Qualitative Research On The Challenges Faced by Working Students
Qualitative Research On The Challenges Faced by Working Students
A.Y. 2022-2023
Researchers:
Cardeño, Samuel
De Guzman, Anthony
Garcia, Warren
Lomboy, Daniel
Submitted to:
May 2023
Table of Contents
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TITLE PAGE…………………………………………………………… i
CHAPTERS
CHAPTER I
Research Question................................................... 6
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Findings …………………………………………………. 21
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Chapter I
gives students the opportunity to share responsibility for paying for their education
people choose to work, the kind of jobs they take on, and the benefits and
challenges of working while pursuing higher education (HE), this new study builds
on findings from the SIES (Williams, 2014). In order to aid them with their studies,
eight out of ten (77%) understudies are now working part-time, according to a study
performed by Endsleigh (2015). The most difficult part of being a working student is
probably finding a balance between your social life, family time, schoolwork, and
work. Your stress levels can be reduced ten times by learning how to manage the
pressure that comes with being a working undergrad and making sure you get at
crew positions, and school jobs are the job alternatives for Filipino working students,
according to The Working Student (2016). In order to keep their jobs and maintain
academic performance, Filipino students struggle. According to the most recent data
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from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), there are currently around
216,000 understudies in the Philippines juggling school and work. Working students
make up about 8% of all college students in the Philippines (ABS-CBN News, 2010).
Only half of working students can complete college, according to CHED (2010).
The results of the Williams (2014) study show that students labor because
they have a financial need, to fulfill an urgent or basic need, and to support their
fellow students in achieving their long-term goals. This was corroborated by a study
conducted by Furr and Elling in 2002, which found that students' part-time
working while in school has negative effects, as shown by the findings of a study by
As a result, the students were less confident about enrolling, dropped out, and
working students deal with problems in their daily life. According to the research of
society because, as the rate of working students reached an abnormal level, job-
hiring began to demonstrate the unfavorable effects that were attributed to it since
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turns out to be advantageous for the economy. The high percentage of working
students could thus contribute to the profit gaps that were later discovered. In order
working student is, researchers must be able to recognize the gaps in this work
This study investigates how students devise strategies to make the most of
their time when working and studying. The aforementioned study also seeks to look
into and identify students' experiences at work. They are only beginning to realize
how difficult things are. The issues they run into follow. Then, how do they handle
and overcome such challenges. Finally, I'll provide a potential solution that could
i. Age
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2. How does being a working student affect your academics?
difficult their encounters are, to identify the key distinctions between working and
working students dealt with their challenges. The study also tries to understand the
working student and to assist the students in understanding what it entails to work
while studying. The overall goal of this study is to understand the whole scope of a
Research question
1.What difficulties do students encounter when working while studying, and how do
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b. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working while studying?
c. What advices and recommendations do you have for students who are
Teachers
The most important beneficiary of this case is the teacher for them to be
aware of the situation of their students and be considerate who are making at the
Working Student
This study will help them to cope up with their struggles both in work and
studies and at the same time they will become successful in both fields.
Future researchers
This study will also be benefited to the next researchers who want to study
this topic and also it will be a guide for them to enhance the research for better
results.
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Scope and Delimitation of the Study
Carlos College and what are the coping strategies was used to deal with these
Theoretical Lens
The phenomenon of young people who engage in part or even full-time work
during their studies is becoming regular all over the world. In the end, students will
be prepared for their future professions through employment. These data will be
The study takes account of this Moral responsibility theory of P.F. Strawson,
In 1962 the Moral Responsibility Theory of P.F. Strawson was published the
results of each action in terms of both positive and negative outcomes are presented.
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blame. punishment for an act committed or neglected by virtue of one's moral
The benefits and drawbacks of life in the work are shaped by this theory.
students. As indicated by Watts and Pickering (2000), working part-time and There
are a number of good outcomes for full time study, as well as respondents in
general. In order to survive in modern times, they view part time work as a
study and academic work like completion of tasks in a certain time or uncertainty
about finances. The work plus studies makes these hardworking students sleep
deprived, and sleep deprivation increases the risk factors of insomnia and damage to
brain function. In the long run, it will be harmful for health and wellbeing that
working students are exposed to excessive workload even though they receive a
satisfactory salary.
1975, Wilson wrote a book that discussed the relationship between social behavior
and Darwin's theory of evolution. It examines the hypothesis that some of a person's
become more or less normal. In addition, social biology examines and demonstrates
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the fact that it may be because of their own genes that we have a concept of human
behavior parents.
This theory gives shape to this study in a way that it helps to offer a valid
point over the circumstances that surround the research participants which have
urged the decision to be a working student to afford education. It will also aid in the
comprehension of the behavior of the students as they adapt to what a certain thing
adequately fit in that precise social change whether their determination is genetically
There are two parts to the existential theory; one is a religion perspective,
that says human freedom has been affected by their beliefs. Second, there's a
psychological perspective that says everyone's got a different mind and will,
whatever they decide, it's up to them. Working students hold legal rights and their
own practices which correspond to their wishes for the purposes of this study.
starting to study to stop working and, in some cases, to do both at the same time.
Existentialism needs to focus on human will and support the factors that have an
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Chapter 2
A. Local literature
Currently, 216,000 students in the nation are giving false information about their
students in the nation. CHED the majority of today's working students are involved
in the food industry, entertainment, and aside from their regular jobs as research
assistants and librarians, they also work in sales. "One of due to the current financial
director's office of CHED, Atty. Julito Vitriolo. Additionally, he noted that due to rising
commodity and tuition costs, these students are required to work alone. According
to the CHED, only half of working students complete their degrees because they
cannot adjust and is unable some students prioritize their schoolwork despite their
health, whereas others don't continue due to monetary issues. Working students are
advised by CHED to pursue employment that are less demanding and more closely
part time working can cause a damaging effect on the physical and mental health of
2015; Creed, French & Hood, 2015; Darolia, 2014). In the study of Curtis and Shani
(2002), they believed that students who are working part-time would most likely
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miss lecturers with a lot of lessons to catch and feel that they could achieve higher
grades had they not been working. For that reason, universities should be aware of
requirements (Curtis, 2007). Perhaps students will develop transferable abilities that
will improve their employment can boost self-assurance in the workplace (Watts &
Pickering, 2000). Negatively, students who work part-time typically receive lower
grades compared to their peers who are full-time students. especially a part-time
(2004) argued that institutions have a moral obligation to operate more efficiently
recognize and control the stresses that full-time students endure and part-time
employment. Maybe giving pupils the right instruction would serve as a substitute.
Universities that are having trouble with the discussions around the price or
practicality of talents development may be able to benefit from the using the
Elisabeth Hovdhaugen's (2015) research highlights the fact that there are
numerous reasons why students could quit a particular university before receiving
the one of the most frequently stated examples of completeness is getting engaged
to work and academic study. This report analyzes the data using survival analysis to
assess the job status's effects on dropout rates. It indicates that the status of
employment has an impact on dropout rates for students who are less likely to finish
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their program because they work full-time jobs in addition to attending school full-
time for a short time, part-time, or not at all. But it appears that putting in more
effort more than 20 hours a week raises the likelihood of dropping out by the same
amount as working full-time. The amount of work that students can handle has a
limit. incorporating employment Including status in the study had no impact on the
influence of the known factors such as gender, grades, and social background on
dropouts, but it also contributes to further describe the types of pupils who might
drop out. Thus, models are indicated for retention and dropout must also consider
these outside reasons while justifying, not only Just think about what occurs at the
Marcia Devlin, Richard James, and Gabrielle Grigg (2008) claimed that
Higher education funding arrangements are evolving, and there is a move "User
pays" is the primary factor governing the new dynamic between students and
Australian universities. According to the Centre for the Study of Higher Education in
2006. This page presents the project report and analyzes some of the findings
their education and about 7 to 8 hours of entertainment finds young people whose
primary activity is attending school devote. Men spend more than half an hour than
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women on rest and about half an hour more on unpaid work. In comparison to
groups with other age, students who are in school still have the time for personal
care and could sleep 9 hours a day. There has a considerable impact on a student's
time by adding a paid job to students. In the midst those with paid employment,
female students spend an average of one hour daily which is less than male students
on their jobs (0.7 hours as opposed to 1.9 hours each day). As a means of preparing
for their entry into the workforce, male students lower by 1.5 hours, during their
spare time. Contrarily, female students sleep for around a half-hour less each night.
However, about the same amount of money is donated by men and women time for
work an additional one and a half hours unpaid, for a total of 1.4 hours in terms of
daily hours.
Based on the study of Rajeev Darolia (2014), there are a growing number of
students in college that are working and to a greater extent. Using nationally
analyzes the different effects of working on grades and credit completion for
undergraduate students in the United States. There are strategies to identify the
level fixed effects to control for permanent, unobserved characteristics that may
affect both work and study intensity, and system GMM models to account for
potentially endogenous relationships between both aspects that vary over time. He
examines that with a particular focus on differences between full-time and parttime
students, consequences of working for diverse subgroups will deal with it. He also
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discovers no proof that the harming students’ grades are being negatively impacted
by marginal full-time students take fewer credits every term despite putting in more
Pascarella and Padgett (in Lederman 2009), sought to examine the effects
of work on academic performance and observed how students who devoted their
time into on- and off-campus work contributed on the students critical thinking,
revealed that working 20 hours and more had a positive effect on students'
psychological well-being, and students who worked off campus also trended
positively on leadership skills. Work did not have much bad effect on cognitive type
outcomes like moral reasoning and critical thinking, but work has a positive result on
things like psychological well-being and leadership even when one is working a ton
of hours. Findings further showed that there were significant differences in the
impact about students who entered college with various academic prowess
combined with much more can damage students who received lesser scores on
college admissions tests. Working between one and ten hours a week on campus a
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Students felt the need to limit their borrowing and therefore earn more of the tuition.
achieved through challenging oneself with double the workload and two different
lifestyles. It is all about pushing oneself to the limits and proving to the world that
one can manage their time in the best possible way and make the most of it by
working and studying at the same time. It also believed that such an attitude
reflects the abilities of hard work and determination in people, which are qualities
According to Alli (2010), future employability chances are impacted by a mix of the
Pike in Lederman (2009), found that there are several amounts of on and
off-campus work that directly influenced students' self-reported grades and indirectly
hours a week has huge impact on students' grades, whether the employment is on
campus or off. As reported, students who work 20 hours or less, on and off campus
have similar grades as do students who do not work at all. The indirect relationships
hours or less a week on campus report higher levels on all five levels of engagement
used. Moreover, working 20 hours or less off- campus strengthens There are various
amounts of on and off and Pike in Lederman (2009) found that. a student's self-
reported grades and performance were directly impacted by off-campus work. their
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levels of participation in academic activities in a negative way extra effort grades are
negatively impacted by working more than 20 hours per week, regardless of the job.
Students working 20 hours or less each week, both on and off campus, it has been
reported have academic performance comparable to students who do not work at all.
b. Foreign literature
Students Experiences
some full-time job is becoming more widespread worldwide. Working while learning,
as was also noted in a study from 30 years ago, gives students a chance to naturally
with a mention of the conditions that must be met for it to work in a later stage of
one's career (Schill, McCartin, & Meyer, 1985). Additional research shown that
students who work part-time can readily build teamwork, customer service,
communication, and practical knowledge are all important (1998; Curtis & Lucas;
2001; Lammont). Students can immediately interact with teachers use their part-
time employment experiences to improve and hone their academic information, drive,
and employment chances (Curtis & Shani, 2002; Curtis & Shani, 2003).
Consequently, some studies have found that combined with financial requirements
and the chance to acquire new skills will ultimately improve. Future employment
opportunities (Devlin, James, & Grigg, 2008; Harvey, 2000; (2006) Nonis & Hudson.
The findings of the research by Watts and Pickering (2000) have a variety of while
working part-time and studying full-time. Responders typically saw part-time work as
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a favorable thing essential to surviving in the modern higher education environment.
The majority of money earned is typically used for necessities of life. From the
introduction to the real world, will help them advance both personally and
Higher educational establishments should look for ways to improve the degree to
which students can acquainting them with the world of employment and exposing
them too educational, part-time vocational. Numerous research has looked at the
and Gilmore's research. For example, in 2005 it was thought that working part-time
left less desired time to study. Also, Jogaratnam and Buchanan (2004), specified that
new students who choose to do a part-time job while having full-time academic load
The National Center for Education Statistics in America reports that in 2007,
sixteen and twenty-four who were enrolled full-time in college—worked while they
were enrolled.
college had jobs while they were there. Concern among the instructors who work
with them and, in some cases, the students themselves about how much time they
spend working has grown over time. According to recent data, 80% of American
This is an 8% rise over the class from less than a decade earlier, in which 72% of
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students were employed (Cuccaro-Alamin & Choy, 1998). Additionally, it appears
While some of these students receive "work" as part of their financial aid
package, other students either do not receive work-study funding or find such
awards insufficient to cover the costs of attendance, as College Board policy analyst
Sandy Baum argues in a 2010 collection of essays, I edited titled Understanding the
Working College Student: New Research and Its Implications for Policy and Practice.
Some students of the conventional age group might work as a means of exploring
State University, and other authors who contributed to Understanding the Working
College Student, work plays a significant role in the identity of other students,
especially adult students. Regardless of the motivation for working, juggling the
parent, and so forth frequently leads to high levels of stress and anxiety, which
decreases the likelihood that students will finish their degrees. What Effects Does
Some researchers have reported that "the more time a student devotes to
employment, the less he or she has for either academic or social activities" (Fjortoft,
1995). Although this may leave the students with less time, what is the impact on
college success? Some studies have looked at the effects of working on social and
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academic integration-or student engagement. This is an important component in
student behavior theory (Bean, 1985; Pascarella & Staver, 1985; Tinto, 1975) that
has long been linked with persistence (Kuh, 1995; Pascarella & Terrenzini, 1983).
Students who worked more than 20 hours per week reported significantly
fewer interactions with teachers and lower quality student relationships with peers,
method approach, Cheng (2004) investigated how work affected college students'
working and nonworking students in these areas, despite the fact that working
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Findings
view of working while studying, Integration of theory and practice is driven by self-
development and internal motivation among the driving forces of working while
studying at university. The findings also indicates that the participants are happy and
Financial support is one of the driving forces of working while studying, where
also a driving force. They are determined to improve their own capabilities, quality of
be an effective means of overcoming the problems they face. For students with
similar conditions, the last research question was intended to ask the participants
their thoughts and recommendations. One of the suggestions is that students must
be committed and disciplined before deciding to take a job while they are studying.
The issue of research is focused on the problems that have been encountered.
by the participants and how they overcome the problems. The results show that
good management of time and reflection on one's own self are amongst the most
efficient ways.
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When asked about the negative impacts of working while studying, most of
the participants said that they tend to be inefficient in managing their time causing
them to lose focus. Others, made a point about their stamina to drain drastically as
The participants were also asked about the effect of working while studying
on their academic performance. Result shows that their academic performance and
grade results are proportionally dependent on the time and effort they put into it.
theory and practice is one of the key drivers for work while you study at
university. From the responses, it can be inferred that the participant seemed to
fully understand the reasons and motivation for working during a period of study.
The findings showed that those who took part in it had a positive sense of
responsible and have developed a better way of life. The replies from the
c. What advices and recommendations do you have for students who are
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One of the recommendations is to make sure that those who choose to work
while in school first and foremost have a high level of commitment and discipline.
It is essential, therefore, that they take care of time efficiently because this is
the biggest factor for balancing work and study at university. This is not a
simple task, as the participants agree, but it's feasible and easy to do if one
Money is the most important reason for students to work. It inspires students to
work harder, despite the fact that they're also studying and getting paid for it. They
also get a sense of satisfaction from working, since they're gaining on their studies.
It can also help them to manage their time fairly and efficiently by establishing the
days for study and work but there are times when they get stuck with unrealistic
It's really hard to be a working student, and it comes with a lot of responsibility.
The idea that they are accountable for their actions and choices makes them feel
responsible. While working, students also have a lot of practical experience and
ideas that may help them in their personal lives as well as improve their problem-
solving skills.
The students also benefit from working alongside studying, learning about the
positive and adverse effects of work during their studies, how to overcome problems
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