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Louis College Valenzuela
Faculty of Arts, Languages, Literature and Research
Senior High School Department
CHAPTER 1
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PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
The introduction, statement of the problem, hypothesis, scope and
delimitation, research paradigm, significance of the study and the definition of terms used
are discussed in this chapter. All of this will be used to further explain the topic of the
research.
INTRODUCTION
Numerous senior high school students have already experienced drinking
alcoholic drinks like beer, wine, brandy, whiskey, etc., most of the students that are
exposed by drinking alcohol are minors, in a survey conducted by the University of the
Philippines, 60 percent of Filipino youths today are drinking alcoholic beverages. Based
on the observations of the researchers, they have found out that plenty of the adolescent
students consume alcohol as a stress reliever, motivation, to cope with a certain event or
happenings, and other different reasons. This has been common now, especially to the
senior high school students. This research’s goal is to inform students about how alcohol
consumption affects students’ academic performance. This research will seek to provide
unknown facts about the impacts of alcohol consumption of senior high school students
on their academic performance. Mild drinking habits of students are becoming a
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phenomenon resulting in a higher probability of some students that might lead to
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substance abuse (abuse of tobacco, drugs, etc.).
Alcohol is an addictive drink that is made from yeast and sugar, there are also individual
sources of sugar that can process different types of alcohol. Alcohol can be perceived as
a psychoactive drug, a drug that affects the mental processes and mind (Lautieri, 2019).
Smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol have a large connection with each other
(Batel et al., 1995; Burton and Tiffany, 1997). Students that smoke tobacco has a high
opportunity of drinking alcohol as both of these substances are addictive. Countless
people have an idea about the harmful effects of alcohol and tobacco in the body, whether
non-smokers, non-alcoholics, and even smokers and alcoholics perceived their effect as
harmful (Hermand et al., 1995, 1997, 2000). Drinking alcohol has been a common
solution for some students whenever they experience negative emotions (i.e. sadness,
anxiety, and hopelessness).
Based on Hellmich (2013), 24.7% of boys and 15% of girls engage at different
kinds of binge drinking. Binge drinking is defined as a practice of intaking a large quantity
of alcohol in a single session of in a particular period, specifically drinking five or more
drinks at a time for men and four for women. This firmly discussed the statistics of how
people are open about excessive consumption of alcohol.
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Student’s academic performance can beS.Y.influenced
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experiences. Student’s characteristics are the elements that provides their basis on how
they are going to perform academically.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The amount of senior high school students that are drinking alcohol is constantly
increasing, most people have a piece of knowledge about its physical, mental,
emotional, and spiritual effects but there is still undisclosed information that many
people don’t know.
Particularly, those can be answered by the help of these following questions:
´ What are the reasons why senior high school students drink alcohol?
´ What are the effects of alcohol on student's academic performance?
´ How do some students that consume alcohol manage to cope with school activities?
´ What influenced them to start drinking alcohol?
´ Do the gathered sample have a risk of having an alcohol dependency?
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Senior High School Department
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