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Making a career choice is a defining phase in every students' life. Students have to consider several factors before arriving at a decision. The purpose of this research was to see the factors which affect the choice of career among students. This study assessed the influence identified factors such as decision-making and interest, peer influence, considerations about the institutions and future job opportunities on the career decisions of 90 students in Jagobiao National High School. Data was collected through a survey questionnaire-researchers used a chi-square as a research tool to formulate the collected data. The results show that the considerations about the institutions as most significant, followed by decision-making and interest, peer influence and future job opportunities. .

The capacity of the parents to provide financially the needs of the students in their studies is referred to as parental financial support. While motivation is the personal drive or will of a person to do a task without the influence of other people. A checklist survey questionnaire was used to assess the parental financial support and motivation of students in learning. The data gathered were treated through weighted mean and chi-square. In which, it revealed that students were more motivated when they are financially supported by their parents when it comes to educational purposes. Therefore, it shows that there is a significant association between parental financial support and students’ motivation in learning.

Learning styles are the basis on how students learn. There are different learning styles. Three of the most popular ones are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic in which students use to absorb information. On one hand, students’ motivation is an internal drive of the students to do a task on their own will. The study used a univariate likert scale questionnaire among Senior High School Students in Jagobiao National High School to 244 individuals. Questionnaires were sent directly to targeted segment. Firstly, the respondents reported that they absorb information best using hearing aspects known as auditory learners. Secondly, they absorb information by visualizing or the visual learners. Lastly, the respondents describe that they learn through actions or the kinesthetic learners. The finding of the study is not statistically significant between students’ learning styles and self-motivation because the ANOVA presented that the result is greater than the alpha in which the decision is failed to reject and there is no significant association between the two variables students’ learning styles and self-motivation. Majority of the students preferred to listen while learning. It was seen that it is the best way that the students absorb information effectively. It is necessary that the teachers should identify the students learning strategies in order to meet their teaching strategies. The study accentuates that students’ self-motivation does not affect the students’ learning styles.

Selfie is an image taken by them and later uploaded to social media such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and so on. Self-esteem is an important aspect of personality of the person. This study focused on why people are fond on taking selfie and posting selfie to the internet or social media networking is a factor leading to an increase individual’s self-esteem. The study supported by the Looking Glass Self theory proposed by Charles Horton Cooley. The study was conducted to gather information from students towards on how their behavior on taking selfie in order for the researcher to asses if there is an association between the “selfie and students’ self-esteem”. This study has 145 respondents from the different strands in Senior High School. The tool used on this study is checklist rating scale questionnaire to collect data and information. All the data were analyzed using chi-square. The result revealed the p value is less than to the significant level. Therefore, the result of this study revealed that the selfie habits of the students can boost self-esteem.