from their friends or they can buy it on their own discreetly. (Valbuena, J. P.,2006)
In Tagum City, there are also such cases particularly in Tagum City National
High School because of its big population. There are cases wherein some alcoholic
substance containers are found in the comfort room which is an evidence of teenage
drinking.
remain, its studies will probably fall behind and even forget that they are still
studying. They will find their involvement with such doings as enjoyable and they will
prevention of alcoholic addiction among the teenage students and to unravel the
behaviour. Through this, we are looking forward that the school itself, the parents as
well as the government to hear and open their eyes in this kind of problem. This
would serve as an eye-opener to everyone who is involved that it is not fine to drink
Second, we would like to give emphasis to this problem. To the parents, to the
market and to the government, it is a big problem to let teenagers welcome in this
kind of doings. This must be given a solution if we want to stop them in drinking and
Lastly, we would like to visualize and give importance to the teenage students
in Tagum City National High School, who are involve in this kind of actions, who
experience drinking alcohol and even cut classes to satisfy their cravings of alcoholic
substance.
Research Questions
2.How did you handle the troubles that you had experienced particularly in
your studies ?
3.Why did you keep on drinking liquor despite of the fact that you are still
underage?
Theoretical Lens
This research is anchored with the Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandura.
This theory states that ‘’ people learned through observing other’s behaviour and
others, from forms of an ideas how new behaviour are performed and from this
coded information serves as guides for action ‘’. This social learning theory explains
student learns how to drink alcohol through the influences with someone else usually
that the same course was not followed by all alcoholics. On that basis, he
established his clinical typology in which he differentiated alpha and beta alcoholics
in whom the physical dependency symptomatology was not a major medical function
alcoholism, making it more difficult to achieve abstinence. In other words, the theory
considered alcoholism as an addiction and a brain disease. The brain has been
Lastly, the prevailing theory on what factors drive a young person to consume
effects in terms of whether ‘’instigations" (factors that increase risk of the behavior)
or "controls" (factors that decrease the risk of the behavior), and whether they are
behavior). The theory suggests that most conduct is related to personal goals. Goals
that are inconsistent with conventional social values are tied to what Jessor calls
the possible effects of alcoholism and alcohol drinking among teenage students. It is
through this study that we are able to collect information about the reasons or factors
behind the existing problems of adolescents’ alcohol drinking. Also, through this
study, we will be able to determine its effects on the different aspects, especially to
We are confident that this study would serve as a key for the schools, parents
and even for the alcohol sellers to be more aware to the undying problem among the
youth in the country which is the alcohol usage and even addiction and would result
on totally banning the selling of alcohol to the minors. Additionally, for the
for the adult ones, if not stop it. The result would help the community to determine
the effects of drinking alcoholic beverages in order to assist the latter. Moreover, this
research would allow school administrators to have better reality based on academic
success against alcoholic drinking data about students. Also this study will serve as
an “eye-opener” for the parents to know important factors that will assist their
alcoholism or alcohol usage. Furthermore this research would also be helpful to the
students to raise awareness of alcohol addiction issues so that they will develop
positive behaviour and respect for a better quality of life at the early stage of their
existence.
Definition of Terms
The following terms used in this are defined operationally and conceptually:
(WHO, 2014).
behaviour. It is defined as a restricted substance for minors for it can cause health
problems.
that is directly associated with persistent and excessive use of alcohol. Impairment
Association, 2016)
adulthood. It includes some big changes—to the body, and to the way a young
curious in everything.
alcohol affect the life of the teenage students particularly, in their academic
performance and psychological behaviour. The data are to be gathered from the
teenage students in Tagum City National High School through their answers in the
focus group discussion and in-depth interview. The study will be able to catch data
about the experiences of the youth students who have tried to commit teenage
drinking. There will be a total of ten (10) informants in this study, five (5) from the
focus group discussion and five (5) from the in-depth interview.
Informants will be provided with parent consent and will be informed about the study
and its purpose. The data will be gather through sound recorder and written notes,
and these files will be kept confidential. Since the number sample for this study is
This study however does not mean that there are no weaknesses and
limitations. For instance, there are answers of the informants that are rejected since
they are not important anymore in designing the results. Another is the data
collection. For instance, some of the informants will not be able to narrate widely on
theoretical lens will be used to fit to the natural setting in capturing the social or
However, we acknowledge the weaknesses which may not allow this research
to achieve the expected generalizability of this study. Due to the small sample who
participated in this study, results may not be generalized and cannot adequately
guarantee the perfect recollection of all the experiences of the informants due to the
fact that the real stories shared are past events and are subject for human error in
terms of memory.
In the presentation of the study, different ideas and concepts will be organized
substantial manner in order for the readers to have a clear understanding of the
purpose of the study that is to know how the alcohol addiction affect their lives. Then,
Research questions are also presented as utilized during the interview of the
participants and the focus group discussion. Next, theoretical len, that is linked with
the research study, and the significance of the study will be presented. After this,
terms, which are related to the study, are defined based on how it is used in the
study and its literal meaning, and the people who will benefit from this research are
expressed. Lastly, the delimitations and limitations of the study are also presented to
prompt the study’s limit and scope, including the participants of the study.
researches by other researcher related to the study, articles, and other various
discussion are introduced. All information gathered are in relation to the study that is
These are the research design, role of the researcher, the research participants,
data collection, data analysis, and trustworthiness that includes the following four
Chapter 4. It shows the result of the study. The results have four main parts
namely: the informants data, the data analysis steps and procedures in coding the
evolving themes, the responses to the interview, and the synopsis of the responses.
most important findings relative to the mentioned literatures. This chapter also
tobacco and other substance use and abuse are important issues. Intrapsychological
factors, friends, adult attitudes towards alcohol and even general health policies
more than the adult ones, that’s the reason why drinking at an early age may
undermine the accurate neurological capacity needed to keep oneself safe from
alcoholism.(Butler, 2006) That is why, people who drink at an early age have an
At some point, researchers suggest that adolescents are more likely to abuse
alcohol than adults because of the way in which the human brain develops. In
adolescence, the pleasure centers of the teenage brain mature faster than the part of
the brain responsible for sound decision making. We found out that many of them do
not have the mental capacity to fully understand the consequences and be aware of
alcohol and quarters of them are said to be involve in abusive behaviour and binge
having a contact with alcohol at young age, there is chance for the adolescents to
implemented and offering treatments for adolescents either within the scope of their
family or in schools. But, although treatments are seen as effective, it is still hard to
reveal satisfactory outcomes for a long term. (Skala, K., and Walter, H., 2013)
We found out that in Portugal, their consumption patterns changed and it was
very alarming because they refer to a population that are so vulnerable which is the
adolescents who consume alcohol continuously increases with age and the new
conducted a study on 1994, it was stated that most of the teenagers have tried
cigarettes, alcohol and drugs but they are more into alcohol. Also, it was stated that
Filipino Youths start drinking at the age of 16 or 17 but there are also some cases
where children as young as 12 years old already tried alcohol drinks. ( Valbuena, J.
P.,2006).
depression and anxiety. Adolescents who are prone or more likely to abuse alcohol
are those who have emotional problems and those who exhibit thrill-seeking
behaviour or incapable in controlling their impulses. Even though not all teens are
abusing alcohol, they must still be intervene early because they have the risk to
even in a drunk driving accident. (American Addiction Centers Editorial Staff, 2013).
More often, teenagers are introduced by their friends to alcohol drinking. With this,
the parents ' role is crucial to their children's discipline. Youth must be properly
alcoholic drinking behaviour. Evidence showed that the family system plays a key
role in causing or shielding young people from social and behavioural problems.
Family love and contact serve as a defensive factor against many of the adolescents'
risky behaviours. (Pergamit, M.R. et al., 2001) Also, adolescents have a moderate to
strong influence on the risk behaviour of their peers. (Jaccard, J.,2005). Adolescents
are susceptible to peers influence because they have been found to be more likely to
engage in group risk than alone. Adolescents has a limited degree of self-reliance,
which interferes with their ability to act independently of their peers ' influence and
can be more easily moved to risky behaviour. (Cauffman, E. and Steinberg, L.,2000).
including monitoring and receiving discipline. (Science Daily, 2008). Also, when a
student lack parental support, monitoring or even communication, a youth might
In the peer influences, the top reason is the peer pressure which can result in
2014). If a teenager will not learn how to avoid this kind of circumstances, it will
which made a new environment that can expose young adults or adolescents to the
messages and images that is portrayed in social media pages included those
unregulated market who posted on social media which might reach the adolescents.
The alcohol drinking seen online is correlated with offline drinking behaviour.
(Moreno, M. A., & Whitehill, J. M., 2014) Since, young generation are raised
between users. (Lenhart et al. 2005). Social media is diverse, however, numerous of
Teen drinkers have a greater chance of getting fat or having health issues
(Nemours 2016). Also, drinking is more dangerous to children than adults as their
brains continue to develop well into young adulthood during puberty and drinking
during this crucial period of growth can result in lifelong damage to brain function,
Teens who drink have a greater chance of being sexually active and having unsafe,
unprotected sex which can lead to pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases
Alcohol also influences the actions of users, which can lead to accidents and
groups due to accidental and deliberate accidents, including those caused by road
traffic collisions, abuse and suicides, and fatal drug-related injuries Therefore, the
use of alcohol can also affect other individuals, including family members,
alcohols can also affect their academic performance (Edgehill, 2008). Owing the fact
that, drinking has a significant and measurable impact on your memory and can also
cause you to lose sleep or get poor-quality sleep which can cause you to miss class
that can often have an adverse effect on your grades (Smith, 2019).
Ways of Motivating Treatment
The first step towards rehabilitation is to accept that there is a question of alcohol
dependence and the next is to seek assistance. This is available from a number of
Counseling: A professional therapist will help the person discuss their issues
and then come up with a plan to cope with the alcohol. Cognitive behavioral
depression or other mental health issues may arise. Such issues also need to
be tackled, as they can increase the risks posed by alcohol. Common issues
related to alcohol, such as obesity, liver disease, and likely heart disease, will
flushing, vomiting and headaches. It is a dissuasive, but in the long term it will
not treat the compulsion to drink or solve the issue. (Newman 2018)
Drugs for cravings: Naltrexone (ReVia) may contribute to reducing the need
for a drink. For cravings, acamprosate (Campral) can help. (Newman 2018)
(delirium tremors or DTs) that may occur after withdrawal. Treatment usually
many time later they start drinking again. Access to counseling, medical
assistance, support groups, and family support can all help people avoid
Preventive Measures
The saying 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure' is applicable in
this situation. Through earlier prevention and information, many teenagers will not
guardians of the children to warn them about the negative effects of being an
alcoholic.
Drug and alcohol abuse prevention should start at home. Parents should
explore the effects of drug and alcohol abuse with their children and specifically
speaking with kids while they're young can create a strong foundation for drug use
awareness. This helps parents to influence their children positively, while teaching
that can hurt them can be denied while controlling the dynamics of an unhealthy
request. They can establish communication consistency and guidance that can be
followed for years and preventive conversations can lead adolescents to strengthen
their parent's trust and make wise choices with habits, friends, interests, and
powerful role in shaping the beliefs and attitudes of their child about alcohol through
track their actions in some way. Through all of these, parents and children can have
a strong and lasting relationship with clear and consistent contact. This can allow all
sides to teach each other about life and engage with each other's activities and have
a good communication which can help one another to create a good environment.
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