Influence of Parent-Child Relationship on Anti-Social Behaviour Among Senior Secondary School Adolescents in Damaturu Metropolis, Yobe State, Nigeria
Publication Date: 15/08/2020
Author(s): Saleh Musa, Usman Mohammed Dakasku (Ph.D.), James Hirhyel Audu, Saleh Wasilatu Mamudo.
Volume/Issue: Volume 3 , Issue 3 (2020)
Abstract:
This study investigated into the influence of parent-child relationship on anti-social behaviour among senior secondary school adolescents in Damaturu Metropolis, Yobe State, Nigeria. Correlational and Ex-post-facto research designs were used in the study. The population of the respondents was 7115. The sample of 364 was drawn proportionately from four senior secondary schools in the metropolis using stratified sampling technique. The respondents were measured with relevant adapted instruments; Anti-social behaviour scale developed by Achenbach (1991) and Parent-child relationship scale developed by Roe and Siegelman (1965), the instruments were revalidated and pilot tested and the reliability index was found to be 0.67 and 0.73 respectively. Two research objectives with corresponding hypotheses were rise and guide the study. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance and for the data analysis, PPCM and t-test was used. The result showed that there was significant relationship between parent-child relationship and anti-social behaviour (r= 0.857; p<0.05) and gender is not in determining the influence of anti-social behaviour among the senior secondary school adolescents (male and female). In view of these findings, it was recommended that the parents need to teach, monitor the adolescents and give adequate emotional caring in term of peers’ selection in the society. This will help in reducing the problems of being misguided by the other peers in the society. Educational stakeholders should intensify their effort by organising seminars/workshop on the implications of parent-child relationship on the anti-social behaviour in the society. The curriculum planners should try in as much as possible to include in the scheme effective inculcation of moral education and development for the students. This will help to reduce the level of their involvement in anti-social acts behaviour in the country.
