THE MEDINA COLLEGE STUDENTS RATIONALE OF BEING LAZY IN SCHOOL

A Research Paper
Presented to the
Faculty of Medina College Science High School,
Ozamiz City

In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the
Research I

Samaila A. Dilaba
Joana Hempisao
October 2018
 CHAPTER I

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE

Introduction

Generally, laziness occurs at anytime, anywhere or to everyone in their

daily activities. Students feel lazy to finish their homework; not attending

classes at school, failure to complete the given tasks assigned by teachers

within the allocated time; workers delay organizing files; not settling their job;

entrepreneurs relaxing in the office without planning anything for the

company, graduates lazy to prepare their own resumes and everybody has

many kinds of laziness. It is normal to feel lazy at certain time but it will

become a crucial problem if the attitude is out of control. Hence, the person

neglects to self-regulate or manage him/herself positively. Laziness among

students has become a serious problem in schools which is closely related to

some of the disciplinary problems.

Laziness is a mental state of an individual when it lacks energy and/or

the desire to perform tasks, which can have several causes (Steve, 2010). A

lazy person is one who is not aware of their thoughts, emotions and actions.

One who is aware of their thoughts as they occur, the feelings that pass

through them and the actions they take, are the ones who are not lazy. So,

one can be very active and still be very lazy, or one can be not active at all, but

be very diligent. It is simply about being mindful and finely tuned in to the
present moment (Mehta, 2007). The lazy man does not stand in the way of

progress. When he sees progress roaring down upon him he steps nimbly out

of the way. The lazy man doesn't pass the buck. He lets the buck pass him. We

have always secretly envied our lazy friends (Morley, 1920).

From the psychology point of view, laziness is a behavior describing the

passive attitude of a person with the tendency to avoid work although he/she

is capable, unwilling to put forth efforts and choosing not to work hard and

lack of will power (Beghetto, 2007; Mish, 1994, Ellis. 1991). An attitude can be

defined as a tendency to think, feel, and an individual’s response either

positively or negatively towards particular objects or situation from the

cognitive, affective, and behavioral perspectives (Bidjari, 2011; Salta &

Tzougraki, 2004; Howarth, Fosters and Dorrer, 2004). A statement from Ellis

(1991) stated that the will power consists of the strong determination towards

individual’s change, persistent of work and practice (Neenan, 2008).

According in this book Dr. Floyd L. Ruch, a psychologist has said that

the difference between a good student and a poor one is often not so much

inborn differences in ability to learn as it is a difference in the management of

those abilities. Studying means reading and examining in order to learn and to

understand it involves gathering ideas and facts in order to be able to answer

questions. The questions way be there the teacher asks or assigns as guides for

homework, or they may be questions arise in the minds of the intellectually

curious, or questions that come from the problems of everyday life or business
life. The ultimate aim of all study is to be able to solve the problems that occur

in everyday living.

Conceptual framework

We explore the influences on student time use with two-period model.

The two-periods are however, of very different length. The first period of

education in which the student can choose to work, study or enjoy leisure and

the second is the rest of the student’s life depends positively on the effort put

into studying and thus, for any given amount of leisure time, negatively on the

time that the students spends working. The effect of the study with most

analysis of the effects of education, and we aim to explore the factors

influencing the student’s decision about how much time to allocate study.
 Independent Dependent

Variables Variables

 STUDY TIME

STUDENT’S

 LEISURE PERFORMANCE
TIME

Figure 1: Schema of the Study

Statement of the problem

 It endeavoured to answer the following specific sub-problems:

1. What is the profile of the respondents?

2. How students do perceived the study time?

3. How students do perceived the leisure time?

4. What is the level of student’s performance in school?

5. Is there a significant relationship between the administrative activities

of students and student’s performance in school?

Significance of the Study

It will help the students to join and participate in school activities special

on the clubs activities. It will help the students to compete confidently. It will

serve as their asset in the future because they will lead the school someday.

Scope and Limitations of the Study

In this study, it covers the academic performance of the Grade 7 to Grade 12

students in Medina College Science High School.

Definitions of Terms
Confidence – a feeling and consciousness of one’s power or of reliance on one’s

circumstances.

New Environment – the circumstances, or conditions which one is surround.

Lack of Confidence – losing of self-esteem, being shy.

Shy – lacking of confidence.

Academic Performance – a student’s activities in their academic subjects.

Review of Related Literature

Duru & Bakis (2014) in their research revealed that passive attitudes

such as lazy or procrastination affect self-regulation with relation to academic

performance. By postponing academic tasks, students would fail to control

themselves which then leads to stress, low academic performance and anxiety.

However, by controlling their habits and routine in any given task, it would

lead to the implementation of action in oneself (Sommer, 2013). Thus, by self-

regulating oneself with routine and effort, a person could avoid from becoming

lazy.

The positive tendency reaction affects the high commitment towards

learning and student’s interest which described the ability of a person in self-

regulation (Simpson & Oliver, 1990). Moreover, some findings showed that

attitudes lead to persistence, performance and achievement (Zain & Jusoh,

2010; Trumper, 2006; Siegel & Ranney, 2003). Meanwhile the negative
outcomes such as procrastination, easily giving up, perform task with less

effort etc. (Schouwenburg & Lay, 1995; Motie et al., 2012; Stead et al., 2010;

Howell and Buro, 2009; Michinov et al., 2011; Steel, 2007; Qi et al., 2010).

Thus, from the above finding, it is proven that a passive attitude means a

tendency to react negatively in their thinking, feeling and responses towards

commitment and achievement. Although a lazy person has the tendency in

reacting negatively towards certain event, it has been reported that this

internal attribute could be controlled (Reyna, 2000). She suggested that

laziness could be elaborated more from the self-esteem, motivation, attitudes in

thinking and behavioral perspectives.

From the above findings, laziness is closely related to self-regulation

within oneself. Any action taken was based on their decision to make it happen

or just letting it go without any achievement. Their commitment towards any

task or activity is the results of how they self-regulate or control themselves

towards achievement. The challenges would make them competent within

themselves or when compared to others. However, lazy students would fail to

control or regulate themselves towards commitment and finally they would not

achieve anything that would make them satisfied. Hence, this low motivation in

desire and self-regulation would involve them in procrastination, social and

disciplinary problems and finally would affect their performance in academic.

From the Islamic perspective, the habit of laziness is clearly stated in the

Al-Qur’an, Al-Jathiyah 45: 15, "If anyone does a righteous deed, it ensures to
the benefit of his own soul; if he does evil, it works against (his own soul)". This

verse indicates the importance of the attitudes that would affect positively or

negatively in oneself according to their action. Thus, whether a person becomes

lazy or persistent, it would either benefit or degrade them. It is because any

action or attitude will affect them directly as stated in the Al-Qur’an, Al Najm

53: 39, “That man can have nothing but what he strives for.” Thus, good

attitudes are important as being stated in the Al-Qur’an, Al-Asr 103: 1-3, "By

(the Token of) Time (though the Ages). Verily Man in loss. Except such as have

Faith and do righteous deeds and (join together) in the mutual teaching of

Truth and of Patience and Constancy". The verse indicates the importance of

time management, in order to achieve productive results. Thus, Islam is

against laziness or waste of time or any unproductive activity. By becoming

lazy, the person will lose the opportunity to become successful.

The previous research also concluded that in the Islamic work ethics,

being hardworking is important, in order to achieve balance within one’s self

and the social life. As hard work is a compulsory element in the work ethics, it

will develop self-reliance within the practitioner. Finally, through commitment

and hard work practices, a person would achieve success in the given task (Ali,

1987). His research has revealed that success has strong relationship with self-

control or self-regulation, in terms of commitment. Hence, a lazy person

demonstrated the lack of self-regulation control due to passive attitudes,

having problems in time management and etc. Apart from that, recent findings

illustrated the relationships of piety and morality with hardworking attitudes

(Elci, Sener & Alpkan, 2011). From the regression analysis, they found that

hard work was affected by both morality and piety. The regression model was

found to be significant (f= 82,037; p=.00). Thus, based on the evidence from the

above finding, it is concluded that lazy attitudes are wasting time

(procrastination), low commitment and far from hard work attitude. Moreover,

a hardworking person is committed in their task to achieve success. Yet, to

overcome laziness, a person should practice positive attributes suggested by

religious and moral perspectives.

Research Instrument

Its Preparation. In the absence of a standardized instrument to be used

in gathering the needed data. The researcher with the consent from the thesis

committee structured a self-made research tool based on the various related

reading which was reviewed validated, and patterned after a checklist-rating

scale questionnaire. The data for the student’s performance were taken from

the file of the school registrar.

Validation. The prepared draft of the research tool was subjected to a try

out to 150 students. The results were collected and carefully scrutinized to suit

to the problem under investigation.

Revision. The instrument was refined and revised based on the results

of the dry run. Suggestions were carefully noted and integrated to come up

with a well refined research tool. The index of difficulty per time was

considered. Items with .20 to .80 index of difficulty were the only ones included
in the final form of the instrument. Item with an index difficulty below and

above the set index of difficulty were excluded.

Reproduction. After the “go-signal” given by the thesis committee, the

researcher reproduced the corrected and revised instrument. Adequate number

of copies was produced to avoid problems in the administration.

Administration. The researcher personally administered the

questionnaire during his convenient time. Care was taken to have all the time

of the instrument answered honestly and sincerely. A one hundred percent

retrieval was achieved.

Scoring. The complete questionnaires were then handscored personally

but the researcher avoid biases after the scoring, the results were tallied and

tabulated properly and made ready for statistical treatment.

Data Gathering Procedure

The researcher prepared a request letter for permission addressed to the

School President through channels Vice President for Academic Affairs to

conduct a survey among students in Medina College Science High School. The

data gathered were used in the realization of this research work. The results

were held strictly confidential based on the “Ethics of Research”, upon

approval; the researcher with assistance of her thesis adviser planned the

preparation of the research instrument.

 Statistical Treatment

For valid, reliable and accurate interpretation and analysis of the data,

the following statistical treatment were employed:

Weighted Mean. This tool was utilized for accurate evaluation of the

administrative and supervisory activities of school administrators by assigning

their corresponding descriptive rating. The formula is:

fw
WM = ------------------
n

where:

WM = weighted mean

f = frequency

w = weighted

N = number of cases

T-test. This tool was used to determine the significance of the difference

between means of the variables with the formula:

X1 - X 2
t =
(SD1 ) 2 (SD 2 ) 2
×
N1 N2
Where:
t = t-test value
X = mean
SD = standard deviation
N = number of cases
Sub 2  second variable
Sub1  first variable
 Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation. This tool was

used to find out if there existed a significant relationship between

administrative activities to job performance of administrators. the formula was

as follows:

nxy - xy
r xy = ----------------------------------
nx2- (x) 2ox2 – (x)2

where:

N = number of cases

r xy = Pearson Product Moments of Correlation

x = first variable

y = second variable

In testing the significance of r, the t-test was used with the formula:

t=r n–2
1 – r2

All statistical tests are set at.05 level of significance.