Social Goals and Academic Achievement of Filipino Adolescents towards the Proposed Homeroom Guidance Activities

The study aimed to determine the association of social goals on the academic achievement of sample Filipino adolescent students. In this study, social goals were defined as a set of standards or procedures that an individual does / performs to adapt to his / her social environment to meet his / her purpose in life. There were five dimensions of social goals proposed by Dowson and McInerney (2004): social affiliation (motivated by a desire to achieve academically in order to build, enhance, and maintain interpersonal relationships with peer groups); social approval (involves wanting to engage academically in order to gain approval of peers, teachers, and parents); social concern (characterized by a desire to achieve academically to be able to extend assistance to others in their academics and personal development); social responsibility (motivates effort for school to fulfill interpersonal commitment or satisfy social role obligations); and social status (disposes the student to do more in academic undertakings in order to attain wealth and increase one's social status in a particular social space).