Ryan Francis Ortiz Cayubit

University of Santo Tomas | UST · Department of Psychology

Being sexually abused and exploited online, especially if one is a child, leaves traumatic experiences that dampen that child’s confidence and morale. Such incidents often happen during formative years and are often instigated by parents and/or other family members who have pushed the child to perform online sexual acts right at the comfort of thei...

Studies regarding parental attitudes toward lesbians and gays (LG) continue to pave the way in recognizing the factors contributing to LG identity development. This study aims to explore positive identity formation by determining its link to perceived parental acceptance among LG adults. Our cross-sectional predictive research hypothesized that per...

Compared with the heterosexual population, the prevalence of mental health outcomes such as suicidality (suicidal ideation, suicide plans, and suicide attempts) is higher among sexual minority youth, particularly those who identify themselves as bisexuals. Bisexuals are at an even elevated risk within the LGB populations due to biphobia, monosexism...

The current work focused on how the learning environment of college students influenced their academic motivation, choice of learning strategies, and level of engagement in the classroom. The study is important because these variables are known to contribute to student achievement and success. Using a cross-sectional predictive design, a total of 1...

To understand how the use of social networking sites, depressive symptoms, and NSSI are related, we conducted cross-sectional predictive research involving 214 adolescents selected via purposive sampling. The result shows that these variables are significantly associated with each other. Two regression models were also tested using the stepwise for...

The focus of the current study is to examine the nature of the relationship of goal orientation with psychological birth order. Likewise, it also looked into the ability of psychological birth order to influence the endorsement of achievement goals (mastery-approach and avoidance; performance- approach and avoidance). A total of 220 high school stu...

The continuous surge in the number of confirmed diagnoses and fatalities associated with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused debilitating economic, educational, social, and psychological issues. However, little is known about how psychological interventions may boost well-being outcomes amid the pandemic. This research addresses this...

The main intent of this research is to test the effectiveness of expressive writing in processing and dealing with inhibited emotions of university students. The use of expressive writing targets the subjective well-being of the subjects, specifically their happiness and life satisfaction. Employing a between-subjects design, a thorough and rigorou...

Retirement anxiety may cause significant distress for a person approaching retirement due to the inevitable loss of critical resources. Healthy well-being can counter retirement anxiety allowing the person to carefully plan and make better life choices before and during retirement. This brief research report investigated whether high psychological...

Knowing the immense physical and psychological distress that military personnel undergo, it is almost impossible not talk about its adverse psychological consequences, particularly in the context of the mental health profession. Resilience, optimism, and self-esteem are just among the many factors that frequent the discussion about the effects of a...

Self-efficacy and academic motivation are known factors of academic success in a math class. The present study aimed to determine whether math self-efficacy could be a predictor of academic motivation, and whether math self-efficacy and academic motivation would vary between participants from private and public schools. A total sample of 773 Filipi...

The purpose of the study was to find out whether the goal orientation and test anxiety of high school students engaged in shadow education will be different from those whose only source of learning is that of mainstream education. A total of 387 high school students participated in this comparative research. They completed the Patterns of Adaptive...

Suicide is a serious health concern worldwide making it the second leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults. Among those at-risk for suicide are lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth, who are reported to be more likely to exhibit suicide behavior than their heterosexual counterparts. LGB-specific stressors, known as sexual minority...

The rise of the social media and Internet in the 21st century has brought forth an anxious feeling among users known as Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), a form of social anxiety caused by the concern of not being in touch with the events in the cyber world. According to Ryan and Deci’s Self-determination Theory (SDT), people have increased their social...

Collegiate athletes encounter different set of adversities compared to students who are non-athletes because they must not only make time for studying but must also allot hours for sport-related activities. Combined with significant levels of physical and psychological expectations, these situations cause increased stress and may result to changes...

The objective of this cross-sectional exploratory study is to develop and standardize two subtest for the proposed Filipino Reading Achievement Test. Subtests measuring Pagbabaybay or Spelling in Filipino and Pagkilala sa Binasa or Word Recognition was constructed. The focus of the study is assessing the validity and reliability of these instrument...

In computer security parlance, a hacker is an individual who actively seeks and takes advantage of flaws and weaknesses of a computer network or system. In recent years, one has seen the rise of hacking, often as a form of protest and retaliation for reasons ranging from political to social, but the question remains as to what really motivates an i...

The study looked into the ability of academic delay of gratification (e. g. intentionally miss out a social event such as parties and hanging out in order to be able to focus on their studies) and need for affiliation (e. g. establishing and managing close interpersonal relationships with others) to predict the academic achievement (e. g. average g...

The present study explored how anger expression relates to the suicidal tendencies of Filipino adolescents. 1,368 university students participated by responding to the Anger-Expression Type Indicator Test (AETIT) and the Suicide Probability Scale (SPS). Results showed that a significant relationship exists between the modes of anger expression and...

Shadow education, more commonly known as private tutoring, has been actively supplementing the formal mainstream education system in both developed and developing countries. Using the Q methodology, a quali-quantilogical approach, the study determined how private tutoring has impacted the academic life of high school students by exploring and analy...

In a continuing effort to understand why some people “worship” celebrities, a scale to measure celebrity worship (Celebrity Attitude Scale, CAS) and a written task designed to manipulate the experience of power were administered initially to 820 college and university students from the Manila, Philippines area. Participants were randomly assigned t...

The current research focused on academic self-efficacy, study hours, and test anxiety as experienced by high school students. Specifically, it determined whether academic self-efficacy and study hours can serve as predictors of test anxiety. A total of 154 high school students participated in the study who gave their demographic information and ans...

As a scale development project, the present study intends to locally develop a standardized measure that focuses on the different modes of anger-expression. A total of 5,369 university students participated in this Four-stage project wherein data gathered were subjected to content validation, item analysis, reliability testing, exploratory factor a...

A Filipino child needs to develop higher order skills and functional literacy. It is given that any Filipino child with sufficient reading skills would have greater chances of success in school compared to a child whose reading skills are poor and more often than not, those with poor reading skills when assessed properly are diagnosed with reading...

Shadow education is the supplemental education given by a private tutor to enhance knowledge, skills and learning. This study investigated the academic motivations and learning styles of college freshmen with and without exposure to shadow education (paid private tutoring) in three major subjects during high school. based on the Motivated Strategie...

The study dealt with determining if perfectionism through its different scales would have an effect on the five factors of personality. The scales of perfectionism include Concern over Mistakes, Personal Standards, Parental Expectations, Parental Criticism, Doubt about actions and Organization. The five factors of personality tested include Neuroti...