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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Conflict can be defined as the lack of peace in an

environment or the disagreement between people, group, that

result in often angry argument. Conflict in a family refers to a

situation whereby the smooth interaction and relation among

members of a family is disrupted because of one thing or another.

It can be a result between the parents and their children.

Conflict in a family can be a result of lack of trust,

drunkenness, and lack of dialogue, lack of respect, joblessness

and the financial problem and children rivalry.

Financial problem and joblessness are the main cause of

family conflict. Failure to secure a good job that earns the

bread winner, significant income to pay for bills, tuition pay of

a child, pay for rent, buy food and fund recreation activities

for the family members is the main cause of family conflict.

Apart from finances and job, family conflict could arise from

sibling rivalry. Sibling will naturally compete with one another

for parental approval or attention. Such competition may involves

causing harms to the others, teasing one another or tattling on.

Either of such practices will eventually result in conflict among

the siblings especially where the parents just not intervene and

uphold quality among siblings through showing equal love and

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acceptance for all. Conflict in a family have a negative effect

to the child, it can lead her/his to have an emotional and

behavioural problem. If both parents are fighting and arguing,

the child feeling threatened and fearful that the family would

split up and the child is more likely experience emotional

problem such as depression and turns into societal point. Also,

having a family conflict the students will lead to be

traumatized, become aggressive and to become rebellious, such as

taking drugs, drinking alcohol, taking cigarette, marijuana and

many others, that may contribute to have the students a poor

academic performance because of not paying attention and no

focused on his/her academic works, doing cutting classes may

affects his/her grades in school.

According to the study of Maina Irene Wanjinko entitled

‘’Impact of Family Conflict on Academic Performance and

Interpersonal Relationship of Public Primary School on Nakaru

Municipality’’ parents play a central role in shaping conflicts

development through their influence. Thus, if parents keep having

conflict in their home children are bound to be affected as they

grow up. They also asserted that children learn through imitating

and identification with the parents and other significant adults.

If the children grow up in a family where a violence is a common

phenomenon, they may end up doing the same in their families,

unless intervention is carried out.

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This is why researchers believed that family conflict

is need to be study because this is the common issue that is

being encountered by some students in Las Navas National

Highschool. In studying this, the researchers will give some

information to those students who are experiencing family

conflict and so that they can able to know how destructible

family conflict is, specifically on his/her psychological and

emotional behaviour that may effect on his/her academic

performance. Aside from that the researchers also can help

students to minimize the effect of family conflict to the student

academic performance. In addition, through studying this issues

the researchers also can help the teachers and guidance

councillor to give some information to them on how they intervene

those students who are affected of family conflict.

Statement of the Problem

Family Conflict is very common and unavoidable

especially when there is a financial problem and sibling rivalry.

When families are in conflict it affects the child on his/her

psychological and emotional behaviour.

Generally, this study aims to investigate the Effect of

Family Conflict on Academic Performance of Senior Highschool

Students in Las Navas National Highschool; specifically, this

will find to the following question;

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1. What is the profile of senior highschool students in terms

of?

1.1 Age?

1.2 Sex?

1.3 Grade Level?

1.4 General Average in 1st Semester?

1.5 Socio-Economic income?

2 What are the different family conflict that the family

encountered?

3 What is the effect of family conflict to the academic

performance of SHS students?

4 What is the significant relationship of family conflict and

the academic performance of the SHS students?

Objectives of the Study

This study were guided to the following objective;

1. Determine the profile of the students in terms of;

1.1 Age

1.2 Sex

1.3 Grade Level

1.4 General Average in 1st Semester

1.5 Socioeconomic Status

2. Determine the different family conflicts that the family

encountered.
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3. Determine the effect of family conflict to the academic

performance of SHS students.

4. Determine the significant relationship of family conflicts

and the academic performance of the SHS students.

Significance of the Study

The findings of this study will benefit to those

person who suffered family conflicts and will enable them to

gain information on handling family conflict.

Students. The findings of this study will help to the

students to give information for them to know how

destructible family conflicts is, especially on his/her

psychological and emotional wellbeing. And they can able to

know on how to handle this family conflict that instead they

will use it as a motivation to do their best in their field

especially on their study.

Parents. The findings of this study will help to parents

especially those who experience problem in their family.

They will encourage such parents to embrace dialogue and

understanding in an effort of trying to solve their problem.

In instance where the problem are severe they can engage the

services of a counsellor so that harmony prevails.

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Teachers. This study may be useful to teachers especially

because they spend more time with the students in school.

They can referring student to the guidance counsellor or by

calling the parents of the student and discussing the

student behaviour and academic performance.

Guidance Counsellor. This study will benefit to guidance

counsellor because they can be able to offer intervention

measures to students who come from families that experience

conflict in an effort to help them concentrate on their

studies and build good relationship with other students.

School Administrator. This study will benefit to school

administrator for them to gain information about this issue

and find out more intervention that they could use to offer

to the students who experiencing this family conflict as

well as to minimize the devastating effect of family

conflict.

Department of Social Welfare and Development. This study

will benefit to DSWD because they can be able to conduct an

orientation for those families who experiencing this family

conflict and discuss the possible solution or way to avoid

the conflict within the family.

Future Researchers. The findings of this study will benefits

to the future researcher to gain information and knowledge

when they conduct this study and have a reference that serve

as their guide
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Scope and Limitation of the Study

This study investigated the Effect of Family Conflict on

Academic Performance of Senior Highschool Students in Las Navas

National Highschool. The profile of the senior high students in

terms of age, sex, grade level, grades in first semester, and

their socioeconomic income will be described.

This study is limited only to all grade 11 and 12

students of Las Navas National Highschool who are enrolled this

school year 2019 – 2020.

Theoretical Framework

This study was guided by the following theories;

Erickson’s theory, Behavioural and Abraham Maslow’s theory on

hierarchy of need.

Erickson’s theory is divided into various stages based

on child’s age; the first stage is trust versus mistrust. Many

problems experienced in this stage like lack of food could lead

to insecurity and hostility .The second stage is autonomy versus

shame/doubt. When pupil’s needs at this level are not met, they
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are likely to shift into great shame and doubt. The third stage

which is between 2-6 years is initiative versus guilt. Here the

pupil’s create their social world. Failure to meet their demands

leads to development of an inner sense of guilt hampering the

normal social development process and this may result into build

up anxiety .The fourth stage is industry versus inferiority .This

is between 6-12 years and during these years; pupil have task of

facing and meeting the family, peer and school expectations.

Problem of this stage include; feelings of inadequacy, poor self-

image, fear of school, lack of concentration, poor memory,

excessive competition, expressing anger and sexual disadvantage.

In this study, pupil in home where there is conflict will have

lack of trust towards their parents because those parents are not

providing basic needs for them. They will also be very ashamed of

their background or family set up because of the problem on those

families. Some of pupils feels guilty and think that they are the

reason why their parents are fighting. Such feeling of guilt and

low of self-esteem lead to inferiority complex, which lead to

poor academic performance and poor interpersonal relationship

with peers.

Moreover, the Behavioural Theory proposed by Pavlov

holds the view that the person is the product of his/her

environment whereas the radical behaviourists such as skinner

ruled out the possibility of self-determination and freedom.

Behaviour modification aims to increase a person’s skills so that

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the number of the response options is increased by overcoming

disturbing behaviour that restrict choices. Bandura (1997)

supports the belief that pupils learn their behaviour from others

whom they with through observation or modelling. He believed that

the mind, behaviour and the environment all play an important

role in the learning process. Pupils model parents, peers,

siblings, authority figures, teachers and others, whom they

admire and trust. In this study, the environment where pupils

grow up shapes their future: Pupils who grow up in an environment

full of conflicts between their parents will exhibit different

behaviours as compared to those who have grown up in a peaceful

environment. Each pupils who observes or witnesses conflict or

violence is bound to produce coping mechanism. It is these

mechanism that will affect the students’ academic performance.

Furthermore, this study was guided by Abraham Maslow’s

theory on hierarchy of needs. Maslow (1970) focuses on self-

actualized person include tolerance, welcoming uncertainty

acceptance of self and other, sense of humour and directedness.

He divided human need into five categories. The most basic

category is the physiological basic needs. These include food,

shelter, clothing and education. When pupil lack this basic need,

they cannot grow and their concentration is on discomfort. If

pupils is hurt by conflict in the family, they may not acquire

all the needs. After the basic needs, a person yearns for safety

needs .This is the need to feel secure. Pupils who witness their
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parent lighting all the time do not fell in that home. There is

the fear that the parents might separate or even hurt them.

Maslow also talked about the belonging needs. This refers to the

need to be accepted and to affiliate with others. If pupils are

communicating well with parents, they will accepted .Pupils are

bound to think that they are not loved. Esteem needs come forth

on the hierarchy. This need make one gain approval to others.

When a couples is fighting, they cannot gain approval from the

pupils and other society member. Therefore this needs is not

fulfilled. The highest need makes on the hierarchy is self-

actualization. This needs make one feel self-fulfilled, and

realize one’s potential. If all other needs are not fulfilled,

one cannot reach the stage of self-actualization. It all start at

the psychological needs. Psychological needs can be fully and

satisfactorily met in a loving family without any conflicts.

Conceptual Framework

The model below shows the relationship between family

conflict and how it can affect to student academic performance.

In the context of this study, the independent variable is the

family conflict while the dependent variables is the academic

performance of the students.

As a result of experiencing conflict at home student

academic performance in school might be affected.

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In the figure 1 below, family conflict appears as the

independent variable with an arrow pointing towards the

independent variable (academic performance)

Paradigm

Independent Variable dependent

Variable

Family Conflict Academic Performance

Figure 1.

Shows the relationship of independent and

dependent variable.

Hypothesis

Hº - There is no significant relationship between family

conflicts and academic performance.

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Definition of Terms

Facilitate some terms are herein defined for

understanding of the study.

Academic Performance. Conceptually, this term is the extent to

which a student, teacher or institution has achieved their short

or long term educational goals and completion. Operationally,

this term is how students ranked depends on their performance in

school

Conflicts. Conceptually, it is serious disagreement or argument.

It is also a mutual opposition or difference between two members

of the family that can lead to misunderstanding. Operationally,

this term is defined as the luck of peace in an environment or

strong disagreement between people, group that may lead in often

angry argument.

Effect. Conceptually, effect is a change that result when

something is done or happens an event, condition or state of

affairs that produced by cause. Operationally, this term is

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refers to the result or consequence of family conflict on child

academic performance.

Family. Conceptually, it is a social unit made up of people

related to each other by blood, birth or marriage. Operationally,

family is a social made up of public secondary schools student

and their parents/guardians

Family Conflicts. Conceptually, this refers to problem and

struggles occur between two or more members of a family.

Operationally, family conflict is very common and unavoidable

that being encountered by some students in Las navas national

highschool.

Students. Conceptually, it is the person who is studying in order

to achieve their goals. Operationally, this term refers to

anybody who is enrolled in Las Navas National Highschool.

SHS Students. Conceptually, Senior Highschool students refers to

Grade 11 and 12, the last two years of the K-12 program that

DepED has been implementing since 2012. Operationally, Senior

Highschool students is refers to grade 11 and 12 students who are

enrolled at Las Navas National Highschool in school year 2019-

2020
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Chapter II

Review of Literature

Related Literature

The study of “Impact of Family Conflicts on the

Academic Performance and Interpersonal Relationships of the

Students” by Maina Irene Wajinko stated that, today’s families

experience problem like unfaithfulness, violence, child

molestation and separation. These problem experienced in families

affect the students in those families. The study indicate that

both students and teachers agreed to the fact that family

conflict affected cognitive and effective growth. There was low

class concentration if parents or guardians were fighting,

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because the students were always thinking about the happening at

home. It was also established that a majority of students did not

share with their peers when their parents or guardian were

quarrelling. More female students were exposed to violence or

abuse than the male. The study also revealed that student who

came from families where there was conflict. Did not relate well

with their teachers. The study also revealed that in most schools

there were counsellor from whom students experiencing problems

could seek assistance.

Involving parents in learning activities with their

offspring at home is one kind of parental involvement that many

educators believe is an important aspect of the students learning

If the family is undergoing conflict, parents will not have time

for them. Men, who more often use violence, do so in order to

obtain and maintain power and control over others. This will

encourage such parents to embrace dialogue and understanding in

an effort of trying to solve their problem. In instance where the

problems are severe, they can engage the service of a counsellor

so that harmony prevails. It will also contribute to the body of

literature on family conflicts and its influence on a primary

student academic performance and interpersonal skills. They can

able to find the other intervention measures to students who come

from families that experience conflict in an effort to help them

concentrate on their studies and build good relationships with

the students. It may be useful to teachers especially because

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they spend more time with the students at school, they can

intervene by referring students to the school counsellor or by

calling the parents of the students and discussing the students

behaviour and academic performance.

The researchers found that the impact of family

conflict between parents on their behaviour and mental health is

driven by how the children understand the problem in the

relationship as well as the nature of conflict itself.

Professor Harold said, children exposed to everyday conflicts

between their parents, conflicts that are non-violent but

frequent intense and poorly resolved are at elevated risk for

mental health problem even when people consider poor parenting

practice to children in explaining the effect of hostile

relationship on children.

Importantly, children may not actually be responsible

for their parent relationship problems. Rather they simply need

to feel or perceive that they are responsible in order to

experience negative psychological outcomes, said professor

Harold.

It has been found out that parental involvement in a

child might have lasting effect on its behaviour. Steinberg.

(1996) assets that conflict is a critical aspect of family

functioning that often outweighs the influence of family

structure on the child’s development.

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Moreover, recent findings from south wales, family study

suggest that the quality of relation between parents not only

affects children long term emotional and behavioural development

but also affects their long term academic achievement. Dr. Harold

said, a family environment marked by frequent, intense and poorly

resolved conflict between parents are at risk for deficits in

academic achievement than children living in more positive family

environment.

Furthermore, Murphy and O’ Farell (1994) highlighted the

view that parents play a central role in shaping the child’s

development through their influence. Thus, if parents keep having

conflicts in their homes, children are bound to be affected as

they grow up. They also asserted that children learn through

imitating and identification with parents and others significant

adults. If the children grow up in a family where violence is a

common phenomenon, they may end up doing the same in their

families unless intervension is carried out.

Related Studies

The study of “Impact of Family Conflict on Academics

Performance and Interpersonal Relationship of Pupil in Public

Primary School” by Maina Irene Wajinko that conducted in Nakaru

municipality with has a population of 2,023pupils and there were

899 boys and 1,124 girls of respondents in the ten schools. The

study employed the descriptive survey research design to

determine the influence of family conflict on academic

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performance and interpersonal relationship of the pupils under

study. The findings of the study indicated that both pupils and

teachers agreed to the fact that family conflicts affected a

pupil’s cognitive and effective growth. There was a low class

concentration if parents or guardian were fighting because the

pupils were always thinking about the happenings at home. It was

also established that a majority of pupils did not share with

their peers were exposed to violence or an abuse than mate. The

study also revealed that pupils who came from families where

there was a conflict did not relate well with their teacher. The

study also revealed that in most school there were counsellor

from whom pupils experiencing problem seek assistance.

The study of Maina Irene Wajinku and the present study is differ

in terms of the locale of the study, respondent and research

design. The present study was conducted at Las Navas National

Highschool and employed descriptive correlational design while

the past study employed descriptive survey research and it was

conducted at Nakaru municipality.

The study of past and present study have common

similarity because they only focused on the effect family

conflict on academic performance.

The study of “Work Family Conflict and Individual

consequences” by Mian Zhang, Rodger W. Griffeth and David D.

fried that was conducted in china with has a number 264 total

population were the manager are their respondent based on this

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findings that work family conflict was positively associated with

emotional exhaustion. Family work conflict was negatively

associated with life satisfaction and effective commitment as

well as positively related to turnover intentions. Contrary to

the research with sample of worker from western countries, the

study found that family work conflict was positively associated

with affective commitment and did not associate with turnover

intention for Chinese manager.

The past study is differ to the present study because

past study was conducted in china while the present study was

conducted in Las Navas National Highschool. And past study and

the present is study is differ because the respondents of the

past study are the Chinese manager while the present study are

the students of Las Navas Northern Samar.

Both past and present study are focusing on the effect of

conflict to the life of the person.

The study of “Family Problems Experienced by the

Students” by professor Mohammad Amin of educational

administration and assets department faculty of educational

science university of Jordan stated that family is the influences

in the lives of individuals because it is the first group that is

with a direct impact on them, through which the individual

acquire the experience and knowledge through the behaviours

practiced and observed by him, and through interactive family

relations among its member. Many of the attitude and actions and
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action, positive or negative issued by the parties may be

profound effect on the other parties. The family has a profound

impact on the students or children behaviour, attitudes and

maturity through experienced in which they live and through the

family relationship. Family stability plays an important role in

developing the capacity of the individual, the right atmosphere

achieves most important psychological and social development

demands because the individuals in such as at atmosphere learns

the social interactions, participation in everyday life as well

as the personal independence.

The past study of Professor Mohammad Amin and the

present study have difference when it comes to the respondent and

the locale of the study also the past study of professor Amin and

the present study have similarities with regards to the effect

of family conflicts to students performance.

CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

Locale of the Study

This study was conducted at Las Navas National

Highschool. Las Navas National Highschool is located at Barangay

Rebong one of the 53 barangay of Las Navas Northern Samar. Las

Navas National Highschool also near at La Vista De Las Navas a

popular resort of Las Navas near at Las Navas River.

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This study focused only on Senior Highschool department

with has a population of 495 students are enrolled this school

year 2019-2020. Senior Highschool department building has two (2)

storey which compose of eight (8) classroom. Senior high

department offers only two (2) tracks, namely General Academic

and TVL (Technological and Vocational Livelihood). General

academic tracks offers three strand including the General

Academic Strand, Humanities and Social Science and Accountancy

Business and Management while TVL tracks offer only strand the

Horticulture.

Respondents of the Study

The respondents of the study are the Senior Highschool

which has a number of 495 total population in this School year

2019-2020. To get the total sample of the population, the

researchers used Sloven Formula, based on the computation 239 are

the sample that will represent the whole population.

Variable of the Study

The variable of the study is composed independent and

dependent variable.

The independent variable of this study is the family conflict

while the dependent variable is the academic performance.

Research Design
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This study is intended to find out the Effect of Family

Conflict on Academic Performance of Senior Highschool students in

Las Navas National Highschool. This study will use descriptive-

correlational design because the researcher will attempt to

describe the effect of family conflict and academic performance.

This study will verify and find out if there is a significant

relationship between the independent and dependent variables.

Research Instrument

In gathering the data the researchers used adopted

questionnaire from Maina Irene Wanjiku in her study the “Impact

of Family Conflict on the Academic Performance and Interpersonal

Relationship of Pupils in Public Primary School” that was

conducted at Nakaru Municipality. This question will serve an

instrument of the researchers to gain information of data needed

in the study. The questionnaire consist of fifteen (15) question

which seek to answer by the respondents.

Validation of the Research Instrument

No need to validate because the researchers only adopted

their research instrument from the past study of Maina Irene

Wajinku entitled “Impact of Family Conflict on Academic

Performance and Interpersonal Relationship of Pupils in Public

Primary School” the instrument were validated using criterion

related validity and specifically predictive validity, and it was

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found out that the questionnaire validity is equal to 0.08 which

is acceptable.

Population and Sampling

The population of this study was the Senior Highschool

Students of Las Navas National Highschool, with has a total

population of 495 students who are enrolled in this school year

2019-2020. Due to the large number of population the researcher

will use the Slovin’s formula to identify the sample. The

researchers will also use the random sampling to make sure that

there would be an equal distribution of questionnaire.

Data Gathering Procedure

The researchers asked permission from the Senior

Highschool Department Coordinators to conduct a study. Permission

asked too, from the teachers in distributing questionnaire that

will be done after the class.

After all the permission, immediate distribution of questionnaire

will follow. After gathering the data the researcher analyzed the

gathered data for reliable and authentic results.

Scoring and Interpretation

To facilitate interpretation and the use of statistical tools,

the following variables of the study were scored and interpreted

as follows

Sex:
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Male – 0

Female – 1

Family conflict – to evaluate the effect of family conflict on

academic performance of the students, the following is used:

5 – Strongly Agree

4 – Agree

3 – Neutral

2 – Disagree

1 – Strongly Disagree

And to facilitate interpretation and the use of statistical

tools, the following variables of this study were scored and

interpreted as follows:

Scale Adjectival interpretation

4.5-5.0 Strongly Disagree

3.5 – 4.0 Disagree

2.5 – 3.0 Neutral

1.5 – 2.0 Disagree

0.5-1.0 Strongly Disagree

Analysis of Data

Different methods of descriptive statistic used to

analyze, attain data and test hypothesis. Moreover, data

pertaining to research question will be analyzed using percentage

and weighted mean.

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a. Percentage

P = F

Where:

P = Percentage

F = Frequency

N = Number of Respond

b. Weighted mean

WM = NR x CP

Where:

WM = Weighted Mean.

N = Number of Respondents.

CP = Number of points assigned to any of the given

category.

NR = Number of respondents registered for any items in

any at the categories.

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CHAPTER IV

PRESENTATION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

Profile of the Respondents

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This chapter includes the analysis of the findings,

profile of the respondents who are the senior high school

students of Las Navas National High School in terms of; age,

grade level, sex, grades in first semester and their socio-

economic income.

Further, the following table are the tabulation of the

profile of the respondent,

Age. 1.1 shows the different ages of the respondent and out

of 239 respondents 117 or 49% were 16-17 years old, 105 or

44% are in the range of 18-19 years old, 10 or 4% are in the

range of 20-21 years old were 22-23 years old and 2 or 1%

are in the range of 24 and above. It can be gleaned that

among 239 of the respondent majority of age ranging from 16-

17 years old.

Table 1.1

Age of the Respondents

Age Frequency Percent

16-17 117 49%

18-19 105 44%

20-21 10 4%

22-23 5 2%
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24 and above 2 1%

Total 239 100%

Sex:

Table 1.2.1 illustrated that there were 159 0r 67% were

female and 80 or 33% were male. This can be implied that

majority of the respondents are came from female and they

were more participated during the conduction of gathering

the data

Table 1.2.1

Sex of the Respondents

Sex frequency Percentage

Male 80 33%

Female 159 67%

Total 239 100%

Grade level:
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1.2.2 Shows that there were 128 or 54% of the respondents

are grade 11 students while 111 or 46% of the respondents

are grade 12 students. This can be inferred that among 239

number of sample of respondents most of the respondent are

came from grade 11 student of Las Navas National High

School.

Table 1.2.2

Grade level of the Respondents

Grade level Frequency Percentage

Grade 11 128 54%

Grade 12 111 46%

Total 239 100%

Grade in first semester:

table 1.2.3 demonstrated that there were 100 or 42% of the

respondents have got their grades first semester ranging

from 85-89,62 or 26% are in the age of 80-84, 43 or 18%

ranging from 90-94, 32 or 13% ranging from 75-79 and 2 or

1% have got 95 and above of grade in first semester. This

can be gleaned that most of the respondents have a grade

ranging from 85-89 and they were perform well in their

study.
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Grade in First Semester:

Grade in the first Frequency Percentage

semester

75-79 32 13%

80-84 62 26%

85-89 100 42%

90-94 43 18%

95 and above 2 1%

Total 239 100%

Socio-Economic Income: Table 1.2.5 indicated that there were

166 or 69% of the respondents have an income of 1,000-5,000

thousand, 47 or 20% of the respondents have an income of

6,000-10,000, 15 or 6% of respondents with an income ranging

from 11,000-15,000, while 6 or 3% of the respondents have an

income ranging from 16,000-20,000 and 5 or 2% of the

respondents have an income ranging from 21,000 and above.

This can be implied from this study that majority of the

respondents has 1,000-5,000 family income a month.

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Socio-Economic Income

Socio-Economic Frequency Percentage

Status

1,000-5,000 166 69%

6,000-10,000 47 20%

11,000-15,000 15 6%

16,000-20,000 6 3%

21,000 Above 5 2%

Total 239 100%

Different Conflicts that Senior High School Experience

The table below shows the different conflicts has been

experience by some Senior High School Student of Las Navas

National High School. It shows that the family financial

conflict are popularly known, major, common, and most

experienced conflict with has a number of 207 or 39% and it

was followed by sibling conflict over care elderly parents

with 92 or 72%, conflict over family events with 61 or 12%

of respondents experienced this conflict, family business

with 51 or 10%, in law related conflict 49 or 9%, while 44

or 8% experienced its divorced parent conflict over care and

discipline of children and the uncommon family conflict that

has been experienced by the senior high school students of

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las navas national high school was the step-parent held

conflict with a number of 22 or 5%,this can be gleaned that

financial problem is the most reason, why conflict at home

occur and family must find in intervention to avoid the

adverse effect of this conflict ,and be cooperated from each

other, especially the parents in finding money, that spend

from their needs. And by the cooperation, and patience as

well they could able to avoid any conflict.

Table 2.1

Different conflict has been experienced by SHS students

Conflicts frequency Percentage

Family financial conflict 207 39%

Family business 51 10%

In law related conflicts 49 9%

Conflict over family events 61 12%

Siblings conflict over care elderly 92 17%

parents

Step parent-step held conflict 26 5%

Divorced parents conflict over care 44 8%

and discipline of children

Total 530 100%

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Effects of Family Conflicts to the Academic Performance of

the Senior High school Effects

The tables presented the statement about the effects

family conflicts to the academic performance of the senior

high school students with average mean and corresponding

interpretation. The statement was interpreted as, strongly

agree, agree, neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree. The

students considered the statement " I have seen that my

parents/guardians are interested in my academic performance”

as agree with has a weighted mean of 3.7, this shows that

the parents of senior high school students are interested to

their academic performance and this may have great impact to

the student academic performance because they more have

determination to do better in their study to achieve their

dreams in life. While senior high students considered the

statement “I cannot concentrate well in school when my

parents/guardians are fighting” that has a weighted mean of

3.7 and can be interpreted as agree. This statement can be

inferred that if the students experienced conflict at home

they more have a lack of concentration and it may result to

have a students a lower academic performance. the statement

“when my parents or guardians are fighting it discourage me

to go to school” was considered by the students as agree and

has weighted mean of 3.3, this can be gleaned that students

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have conflict at home it discourage them to penetrate in

school and this may cause absenteeism of the students that

may also have a bad impact to their academic performance.

The next statement is “if parents or guardian are

quarrelling or fighting student cannot perform well” has a

weighted mean of 3.3 and interpreted as agree this statement

indicates that student cannot perform well in their study

because of the conflict that they have experienced and

because of this conflict they cannot focus on what they

doing. The statement “students were experiencing conflict at

home are badly affected by their emotional well-being” this

statement has a weighted mean of 3.2 and this can be

interpreted as agree. The student said agree that family

conflict or conflict at home might have big effect to their

emotional and psychological state, this can be implied that

if they could continuously experience this without

intervention being used and counselling they more likely to

have depression, anxiety and absenteeism. This is why

student or even the families must go to counselling to

prevent this devastating effect. The next statement “when

there is conflict at home I cannot relate well on the

teachers discussion”

That has a weighted mean of 3.2 and can be interpreted

as agree, this can be gleaned that if there is conflict at

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home student cannot relate well on teacher discussion and

this will be a bad effect to the student academic

performance and she or he can get a low grade in school,

this is why student should know the intervention must she or

he applied to avoid this effect. This statement “when my

parents or guardians are fighting it encourage me to do my

best in school” that has weighted mean of 3.1 and can be

interpreted as agree this can be inferred that most of the

senior high school student are goodly affected by family

conflict. they said agree that family conflict can encourage

them to go to school and they are determined to do their

best in school to achieve their dreams so that when they are

professional already they can able to provide the needs of

the family. The next statement is “when my parent or

guardian are fighting I was motivated to go to school” with

a weighted mean of 3.1 and can be interpreted as agree this

shows that most of the students of the senior high school

are motivated when they have conflict at home despite if

this challenge they are determined and enthusiastic to do

their study well. The next statement is “when there is

conflict at home I don’t participated to any group activity

at school” that has a weighted mean of 2.8 and it will be

interpreted as neutral, tis can be implied that most of the

student are undecided or cannot be decide if they are

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affected at home. The last statement is “when there is

conflict at home it discourage me to do any homework” with a

weighted mean of and it will interpreted as neutral. This

can be infer that the students cannot be decide about this

statement.

Table 3.1

Effects of Family Conflict to the Academic Performance of

Senior High School Students

Statement Weighted interpretations

mean

1. I have seen that my parents/ 3.7 Agree

guardians are interested in my

academic performance.

2. I cannot concentrate well in 3.7 Agree

school when my parents /guardian

are fighting.

3. When my parents /guardian are 3.3 Agree

fighting it discourage me to go

to school.

4. Student were experiencing 3.2 Agree

conflict at home are badly

affected by their emotional and

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psychological well-being.

5. When there is conflict at home I 3.2 Agree

cannot relate well on the

teachers discussion.

6. If parents / guardian are 3.3. Agree

quarrelling/fighting student

cannot perform well.

7. When my parents/guardian are 3.1 Agree

fighting it encourage me to do my

best in school.

8. When my parents/guardian are 3.1 Agree

fighting I was motivated to go to

school.

9. When there is conflict at home I 2.8 Neutral

don’t participate to any group

activity at school.

10. When there is conflict at 2.8 Neutral

home it discourage me to do any

homework.

Grand Mean 3.12 Agree

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Test of the Relationship between Family conflict and the

Academic Performance of the Respondent

The researchers of this study used Pearson R to test

the hypothesis that there is no significant relationship

between family conflict and academic performance. It say

that there is no significant relationship between the family

Conflict and Academic Performance of senior High School

Students of Las Navas National High School.

The table below is a vivid manifestation that family

conflicts does not affects the academic performance of

senior high students of Las navas national high school.

The researcher of this study believe that despite of

having conflict at home, respondent don’t even be affected

by family because they just use this as motivation to

accomplish their goals and though is a destruction of their

study but they don’t let this problem engulf them and affect

their academic performance

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Table 4.1

Test of the Relationship between Family conflict and the

Academic Performance of the Respondent

Correlations

Descriptive Statistics

Mean Std. Deviation N

mean 3.33 .691 239

grades 85.52 4.368 239

Correlations

Mean Grades

mean Pearson
1 .117
Correlation

Sig. (2-tailed)

N 239 239

grades Pearson
.117 1
Correlation

Sig. (2-tailed) .070

N 239 239
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CHAPTER V

SUMMARY, COCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Summary

This study was created to determined the profile of the

respondent in terms of, age, sex, curricular year, grades in

first semester and their socio-economic income. It also

intends to identify the different conflicts and to the

academic performance of the senior high school students.

Specifically the main objective of this study is to find out

if there is a significant relationship between family

conflict and academic performance of the senior high school

students.

Furthermore, this study used descriptive correlational

design to help to identify the relationship of family

conflict and academic performance. The researchers also use

the statistical tools such as frequency counts, weighted

mean and Pearson R to help in analysing the data enable to

get an accurate and reliable result.

The data was that was gather indicates that majority of

the respondents are came from grade 11 students, and most of

the respondent are female. Further, majority of the

respondents have an age ranging from 16-17 years old and

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most of the respondent have an Php.1,000 – 5,000 income

amount. The data also showed that financial conflict is the

most common conflict that they experienced at home.

Meanwhile, the data that was gathered elucidate that

the students of the senior high school say agree that

conflict at home affects their academic performance.

Further, the findings also showed that there is no

significant relationship between family conflict and the

academic performance of the Senior high school students in

Las Navas National High School. With a significant valued of

0.17.

Conclusion

The following conclusion where drawn based on the data

that was gather researcher.

This study conclude that most of the respondents are

the grade 11 students and mostly are female and the majority

of the respondents are in the age ranging from 16-17 years

old. It also

Include that mostly of the respondents are in lower class

with has a monthly income of Php. 1,000 – 5,000.

Further, it also Conclude that family conflict affects

their academic performance. In addition, the data showed

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that there is no significant relationship between family

conflicts and the Academic Performance of the senior high

school students and it conclude that the hypothesis of this

study says that there is no significant relationship between

the two variable of this study is accurate. Therefore the

hypothesis of this study is accepted.

Based on the findings, it implies that the respondents

are capable enough to handle this problem, and they have a

capacity to find an intervention that they could offers to

themselves to avoid the adverse effect of this conflict

specifically to their psychological and emotional state and

have a capacity to speak to their parents and contribute a

solution about their problems that they experienced.

Recommendations

In accordance to the findings of this study, the

following recommendation was created.

1. Parents or Guardians must not show that they are

arguing and show unconditional with their children.

2. Parents must work harder and find job to avoid

financial conflict.

3. School must have a family day to binds them together

and to become their relationship be stronger.

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4. Teacher must facilitate and guide the student and

give them some intervention that the students most apply.

5. Student must use family conflict as a determination

and motivation to do their best in accomplishing their dream

and goal.

6. Future researcher must better to have a large sample

size of the respondents to collect an accurate and reliable

findings.
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