Drinking Liquor to Experience by the Paulinian

Students of St. Paul University Iloilo

IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF:

Andrea Corrinne Conlu

Charles Luna

Francois Veron Omena

Rajshed Ong

Titian Ulse Tayo

INTRODUCTION

Liquor and alcohol are widespread among students nowadays. The abuse of this

substance can lead to various complications such as health problems, emotional, mental,

physical, and social disturbances. The observations of Matthews (2004) states that students

who drink alcohol beverages during high school will continue to do so when they step to

university, while those who never experience alcohol in high school will most likely to show

interest in university as well.

Alcohol maybe the world’s oldest known drug, and has a reputation as a factor relating

to coping with life, inability to face problems, and relaxes social inhibitions and let them

have fun. But most schools, especially catholic schools, drinking liquor is strictly frowned

upon.

Liquor as defined in Merriam -Webster's, it is a very strong alcoholic drink. Many young

people are experiencing the consequences of drinking too much, at too early an age. As a

result, underage drinking is a leading public health problem in this country. Research have

shown that many people have started drinking at a very young age. A study in the year

2003 showed that the youngest age that is experiencing liquor is 14 years old. New research

also show that the younger a person drink the more likely they will display risky behaviours

growing up, and might end up hurting themselves and those around them.

High school is a time for teenagers to grow and develop. But along with their growth is

their curiosity about liquor. This is a time where students are getting pressured by their

peers and being vulnerable means being easily influenced. Research explains that as early

as five years old, children already have their own perception and opinion towards alcohol.
Teenagers have many reasons as to why they drink. May it be because they want to belong,

relax, party, or going through some of us can't understand. What's important is knowing our

limitation and being mature enough to know what's right from wrong.

By understanding the concept and consequence of liquor, we can understand how we

and other students react to challenges and obstacles in all aspects of our lives. In fact, how

people respond to liquor is a strong indicator of how responsible we are, and show our

ability to succeed in every endeavors.

Today, most people are faced with different dilemmas. This is one of the reasons why

the rate of alcohol abuse are continuously increasing. Facing their problem is very hard for

them , so some people deem it helpful to turn to alcohol for support. In light with the

increasing population of students who drink, we, the researchers, will conduct this study to

find out who and how many among the senior high school students have experienced liquor.

In this regard, the researchers thought of conducting a experiment to measure the number

of students who are experienced and inexperienced with liquor.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study aims to provide answers to the problems faced by the researchers,

specifically involving the students' experience with liquor within the Gr. 11 and Gr. 12

students from all different tracks, in order to come up with an educated guess. Hence, the

study seeks to answer the following questions:

1. Is it good for students to experience liquor?

2. What things would they experience when they drink?

HYPOTHESES

1. Yes. As long as they don't drink too much and it doesn't affect their daily routine and

responsibilities. It is also ideal if there is an adult to supervise them while they drink,

and there are no tasks or activities that needs to be prioritize first.

2. Those who drink would undergo a series of things such as blurring of vision, loss of

balance, lack of coordination, drowsiness, vomiting, dizziness, slow and poor

judgement.

3. There are long-term and short-term effects. Various kinds of accidents are possible,

it can affect the students' relationship and life at school. Health problems are also

common, it is inevitable especially if a student is a hard drinker and has a high

tolerance for liquor.

RATIONALE

We, the researchers feel obligated to let everybody know the effects of drinking liquor

if we choose to do this for “experience". We abandon rational thought and makes really poor

decision. We also would like to know who among the randomly selected students have

experience drinking liquor and those who haven't. Once we get the result of this we will

conduct a survey about the things they felt or experienced after drinking liquor. The goal of

this study is to make ourselves as well as other students aware of their actions and the

consequences of it.
 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS

This study focused on the drinking of liquor among Senior High School students as

experience. Quotient of Selected senior high school students from St. Pauls University Iloilo

during the Second Semester of Academic Year 2019 – 2020. The respondents of the study

were composed of 160 randomly selected senior high school students which comprise 20%

of the total population. The results of this study is applicable only to the respondents of this

study and should not be used as a measure of the effect of drinking liquor on the number of

students who do not belong to the population of this study.

The researchers considered working on this study to find out how many students have and

still have not experience liquor and to know the things they will experience if they are to

drink. We need to match our statement of the problem with out hypotheses and to observe

their behaviour of those randomly selected.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

160 Senior high LIQUOR

EXPERIENCE?
 The independent variable in this study is the liquor. The frameworks shows the

procedure of the study, and need to compare the results with the hypotheses given. The

dependent variable are the respondents, which are the randomly selected students.

Definition of terms

• Liquor - an alcoholic drink produced by distillation of grains, fruit, or vegetables that have

already gone through alcoholic fermentation The distillation process purifies the liquid and

removes diluting components like water, for the purpose of increasing its proportion of

alcohol content.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor)

- In this study it is the object being manipulated to get the result from the

dependent variable.

• Experience - is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through

involvement in or exposure to it.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience)

- In this study it is the knowledge of the students regarding liquor being

observed.

• Student - is primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution who

attends classes under the guidance of an instructor or teacher, who devotes time studying

and to do whatever activities the instructor will assign to his/her student.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student)

- In this study it is the subject of the study and the one being observed.
• St. Paul's University - abbreviated as SPUI or SPU Iloilo, is a private Catholic university

located in Iloilo City, Iloilo, Philippines. It is one of the campuses of the Saint Paul University

System.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul_University_Iloilo)

- In this study it is the setting or place where the study is being conducted.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study that we are going to conduct will determine the statistical numbers of

students who has experienced drinking liquors and those who have not yet. It is not the

only thing that we are trying to prove, but also we need to share the bad effects caused by

these substance and to educate them about possible consequences they will get from

drinking alcoholic beverages.

It is understandable why liquor is strictly banned at school for this is a Catholic school and

yet many students are still doing it outside the campus. We will create a major impact

amongst the students who haven't even tried liquors. Before they acquire a mind set from

their peers that it is fun to drink. We will not let the students to drink only to let them know

about the disadvantage of it, but is also beneficial for our health. We, the researchers wants

to raise awareness among the students that they should drink in moderation and to not let

this be a hindrance in their school works and responsibilities.