Spiritual Vocation and Academic Satisfaction of Senior High School Student

Spiritual vocation is a broad concept that affects the human spirit or soul that collides the sense of connection to the people giving a bigger meaning in life. Vocation is a work that people feel to do, particularly people want to fulfill a particular role in life. Meanwhile, academic satisfaction is the whole experience of the students and also their expectation regarding to their academic reality. The study intends to assess the association between students’ spiritual vocation and academic satisfaction particularly to find out the students’ association between students’ spiritual vocation and students’ academic satisfaction. The study banked the theory proposed by John Holland titled Vocational Choice Theory and Alexander Astin titled Students Involvement Theory. This quantitative approach research used descriptive survey design used rating scale research instruments in gathering the data. International Journal of Social Science Research ISSN 2327-551


Rationale
Spiritual vocation is a broad concept that affects the human spirit or soul that collides the sense of connection to the people and gives a bigger meaning in our life. Vocation is a work that people feel to do, particularly people want to fulfill a particular role in life. While, spiritual vocation is the occupation that encompass a person to satisfy a personal calling. Meanwhile, academic satisfaction is one of the most important factors that should consider the main reason that students' academic achievement gets affected. Academic satisfaction is the whole experience of the students and also their expectation regarding to their academic reality.
Higher education is the beginning to the possible need to assist students in the search for meaning and each purpose (Greenway, 2006). Although the implications of each framework are equally important, it is the concept of teaching as a vocation that lends itself to a distinctively Christian or catholic identity in denominational institutions of higher education, (Buijs, 2005). Moreover, spiritual well-being could be considered as main part of health in the curricular programs of medical and social science (Alorani, 2017).
In this study, the researcher intends to determine the relationship between spiritual vocation and academic satisfaction of Senior High School Students. This study intends to know about how students can apply their Spiritual Vocation to their Academic Satisfaction towards their studies.
The researchers observe that students are high in spiritual vocation in terms of attending mass to show a particular activity about serving to God. It is also observed that students especially Senior High School Students can accept any academic matters without any regret or any doubt on their academic performance. They can also use their spiritual vocation to boost their academic satisfaction and be motivated to learn and attend class. The study intends to assess the association between student's spiritual vocation and academic satisfaction.

Theoretical Background
The study is supported with the two theories, the vocational choice theory which is proposed by John Holland and the student's involvement theory which is proposed by Alexander Astin. The vocational choice theory is about how students choose their career vocationally while the student's involvement theory explains the relation of student's changes and development into how society viewed higher education.
Vocational choice theory is one of the most widely researched and applied theories of career development. This theory postulate that people project self and world-of-work views into occupational titles and makes career decisions that satisfy their preferred personal orientations (Holland, 1959).
In order for the students to have satisfaction in academic students should assess their individual interest from the three primary perspectives given by Holland on this theory Holland has maintained that these factors correlate with the clarification and focus of individual's vocation personalities.
The second theory is the student's involvement theory. This theory explains how describe out comes for society or organization of higher education are viewed is relation to have students charge and develop. The study focused on third elements of the theory which is the outputs that's state the student's characteristics, knowledge, attitude, beliefs and values (Astin, 1985).
In order for the students to get satisfaction in life as student, students usually prefer on their beliefs and values. Most of the students especially catholic students consider vocation as a calling. With that kind of beliefs, characteristics, knowledge and values, most of the students are having satisfaction in academic.

Statement of Purpose
This study aims to assess the correlation of Spiritual Vocation and Academic Satisfaction of Senior High School Students in Jagobiao National High School 2019−2020. In particular, this study aims to answer the following question. 1) What is the profile of the performance of students in spiritual vocation test? 2) What is the level of Academic Satisfaction towards students?
3) Is there an association between the Spiritual Vocation of the students towards on their Academic Satisfaction?

Spiritual Vocation
The role of spirituality can either have a positive or negative impact to a person's satisfaction in work (Malik & Naeem, 2010). Spirituality and the sense of vocation are needed to be nurtured and practiced day-to-day especially to those teachers who are more prone ins giving judgments based on their experiences (Shields, 2008). Among teacher, higher education can be one of the ways to assist the students in the search for meaning and purpose of their chosen vocation (Greenway, 2006). The more the students are spiritual and religious, the more they are into obtaining academic excellence (Owusu-Boateng & Osei, 2016). However, there is a big possibility that spiritual intelligence will create anxiety to leaders who are in their way of proving themselves in giving a good academic performance (Howard & White, 2016). In addition, people who believe and who are really into vocational calling are more satisfied with the work they are engaged in (Kent, Bradshaw, & Dougherty, 2015). Women are more engaged in a work that is in the basis of their spirituality wherein they feel that their work has a higher purpose (Lazar, Davidoritch, & Coren 2016). Moreover, if a person is in vocational journey, that persons lose his or her life and self and gain a new life with a clean and pure soul (Thompson & Miller-Perrin, 2012). When a man lost his spirituality and consciousness link to God's presence will lead the man in a situation where in he feels he is unessential and living temporarily (Snati, 2014). Vocation is not needed to be understood religiously unlike with the service or calls that are reserved for those religiously minded (Bujis, 2005). However, in the medical and social sciences, being spiritual could be a main part of a person's health (Alorani & Alradaydeh, 2018). Unfortunately, the immersion of spirituality and academic performance is not really explored or studied.

Academic Satisfaction
There is a big difference between students who are unsatisfied with their academic studies and student who are already satisfied from the very beginning (Wach, Karbach, Ruffing, International Journal of Social Science Research ISSN 2327-5510 2020 Brunken, & Spinath, 2016). A student is satisfied with his or her life; there is a big possibility that the student will gain also academic satisfaction and more connected to school (Wilcox & Nordstokke, 2019). Students' expectations on their achievements and how they value the subject is a good motivation that could help student achieve academic satisfaction (Betoret, Rosello, & Artiga, 2017). One of the factors that could influence students' satisfaction is social areas, auditoriums and libraries (Weerasinghe & Fernando, 2017). Also, students' academic satisfaction could possibly depend on teachers' way of teaching (Butt & Rehman, 2010;Keshavarzi & Ahmadi, 2013). It is proven that emotional intelligence and academic engagement has importance on predicting or determining academic satisfaction (Urquij & Extremera, 2017). A person with resilience also shows better academic performance and success (Taj, Hussain, Afzal, & Gilani, 2019). Moreover, the importance of high school success, personality, traits and emotional competence can also determine students' academic success and study satisfaction (Anticeric, Kardum, Klarin, Sindik, & Barak, 2017). Fortunately, if a student has academic satisfaction there is a possibility that the student will be away from retention and will have academic achievement (Dhagane & Afrah, 2016).

INSIGHTS
Students focus more on spiritual vocation to improve their disposition in doing good. It will develop their attitude to keep motivated to perform well in class. Students should believe and prove to themselves that they can value other students and give some tips based on their experiences. The students who help other individuals to know that spiritual vocation can develop their strategy in learning in different aspects and project a good perspective to their career. Meanwhile, student's academic satisfaction can help them achieve academic success because being satisfied in academics only depends in the mindset of the students. Researchers believed that students need to constantly and consistently involve themselves in academic activities and task to develop the appropriate attitude like being responsible in which consequently lead them to academic satisfaction.

Design
This research study used quantitative approach descriptive survey design of the two variables, Spiritual vocations and Academic satisfaction of senior higher school students.

Environment
The research was conduct in Jagobiao National High School, especially Senior Department. The grade 12 classroom were in the new building that includes grade 11 Stem. The Jagobiao National High School offer strands which in Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS), General Academic Strand (GAS), Accountancy and Business Management (ABM) and Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics.

Respondents
The respondents of the study were the Senior High School Students with a total population of 194. The respondents were chosen from the Senior High School students particularly in Grade 11 and Grade 12 students. HUMSS 12 has 38 respondents, GAS 12 has 23 respondents, International Journal of Social Science Research ISSN 2327-5510 2020 ABM has 29 respondents, HUMSS 11 has 40 respondents, STEM 11 has 39 respondents, and ABM 11 has 25 total respondents.

Instruments
For this study, the researcher used the result of the respondents' National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) particularly in their Spiritual Vocation for the first variable which is spiritual vocation and academic satisfaction for the second variable. The researcher used a checklist consisting of 10 indicators. The researcher will rate the answers through the rating scale given on the checklist which are Strongly Agree (4), Agree (3), Disagree (2) and Strongly Disagree (1). The indicators and the rating scales of the second variable were made by the researcher. The categories under spiritual vocation are not knowledgeable, slightly knowledgeable, fairly knowledgeable, moderately knowledgeable, and highly knowledgeable. Categories under academic satisfaction are least satisfied, fairly satisfied, Satisfied, and highly satisfied.

Data Gathering Procedures
The researcher asked permission from the students to be the respondents of this research study with the help of transmittal letter signed by the principal and teachers involved. The researcher will provide an answer sheet for the respondents to answer. The researcher will give instructions and will discuss the purpose of the study before allowing the students to answer the given survey questionnaires. The researcher will give the respondents at least 10 minutes to answer the given questionnaires.
After answering the question, the researcher will collect the entire questionnaire and it will serve as the basis in making the analysis, interpretation, pin dings, conclusion and recommendation of the study.

Statistical Treatment
The researcher used weighted mean, sum, frequency, percentage and chi-square to treat the data gathered. The weighted mean was used to get the mean of the level of students' academic satisfaction. The study used Chi-Square test to determine whether there is significant association between the expected frequencies and the observed frequencies in one or more categories.

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ISSN 2327-5510 2020, Vol. 8, No. 2  (Shields, 2008). For the reason education can be one of the factors that will help the students to be more into spirituality (Greenway, 2006). In addition, there is a big possibility that students will obtain academic excellence if they are spiritual and religious (William & Isaac, 2016). It is believed by majority that if students are spiritually inclined, the more they are attached to God. With that, positive values towards their students are manifested in them. ISSN 2327-5510 2020  This table shows that the overall weighted mean is 3.28. Students strongly agree that they are academically satisfied. The biggest average is the indicator 3 with average of 3.36, which states that "teachers answer question and problems during class". With average 3.35 the indicator states that "teacher uses example that would make them appreciate the relevance of the subject", and students strongly agree. The indicators that has third biggest average are indicators 9 and 10 with average of 3.33 that states students strongly agree that teacher explain about the subject is clear and well-organized and teacher stimulates their intellectual curiosity and their desire to learn. The researchers observed that students become satisfied with their academic for students preferred the way their teachers taught them come be more productive in school and gain high level of academic performance. Teachers' way of teaching has significant and positive impact on enhancing students' academic satisfaction (Butt & Rehman, 2010). Thus, if the students are dissatisfied in academics, it could result info some, personal and social problems (Keshavarzi & Ahmadi, 2013). The lowest weighted mean is the indicator 2 with average of 3.24 which states that agree that "teacher makes it possible for them to achieve learning objectives" and student agree. The second indicator with lowest average is indicator 1 with average of 3.22 which states that teachers stimulate them to understand information. The indicator that has third lowest average is indicator 7 with average of 3.20 which states that students agree that teacher stimulates their abilities and supports them on how they use it to judge or give opinions on the subject. The more the students are engaged in academics, the more they gain academic satisfaction (Urquijo & Extremera, 2017). ISSN 2327-5510 2020  The table shows that out of 194 respondents there are 136 respondents who are highly satisfied with their academics indicated with a 70.1 percentage. Students must have strong relation in school in order to be encouraged and raise their academic satisfaction (Wilcox & Nordstokke, 2019). The researchers observed that most of the students that feels comfortable and do not look at the school as a place where in they don't feel freedom, mostly the students are doing their best in school. With that, students may gain academic satisfaction. The second highest percentage is 28.9 percent to indicate that respondents are satisfied with academic satisfaction. The student's satisfaction will increase when they are into such activities in school (Keshavarzi & Ahmadi, 2013). The respondents are fairly satisfied as indicated with 1.0 percentage. With that, no respondents are least satisfied. Students who are motivated to learn into certain subject will help them to achieve academic satisfaction (Betoret, Rosello, & Artiga, 2017). Note. a. 4 cells (33.3%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is .32.

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The p-value (.863) is greater than the standard alpha value (0.05). The result presents that the null hypothesis is failed to reject. There is no significant association between students' spiritual vocation and academic satisfaction. The researchers observed that a student with a strong faith with God does not necessarily mean satisfaction of students in their academic. The students' satisfaction in terms of academic only depends on the teachers and the ways they deliver the lessons to the students to learn. The student's spiritual vocation doesn't have an impact on the academic satisfaction of the students. Moreover, the combination of spirituality and academics are not yet proven or studied because there are no enough evidences that can prove the relationship between the student's spiritual vocation and academic satisfaction (Jett, 2010). The spiritual intelligence of the students will result to International Journal of Social Science Research ISSN 2327-5510 2020 anxiety to those leaders who are in their way of giving them a good academic performance (Howard & White, 2009). There is a possibility that spirituality will not only give a positive impact to students' satisfaction but also negative effect (Malik & Naeem, 2010). Moreover, the combination of spirituality and academics are not yet proven or studied because there are no enough evidences that can prove the relationship between the student's spiritual vocation and academic satisfaction (Jett, 2010).

Findings
After the study conducted, the researcher found out that the senior high school students of Jagobiao National High School are highly knowledgeable in terms of spiritual vocation.
The level of students' academic satisfaction is high because students strongly agreed that they are academically satisfied. Table 2 shows that students strongly agreed because their teacher answered their questions and problems during class. They also strongly agreed that their teacher explained the lessons clearly and well-organized. Their teacher also stimulates their intellectual curiosity and their desire to learn. Moreover, their teacher uses example that would make them appreciate the relevance of the subject.
As stated in the Table 4, the p-value is greater than the standard alpha value which means that the null hypothesis is not rejected there is no significant association between students' spiritual vocation and their academic satisfaction.

Conclusion
Grade 11 and Grade 12 students in Jagobiao National High School have high knowledge on spiritual vocation. The senior high school students have a positive response wherein they agree that the teachers have their own way of teaching that make them satisfied with their academics. In relation to Astin's theory which is students' involvement theory, students' characteristics towards school, knowledge, attitude, beliefs and values do not have big impact to students' spirituality. However, even though the senior high school students have a high knowledge on spiritual vocation, it does not have any correlation on their academic satisfaction. There is no enough proof that spiritual vocation cans really satisfy students towards their academic aspect.

Recommendation
The students of senior high school department will become knowledgeable about the study which shall help them to have reliable source in their future research studies.
Teachers of senior high school department need to assess the students' academic satisfaction.
For the parents of the students of the senior high school department helping their children with their difficulties in their subject, must find ways to help them out in learning and gain positive insight as will us satisfaction in learning.
Future researchers will be able to have reliable sources in making research studies that is related to spiritual vocation and students' academic satisfaction.