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APPROVAL SHEET

This undergraduate thesis entitled, “ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP

INVOLVEMENT AND EFFECTS TO CREATIVE WRITING” prepared and
submitted by HANNAH JANE S. BANGCORO, SHANE C. ENRIQUEZ,
JEREMY KATE P. JANDOQUELE, BRICE LUMBIS, and PATRICIA
NICOLE G. QUERIDO in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the subject
Practical Research 2 has been examined and recommended for acceptance
and approval for oral examination.

MARVIN D. CERENO
Adviser

ORAL EXAMINATION COMMITTEE

Approved by the Committee on Oral Examination with a grade

of ______.

LUZEIL S. EBETE ABEGAIL B. NEBRIDA

Member Member

RYAN MARK O. ALCANSARE

Member

MARVIN D. CERENO
Member

Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

Senior High School Department.

____________ JOLLIE N. ALSON, PH. D.

Date Director, Research Department
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CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY

This is to certify that the thesis entitled “ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP

INVOLVEMENT AND EFFECTS TO CREATIVE WRITING” which being

submitted herewith in partial fulfillment of the requirements on the Senior High

School department of University of Perpetual Help System Dalta - Calamba

Campus is the result of the original research work and contribution by the

researchers. The work embodied in this thesis has not formed for the basis of

award of any degree or compatible body of university the best of knowledge

and belief.

The plagiarism percentage of this work is _______.

MARVIN D. CERENO
Research Teacher

Researchers:

HANNAH JANE S. BANGCORO

SHANE C. ENRIQUEZ

JEREMY KATE P. JANDOQUELE

BRICE B. LUMBIS

PATRICIA NICOLE G. QUERIDO

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We, the researchers, would like to thank certain people for being a

big contribution to this research. First and foremost, we thank our almighty

God for guiding us and made us stronger every time we felt like we wanted to

give up. He also witnessed our hardships and sacrifices and so, given us the

strength to keep going. We thank our parents for their non-stop support and

even serving us snacks whenever we do our research at home. Special

thanks to Engr. Dina M. Diesta, for helping us throughout the process of

making our thesis. She didn’t give up on us even though she was really busy

and especially those days, when there were also other groups who are asking

for her help with their thesis. Thank you Ms. Karen Manrilla and Ms. Karen

Dagoy for helping and participating to our thesis and even let us use their

class time. We are grateful to have the 4 sections of Grade 11 HUMSS

students our respondents willingly participate in our thesis, especially for the

class presidents who made an extra effort just to help the researchers when

we were having our hard time collecting their essays. Lastly, we offer our

gratefulness to Mr. Marvin Cereno, our Research teacher, for having a long

patience teaching and helping us with our thesis. We really appreciate your

effort, patiently checking the chapters passed by different groups from

different sections. This research wouldn’t become a tangible reality without

the help from all of you.

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DEDICATION

This study is dedicated to our almighty God who gave us strength and

knowledge to fulfill this project; making our intellect an instrument of shedding

light to discussing a timely and relevant phenomena. To our beloved families

especially our parents, we offer this to you as this is the fruit of your children's

labor and sacrifices. You are always been there all the time to support,

understand, and keep believing of what we could do. You've been an

inspiration and a source of strength that motivated us to complete this project.

We also dedicate this to the people behind this successful research for

they wholeheartedly support and participate in our research by helping us

constructing our research data. We, the researchers, dedicate this to the

future researchers. May you continue what we had started and imply what's

written in our recommendations so together we can discover more about this

topic. Lastly, this research is dedicated to the world's 21st century learners,

who, in this period of time, are so inclined with research and discovery.
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THESIS ABSTRACT

Title: ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP INVOLVEMENT AND EFFECTS TO

CREATIVE WRITING
Researchers: Hannah Jane S. Bangcoro, Shane C. Enriquez, Jeremy Kate
P. Jandoquele, Brice B. Lumbis, and Patricia Nicole G. Querido.

Thesis Adviser: Marvin D. Cereno

Statistician: Dina M. Diesta

Grammarian: Marvin D. Cereno

Panelists: Ryan Mark O. Alcansare, Luceil S. Ebete, Marvin D. Cereno,

Abigail Nebrida

No. of Pages: 78

School: University of Perpetual Help System Dalta - Calamba Campus

Academic Year: 2018-2019

One major function of emotions is to energize motivation: either one

becomes motivated to do something that is beneficial or to avoid something

that is dangerous. In romantic love involved, it motivates men and women to

form pair-bonds. Nowadays, most students are enabling themselves to

synchronize their time in both academic and romantic aspect. By desire, they

become more interested and involved in dating. According to an article of

John Paolo Cabanlit and Massi Mapya (2014) entitled" A study on relationship

Affects students’ academic performance essay" stated that having love

relationship with other individual has been part of lifestyle for most students

today. Prioritizing their relationship with their love partners makes their time
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their performance. However this was opposed by the Research of Zulueta &

Maglaya (2008), “motivation constitutes the degree of an individual’s

behaviour as manifested by his interests, attitudes, and aspirations to satisfy

his desired goal. It is an urge to satisfy goal object” (p. 212). Provided a

positive romantic relationship, adolescents would strive hard on performing

well in studies to bring a brighter future in their relationship. The researchers

came up with a study entitled, “Romantic Relationship Involvement and

Effects to Creative Writing”, with the goal to find the significant effect of

romantic relationship to a field of academe, which is chosen to be the creative

writing subject and to determine whether the study could break the stigma

that being involved in a romantic relationship is a hindrance in excelling on

academic performances, leading to failure. The researchers had the 146

students of grade 11 HUMSS to participate in the study: gave them a

demographic survey, group them according to their statuses, and from those

process, 45 students were selected. The participating students were ask to

create an essay in relation to the study’s topic and from their works, they were

evaluated. In the end of the study, it was discovered that from all the data

gathered, results had shown that there is no significant relationship between

romantic relationship and creative writing competency.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Pages

TITLE PAGE i

APPROVAL SHEET ii

CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

DEDICATION v

THESIS ABSTRACT vi

TABLE OF CONTENTS viii

CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction 1

Background of the Study 2

Theoretical Framework 3

Conceptual Framework 4

Statement of the Problem 5

Research Questions 6

Significance of the Study 7

Scope and Delimitation of the Study 9

Definition of Terms 10

Review of Related Literature and Studies 11

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Synthesis 28 ix

CHAPTER 2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Research Design 30

Population and Sampling 31

Respondents of the Study 32

Research Instrument 33

Validation of the Instrument 34

Data Gathering Procedure 34

Statistical Treatment of Data 35

CHAPTER 3 PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION

OF DATA

Interpretation of Data 37

CHAPTER 4 SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, AND

RECOMMENDATIONS

Summary of Findings 49

Conclusions 52

Recommendations 53

BIBLIOGRAPHY 55

APPENDICES 61

Curriculum Vitae
Hannah Jane S. Bangcoro 61
Shane C. Enriquez 62
Jeremy Kate P. Jandoquele 63
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Brice B. Lumbis 64 x
Patricia Nicole G. Querido 65

Letter of Request 66

Informed Consent Document 67

Photo Documentation 69