Externalizing Behaviors and Family Influences on Filipino Urban Adolescents: A Social Learning Theory Approach

Proponent/s Name/s (Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial)

Joseph David H. Melliza, De La Salle University Integrated School, Manila
Renzo O. Pocsidio, De La Salle University Integrated School, Manila
Joaquim O. Rizal, De La Salle University Integrated School, Manila
Josef Angelo Tagupa, De La Salle University Integrated School, Manila
Andre Elijah B. Techico, De La Salle University Integrated School, Manila

Document Types

Paper Presentation

School Code

N/A

School Name

De La Salle University Integrated School

Abstract/Executive Summary

This study will look through Bandura’s Social Learning Theory perspective on how parental influence predicts Filipino adolescents' externalizing behaviors. As children are impressionable, they observe their parents as role models; their behavior development from childhood to adolescence is dependent on parental influence. With this in mind, the study’s research objectives aim to understand how parental influences, such as abusive and antisocial behavior, affect the adolescent’s externalizing behavior and the level of externalizing behaviors among Filipino adolescents living in Metro Manila, Philippines. The researchers then surveyed 202 Filipino adolescents residing in Metro Manila, answering a questionnaire that measured family characteristics, perceived abusive and antisocial behavior of parents, and self-assessed level of externalizing behaviors. The data gathered was processed through descriptive and inferential statistics, and the results concluded that family influence does have significance in the adolescent's externalizing behavior. In conclusion, through Social Learning Theory and the data collected, the adolescent's externalizing behaviors were found to be due to family influence.

Keywords

Adolescents, Externalizing Behaviors, Family Influence, Social Learning Theory, Perceived Abusive Behaviors of Parents

Research Theme (for Paper Presentation and Poster Presentation submissions only)

Family, Relations, and Social Structure (FRS)

Initial Consent for Publication

yes