Lyceum of the Philippines University

Senior High School

Muralla St. Corner Real St. Intramuros Manila

The Effect of verbal bullying in Grade 11-ABM of LPU

In partial fulfillment of the requirement in Research in Daily Life 1

Prepared by:
Claire Santos
Alyssa Salvador
Mc Condino

Ms. Jasel Pueblos Muncada

Research Instructor

S.Y 2016-2017

INTRODUCTION
Bullying continues to be a major concern among students and staffs in
both public schools and private schools. Most recently, this has been the
focus of widespread public attention as a result of several high-profile
incidents (Gulemetova, 2011). Different reports of incidents of bullying
include any of the four considered types of bullying Physical Bullying,
Verbal Bullying, Social Bullying, and the most recent type, Cyber Bullying.
Among these, the most widely to occur and commonly experienced
by the students is the verbal bullying. Being called names or being insulted
at some point in their lives, has been experienced by most of the students.
For instance, in a usual classroom environment, when a student speaks
insults for another student, intentional or not, that is already considered as
verbal bullying.
Moreover, according to the reports of National Center against
bullying, the term verbal bullying does not only include name calling and
insults, but also this includes teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist
remarks, or verbal abuse. Cromie even stated on his blog Harvard Gazette
that verbal bullying had a great effect as physical or nondomestic sexual
mistreatment. Given those facts, the researchers were intrigued and thus,
they intend to conduct a study to selected Senior High School Students from
Lyceum of the Philippines University-Manila to find out the effects and impact
of verbal bullying on their emotional behavior, social behavior, mental
condition, and their study habits.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This qualitative research study aims to discover the effects and impacts
of verbal bullying to the Grade 11-ABM students of Lyceum of the Philippines
University,
Specifically, the researchers seek to answer the following research
questions:
1. What are the perceived effect of verbal bullying on the:
A. students behavior of Grade 11-ABM students?
B. emotional behavior of Grade 11-ABM students?
C. Social interactions of Grade 11-ABM students?
2. What are the ways to cope up with the effects of verbal bullying?
3. What are the possible procedure on how to stop verbal bullying?

SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects and impact of
bullying - verbal bullying pursue on the students emotional behavior.
Social behavior, mental condition, and theis study habits. This study will be
conducted within the premises of Lyceum of the Philippines University-Manila
and will be confined to the Senior High School Students enrolled during the
academic year, 2016 2017. To be more specific, the respondents are taken
from the students of Grade 11, ABM strand. They are chosen using based on
the convenience of the researchers.
The nature of study to be used is a simple interview with each
individual. Also, information will be extracted using open-ended
questionnaires, and observations. Included also in the gathering of
information among the students are asking of basic personal information and
background profiling.
In this study, the effects and impacts of other types of bullying will
not be covered.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

Verbal bullying is one of the problems of the students these past
few years. They always encounter bullies on their way to school or even in
public places. This will be conducted to know who among the students in the
Grade 11 ABM students are being bullied verbally and tend to be affected
negatively. Thus, the research study will greatly benefit the students of the
said strand, and their advisers. This can help to solve the bullying problem
and to help victims as well.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Verbal bullying using words in a negative way such as insult,

teasing, put downs etc.
Intimidate to frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to
persuade them to do something that you want them to do.
Persistant continuing to do something or try to do something even
though it is difficult or other people want you to stop.
Anxiety a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease typically about
an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.