Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
A THESIS
Presented to the faculty of
The College of Technical Teacher Education
BESTLINK COLLEGE OF THE PHILIPPINES
In Partial fulfillment
for the Degree of
BACHELOR OF TECHNICAL TEACHER EDUCATION
Researchers:
Abiela, Mariel V.
Colminar, Jesiel S.
Dela Cruz, GlyselleKristelie D.
Guya, Patrick O.
Perez, Sandra T.
April 20
BESTLINK COLLEGE OF THE PHILIPPINES-BULACAN, INC.
Chapter 1
Introduction
Teenage pregnancy is not like any other issue in the whole world although it
seems to be a common concern,it does not seem to bother people that much. Not until
they are personally affected by the issue or until they finally realize that it had been
increasing in number of affected people that it has slowly reached an abnormal stage or
the point that it affected too many lives already and too many aspects of living Teenage
pregnancy is most unplanned and as a result people react to the experience differently.
It has been linked to an array of other social issues, such as welfare dependency, child
health and well-being, out of wedlock births, fatherhood responsibility, child abuse and
neglect, school drop-out and workforce development. (Torivillas, The Philippine Star,
2013) It has been noted and well documented that today’s teenagers face more sexual
temptation than previous generations. They seem to be more aware of sex and
susceptible to the dangers of illicit sex. Today’s society is more bombarded with
are not taught family life education by their parents and schools because of the
sensitivity of the issue, this is contrary to the wide assumption that family life education
is on. In practice, however, not much of sex education is taught in every Filipino family.
Existing government family planning programs have been directed principally to married
after a decade in the Philippines. Sex education is being incorporated to the subject
matters in school. RH bill could be a big help to let the teenagers know how to act about
sex. Filipino families and communities is properly informed about their responsibilities to
their youngsters with regards to sex. While teenagers wherever they are must be
pregnancy usually become a big issue to the students, friends and to the whole
community. The family of the victim was in trauma discovering that their teenager was
some months on her way already. Almost everybody is blaming the pregnant teenager
of the consequences of her misdeeds. They focused their judgment to the victim but
they did not bother to ask why and what were behind of indulging sex at teens and got
The researchers have observed that some young mothers are not in a position to
go back to school after delivery as they are forced to look after their children, their
prioritize to look for a part time job to support their baby, and also young mothers
physical health conditions do not make it conducive for them to go back to school
because of their situation but some young mothers decided to goback to school to finish
their study for the sake of their children. And also some young mothers they feel
ashamed inside their room due their pregnancy, and they experienced also a very low
self-esteemdue their pregnancy. But their school has strategies that for every senior
high school student that got pregnant not at the right time and experienced struggle to
go back to school.
The school was continues support the studies of young mothers through study
home or study base. The researchers chose this problem because this problem is very
interesting and meaningful, for us to know the reason why there are many victims of
teenage pregnancy. The researchers of this paper hope that after the study, they can
impart some important strategies and information they gained to the school community,
to the teachers, school administrators, parents and to the teen girls on how to avoid
This study aims to determine the effects on the learning behavior ofearly
pregnancy among Senior High School students at Bestlink College of the Philippines,
1.1 age;
1.3pregnancy status?
2. What are the causes of early pregnancy among respondents in terms of:
3. What are the effects of early pregnancy in the learning behavior of respondents and
to what extent?
4.How may the findings be utilized in crafting a matrix on early pregnancy awareness
program?
BESTLINK COLLEGE OF THE PHILIPPINES-BULACAN, INC.
This study focuses on the effects of early pregnancy on learning behavior among
Senior High School students of Bestlink College of the Philippines. This study will be
conducted to find out the extent effects of early pregnancy to the learning behavior of
the students among respondents at Bestlink College of the Philippines Academic year
2018-2019.
STUDENTS.Thisstudy will benefit the students who are still studying at School
because,this study will give them information about the effects of early pregnancy in
their educational development. Thisstudy will also guide them to focus their attention on
their study and become aware in the negative effects of unwanted pregnancy rather
PARENTS.This study may help parents to enable them to realize their great role in
educating their teenage child protecting and diverting them from unplanned pregnancy
especiallywithout marriage.
education to the development of the students. This study will give them information of
how to approach or give especial care or attention to the students that have experience
early pregnancy.
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS .The study will give them information about the causes
and effects of early pregnancy, among teenage students, and also thiswill provide an
idea of how to lessenthe causes of early pregnancy.The school administrator will
CURICULUM WRITERS.This study will give them information about the causes of early
pregnancy, so that they will have an idea in making a plan to address this identify
problem.
provide them information of the importance of knowing the major factors behind early
pregnancy and the possible effects on educational development of teenagers. It’s one
way that guidance will intensify sex education on their school, improve the knowledge of
their co faculties or teachers through seminars so that they can deal well with students
FUTURE RESEACHERS.For them to have a reference and guide for their future
This study delimited its problem on the Effects of early pregnancy among Senior
High School students at Bestlink College of the Philippines City of San Jose Del Monte,
Bulacan Academic Year 2018-2019. Fifteen(15) Students of Senior High School are the
Chapter 2
This Chapter presents a review of related literature and studies from different
Foreign Literature these are materials printed in other countries with information
related to the current study and are found in books, professional journals, magazines
Local LiteratureThese are local materials usually printed and found in books,
teenage motherhood only approach the wider issues of social disadvantage obliquely,
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Bandura, 1896, 1992 Initially called Cognitive Social Learning Theory social
cognitive theory emphasizes behavior, environment, and cognition as the key factors in
development. The social cognitive model is concerned with ways in which mental
self and others, and the role of social facilitation in decisions making, memory, and
judgment (Bandura, 1896, 1992) According to social cognitive theory, complex cognitive
Elliott, and Berry (2005) explained howCultural influences serve as behavioral models
for young people social cognitive theory contends that people observe important role
models, make inferences and attributions and acquire scripts, schemas and normative
beliefs that 19 then guide their subsequent behavior.This theoretical perspective would
predict that adolescents learn sexual behaviors and their likely consequences by
watching television To the extent that adolescents acquire favorable beliefs about sex
and confidence in their own sexual abilities as a result of viewing sexual content on
others 4ish the individual to do with respect to the behavior in question, or both, Another
that may 0e under affective (emotional) control and does not adequately take into
AID's or pregnancy preventive behavior In addition, the review of literature has not seen
social cognitive theory 0eing tested empirically as an integrated model with respect to
pregnancy or STD related behavior This section of the chapter discussed the theoretical
The purpose of the next portion of the chapter is to review the literature
associated with the teen sexual behavior and pregnancies are reviewed first These
include poverty and welfare dependence, environmental, cultural, and social factors,
parents, peers, and poor sex education, the age at which sex is initiated, and the
influence of technology.
The Theory of Triadic Influence (TTI) integrates variables and processes from
many sociological and psychological theories of behavior onset and change (Flay
&Petraitis,