ACHIEVING DESPITE THE ODDS: SHAPING THE SCUFFLES OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ACHIEVERS OF PHILIPPINE SCHOOL DOHA

Abstract

Background: Academic pressure is the mental weight carried by students, which is a direct result of factors such as excess schoolwork, peer influence, parental pressure, and societal expectations. The purpose of conducting this study was to pinpoint how parental academic pressure affects achievers' mindset and behavior with their studies and how it leads to their eventual success. Methods: This study utilized a phenomenological approach that centers on the relation of lived experiences amongst a particular group, which is contingent to the impacts of parental involvement to the academic pressure of achievers. Findings: The attitudes, namely role compliance, internal motivation, and situational indifference, were the impacts of parental academic pressure. These impacts formed the drive to succeed and allowed the achievers to reach academic success. Without parental academic pressure, the achievers would not have formed these outlooks. Conclusion: Parental academic pressure is a direct result of the students' upbringing, values, and familial intimacy. It materializes as a sense of responsibility and motivation towards the betterment of their educational endeavors. This bottles down to the fact that despite the achievers’ struggles stemmed from parental academic pressure, their insolences towards this bearing conveys them their educational realization. Recommendations: The paper recommends having teachers and parents included as respondents. Furthermore, including achievers from different grade levels will give more varied responses.