Publication
Abstract: This study aims to metaphysically explore, interpret, and establish how the Ilocanos in the northern part of the Philippine islands experience bain ken basol, understood as shame and sin or guilt, during moral failure and how they resolve it. The research method used is a qualitative research design employing the philosophic phenomenological methodthat comprises the four intertwining steps of 1) epoche, 2) phenomenological reduction, 3) imaginative variation, and 4) synthesis. Vital information had been explored from thirty informants represented by the young, middle-aged, and old generations through in-depth, semi-structured interviews or open-ended questioning. The findings of the study revealed that the cultural complexities and the perspectival and contextual concepts of the Ilocano society have established a progressively multifaceted psychoanalytic intersubjective ground. The discussions of the experiences and concepts built up on bain ken basol further boiled down to four theories, namely: theory of distinctiveness, theory of oneness, theory of accommodation, theory of interconnectedness, theory of relational responsibility.
Keywords: shame, sin-guilt, intersubjective, grounded theories
Abstract: This study examined the prevalence and extent of behavioral challenges commonly experienced by senior high school students. A mixed method of research was for the study. Results revealed that the overall extent of behavioral challenges commonly experienced by senior high school students is at a low level. However, the respondents still believed that they were challenging the authority of their teachers and felt that they lack interest in their lessons and activities. These findings suggest teachers should mitigate the problems of behavior by reaching their students in a way that makes the class as a whole more interesting, engaging, and relevant to their life. Also, parents must provide quality time, attention, follow-ups, and assurance to their children. Lastly, administrators should be more stringent in enforcing school rules and regulations on campus and create an effective behavioral intervention program for the school.
Keywords: behavioral challenges, discipline
Abstract: This study investigated the ethical decision-making experienced by the Generation Z student leaders. As student leaders face various ethical problems in the environment and culture that are increasingly complex, multicultural, and ambiguous, there is an increasing focus on the value of their ethical decision-making. Shedding light on this problem, respondents’ lived experiences on ethical decision-making were explored qualitatively using a phenomenological approach. The data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured online interviews and open-ended questioning with the respondents. Although respondents frequently identify the areas of concern as ethical, the thematic analysis of the transcribed interviews revealed nine main themes when they faced moral dilemmas and moral distress. These are: (1) the difficulty in defining and articulating the ethical decision-making process; (2) the costs of making an ethical decision; (3) the frequency and recognition that they were involved in an ethical dilemma; (4) thoughts, feelings/emotions during and after the event; (5) significant influences on the decision making process and the final decision; (6) negative responses due to the stress of making ethical decisions; (7) long-lasting effects of making ethical decisions;(8) barriers to making sound ethical decisions; and lastly, (9) suggestions to make the process of ethical decision making. Several reasons were offered to explain their ethical decision-making during moral dilemmas. Furthermore, the study discovers the cultural laden Transformational-Motivational Framework of ethical decision-making as a novel framework to encapsulate all the themes. Finally, given the scarcity of prior empirical research, the findings of this study need to be validated further.
Keywords: Ethical decision-making, Moral dilemma, Transformational-Motivational Framework
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Presentation
- Lived Experiences of UNP Pre-Service Teachers on Multicultural Education: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study (2025), SDG 4, 10
- Biag ti Maysa nga Ubing nga Ina (The Lifeworld of a Teenage Mother) (2024), SDG 1, 3, 4, 5, 10
- Ilokano-ness of Bain ken Basol: A Phenomenological Inquiry (2023), SDG 4, 11, 16
- Lived-Experiences of Parents of Children with Special Needs: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology (2022), SDG 3, 4, 5, 10, 11
- Ethical Decision Making: The Lived-Experience of Generation Z Student Leaders (2021), SDG 4, 5, 10, 16
Citations
- Ethical Decision Making of Gen Z Student Leaders in the Phenomenological-Empirical Context (2022), SDG 4, 5, 10, 16 – https://vector.unp.edu.ph/index.php/1/article/download/291/268