APPENDIX A
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
1) Demographic questions:
a) What is your full name?
b) How old are you?
c) What is your current educational level?
d) For collegiate students, what degree are you currently studying?
2) What is the perceived relevance of "pakikisama?"
a) How do you define "dealing with others"?
b) What do you understand in the concept of "dealing with others "?
c) Is the concept of "dealing with others" important to you?
d) Is "dealing with others" important in forming one's identity?
e) What is the importance of "dealing with others" to you?
f) Why do you dealing with others?
3) Manifestations of “pakikisama”
A. Affective aspect
i. What do you feel when you befriend others?
ii. What do you feel when you befriend people in the same age group with you, or with your
classmates?
iii. What do you feel when you are with your friends?
iv. Are there times when you disagree with your group of friends?
B. Behavioral aspect:
i. How do you behave when you get along with others?
ii. How do you get along with others?
iii. If you are with people of the same age, how do you behave?
iv. If you are with your friends, how do you behave?
v. Is there a difference in your behavior when you are alone and if you are in a group of people?
C. Cognitive aspect:
i. What are you thinking of when you are dealing with others?
ii. What are you thinking of when you are dealing with your friends?
iii. What are you thinking of when you are dealing with people of the same age as you?
4.) Influence of “pakikisama” on personal and social identity formation:
A. Personal identity formation
i. Does your friends’ influences you on how you see yourself? How?
ii. What are your unique qualities when you deal with others?
iii. How do you see yourself when you are with your friends?
iv. Is there a difference in how you see yourself when you are alone and if you are with you are with
your friends?
v. Do you feel comfortable with yourself when you deal with others?
vi. Does your friends’ around you help you build your character or on how you recognize yourself?
vii. What do you think about yourself when you deal with others?
viii. How does “dealing with others” help you build your character?
B. Social identity formation:
i. Does your friends’ around you help you build your social identity?
ii. How does “dealing with others” help you build your social identity?
iii. In your own point of view, on what group do you belong?
APPENDIX B
Request Letter
[Name]
[School]
[Position]
Dear ______________,
Good day! We are third year students medical students currently enrolled in Virgen
Milagrosa University Foundation. We are currently doing a qualitative/quantitative research on
pakikisama among foreigner adolescents. We are mainly interested to know how pakikisama is
manifested in affective, behavioral and cognitive aspects and how it affects their social,
intellectual and personal identity formation.
For us to be able to gain further information, we need participants to be interviewed for
the said research. We intend to recruit the foreigner adolescents currently enrolled in first year
college of medicine. With this, we would like to ask your help to give us the necessary contact
information of the said foreigner adolescents.
If you have questions regarding our study, you may want to reach us through the
following contact details:
Bam, Deepak (cellphone number) (email)
Carbonel, Princess Aira B. (cellphone number) (email)
Ramirez, Anna Clarissa V. 09173096508 acvr2009@[Link]
Salvador, Dane Lei C. (cellphone number) (email)
**other group members**
We look forward to your positive response. Thank you for kind consideration.
Sincerely,
Bam, Deepak Carbonel, Princess Anna Ramirez Salvador, Dane
**please include other groupmembers
Noted by:
Thesis Coordinator
APPENDIX C
Informed Consent Form
I, ____________, ____ years of age, willingly agree to participate in this study entitled
_____________________. I was given the choice to take part or dismiss my participation
without any consequence. The researchers have explained the study to me and I have understood
its process. Also, I have been told that I will be asked questions that will further help the
researchers regarding the study and that I permitted that my interview be recorded.
__________________________________
Participant’s name over signature
______________________
Date
APPENDIX D
Minor Assent Form
I, ____________, ____ years of age, willingly agree to participate in this study entitled
_____________________. I was given the choice to take part or dismiss my participation
without any consequence. The researchers have explained the study to me and I have understood
its process. Also, I have been told that I will be asked questions that will further help the
researchers regarding the study and that I permitted that my interview be recorded.
__________________________________
Participant’s name over signature
______________________
Date
APPENDIX E
Debriefing Statement
Thank you for participating in our research.
The interview that you joined in will be really helpful in our research. We would like you
to know the purpose of our research is to know how pakikisama is manifested by foreigner
students in the aspect of affect, behavioral, cognitive and how it affects an individual’s social,
personal and intellectual identity formation.
You can expect that the information you gave in this interview will remain private and
will only be used for sole purpose of this study.
Again, thank you so much for participating in our study.