The Effects of Frequent Alcohol Consumption

Towards Academic Performance of Senior High School Students

In Partial Fulfillment in
Practical Research 1

By:
MIGUELA SHANE CRISTOBAL
FRANCESCA ALTHEA IIJIMA
FRANCIS JAYD LAPONG
ALIMONSOR ESPADILA
RENE II EMBOLTORIO
ROWEZA MANGCO
DENIEL JAN PILAR
ANGELICA QUIA
ZYRAH BALABIS
MONIQUE LABIS
 CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING

Introduction
In today’s modern age where teenagers has become more exposed to

alcohol usage which causes varied effects to them. As years rolled by, the number

of high school students who engaged with alcoholic drinks rapidly increases (,).

Alcohol ingestion causes our body to release endorphins which makes us feel

relaxed and euphoric. These feelings are what majority of the teenagers want to

feel, but they don’t realize the effects it can give them.

Alcohol use and binge among our nation’s youth is a major public problem.

Nowadays, Senior High School students are consuming alcohol at increasing rates

where the Senior High School students who appear to be a particularly high risk is

one of the public health concern in terms of their alcohol consumption and its

associated risk behaviors. Aside from health risk, Senior High School students who

drink too much alcohol may also be damaging their academic performance. There

are already many lifestyle and other variables which may relate to academic

performance. Alcohol use is only part of the picture. Interestingly, estimates of

hours spent in private study were only marginally correlated with academic

performance.

Alcohol is a liquid of strong pungent taste, an inflammable intoxicating in

fermented or distilled liquor. Alcohol is one of the large group of sedatives, drugs

which include barbiturates, bromides, and chloroform. A seductive drug is one that
causes sleep when used in large enough quantities. Alcohol was one of the earliest

sedative drugs used.

Doctors are not sure why people become alcoholism. These do not seem

to be particular type of personality likely to become an alcohol. Alcoholism may

affect men and women, the old and young, the rich and the poor (Grolier, 2000)

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), alcohol dependence,

the most cause of severe disorders, is characterized by behavioral and other

responses that always include a compulsion to take alcohol a continuous or

periodic bases in order to experience its psychic effect, and sometimes avoid

discomfort of its absence. Alcohol dependence is defined by sexennial criteria,

including a narrowing of the persons drinking preferences; increased seeking of

alcoholic beverages often to alcohol repeated withdrawal symptoms. Subjective

compulsion or a strong urge to drink in spite of awareness that drinking creating

problems in the person’s life and rapid return to establish drinking patterns of the

following periods of abstinence (Collier,1997)

In this study, researchers hope to enlighten teenagers’ especially Senior

High School students to control their consumption of alcoholic drinks. It is essential

that research into a better treatment methods and more significance, into method

of prevention be continued. Only this way can progress be made in dealing with

vices. It is significant to learn more about why people drink, what effects of drinking

to the health of a person, the most effective ways to prevent youth from starting,

and how to help adults to stop and to avoid the above mentioned disadvantages

that drinking are caused.

Statement of the Problem

This study aims to determine the effects of frequent alcohol consumption towards

Academic Performance of Senior High School students. The researchers aim to

answer the following:

1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents according to:

1.1 Age and sex;

1.2 Year level

2. What are the drinking habits of the respondents in terms of:

2.1 Kinds of liquors;

2.2 Number of bottles consumed (per week);

2.3 Where do you usually drink?

2.4 What time do you usually drink?

2.5 What is the reason why you are drinking?

2.6 How would you describe yourself in terms of your current use of

alcohol?

3. Is there a significant relationship between the academic performance of

the students and their drinking habits?

4. Is there a significant relationship between the drinking habits and their

profile varieties?

5. Is there a significant difference in profile varieties with the extent of

drinking alcohol?
Scope and Delimitations

In general, the focus of this study is directed towards the effects of frequent

alcohol consumption towards Academic Performance.

This study involved the Senior High School students included the age, sex

and year level.

The study will be administered limited to Grade 11 and 12 Senior High

School students drinking alcoholic beverages studying in Notre Dame of

Dadiangas University located in Marist Avenue, General Santos City year 2019-

2020, because the researchers wanted to find out what is the effect of frequent

alcohol consumption towards the academic performance of the respondents and

how to prevent from it, and the researchers also wanted to find out the drinking

habits of the respondents.

The study is largely dependent on the honesty, sincerity, and integrity of the

respondents.

Significance of the Study

This study would be great help to students, parents, school administrative,

community, and future researchers.

Students. This study will enlighten teenagers’ especially Senior High

School students to control the frequency of alcoholic drinks consumption. The

result of the study would aide them to increase their awareness about alcohol
drinking and alcohol-related issues so that at the early stage of life they would

develop desirable habit and value toward a better and quality of life.

Parents. The result of the study would help them to identify if their child is

one of the alcohol drinkers. This study would serve as an “eye-opener” to them,

enabling there to see the real scenario of the health nutrition factor of their children.

They should know important factors that will help their children towards the effect

of alcoholism in the academic performance of the children. In order for them to

realize the important facts that may help their children abstain from such activities.

Moreover, this will encourage them to work hand in hand with their children to

enhance harmonious relationship between their environment and in school.

Teachers. This study would help them in identifying students drinking

alcoholic drinks for extensive guidance and assistance. They would be guided to

know their student better in this study. They would come to understand the nature

of adolescence in alcoholic drinking in relation to their effort to establish their

capacity to become good contributors of society’s development.

School Administration. The result of this study will give avenue to them in

monitoring Academic Performance of Senior High School students. This study

would allow school administrators to have better reality based on information about

students’ academic performance toward alcoholic drinking. Such information

would help them to make action that will best increase awareness of the students

to such activities and address this action to adolescents, and work toward a

common good for the improvement of the living conditions each member of the

society.
 Community. This study would enjoin everybody to minimize, if not, stop the

occurrence of alcohol drinking. The result would help the community to establish

(non-discriminatory) the effects of drinking alcoholic beverages, so that the latter

can be assisted and properly evaluate themselves and look at other productive

physically harmless and healthy activities.

Researchers. The future researchers would use this study as an additional

reference.

Definition of Terms

In order to give a common definition, the following terms were defined. To

provide a common frame to facilitate understanding on the part of the readers.

Academic Performance. It is the defined as the outcome of education that

is the extent in which student, teacher, or institution has achieved their education

goal and it is commonly measured by examination or continuous assessment

(Ward, 1996).

Alcohol. Alcohol is a liquid of strong pungent taste, an inflammable

intoxicating element in fermented or distilled liquor. This study, the term alcohol

refers to the beverages which can alter the mood and attitudes of the respondents

(Grolier, 2000)

Performance. This term refers to the acts of taking action in accordance

with the requirements of the job. In this study, it refers to the performance of the

respondents in their academic field (Great Illustrated Dictionary)

 CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

Theoretical Framework

IMPROVED ACADEMIC
PERFORMANCE

Findings and
Recommendation

F Student’s profile Drinking habits of the respondents F

E 1. Age and 1. Kinds of liquor; E
sex; 2. Number of bottles consumed (per
E E
2. Year level week);
D 3. Where do you usually drink? D
4. What time do you usually drink?
B B
5. What is the reason why you are
A drinking? A
6. How would you best describe
C yourself in terms of your current C
K use of alcohol? K

Academic performance of the

respondents toward their study

NOTRE DAME OF DADIANGAS

UNIVERSITY
Senior High School Department
Grade 11 and 12 students S.Y 2019-2020

Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of the study.

Figure 1 shows the conceptual framework of the study. As what can be seen, at

the base of the diagram, it is in the first box, the location of the study, which is

Notre Dame of Dadiangas University, General Santos City, respondents of the

study. The box of the right part of the diagram contains the drinking habits of

respondents. The other box at the left side also contains the students profile in

terms of their sex and age and year level. The next box contains the academic

performance of the respondents. The next upper box contains the analysis,

interpretation, and the recommendation of the study and lastly, the box on top is

improved academic performance.

Related Literature

A persons’ alcohol user is primarily influence by attitudes development

during childhood and teen years. It is impacted by the parent’s attitude and

behavior towards drinking, persons influence, society, and family relationships.

Experimentation with alcohol during the teen years is common. Some

reason that teen used alcohol are curiosity, to feel good, reduce stress, to relax

and to fit in from a very young age. Kids see advertising messages showing

beautiful people enjoying life with alcohol. And because many parent and other

adults use alcohol socially – having beer or wine with dinner, for example,

alcohol seems harmless to many teens (Mosky and Hobey, 2008).

The World Health Organization (2011) estimates that approximately four

and a half percent of the global burden of disease and injury is attributes to

alcohol. “Alcohol consumption is estimated to cause from 20% to 50% of

cirrhosis of the liver, epilepsy, poisonings, road traffic accidents, violence, and

several types of cancer.”

Students’ substance use and abuse is influenced by a number of factors

among which are parental lifestyle, peer influence, parental attachment, and

commitment to conventional activities among others. Indeed, each of these

factors exerts tremendous influence on students’ frequency of substance use and

abuse. Families in which children have a cordial relationship with their parents,

parental control efforts are effective means in preventing children from involving

in problem behaviors. Thus, the attachment relationship goes hand in hand with

parenting parents who adequately control and supervise their adolescents’

alcohol use. Because of this, it is assumed that the expected association

between parental control and an early development of drinking will be moderated

by parental attachment (Vorst et al., 2006).

Related Study

The following shows of the similarities to the present study.

According to studies in the USA, men drink twice as much (21%) as

women (10%) (16)Dawson and Archer (17) found a ten-fold difference between

men (13.63%) and women (1.33%) and in a study by Emslie et al. (18) a

significantly higher prevalence of alcohol drinking was observed in men than in

women. In Croatia, 81.3% of men and 51.2% of women are the drinking

population (19). Alcoholism is somewhat more frequent in those of middle age,

lower income, and lower education. As to educational level, a great difference

has been observed between rural and urban areas; in urban areas, alcoholism is

more prevalent in persons with higher educational level, whereas in rural areas it

is associated with those with lower education (20). The drinking image has been

changing worldwide – with growing numbers of women and younger people as

drinkers nowadays.
 CHAPTER 3

METHODOLOGY

Research Design

This study employs the descriptive-correlation research design utilizing

group correlation analysis among variants. In particular, the research examined

the correlation of the alcoholism and the academic performance of Grade 11 and

12 Senior High School students. The main instrument used in gathering pertinent

data is the questionnaire and supplemented observation to verify and clarify

information that had been given by the respondent of the data.

The data will be gathered through questionnaire that will be formulated by

the researchers for the students’ – respondents. It will also be supplemented by

the unstructured interview being ask to the students’ – respondents. It will also be

supplemented with documentary analysis, and direct observations to crosscheck

and verify the information.

A correlation analysis will be used to determine the relationship between

the frequent alcohol consumption and academic performance of the Grades 11

and 12 Senior High School students in Notre Dame of Dadiangas University,

General Santos City, and School Year 2019-2020.

The statistical measures that were used in this study were the frequency

counts, weighted mean, ANOVA.

Locale of the Study

The place where researchers chose to conduct their study is Notre Dame

of Dadiangas University where Grades 11 and 12 Senior High School students are

randomly selected. The Notre Dame of Dadiangas University is located at Marist

Avenue, General Santos City. It is a big campus which has enough population to

accommodate. Researchers chose to conduct the study in this school because

their study pertains to the effects of frequent alcohol consumption towards the

academic performance of Senior High School students.

Respondents of the Study

The respondents of this study are the Grades 11 and 12 Senior High School

students from Notre Dame of Dadiangas University. They are the ones who are

knowledgeable enough to answer the problems posed in this study. They

answered the questionnaire that the researchers gave them which supplies the

information the researchers need.

Sampling

This study used Probability Sampling, this type of sampling technique in

which the sample from larger population are chosen using a method based on the

theory of probability. For a participant to be considered as a probability sample, he

or she must be selected using random selection (Bhat, 2019). The researchers

used Probability Sampling for their study. It involves all members listed in the

sampling frame representing a certain population focused on study.

 The type of Probability Sampling that researchers will use is Simple

Random Sampling, through which the researcher can choose a sample of within a

population. The researchers will choose the respondents based on their

experiences in frequent alcohol consumption affecting their academic

performances. The researchers will expect that Senior High School student

respondents will participate orderly to the prepared questionnaires that

researchers used to gather data from the participants. The selected participants of

this study must have interest, involvement, and experienced the main objective of

this study.

Research Instruments

Questionnaire. This is the major instrument used in this study so that we

are secure despondence to certain questions. The questionnaire that was used in

this study was designed to obtain information on the effects of frequent alcohol

consumption towards the academic performance of Senior High School students.

Open-minded questions will be used to give the respondents the opportunity

to give their responses and suggestions.

This interview guide questionnaire consisted of three parts. Part I elicited

information on the profile of Senior High School student-respondents such as age

and sex, and year level. Part II is pertaining to the drinking habits of the

respondents such as kinds of liquors; Number of bottles consumed (per week);

Where do you usually drink?; What time do you usually drink?; What is the reason

why you are drinking?; How would you describe yourself in terms of your current
use of alcohol? Part III is pertaining to the academic performance of the

respondents. This questionnaire used a checklist method.

The questionnaire prepared by the researcher was developed by reading

reference materials and related about the effects of frequent alcohol consumption

affecting Senior High School students’ academic performance.

Documentary Analysis. This will be used in the study to investigate the

total enumeration of the Senior High School students in Notre Dame of Dadiangas

University. The documents that the researchers will be going to analyze are the

official list of Senior High School students in Notre Dame of Dadiangas University.

Statistical Instruments

The data that will be gathered from the respondents will be tallied, analyzed,

interpreted, tabulated, and subjected to descriptive statistics. The statistical

instruments that will be used in this study are the frequency counts, mean,

weighted mean, F-test, t-test and ANOVA.

To describe the data on the profile of the Students’ – respondents and their

drinking habits that can be found in question number one (1) and question number

three (3), the frequency counts of and conversion of percentages is used.

To answer the numbers two, four, and five (2,4,5) the researchers will be

using the weighted mean. For the computation of the weighted mean, the formula

that was found in the book of Fegerson and Takane (1989:54) will be used. The

formula is:
 𝑿 = ∑ 𝒇𝟏 𝒙𝟏

Where:

𝐹 = Weighted mean or arithmetic mean

𝐹1 = the corresponding frequency of their nth scale

𝑥1 = the corresponding scale used

𝑁 = the sum of the value in the f1 column

For the interpretation of the weighted mean, the information below was

adopted:

To answer the question number six (6), the researchers will utilize the F –

test or the ANOVA (Analysis of Variance). The researchers use the two –way

ANOVA because this is used when comparing the mean of two or more

independent groups or many variables that are involved.

Finally, the 0.05 level of significance will be used as alpha (a) error in all

case of hypothesis.