Archive for month: January, 2026

This study examined the relationship between food adoption, transformation strategies, and customer satisfaction in selected Korean-Filipino samgyeopsal restaurants in Santa Rosa City, Laguna. Using a descriptive-correlational design, data were collected from 223 customers selected through simple random sampling across four restaurants. A validated, researcher-made questionnaire measured the five dimensions of food adoption: culture, tradition, consumer preferences, social bonding, and local economy; the two dimensions of transformation strategies: menu innovation and ambiance; alongside with the levels of customer satisfaction. Results showed that overall food adoption was rated “High” (M = 3.06), with social bonding ranking highest (M = 3.17), followed by culture (M = 3.06), consumer preferences (M = 3.04), and both tradition and local economy ranking the lowest (M = 3.02). Overall transformation strategies were rated “High” (M = 3.06), with ambiance ranking highest (M = 3.16) and menu innovation ranking the lowest (M = 2.95). Customer satisfaction was rated “High” (M = 3.00). Pearson r correlation analysis indicated significant relationships: food adoption dimensions correlated moderately with transformation strategies dimension of menu innovation (r = .185 to .283, p < .01). Food adoption dimension of tradition correlated moderately with transformation strategies dimension of ambiance (r = .164, p < .05). Food adoption dimensions showed a moderately positive correlation with customer satisfaction (r = .158 to 346, p < .01, p < .05). Transformation strategies dimensions presented a significant relationship with customer satisfaction (r = .207 to 324, p < .01). Findings confirm that high levels of specific food adoption dimensions are concordant to high levels transformation strategies dimensions and customer satisfaction. High levels of transformation strategies dimensions are also concordant to a high level of customer satisfaction. The study recommends to focus on staff training, customer feedback engagement, and acquiring an extensive understanding of Korean and Filipino culture for sustained business growth.

With educational reform advancing and emphasis on students’ holistic development growing, optimizing PE curricula in vocational colleges has become a complex challenge. This study examines it by integrating Stakeholder Theory and the Garbage Can Model, adopting a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews. The findings show it’s a multifaceted process with conflicting interests, ambiguous objectives, limited resources, and dynamic policies. Integrating the two theories, a comprehensive decision-making framework is proposed, suggesting that successful reform depends on inclusive participation, flexible strategies, and adaptive governance.

The experience of marital annulment involves profound loss and disruption, yet it may also create opportunities for healing, growth, and renewed agency. This narrative inquiry explored how women and their children made sense of life before, during, and after annulment. Specifically, it addressed two questions: (1) How do women understand and construct meaning from their annulment experience across time? and (2) How do children understand and make sense of their parents’ annulment? Participants included six Filipino mothers and their adolescent children, yielding a total of twelve participants. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using narrative inquiry.

Four resonant threads emerged from the women’s and children’s narratives: (1) a lack of a differentiated sense of self rendered women vulnerable to culturally prescribed reasons for marriage; (2) a breakthrough occurred when women gained clarity about their personal and familial aspirations and reconciled these with their desired future; (3) renewed women chose to continue their healing journey alongside their children, modeling confidence, self-worth, and agency; and (4) sustained emotional growth for both mothers and children was fostered through open communication, mutual support, and shared healing practices.

Findings highlight the central role of self-differentiation in women’s marital and post-marital experiences. Initially constrained by cultural expectations and relational fusion, the women gradually confronted identity erosion and shifted toward self-prioritization and self-fulfillment. Positive outcomes were facilitated by inner resources such as determination, acceptance, meaning-making, and the redirection of emotional energy toward productive endeavors. These processes enabled women to either enter more mature relationships or confidently remain single. Children, in turn, developed resilience and a redefined understanding of family continuity despite parental separation.

This study contributes to Philippine family studies by offering an in-depth account of the inner psychological and relational journeys of women and children navigating annulment, foregrounding healing, agency, and family transformation.

The purpose of this study is to examine how Bengali advertisements persuade people to purchase products such as pizza, body lotion, sarees, juice, masala, noodles, and shoes. To support this analysis, I have applied Jean Baudrillard’s concept of hyper reality, which shows that people buy products not merely out of necessity, but also to represent their social class, glamour, prestige, power, beauty, brightness, and identity. In this hyper real world, women are expected to be slim, flawless, and well-shaped, children are encouraged to use baby lotion for softness, traditional biryani is portrayed as being cooked using Radhuni masala, and juice is associated with women. In such a hyper real environment, all roles and expectations are shaped by consumer companies. Here, individuals are assumed to purchase products according to their social status and financial capacity. This study contributes to a better understanding of how consumer behavior is shaped through television, print, and online advertisements.

Anchored in Conservation of Resources theory, this study synthesizes three empirical pathways (emotion regulation, social support and self-efficacy) into a single “emotional intelligence as resource generator” tri-path model that explains both the emergence and the buffering of academic burnout. A narrative meta-integration of ten cross-stage, cross-cultural studies published 2015–2025 reveals that the salience of each pathway shifts with context: emotion regulation dominates in high-pressure roles, social support is amplified in collectivistic campuses, and self-efficacy becomes pivotal under outcome-oriented assessment regimes. Universities should therefore bundle emotional-skills training, resource-sharing platforms, and efficacy-building activities to escape the one-size-fits-all trap. Future work needs longitudinal designs to track how resource spirals evolve across different educational systems, providing both theory and tools for the early identification and precision prevention of academic burnout.