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Research Locale
The research will be conducted in Notre Dame of Dadiangas University
(NDDU) Main Campus, located at Marist Avenue, General Santos City,
Philippines. It is a Catholic institution run by the Marist Brothers or Fratres
Maristae a Scholis (FMS).
Sampling Techniques
The research will use purposive sampling. Thus the respondents will be
selected based on the following criteria:
a. Female
b. NDDU student
c. STEM student
d. Grade 11
e. Has experienced street harassment
Instrumentation
The researchers will administer a 3-5 minutes survey questionnaire that
would ask the respondents’ demographic profile including 3 other items
regarding their street harassment experience.
The researchers will adapt the scales from “Emotional and Cognitive
Effects of Gender-Based Street Harassment on Women” (2011) and “The
Relationship of Gender- Based Public Harassment to Body Image, SelfEsteem, and Avoidance Behavior” (2009). These are the Street Harassment
Scale (SHS), and Self-Esteem Scale.
To determine the underlying factor structure and whether all items
measure the desired construct, exploratory factor analysis will be performed.
We will also be using the software SPSS for the principal components analysis
(PCA).
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In scoring the Street Harassment Scale, the answers of the respondents
on each item will be summed. This meant that a higher score equaled to a
higher frequency.
The Self-Esteem Scale, a 10-item self- report measure will be use in
assessing self-esteem. The test will be using a 4-point scale ranging from
“strongly agree” to “strongly disagree”. The items of the said test were divided
into two, half of which had positive statements regarding one’s self, while the
other half had negative statements.
General Procedure
The researchers will gather data from NDDU STEM grade 11 female
students only. The respondents were given a 3-item demographic profile. Items
measured the age, the type of street harassment, and when they usually
experienced being street harassed.
The respondents will be answering two series of tests. The Street
Harassment Scale (SHS) which is a 15-item scale test will be followed by the
Self-Esteem Scale.
Statistical Analysis
Data gathered in the research will be subjected to statistical treatment
such as:
1. Frequency Distribution. This was used to describe the
scores of the respondents by summarizing the distribution
of values in the samples by their test scores. This was
used to determine the total number of scores of
the
respondents.
2. Percentage distribution which is computed using the
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formula: %= n/N *(100); where n =number of response N=
total number of case.
3. Pearson R correlation. This will be used to correlate the
scores of the respondents’ on the Street Harassment Scale
to the scores of the respondents on the effects to selfesteem after experiencing street harassment survey form
using the formula:
N ∑ xy-( ∑ x)( ∑ y)
√[N ∑ x2 -( ∑ x)2 ][N ∑ y2 -( ∑ y)2 ]
Where:
N= number of pairs in scores
∑xy=sum of the products of paired scores
∑x=sum of x scores
∑y=sum of y scores
∑x2=sum of squared x scores
∑y2=sum of squared y scores
In Interpreting the Pearson Correlation Coefficient, the
following will be used:
Correlations
Interpretation
± .8 and 1.0
Very Strong Correlation
±.6 and .8
Strong Correlation
±.4 and .6
Moderate Correlation
±.2 and .4
Weak Correlation
± 0 and .2
Very Weak Correlation