Influence of peer and parental pressure on the academic performance of college students Bryant Oliver O. Alvarez... [et.al].

Thesis (Bachelor of Science in Psychology) -- University of Rizal System-Morong.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The study aimed to determine the influence of peer and parental pressure on academic performance of college students. The study is composed of forty (40) participants from different colleges who were selected from the survey conducted by the researchers. The study made use of the descriptive method of research utilizing the researcher-made questionnaire and adapted questionnaire. Checklist was the main tool to gather the needed information or data. To determine the profile of the participants in terms of their sex, age, college, monthly family income and parents educational attainment the statistical treatment used was frequency, percentage and rank distribution. To determine the level of participants peer and parental pressure and their academic performance weighted mean was applied. To find the significant difference of peer and parental pressure on the academic performance in terms of their sex, age, college, monthly family income, and educational attainment of parents. One-way analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was utilized. To find the significant relationship between peer and parental pressure on the academic performance of the participants, Pearson r was used. In the line with the result of the study, there are more male participants than female. Majority of the participants are 17 years old, and for the participants' monthly family income belongs to 6,000-10,000. Most of the participants' educational attainment of mother are High School graduate, and for the father's educational attainment are college graduate. The level of the parental pressure's academic performance of participants with the highest mean of 1.90 and peer pressure with the highest mean of 0.39. The study failed to reject the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference in peer pressure in terms of age, college, monthly family income and parent's educational attainment but with but with respect to sex the null hypothesis was rejected. In peer pressure's academic performance the null hypothesis was failed to reject, that there is no significant difference in terms of sex, monthly family income, father's educational attainment but with respect to age, college and mother's educational attainment the null hypothesis was rejected. In parental pressure, the null hypothesis was failed to reject, stating that there is no significant difference in terms of sex, age, college, monthly family income and parent's educational attainment. In parental pressure's academic performance the null hypothesis failed to reject and there is no significant difference in terms of age, monthly family income and parent's educational attainment, but with respect to sex and college the null hypothesis was rejected. The study failed to reject the null hypothesis that there is no significant relationship between parental pressure and its academic performance rejected the null hypothesis. From the result of the study, the researchers recommended that parent may spend additional time and effort to help their child in their school works and students can choose their friends wisely, they may focus on developing firm friendships with people with good values and ideas they have.