CHAPTER FOUR

Results and Discussion

Table 1.a.1

Grade 7

FORMS OF BULLYING f %

Flaming 182 86.67%

Harassment 149 70.95%

Exclusion 119 56.67%

Denigration 64 30.48%

Cyberstalking 58 27.62%

Outing 56 26.67%

Impersonation 53 25.24%

Trickery 46 21.90%

n=210

The top 3 most common forms of cyberbullying in Grade 7 are Flaming, Harassment, and

Exclusion. 86.67% of the students in Grade 7 experience Flaming as to be their most common

form of cyberbullying, regardless of their sex, because they are still not too aggressive physically

and in vulgar, and so they argue online. Followed by harassing others online and removing them

from their group of friends.

Table 1.a.2

Grade 8

FORMS OF BULLYING f %

Flaming 64 100%

Cyberstalking 40 62.5%

Exclusion 34 53.13%

Harassment 25 39.06%

Denigration 17 26.56%

Outing 9 14.06%

Impersonation 7 10.93%

Trickery 5 7.81%

n=64

The top 3 most common forms of cyberbullying in Grade 8 are Flaming, Cyberstalking,

and Exclusion. 100% of the students in Grade 8 experience Flaming to be their most common

form of bullying, regardless of their sex, because of the usual arguments they do, followed by

stalking profiles from those being bullied and removing them from their group.
Table 1.a.3

Grade 9

FORMS OF BULLYING f %

Flaming 134 78.82%

Harassment 90 52.94%

Cyberstalking 52 30.59%

Exclusion 47 27.65%

Denigration 42 24.71%

Impersonation 36 21.18%

Outing 33 19.41%

Trickery 29 17.06%

n=170

The top 3 most common forms of bullying in Grade 9 are Flaming, Harassment and

Cyberstalking. 78.82% of the students in Grade 9 experience Flaming to be their most common

form of cyberbullying, regardless of their sex, because of such causes like being harassed and

stalked online, which results to having arguments on such public social media.
Table 1.a.4

Grade 10

FORMS OF BULLYING f %

Flaming 62 65.96%

Harassment 43 45.74%

Cyberstalking 28 29.79%

Exclusion 21 22.34%

Outing 15 15.96%

Denigration 12 12.77%

Impersonation 10 10.64%

Trickery 8 8.51%

n=94

The top 3 most common forms of cyberbullying in Grade 10 are Flaming, Harassment

and Cyberstalking. They experience Flaming as the most common form of cyberbullying,

garnering 65.96% of the population, because of the aggressive use of social networks and online

gaming. Students at this year are fonder of using the internet and enter such social sites. In this

case, there are more students being harassed and stalked online, in the likes of their own

satisfaction in the internet.

Table 1.b.1 (Male)

FORMS OF BULLYING f %

Flaming 205 82%

Harassment 157 62.8%

Exclusion 106 42.4%

Cyberstalking 81 32.4%

Denigration 62 24.8%

Outing 59 23.6%

Trickery 47 18.8%

Impersonation 40 16%

n=250

Discussion

Males experience Flaming to be their most common form of bullying, regardless of their

year level. This incident usually happens to them in online games, like Dota. In regards to this,

males are active in online gaming, rather than using Facebook, Twitter and other social

networks. Through this, males start arguments online, according to their gameplay in the said

online game.
Table 1.b.2 (Female)

FORMS OF BULLYING f %

Flaming 234 85.09%

Harassment 171 62.18%

Exclusion 115 41.82%

Cyberstalking 107 39%

Denigration 73 26.55%

Impersonation 66 24%

Outing 54 19.64%

Trickery 41 15%

n=275

Discussion

Females experience Flaming to be their most common form of cyberbullying, regardless

of their year level. Females are more active in social media/networks, like Facebook, as what we

have seen in most of their papers. They are more aggressive in this situation and so they usually

start arguments online and make fun of the people they dislike or annoy them. This incident is

usually done by almost all females on Facebook, greater than males.

Table 2.a.1

Grade 7

FEELINGS EXPERIENCED f %

Hurt 133 63.33%

Happy 103 49.05%

Angry 101 48.10%

Proud 100 47.62%

Sad 87 41.43%

n=210

Discussion

Grade 7 felt happy after the incident; because they think positive and they know that it is

just the beginning of everything and they are hoping that everything will be okay.

They felt hurt after the incident, of course. Because no matter what forms of

cyberbullying they encountered, they felt as if they were different from the others, that is why

they were bullied in that certain way.

Table 2.a.2

Grade 8

FEELINGS EXPERIENCED f %

Angry 56 87.5%

Happy 42 65.63%

Proud 38 59.38%

Hurt 51 79.69%

Sad 54 84.38%

n=64

Discussion

Grade 8 felt happy about themselves; because they know that they will soon be okay.

Though they experienced being cyberbullied, they still expect things to be far better than it was

before.

They felt anger within when they experienced this incident. They want to take revenge in

account to what they experienced, because they just want to let their anger, sadness and hurt get

away from them, which is their satisfaction in moving on.

Table 2.a.3

Grade 9

FEELINGS EXPERIENCED f %

Happy 122 71.76%

Angry 96 56.47%

Proud 60 35.29 %

Sad 58 34.12%

Hurt 55 32.35%

n=170

Grade 9 felt happy after the incident; because most of them have support from their

family and friends who can help them be better soon. Through this, the supports they get from

those people make them move on faster.

They also felt angry after, because of the pain they felt during the said incident. They felt

as if they were crashed by people not worthy of their attention and trust. Which results to how

their feelings are mixed up too.

Table 2.a.4

Grade 10

FEELINGS EXPERIENCED f %

Happy 71 75.53%

Hurt 67 71.28%

Angry 54 57.45%

Sad 50 53.19%

Proud 29 30.85%

n=94

Most of the Grade 10 students are already used to this kind of situation, and therefore

they just feel happy after the incident. They keep in mind that their hopes and wishes of

becoming better off soon, is going to happen in time.

For some reasons, they still felt hurt and pain within, because of the dignity they have

somehow lost. Though this may take into action, their positive feeling in letting go of the pain is

better than holding onto it forever.

Table 2.b.1 (Male)

FEELINGS EXPERIENCED f %

Angry 174 69.6%

Happy 169 67.6%

Proud 110 44%

Sad 106 42.4%

Hurt 101 40.4%

n=250

Discussion

Males are known to be tough and strong; and so from the positive feeling they have after

the incident is happy. They do not put their emotions too much on their experience, but they keep

smiling and put their heads up. The happiness they feel after the incident helps them ignore the

negative vibes they get online.

For their negative feelings, males are aggressive as we know, and they usually let their

emotions out through anger. From this, they are able to show those bullies their feelings they

have inside, through aggressive anger.

Table 2.b.2 (Female)

FEELINGS EXPERIENCED f %

Hurt 195 70.91%

Happy 162 58.91%

Sad 143 52%

Angry 135 49.09%

Proud 117 42.55%

n=275

Females felt happy after the incident because of how much attention their bullies give

them. No matter how much they have experienced from this incident, they still look up to seeing

their self better than before.

Females are known to be soft and emotional, and so they felt more hurt than anger,

compared to males. Their situation makes them vulnerable in a way that not all of them can stand

the pain they feel inside.

Table 3.a.1

Grade 7

COPING STRATEGIES f %

Wishful Thinking 7819 14.28%

Social Withdrawal 7475 13.66%

Social Support 7196 13.15%

Problem Avoidance 6752 12.33%

Problem Solving 6639 12.13%

Cognitive Restructuring 6365 11.63%

Express Emotions 6283 11.48%

Self-Criticism 6206 11.34%

n=54735

Grade 7 students are more of those people who hopes and wishes that everything is going

to be okay. Followed by this strategy, they isolate from others, find support from their family and

friends, avoid the problem and then solve those problem through this coping strategies.
Table 3.a.2

Grade 8

COPING STRATEGIES f %

Wishful Thinking 1774 14.47%

Social Withdrawal 1758 14.34%

Social Support 1659 13.53%

Problem Avoidance 1526 12.44%

Express Emotions 1469 11.98%

Problem Solving 1424 11.61%

Self-Criticism 1341 10.94%

Cognitive Restructuring 1310 10.68%

n=12261

Grade 8 students are more on hoping and wishing that things will be okay. Followed by

this strategy is isolation from others, needing the support of family and friends, avoiding the

problem and then expressing their emotion to those people close to them and from those they are

socially supported.
Table 3.a.3

Grade 9

COPING STRATEGIES f %

Wishful Thinking 6059 14.41%

Social Support 5779 13.75%

Problem avoidance 5602 13.33%

Social Withdrawal 5301 12.61%

Problem Solving 5092 12.11%

Self-Criticism 4969 11.82%

Express Emotions 4768 11.34%

Cognitive Restructuring 4468 10.63%

n=42038

Grade 9 students are more of hoping and wishing that everything will be okay. Followed

by this strategy, they need their support from their family and friends, avoid the problem after,

isolate from others, then start to solve their problems.

Table 3.a.4

Grade 10

COPING STRATEGIES f %

Social Support 3765 14.07%

Wishful Thinking 3585 13.40%

Problem avoidance 3448 12.89%

Social Withdrawal 3430 12.82%

Self-Criticism 3211 12.00%

Problem Solving 3132 11.71%

Cognitive Restructuring 3104 11.60%

Express Emotions 3077 11.50%

n=26752

Grade 10 students are more on needing social support from their friends and family, or

even from a Guidance Counsellor. Followed by this strategy, they hope that their problems will

be all right, they try to avoid it, they isolate from others, then they try to criticize their self, in a

way of looking deeper on what they did before that is why they were bullied.
Summary of FGD

In addition to the survey questionnaire, additional research tools were utilized to provide

supplementary data.

In the focus group discussion there were a total of twenty respondents; ten males and 10

females coming from the grade 7, grade 8, grade 9 and grade 10. The first question to the

respondents was about the forms of bullying they experienced. The respondents answered

unanimously that they all experienced framing, this was followed by harassment and exclusion

for the male while cyber stalking, harassment and exclusion on the female respondents.

When asked about their feelings and thoughts after being bullied, Anger was the number

one reactions coming from the male while being hurt and sad was simultaneously stated by the

female respondents. All of the however, felt happy and proud after the experience because they

thought about the people who bullied them are just insecure and non sense people that they

shouldnt interact with.

Lastly, the researcher asked the respondents about how they perceived the experience and how

they coped from it , it was surprising to have all unanimous answers stated in different

perspectives in both male and female respondents. Their answers, denotes general idea that the

experience didnt brought them to be down in the dumps for too long. Rather, they used the

experience to be careful next time in choosing their online friends as well as circle of friends and

as driving forces to improve their selves.

The respondents all felt negative at first but turned out to be positive thinkers afterwards

and all thinks that everything will be okay soon. They are not the type to let emotions rule in

their minds.