Awareness on of the Barangay Justice Systemand Its Relativity Conflict Management Skills of Lupong Tagapamayapa in Sta. Maria,davao Occidental, Philippines

Abstract

This research focused on the awareness on barangay justice system and its relativity to conflict management skills of Lupong Tagapamayapa in Sta. Maria, Davao Occidental. Furthermore, it determined the strength of the correlation between the two, their level of awareness on barangay justice system and conflict management skills and which domains of awareness on barangay justice system have the most impact. A descriptive-correlational research design was utilized in the study. There were one hundred fifty-four (154) Lupong Tagapamayapa respondents included in the study and they answered an adaptive survey questionnaire. To measure the independent variable, “The Effectiveness of Conciliation Process: A Practical Way of Delivering Justice” from Agustin et al., (2018) was utilized, while the Conflict Management Skills questionnaire was from “Conflict Resolution Styles Among Filipino Seafarers: Inputs to a Conflict Management Program” by Garcia et al., (2018). The statistical tools used were frequency, percentage, mean, Spearman’s rho, and step-wise multiple regression analysis. The result of this study showed the levels of aware-ness on barangay justice system, with conciliation efforts to reconcile parties (4.63) got the highest responses and issuance of certificate to file action (4.27) received the lowest and an over all of 4.51. in terms of conflict management skills, compromising garnered the highest mean score of 4.64, while avoiding receive the lowest with 3.83 and an over all of 4.35.The significant relationship of awareness on barangay justice system and conflict management skills, the R2 reveals that 35.5 percent of the considered data fit the regression model; and between the two variables, the r-value was 0.650 which indicates that there is a high corre-lation. Of the four predictors, the proper application of the legal procedures (β = 0.577, SE = 0.63, p < 0.001) is found to be significant which is less than the threshold of 0.05 level of significance, which implies the null hypothesis is rejected. This means that proper applica-tion of the legal procedures significantly influence the conflict management skills of the Lupong Tagapamayapa.