The Childhood Bullying Experiences and the Level of Self-Concept of the CPU College of Theology Students

ABSTRACT

This study tried to look at the impact that childhood bullying experience had on the level of self-concept of CPU College of Theology students. This study is descriptive-relational, which utilized a one-shot survey design. Questionnaires were adopted from the self-concept test by Felnor G. Importante and a validated self-made questionnaire on bullying. This study also utilized the SPSS. Chi-square was used as statistical tool. The test of significance was set at 0.05 level. Findings revealed that majority of the respondents were male, middle children, with intact families, and with very good quality of guidance and supervisions of parents. Mothers influenced them most in life. Most of them experienced bullying other people and few were victims and witness of bullying acts. Students had very good self-concept. Ordinal position, family status, quality of parents’ guidance and supervision, and influence of significant person in life had no significant relationship with their bullying experience, except for sex. Hence, male students were more of a bullying type than girls. Moreover, bullying experience in the students’ early childhood days had not direct or lasting effect on the students’ level of self-concept. Thus, bullying experience had no significant relationship with their present level of self-concept. Finally, the most likely reason why they bullied somebody was that they wanted to have control over somebody.