ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Foremost, we wish to thank our Psych 199 Research Methods Advisor Prof. Imelu Mordeno for

the teachings he imparted to us from the very start of our research paper. Without his constructive

criticisms we would not be able to complete this paper successfully.

We would also like to express our sincere thanks to his research assistant Michelle Ferolino for

helping and teaching us how to do the statistical analyses properly for our research. We were also

grateful to our thesis adviser Prof. Priscila B. Cada for the support, guidance, encouragement and

providing the needs in order to make this paper possible.

We take this opportunity to express gratitude to all of the Department faculty members for their

help and support especially the panel members for helping us make our research paper better. We would

also like to thank each of our family for the unceasing encouragement, support and attention. We are also

grateful to each other for the unity and understanding we both shared through the whole duration of

making this research.

We would also like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the people behind the success of this

research paper. To our closest friends who helped us gather respondents, for their moral support and

encouragement, our thank you is not enough for everything you all have done for us.

Last but not the least, we are very much grateful to the God for the good health and wellbeing that

were necessary to complete this paper. For guiding us on the right path and for giving us wisdom and

strength in order to pass the last phase in our bachelors degree program.