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Reference(s):
Anuada, A. M. (2017). Factors that influence senior high school students of SSC
in their choice of strand. Retrieved from
https://robertbalinton143.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/factors-that-influence-
senior-high-school-students-of-scc-in-their-choice-of-strand-2/
Ricardo Rubio Santos. Personal Development. Manila City. Rex Book Store.
Simpkins, S. D., Fredericks, J. A., Eccles, J.S. (2012). Charting the Eccles’
expectancy-value model from mothers’ beliefs in childhood to youths’ activities
in adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 48(4), 1019-1032. Retrieved from
https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0027468
LEARNING TARGET
1.1. Discuss that facing the challenges during adolescence may clarify and manage the demands of teen
years;
1.2. Express his or her feelings on the expectations of the significant people around him or her (parents,
siblings, friends, teachers, community leaders); and
1.3. Make affirmations that help one become more lovable and capable as an adolescent.
LEARNING CONCEPT
• Puberty drives the adolescent to experience surges of sexual desires, which often lead to
experimentation and exploration.
• The danger of losing control on sexual drives is common, and might end in lifelong regrets.
• Being responsible enough and limiting yourself is the key.
• Sexual relationship is healthy if considered as part of a loving relationship rather than being just
for pleasure or fun.
• Love is genuine and is based on respect; not on mere sexual drives.
• Adolescents are prone to exploring pornography, especially when imitating any sexual acts as
demonstrated in such videos due to curiosity.
• A research in the USA shows that people heavily exposed to pornography tend to imitate every
act and simulate in real life.
• Sexual drives of a person often cause a person to lose respect and love towards the sexual
partner.
2. Academic Concerns
3. Group Belongingness
• An adolescent has the urge to be independent and autonomous from his family and parents, but
replaces it in the form of social groupings such as school friends, memberships in organizations,
and community.
• A healthy mind and body is what every adolescent should strive for.
• Lack of sleep and poor eating habits often result in disaster.
• Long exposures to gadgets are unhealthy.
• Having regular exercises, balanced diet, proper hygiene, and adequate sleep cycles helps an
adolescent become a healthier person.
• Nutrition initiatives in most developing countries tend to neglect adolescents as they focus more
on women and adolescents. A link was evidenced between fetal undernutrition and increased
risk of chronic diseases during adulthood (WHO 2006).
• There are two factors determining the adequate nutrition of an individual: adequate availability
of food, and the ability to digest, absorb, and utilize the food (Chen 1979 as cited by WHO
2006).
• Self-esteem is defined as an individual’s positive and negative self-evaluation (Kassin, Fein, and
Markus 2014).
• Adolescents should be objective and balanced when viewing themselves.
• Individuals who often encounter criticism at home and in school often develop low self-esteem.
• Self-esteem is said to be one of the critical factors to excel academically. A person will find it
difficult to finish a task if he thinks that he cannot do it, resulting in developing his self-
defeating behavior (Regier 2011; Kassin et al. 2014).
• A balanced self-esteem is a must, since low self-esteem indicates inferiority, while having too
much self-esteem may inflict violence or superiority (Baron and Branscombe 2012; Kassin et
al. 2014).
6. Roles
• Adolescents must learn to integrate all their roles and must be related to the tasks expected of
them by others.
• People with high self-esteem are more sociable than those with low ones, and are said to be
more productive and capable of being assigned for leadership roles (De Lamater and Myers
2012).
• A healthy adolescent whose self-identity is clear and whose roles are integrated will understand
and accept the situation of having multiple roles. He or she will recognize the values being
expected from him or her.
• Role confusion can be diminished when these values are clear in the mind of the adolescent.
7. Material Poverty
• Many adolescents face difficulties in life due to their needs not being sufficiently met.
• These inadequacies are the reason why some children cannot go to school, or at least get the
quality education they need.
• A qualitative study by Williams (2015) explained that absence in school is the first thing that
can be identified in a student living in poverty.
• Absence of a parent or both leaves social costs on the young, vulnerable child
• Migration and Filipino Children Left Behind: A Literature Review by Professor Melanie Reyes
of the Miriam College Women and Gender Institute: “several studies showed that children
experience gender role confusions, abuse, longing for parental care, and consumerist attitudes
development.”
• Adolescents use their emotions in order for to get their parents attention, some even resorting to
emotional blackmail.
• Those who see their parents working abroad in a negative way often feel sadness, loneliness,
and thoughts of being abandoned, while those looking in a positive way perceive this as a way
for their family to have good lives and sustain their needs.
• However, others can also see this as an opportunity to work harder and achieve greater results,
that would pay off the hard works of their parents.
9. Career Choice
• An adolescent who is creating his own identity needs to identify the career path he or she is
taking on.
• Private schools often provide career counseling and guidance, but it is suggested that students
search in the Internet to help identify his or her capabilities and skills.
• Material poverty could be another challenge for career choice.
• Adolescents need to be figure out their interest and skills in order to find the right career.
• A study by Anuada (2017) had a result in which 68.33% agree that peer influence is one of the
factors that affect career choices of senior high school students.
10. Relationships
• Adolescents are still developing their own cognitive skills that they can use in thinking of
abstract concepts and asking critical questions.
• A study by Simpkins, Fredericks, and Eccles (2012) had a result in which parents’ behaviors
mediated the relation between mothers’ and youths’ beliefs, and in turn mediated the parents’
• and youths’ behaviors.
• Depression is a serious case that adolescents experience, and some are unaware that they are
experiencing this.
• A qualitative study by Williams (2015) proposed that there were other barriers (i.e.
transportation, realistic hope, and abuse) that impacted adolescents.
1. Gregorio del Pilar – born November 14, 1875, died December 2, 1899.
• Often regarded as the “Boy General” for being the youngest ever to be commissioned as
general by the Filipino revolutionary forces that fought the Spaniards and Americans.
• Killed in the Battle of Tirad Pass in Ilocos Sur fighting the American colonialist forces.
2. Edgar Jopson – born September 1, 1948, died 1982
• Son of middle-class parents, graduated valedictorian of his high school class in Ateneo.
• Became the Student Council President at UP and the President of the National Union of
Students in the Philippines.
• One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines in 1970.
• Became a moderate activist during the martial law years under Marcos.,
• Marcos rebuked him with a statement, ad hominem, criticizing him being born as a son of a
grocer.
• Became more radical with his political views after having been exposed to various
situations depicting the excess of martial law.
3. Efren Peñaflorida – born March 9, 1982
• Started an organization called Dynamic Teen Company to keep adolescents like him away
fro trouble.
• It went into youth awareness projects talent and self-development activities and community
services before it helped poor children who could not afford to got to school.
• Efren’s father is a tricycle driver and his mother is a housewife, together lived in an open
dumpsite somewhere in Cavite City.
• He graduated from San Sebastian College-Recoletos de Cavite with a degree in Computer
Technology.
• He graduated from Cavite State University with a degree in Secondary Education, cum
laude in 2006.
• Awarded as CNN Hero of the Year on November 22, 2009, crediting and honoring his work
of pushcart project.