Influences of Counselling and Guidance Efficacy and Personality on Delinquent behaviors among Secondary School Adolescents in Eastern Nigeria
Abstract:
Human
life completes its journey through various developmental stages and one of the most
crucial stages is adolescent. Adolescence is the stage between childhood and adulthood.
This stage of life comes with lots of behavioural experimentation and challenges.
These challenges predispose the adolescents to involvement in delinquency which
not only affects the adolescent’s academics and psychosocial wellbeing but also
to the larger society. The menace of delinquencies is on the increase especially
in this part of the world and therefore there is need for serious attention. As
a result of this, the objectives of this study are therefore; to highlight and explore
the influence of counselling and guidance efficacy and personality on delinquent
behaviour among adolescents in Eastern Nigeria. Specifically, the study will determine
if guidance and counselling and personality will significantly influence delinquencies
among adolescents. The target population is adolescents aged between 12 and 18 years
which comprise of 1500 students in senior secondary two and senior secondary three
located in the study area. The study will adopt cross-sectional survey research
design methodology. Data analysis will involve mean and standard deviation and 3-way
statistic of variation and F-test statistics will be used to test the hypotheses
of the study.
Keywords: guidance
and counselling, personality type, gender delinquency and adolescents.
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