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THE EFFECTS OF FRIENDSHIP ON
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF GRADE 9-10
STUDENTS OF MARANATHA CHRISTIAN
ACADEMY OF CABUYAO S.Y. 2019-2020
by
Caparas, Pola Joslyn E.
Elaurza, Aira Nicole G.
Orijuela, Ken C.
Peña, Julyana Dei A.
Ramirez, Roger Isaac M.
Ueda, Ryu R.
Thesis Submitted to Teacher Rosalieh Batrina,
English Teacher of Grade 10-Prudence
Maranatha Christian Academy of Cabuyao
2019-2020
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ABSTRACT
Friends are important in our everyday life. They are the ones who we interact and learn with
affecting us not only mentally and emotionally, but also academically. This study will show how
friendship affects the academic performance of students from Grades 9-10. This is a quantitative
research design on how students affect the academic performance based on peers.
The purpose of this study is to inform them about the relationship of friends and academic
life and to improve their grades by having deeper understanding about friendship and by giving
helpful actions and techniques.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We express our deep gratitude to Tchr. Rosalieh Batrina, our research adviser, for her
guidance, enthusiastic encouragement, constructive criticisms and unending support and patience
that made this research study possible and complete.
We also thank the school administrator, Mrs. Rowena Marbida, for giving time to think about
our study approving our request to conduct questionnaires in selected grade levels.
Our thanks are also extended to Tchr. Chat Aldave (principal), Tchr. Imelda Menguito (OIC
of High School Department), Tchr. Pio Floralde (Grade 10-Persistence adviser), Tchr. Carmen
Estuya (Grade 9-Humility adviser), Tchr. Analyn Manabu (Grade 9-Loyalty adviser), and Tchr.
Robert Lazanas (Grade 9-Courage adviser), for allowing us to conduct surveys on their students.
Moreover, we acknowledge all respondents who fully cooperated with us and honestly
answered the questionnaire.
Lastly, we express our gratitude to all researchers for their support and assistance. All their
efforts are appreciated and honored.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
1.1 Introduction............................................................................................................ 1
1.2 Background of the Study ....................................................................................... 2
1.3 Purpose of the Statement, Statement of the Problem ........................................... 4
1.4 Null Hypothesis, Alternative Hypothesis, ........................................................... 5
1.5 Conceptual Framework ......................................................................................... 6
1.6 Theoretical Framework ......................................................................................... 8
1.7 Significance of the Study, Scope and Delimitation, .......................................... 10
1.8 Definition of terms ............................................................................................. 11
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Foreign Literature and Studies ............................................................................ 12
2.2 Local Literature and Studies ............................................................................... 15
2.3 Synthesis .............................................................................................................. 17
III. METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design .................................................................................................. 19
3.2 Source of Data ..................................................................................................... 19
3.1 Study Area ........................................................................................................... 19
3.2 Respondents/Subjects of the Study ..................................................................... 20
3.3 Sample Survey Letter .......................................................................................... 20
3.4 Methods of Data Collection ................................................................................ 20
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3.5 Data Gathering ..................................................................................................... 21
3.6 Statistical Treatment of Data ............................................................................... 21
3.7 Research Ethics.................................................................................................... 21
IV. RESULTS OF THE STUDY
4.1 Demographic Profile ........................................................................................... 22
4.2 Interpretation........................................................................................................ 24
V. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS, CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Conclusions.......................................................................................................... 32
5.2 Summary of the Findings .................................................................................... 33
5.3 Recommendations ............................................................................................35
VI. APPENDICES
6.1 Survey Request Letter and Letter of Approval ................................................... 36
6.2 Survey Questions ................................................................................................. 37
6.3 Action Plan ......................................................................................................... 39
VII. BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................ 40
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CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
In every individual's life, teenagers are in between childhood and adulthood. It means that in
ages 13-18, teenagers experience big changes such as in physical, emotional, and social life. They
begin also become mature and adult-like. The fulfilment that they obtain from their choices depend
on their experience, motivation, engagement and achievement in life and also in school. (Ryan,
2000). Youth are in time of hard position to decide and think about the consequences in terms of
their responsibility to academics, family, and even in religion (Ryan 2002). They begin to ask
questions like “What is the importance of education or do I really have to go to school?”
When youth make friends, they develop important life skills. These include getting along
with other people, being independent and learning how to sort out conflicts and problems. These
skills are important for every adolescence to learn because youth who get along with others are less
likely to have social and emotional difficulties later in life. He determines that one of the only true
choices we make in life is our environment, and the friends we surround ourselves with. This has a
tremendous influence on `us because everything flows from there (Jewish Kabbalists). While
friendship plays a very large and important role in the social and emotional development of
adolescence that lasts well into adulthood, academic achievement also has been shown to influence
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future outcomes. They provide support and resources and can both encourage and discourage
academic achievement and play a significant and important role throughout the course of one’s life.
Having academic achievement of every adolescence is a key to determine the future of
educational and occupational success of their life. Students' academic success is largely influenced
by the people around them like friends and high-achieving classmates. In their school life, they
socialize more with different people and they consult about their studies. Students are socialized by
the people with whom they associate through their daily interaction over the years. They tend to have
a positive effect on others' and learn skills of interpersonal interaction. At present, children spend the
majority of their time in school, and it is well known that cognitive development is most crucial
during the first few years of school. Just as children’s social customs are taught and fostered through
social interaction with others, academic achievement can be affected by those with whom children
socialize.
Background of the Study
Friendship is considered as one of the important academic influences. Friendship tends to
have big impact on student educational processes as friendship means more than just playmates.
Friendship plays an important role in developing social skills, such as communicating, learning
how to cooperate and will help students in solving problems. Also, students are more comfortable
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in studying with friends. But that all depends on what type of friends you have as high achievers
tends to have friends with high achiever while low achiever chose to hang outs with low achievers.
According to (Dechant, 2011) having a strong friendships can affect and benefits the
mental state of every human and even making their live much longer, it influence every individual
in positive or negative of both emotion, physical , and even intellectual state. Furthermore, it is a
source of having students a companionship, motivation, physical support, affection and even all of
the degree of importance upon the time of development stage.
The role of peer academic development can be seen in (Kindermann, 2016) he stated that
motivation is a reason why students academically like and enjoy learning in school, participate in
school activities persist in academic tasks and believe that school is important because of their
friends surrounded by them. He also added that peer characteristics of having friends are similarly
shown a connected to student’s decision for academic purpose versus to non-academic activities
during class time and beyond, to engagement with schoolwork, as well as to their ability of
attributions for success and failure, and even their value of academic standards, their academic
aspirations, school involvement, class participation and overall adjustment to school.
The study of (Wilson, 2016) reported that peer group within and beyond the classroom,
can have a significant impact on students achievements in many cases like friend are direct source
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of students achievements rather than parents or teachers. It also highlighted that friends’ open
norms that either role-model or discourage students on having engagement and successful
academic performance.
Purpose of the Statement
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between friends and academic
performance of students and to know the role of friendship in high school students experience if it
can have a negative or positive effect to the studies of high school students. Specifically, this study
first described the pattern of friendship among high school students and examined the relationship
between friendship and the influence of friendship to the academic performance. Finally, the study
sought to explain the subtle differences in the types of friendship based on behavior and influence.
Statement of the Problem
Our study aims to determine the effects of friends in the academic performance of grade 9
and 10 students in Maranatha Christian Academy and if friends can affect the academic performance
of the students in negative or positive way.
This study will attempt to find answer for the following questions:
1) How may the demographic profile of respondents be described in term of:
1.1 Age
1.2 Gender
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2) Do friends largely impact students’ academic performance?
3) How many respondents benefit from of the influence of their friends?
4) How many respondents does not benefit from the influence of their friends?
Hypotheses
The following hypotheses are formulated:
Null Hypothesis
1. There is no significant impact of friendship in academic motivation and success of students.
Alternative Hypotheses
1. There is significant impact of friendship in academic motivation and success of students.
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Conceptual Framework
The framework shows below use the input-process-output model to determine the factors
that lead to effective as well as the processes and to better specify how, why and when this study
will contribute. Also, to understanding and explaining the effects of friends on the academic
performance of selected students which is the Grades 9 and 10.
INPUT/DATA
Demographic profile of
respondents

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Age
Gender
-survey results
MODEL/PROCESS
Data collection
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Research
Survey Questions
Data Analysis
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Analysis
interpretation
OUTPUT
Action plan/writing drafts
The first diagram shows the input or a data of study including the demographic profile of
respondents that have age and name and also the research survey questions. Second is the process of
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this study which include the data collection, a yes or no questionnaire that will be given to all grade
9 and 10 students and the data gathering that will compile the results, then analyze by interpretation
of the data that given to grade 9 and 10 students of Maranatha Christian Academy of Cabuyao.
Lastly the output of our process that will create the researchers an action plan that will discuss
and have a recommendation, tips and studies on the effects of friends on the academic performance
of students it will be given not only for students but also for teachers, parents, administrator, and
future researches that interested to this study.
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Theoretical Framework
Thus study was from “Tight-knit Theory” Janice McCabe (2016) “Friends with Academic
Benefits” of Dartmouth College. The theory explained that people are like clusters that are associated
to each other like a ball of yarn. This study shows that having friends in relation to your academic
performance has benefits and detriments.
To be more credible, McCabe interviewed students including Valerie of MU University,
who have numerous friends and according to Valerie, she sees her friends as her “family” who
encouraged and supported her that led her to success in which McCabe referred to as the ‘tightknitters’, wherein she said that. Being accompanied by many people in which they all know each
other.
Moreover, McCabe said that being inside the “Tight-knit network” could also put
someone fed up by influencing them to pay less attention on their studies.
In addition, social scientists who studied the effects of friends in academic performance
which includes James Coleman and Judith Rich Harris, “Peer culture within high school shapes
students’ social and academic aspirations and successes.” Coleman argued during the late 1900s.
On the other hand, Harris’ research which she made recently, shows that some students choose
to follow their friends over their parents.
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In conclusion, it clearly shows that friends have a major role in a student’s academic
performance and being with friends could influence a student to either focus more or to pay less
attention on their studies.
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Significance of the Study
The study shows importance in different social groups:
•
The students will gain information presented that enable them to gain awareness and
gives them better knowledge when it comes in choosing their friends.
•
The result will guide the teachers to teach students and make lesson plans regarding the
effects of friendship that will benefit the students.
•
The outcome of this study will show the parents the importance of their kids’ friends
and help them to give advice and moral lessons.
•
The information of the outcome study will help the researchers to have more ideas and
find some strong finding about their conduct study
•
The ideas presented may be used as reference data that may help future researchers to
open their mind and also conduct same study as well in the next years.
Scope and Delimitation
This study focused on effects of friendship on Grade 9-10 students of Maranatha Christian
Academy of Cabuyao S.Y. 2019-2020.
Audience: The total respondents are 195 students. There are 118 students in Grade 9 (three
sections), and there are 77 students and in Grade 10 (two sections).
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Definition of Terms
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Peer and youth – children’s classmates
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Friendship – relation between people with common habits and interest
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Academic performance – evaluation of students’ expected performance on MCA
academic activities in the classroom
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Dyadic
Relationship
–
specifically, sociology: two
sociologically significant relationship
individuals
maintaining
a
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CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES
This chapter is a review of the existing literature relevant to the topic of peer influence
among students. More specifically, this chapter is a review of topics including: meaning of
friendships; what friendships provide for students; motivation and engagement of students;
facts about peer relations; and local literature and studies.
Foreign Literature and Studies
I. Definitions of Friendship
Friendship is form of dyadic relationship that has received the most attention from those
studying student’s peer encounters (Rubin, 1998). Friendship has been defined “as having an
attraction to someone who is attracted in return” (Hartup & Stevens, 1998). According to Rubin
(1998), both sides must willingly acknowledge the relationship in order for it to be considered
a friendship.
II. Impact of Friends to Academic Performance
Teachers and parents should be aware that friends provide positivity and negativity for
students. Castrogiovanni (2002) cited the following that improves students’ performance: (1)
the opportunity to learn how interact with others; (2) support in defining identity, interests,
abilities, and personality; (3) opportunites for witnessing the strategies others use to cope with
similar problems, and observing how effective they are; (4) involved emotional support.
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Peers can provide an environment where adolescents can construct and improve their
identities, according to Black (2002). Moreover, he stated that this environment contributes to
construction of positive and negative performance for some students. Unfortunately, this
environment may increase or decrease levels of defiant behavior and possibility of academic
failure (Downs and Rose, 1991).
Research has shown that most children who have positive peer relationships (i.e. have
friends and liked by classmates) also do well academically (Fantuzzo, Sekino, and Cohen, 2004;
Birch and Rubbs, 1996; Ladd, Kochenderfer, and Coleman, 1996). James Jacard, professor of
psychology of the University at Albany in New York, cited that students might be influenced
as much by what they think their peers are doing as by what they are really doing.
Evidence supports that an intervention in peer situations changes academic performance
(Coie and Kribiel, 1984). According to DiLalla, Marcus, and Wright-Phillips (2004), student’s
harmony with their friends is a huge factor of academic success. They learned that enhancing
social skills of students yielded social and as well as academic benefits. Based on Coie and
Kribiel’s research (1994), students who have better social skills were more likely to have better
higher grades and those who have poor student-friend relationship were more likely to have
lower grades.
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III. Motivation and Engagement of Students
Another important part of friendship is motivation. Ryan (2000) found that friends were
influential regarding changes in students’ value for academic performance. Furthermore, he
found that having friends who have a positive effect toward school increased students’ own
academic motivation and effort; and having friends who have a negative effect toward school
decreased it.
For some friends, other interests may take charge over academic life (Ryan, 2000).
According to him, these interests could change adolescent’s motivation and engagement in
academics. In addition, he cited that some friends may play a large role in supporting and
fostering their academic-related beliefs and behaviour.
IV. Facts about Peer Relations
Lingren (1995) cited some facts about peer relations. During adolescence, students and
their parents are more physically and physiologically distant from one another. This is a normal
process, but it is shown in decreases in emotional closeness, increases in parent-children
disagreements, and in time spent with peers. In addition, increase of family problems can cause
teenagers to depend more on their friends for emotional support. It shows that family affects
how peer relations develop and operate.
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Local Literature and Studies
Peer Influence in Academic
Results revealed that there was huge difference in peer influence in students’ study
habits when based to age, sex, civil status, ethnic affiliation and year level (Dumaga & Guray,
2017).
According to Moldes, Biton, Gonzaga & Minerva (2019), students perceive that they
agree with that they are accompanied by their friends in school; and they are likely to socialize
among others and find attention with their friends. Moreover, the researchers found out that
students perceive that they need their friends in order to do certain academic activities.
Based on study of Mascardo, Mauricio & Espinosa (2013), they stated that students are
influenced by peer actions in their school and academic activities.
Research made by Comeo, Cortes & Cultura (2018) on students with ages 14 and above
from Southwestern University found that there was a significant relationship between peer
influence and motivation to improve academic performance.
I. Norms and value of barkada
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Based on the study made by Jennifer Ann Lajom, Nico Canoy, Rajiv Amarnani, Apryl
Mae Parcon, Paula Melizza Valera (2009) they said that one of the norm of friendship or what
we called “barkada” is help and protection that were expected to abide in every friend relationship.
It means that in friendship every individual should be able to help each other and look out of each
other.
Next is damayan or an act of someone to share affliction is also highlighted in norm of
barkada. Another is a notion of “pakikisama” which to express the desire to participate and share
the collective decision and experiences of whole friends.
This norm can help students to have a strong quality of friendship and affect their
performance in school because it reveals the true self pertained or concern and display
transparency in word and deed that reflect one's genuine characteristics among the members of
the barkada which this expected not to display the denoted dishonest or what we called “plastic”.
Aside from valuing others, the individual also learned to value one's self. Including learned
to take time to "take care", "prioritize", and "give importance" to one's self, allowed them to
acknowledge one's own self-worth, as well as an avenue for developing skills that would enhance
his/ her potentials like enhance their self-confidence, and facilitate further self-improvement by
this it express the trust of one another as a human being
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And finally with benefits friendship they learned achieve the resoluteness of every day
challenges or called “katatagan” and learn to remain strong and viewed suffering as a less negative
light.
Synthesis
The related literature and study presented above aim to inform the students about the
impacts of their friends to their academic performance. This chapter focuses on friendship and
its huge role to academic performance. Moreover, this chapter discusses what affects peer
relations.
After we gathered all the related literature and study, researchers found out that
friendships have benefits such as higher grades and academic skills of students. However, they
also found out that friends may lessen academic motivation and effort.
The result shows some friends enhance academic skills and improve academic
performance of students. The researcher would like to conduct a questionnaire to the Grade 910 students of the school about the influence of peers to the students. The aims of this study
would determine the results of the surveillance and to distinguish those students who are
affected by the quality of friendship.
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CHAPTER 3
METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the research design, sources of data, study area,
respondents/subject of the study, methods of data collection, data gathering procedure,
statistical treatment of data, and survey results.
Research Design
The research design done for this study is quantitative type of research. Using survey as
tools to gather data will help the researcher to understand and know more of this study.
Source of Data
The researcher will get the data from 14-16 years old from high school students that will
help to understand more how friends affect students’ academic performance.
Study Area
This study is conducted in Maranatha Christian Acaademy of Cabuyao – private school
for elementary, and junior and senior high school students. It is located in #515 National
Highway Barangay Sala, Cabuyao City, Laguna.
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Respondents/Subject of the Study
The subjects of this study are at least 184 students from Grade 9 & 10 of Maranatha
Christian Academy of Cabuyao to have accurate and better results.
Respondents
Population
Total
Female:22
37
Grade 9-A:
Male:15
Female:18
40
Grade 9-B
Male:22
Female:20
36
Grade 9-C
Male:16
Female:22
42
Grade 10-A
Male:20
Female:11
29
Grade 10-B
Male: 18
184
Sample (Survey Letter)
The method to gather information from 184 students is purposive sampling. The age
bracket is 13-18 years old.
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Methods of Data Collection
Structured questionnaire is used for this study. The questionnaire consists of two parts.
The first part asks yes or no questions. The second part asks yes or no questions and questions
with multiple choices). These discuss the preference of the students how they are affected by
their friends in terms of academic performance.
The first part asks about factors that may affect academic performance because of their
friends. The second part explains some of the answers from the first part.
Data Gathering Procedure
The researcher requested permission from the adviser of Grade 10-Prudence and school
administrator. With permission from the authorities, the researcher asked assistance from the
advisers in charge of the said class to provide schedule time for the survey questions.
Statistical Treatment of Data
The gathered information from the survey will be used for analyzation and
interpretation.
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Research Ethics
The researchers can access the data of respondents’ profiles. However, they cannot
reveal the information to public unless respondents permit it to do so. Furthermore, to protect
privacy, writing their names on the survey are optional. Our study is aligned to research ethics.
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CHAPTER 4
SURVEY RESULTS
This chapter overseen the presentation, analysis and interpretation of data gathered by
the researchers. This study aims to determine the effects of friendship in the academic
performance of grade 9 and 10 students. The researchers review the results and analysis of the
qualitative data, where documentary analysis on data gathering was more suitable. Present data
were studied and documents were examined to answer the questions communicated in the
statement of the problem. The analytical procedures are arranged according to the sequence of
specific questions.
Grade 9
Demographic profile
Age
Gender
Boys
Girls
13 yrs old
14 yrs old
16 yrs old
18 yrs old
15 yrs old
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Gender
Population
Percentage
Boys
58
50.43 %
Almost the population for Grade 9
students are equal with female respondents
(48.74 %), while the male respondents
Girls
57
49.57 %
Age
Population
Percentage
13 years old
2
1.77 %
(47.9 %)
The age of the population from grade 9
are commonly 14 years old and 15 years
old with both 44.54 % and followed by 16
14 years old
53
46.90 %
15 years old
53
46.90 %
16 years old
4
3.54%
18 years old
1
0.88 %
years old with 3.36 % only and 13 years
old with 1.68 % only, 18 years old with
0.84% only and lastly 3.36% of absents.
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Grade 10
Demographic profile
Age
Gender
Boys
Girls
15 yrs old
16 yrs old
17 yrs old
Gender
Population
Percentage
Most population of Grade 10 students are
Boys
38
53.52 %
male with 49.35 % while female students are
Girls
33
46.48 %
42.86 % and absents are 7.8%.
Age
Population
Percentage
Usually the common age for Grade 10
15 years old
36
50.70 %
students are 15 years old with 46.75 % and 16
16 years old
32
45.07 %
17 years old
3
4.23 %
years old with 41.56% while some are 17 years
old with 3.9 % and lastly 5.19% are absents.
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Grade 9
57,14
9,1
25,86
38,6
46,82
74,14
61,4
90,9
FRIENDS AS A DISTRACTION
Do your friends take
your time for
studying?
Does it lower your
grades?
Do your friends take
your time for
studying?
Does it lower your
grades?
Yes
38,6
9,1
74,14
46,82
No
61,4
90,9
25,86
57,14
Grade 10
28,95
25
27,27
71,05
75
63,64
36,36
72,73
FRIENDS AS A DISTRACTION
Do your friends take
your time for
studying?
Does it lower your
grades?
Do your friends take
your time for
studying?
Does it lower your
grades?
Yes
36,36
25
28,95
27,27
No
63,64
75
71,05
72,73
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Some friends can be the reason of distraction for students yet based on the charts above it
show that it doesn’t affect their grade. These means that students from grade 9 and grade 10 are
responsible and concern with their grade eventough their friends take their time for studying. Yet the
table also show that some male respondents are likely to get lower grades than female respondents.
Grade 9
8
12,28
25,86
57,14
74,14
79,07
92
87,72
BEING OPEN WITH ACADEMIC PROBLEMS
Do you discuss your
academic problems
with your friends?
Does it improve your
academic performance?
Do you discuss your
academic problems
with your friends?
Does it improve your
academic performance?
Yes
87,72
92
74,14
79,07
No
12,28
8
25,86
57,14
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Grade 10
96
4
10,71
15,15
34,21
65,79
84,85
89,29
BEING OPEN WITH ACADEMIC PROBLEMS
Do you discuss your
academic problems
with your friends?
Does it improve your
academic performance?
Do you discuss your
academic problems
with your friends?
Does it improve your
academic performance?
Yes
84,85
89,29
65,79
96
No
15,15
10,71
34,21
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The table show that majority of the students from grade 9 and Grade 10 tell or share their academic
problem with their friends. Students being open to their friends when it comes to academic problem
helped them to get higher grades and improved their grades. This table also shows that female
respondents are more likely to share their problem with their friends than male respondents.
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20
17,54
25,86
46,67
53,33
74,14
BEING ENVY AND PRESSURED
80
82,46
Grade 9
Do you feel envious
when your friends got
higher grades than you?
Does it pressure you to
have higher grades?
Do you feel envious
when your friends got
higher grades than you?
Does it pressure you to
have higher grades?
Yes
17,54
80
25,86
46,67
No
82,46
20
74,14
53,33
Grade 10
40
60
47,37
14,29
52,63
54,55
45,45
85,71
BEING ENVY AND PRESSURED
Do you feel envious when
your friends got higher
grades than you?
Does it pressure you to
have higher grades?
Do you feel envious when
your friends got higher
grades than you?
Does it pressure you to
have higher grades?
Yes
45,45
85,71
52,63
60
No
54,55
14,29
47,37
40
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Only some of the respondents from Grade 9 and 10 feel envious when their friends got higher grades
than them and it results that they are eager to get higher grades.
Grade 9
3,5
6,9
93,1
96,5
FRIEND'S HELPING HAND
Do your friends help you in academic tasks?
Do your friends help you in academic tasks?
Yes
96,5
93,1
No
3,5
6,9
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Grade 9
1,85
0
1,85
0
0
10,9
14,55
38,89
57,41
74,55
FRIEND'S HELPING HAND
How do they help you?
How do they help you?
Encouragement
74,55
57,41
Peer Teaching
14,55
38,89
Peer Pressure
0
1,85
Peer Teaching and Encouragement
10,9
0
Peer Pressure and Encouragement
0
1,85
Grade 10
6,06
13,16
86,84
93,94
FRIEND'S HELPING HAND
Do your friends help you in academic tasks?
Do your friends help you in academic tasks?
Yes
93,94
86,84
No
6,06
13,16
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Grade 10
0
0
0
0
0
10,9
30,3
29,03
64,52
69,7
FRIEND'S HELPING HAND
How do they help you?
How do they help you?
Encouragement
64,52
69,7
Peer Teaching
29,03
30,3
Peer Pressure
0
0
Peer Teaching and Encouragement
10,9
0
Peer Pressure and Encouragement
0
0
Most friends help students from grade 9 and 10 with their academic activities or task based
on the table above. Encouragement and Peer Teaching are the most effective and common way
mostly a friend contribute to a student’s school performance. Some responded they are helped
through encouragement and peer teaching at the same time, yet some are being pressured by their
friends.
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CHAPTER 5
SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS, CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter concludes this research, which presents summary of the research and the findings
that the researchers tabulated in previous chapter and also a recommendation for students, teachers,
parents, and future researchers about the effects of friends on the academic performances of students
in Grades 9 and 10 in Maranatha Christian Academy of Cabuyao.
Conclusion
We cannot say that students are having an easy time when it comes with their academics,
even the smartest of students are also having troubles with their academic from time to time, but
discussing their problems is always an option for their friends to help give solutions to their
academic problems whether if it's a performance based task, written task, studying and etc.
Although some may say that a student is influenced by their friends or peers in a negative
when it comes to their academic performances. However, most influence of friend's towards the
student's academic performances is mostly an advantage or a boost up for the student in order for
them to as we said, to excel and to meet the demands and the challenges of the school
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Friend's influence doest differ from the gender as both female and male friends show positive
effect on student performance. It only differ as female students are more likely to open or tell their
academic problem than male students. Yet all students are eagered to excel together with others
especially their friends.
Summary of the Findings
Grade 9 Girls and Boys

Both male and female students’ peer affect their studies and performance.

Female student’s time in studying didn’t consume because of their friend while in male
student’s time in studying consume because of their friend and didn’t result lower grades.

Female students share their academic problems and improves their academic performance
while male students discuss their academic problems but some didn’t improve their
academic performance than girls do.

Female students are motivated to study if they are with their friends also for male students
group projects with their friends help give the desired grades the student wants/needs.

Most of the female students are encourage by their peers with their studies same as male
but there are some that peer teaching help them on taking academic task.
Grade 10 Girls and Boys
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
Female friends take their time in studying than male students but it didn’t affect their academic
grades.

Discussing about their academic performances helps the female and male students improve
their grades.

When their friends got higher grades than them female students didn’t feel envy on the
other majority of male students feel envy and pressured to have a higher grades than their
friends also boys they are more aware and comparing their grades over their friends grades
than girls.

Majority of female and male peer help them by encouragement of their own friends to
achieve their desire and success in academic life.
Grade 9 and 10 girls

Girls in grade 9 and 10 students are almost the same their friends didn’t take their time to study
and majority didn’t impact their grades.

Girls are more open about their academic problems and that helps each other to achieve academic
standard of the teachers.

In grade 9 girls are not envy about their friends got a high grades than them while grade 10 are
more sensitive when they knew that their friends have a higher grades than them and it pressure
them to do more and focused on their academic performance.

Both grade 9 and 10 find their friends as a helping hand when it comes to academic situation it
impacts them by encouragement of their friends and some are by their friends teaching.
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Grade 9 and 10 boys

In grade 9 male students their time for studying has been taken by their friends they have more
time in friends than their study but it didn’t negatively affect their academic performance, not
same as the grade 10 they are more focused in studying and didn’t see their friends as a
distraction to their academic life.

Both grade 9 and 10 boys are open on sharing their problems about their academic performance
and the advice of their friends helps them to do more and have a positive outcomes in applying it
in their academic performance.

Majority of grade 9 male students didn’t feel envy and pressured when they found that their
friends has a higher grade than them while in grade 10 they feel envy and that that affects their
performance because they are pressured to coped up with their friends

Both Grades need their friends to improved and have a positive outcomes in their academic tasks
by the encouragement that their friends influence them and by teaching by the help of their
friends.
Recommendations
In this segment of this research, it shows the recommendations or suggestions on the
difficulties experienced by the students which may be helpful for them to deal with their academic
problems.
1. Students are recommended to learn how to balance their time for friends and for
academics, they are also advice to choose friends who have good-intentions.
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2. Students may plan their group study instead of going out often.
3. Teachers are recommended to give an advice to a student who experience problem, also
teachers may encourage the students to be more open about their struggles.
4. Friends could motivate each other so that they could be more hard-working on their
studies.
5. Students are advice to seek help from friends so that you could solve your problems
faster.
6. Teachers may tell or teach his/her students on how to approach problems on their friends
and academics
7. Parents can give an advice to their child regarding friendships. Also, parents are
suggested to have more time with their children to guarantee whether there are good or
bad influence on their child, they are recommended to attend parent orientations.
8. Future researchers are suggested to research about the students who lack of parent’s
attention.
9. Future researchers are also advice to conduct a research on how many students who
choose their friends over their parents.
APPENDICES
I. Survey Request Letter and Letter of Approval
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December 06, 2019
To the administrator,
We wrote this letter to request the confirmation of doing a survey in Grade 9 and 10 students
of Maranatha Christian Academy of Cabuyao on December 9, 3019. This is for thesis ”the effects of
friends in academic performance on Grade 9 and 10 students of Maranatha Christian Academy of
Cabuyao S.Y. 2019-2020” in our English subject, we greatly appreciate your consideration and
assistance with this request.
_______________________
Tchr. Carmen Estuya
_______________________
Tchr. Analyn Manabu
Grade 9-Humility
Grade 9-Loyalty
_______________________
_______________________
Tchr. Robert Lazanas
Tchr. Pio Floralde
Grade 9-Courage
Grade 10-Persistence
_______________________
_______________________
Tchr. Imee Menguito
Pastor Rowena Marbida
OIC of High School
Administrator
II. Survey Questions:
Name (optional):________________________
Age:_______
Grade & Section:________________________
Gender:_______
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DIRECTIONS: Please check ( / ) and rate each item based on how friends affects your academic
performance in school.
Questions
YES
NO
7. (Refer to question #1) if answer is yes, does it lower your grades?
YES
NO
8. (Refer to question #2) if yes, does it improve your academic
YES
NO
YES
NO
1. Do your friends take your time for studying?
2. Do you discuss your academic problems with your friends?
3. Do you feel envious when your friends got higher grades than
you?
4. Do your friends help you in academic tasks?
5. Does having group work with your friends make your grades
higher?
6. Are you motivated to study if you are with friends?
Follow up question, circle your answer
performance?
9. (Refer to question #3) if yes, does it pressure you to have higher
grades?
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10. (Refer to question #4) if your answer is yes, how do they help you?
Encouragement
Peer Pressure
Peer Teaching
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III. Action Plan
DAY
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
TIME
TIME WITH
FRIENDS
DOING
ACADEMIC TASK
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