Pagkamatiisin as experience by the Filipino urban poor

• Main Authors: Chan, Mayrilyn, Sy, Ellen Myra H., Valenzuela, Yovilyn
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2001
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11631
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research is about the values in the context of pagkamatiisin that leads to certain social behaviors. It aimed to determine the relationship between pagkamatiisin with that of Filipino values as well as social behaviors. From the review of past literature, values such as pakikisama at pakikipagkapwa, galang or respect, bahala na, hiya, utang na loob, sakop mentality, tiyaga, pagmamay-ari, amor propio, and go-between were the Filipino values used. Also, Filipino social behaviors namely personalism, intrusion, privacy, fatalism, and submissiveness were employed. By using a simple qualitative approach, necessary data were gathered to answer the research problem. Through chain-referral, fifteen males and fifteen females, with average daily income of two hundred fifty pesos and below, residing for a minimum of three years in an urban poor community at Libertad, Pasay City were interviewed. A modified open-ended interview guide, consisting of pre-conceived and hypothetical questions was utilized. From the categorized data strands, some values from the first conceptual framework were merged to form five categories namely optimism, pakikipagkapwa, value for family, galang and awa. Among the five social behaviors, privacy and intrusion were merged to form the category of privacy. Results show that these categories go alongside with the experience of pagkamatiisin, which guides the person to perform certain social behaviors.