Coping Mechanism of the Humss Senior High School Students of St. Paul University Surigao in the New Normal

Abstract

Presented in this study is the Coping Mechanism of the HUMSS Senior High School Students of St. Paul University Surigao in the New Normal. The factors that help determine the coping mechanism of the students were emotion-focused and problem-focused. There were 75 Grade 11 and 121 students from the Grade 12, as participants of the study using the purposive random sampling technique. Each participant was sent a link to a researchers-made questionnaire using Google form as a medium of the survey. The data gathered were analyzed by the following descriptive statistical tools: (a) frequency distribution and percentage, (b) mean and standard deviation, (c) analysis of variance (ANOVA).With this, the coping mechanism when it comes to emotion-focused had an average of 3.19 and was described as often. The coping mechanism when it comes to problem-focused had an average of 3.09 and was described as often. In the view of the findings and the conclusion drawn from the gathered data about what coping mechanism of the HUMSS students, the emotion-focused has been found often when it comes to the student’s coping mechanism while as to problem-focused, students still obtained it as a coping when facing and easing their tension. Also, the student’s coping mechanism when using emotion-focused and problem-focused vary according to their sex.