Chapter 01

CHAPTER 1
Problem And Its Background
Introduction
Bullying used to be seen as a danger on the playground or perhaps a
necessary stage of adolescence. Mercifully, times have changed and there is an
increasing understanding that bullying affects people of all ages, from children to
adults, and that it causes misery and unpleasantness in people's lives.
According to UNESCO (2019), school bullying is a problem on a global

scale. More than one in three students (36%) have engaged in a physical
altercation with a fellow student. Nearly one in three students (32%) have
experienced peer bullying at school at least once in the previous month, and
nearly one in three (32.4%) have been the victim of a physical attack at least
once in the previous year.
In the Philippines, the last publicly reported Department of Education

(DepEd) report about bullying from public and private schools, the Philippines
recorded a dramatic 21% increase in 2015. And according to a poll conducted by
the Program for International Student Assessment in 2018, 6 out of 10 Filipinos
reported being bullied (PISA).
According to several previous studies, there are several factors that

underlie bullying such as family factors; having permissive parents or
experiencing bullying by a problematic family, personality risk factors; craving
dominance, exhibiting low self-esteem or showing little empathy and behavioral
risk factors; acting with aggression, using physical strength to intimidate or getting
harassed by others. According to Corbeau (2022) In our daily life, it is very
evident that we don't notice or observe if what we do to others is right or wrong,
sometimes we even hurt them, so we must be careful with our words or actions.
Thus, this research focused on the factors that makes one a bully. This
study also aims to flaunt that through this research, students or people will play
an active part and deepen their understanding towards bullying and themselves
in general.
Statement of the Problem
The researchers aim to explore and identify what factors influence a
person to become a bully.
Specifically, this study aims to answer the following:
1. What is the profile of the self-confessed bully as to:

1.1 Age
1.2 Sex
1.3 Year Level
2. Why do you consider yourself a bully?
3. What are the factors that affects a person to become a bully?
4. How are these factors affects a person to become a bully?
Hypothesis
H⁰: There is no relationship between the factors that contribute to a bully's
behavior
H¹: There are relationship between the factors that contribute to a bully's behavior
Significance of the Study

The objective of this study is to provide information in the field of learning
about what factors affect a person that cause him to be a bully, and it will also serve
as a guide to spread awareness in everyone about their attitudes and behavior that
can affect one's life. According to the researchers, this study will benefit the
following:
School Guidance Personnel. This study will provide them with information
to improve their motivational and teaching materials, techniques or methods, and
skills in an open forum to students who truly need their assistance.
Students. This study will encourage them to change their attitudes toward
others. It will serve as an awareness tool and medicine to cure everyone's minds to
become more open to the consequences of their actions.
Parents. They will be aware of their bad attitudes and lack of guidance to
their children, which will cause their children's behavior to change. And this study
will assist them in determining how to guide and encourage their children to avoid
bullying.
Researchers. This research will benefit other researchers since its findings
can be used as a reference for future studies. It also assists them in having
information that can be served as either factual or opinionated.
Future researchers. The results of this study can assist future researchers
in attaining background knowledge as they might be interested in this topic.
Scope and Limitations

This study is limited examining the Factors that makes one a bully to Grade
12 Humss students of Lagro High.
This study will include at least two participants who will be interviewed.
This study involves at least one Senior High School Grade 12 HUMSS
students in Lagro Senior High School for the school year 2022-2023. The Interview
will be delimited in acquiring primary and secondary annotations about the Factors
that makes one a bully.
Limitations
The researchers mainly focus on the three aspects which are family risk,
personality and behavioral risk where the goal is to find what are the factors that
makes one a bully in terms of age and gender of the respondents who are selected
randomly.
This study will not cover the other problems that are not necessarily
connected from a Grade 12 student's perspective, such as factors that are outside
the scope of this study. The respondents should be enrolled this school year,
2022-2023, in senior high school at Lagro High School.
Definition of Terms
The following are the operational definition of terms to be used in the research
study.
Age pertains to the birth age of the respondents/participants of the research study.
Age pertains to the birth age of the respondents/participants at the moment he/she
engaged in bullying.
Sex pertains the physical characteristics of the respondents/participants of the
research study.
Year-level is used to identify the present educational level of the
respondents/participants of the research study.
Year-level is used to identify the educational level of the respondents/participants
when he/she committed bullying.
Bully pertains to a person who commits bullying due to different reasons such as
family issues or behavioral factors.
Factors are the challenges that affect a person and leads them into committing
bullying.
Case Study is a collection of detailed information about a particular person or a
small group.

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CHAPTER 1

Problem And Its Background

According to UNESCO (2019), school bullying is a problem on a global

In the Philippines, the last publicly reported Department of Education

According to several previous studies, there are several factors that

1. What is the profile of the self-confessed bully as to:

Significance of the Study

Scope and Limitations

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