This study focused on the problems of college freshmen in selected colleges namely, College of Education, College of Business Administration, and College of Arts and Communication in the University of Eastern Philippines. Specifically, it aimed to draw the profile of the respondents in terms of age, gender, religion, residence, birth order, occupation and educational attainment of parents, financial support and hobbies; determine the problems encountered by the freshman students in selected colleges in the University of Eastern Philippines; find out if there is a significant difference on the level of problems encountered between male and female college freshmen; find out if there are significant relationships between the socio-demographic characteristics and the degree of problems encountered; find out if there are significant differences of problems encountered by the college freshmen in the selected colleges in the University of Eastern Philippines; and to determine what guidance programs may be evolved out of the results of this study. This utilized the descriptive-correlational method. Since the students involved came from different colleges, stratified random sampling was used to select the representations/respondents of every college. Data were gathered through questionnaire and were analyzed through frequency counts, percentages, means, ranking, ANOVA, and multiple regressions analysis. The following particulars were derived: The respondents were in their adolescent period and were predominantly female. Majority of the respondents were Roman Catholics and majority of the parents of the respondents were farmers. Family income of the respondents were P 2,000.00-P 5,000.00 a month. Most of the respondents were living in the boarding houses while studying, supported financially but the parents and receiving P 200.00-P400.00 allowance per week. Most of the respondents spent their free time reading books, magazines, and journals. As regards to the problems encountered by the college freshmen, majority identified the following statements as the problems they encountered almost often to wit: “teachers are giving so many requirements”; “I am afraid of making mistakes:”; “the school does not have better ventilation”; “the school does not have a good garbage disposal system”; “comfort rooms are not properly maintained”; “I am bothered by the changes of weather”; “I need to learn how to spend my money wisely”; “my parents worry about money during enrollment”; “I have less money than my friends”; and “I miss my family during special occasions”. The following statements were considered also by the majority of the respondents as problems they encountered sometimes, to wit: “I am worried during examination period”; “I am always afraid about what people would say:’ “I have too many personal problems”; “I long for love and affection from my parents”; “I am concerned about my weight”. With regards to the significant differences between the problems encountered by male and female freshman, no significant differences were found, However, with respect to the significant difference on the problem =s encountered by freshmen respondents belonging to one college from that of the other colleges included in this study namely: College of Education, College of Business Administration, College of Arts and Communication, significant differences were found in the area of personal, environment and family problems. As regards to the relationship between the problems encountered and the profile of respondents, mother’s income, occupation, financial support and allowance were found to be significantly related, while other variables included turned out to be not significant.
College freshmen, guidance and counseling programs
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