Social Status, School Performance and Behavioral Nature of Children in the Foster Home: Basis for Developing Intervention Activities

ABSTRACT:There are institutions and foster homes that offer and provide basic needs for the children butensuring their fullest human development still needs to be given attention. Thereby, this investigation wasconducted. It aimed to determine the social status, school performance and behavioral nature of children and tofind out if relationship exist between and among the mentioned variables. With the result, it intends to developintervention activities for the children.Descriptive-survey approach was utilized. The respondents were the 35 children who could read and answer thequestionnaire checklist. To further interpret the responses, 5 point Likert Scale, Mean and Pearson-r wereemployed.The results imply that children are not popular but live normally as other children. The schoolperformance of children is affected by the quality of their foster home environment while the behavioral natureof children is not different to other individuals, they think, feel and act as normal beings. And with regard torelationship between and among the variables, social status affects school performancebut it does not affect theirway of thinking, feeling and acting, whilechildren’s school performance is affected by their behavioral nature.

Keywords:Behavioral nature,Children,Foster home,School, performance, Social Status