DRUG ABUSE ON SOCIO-EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorAFUWAI, Esther Ndip
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-29T12:55:33Z
dc.date.available2017-11-29T12:55:33Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.descriptionA DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF A DEGREE OF MASTER OF HOME ECONOMICS, DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, FACULTY OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIAen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study made used of survey design to examine Drug Abuse on Socio-Emotional Behaviour Among Secondary School Students in Kaduna state. Five objectives, research questions and hypotheses were stated which guided the study. To achieve the objectives, data were collected from 370 (male=227 and female= 143), participants using a questionnaire structured on a four points fixed response format. The collected data were sorted and analyzed to test the five non directional hypotheses using independent sample t- test and chi square at alpha = .05. The result identified curiosity, peer pressure, and inability in maintaining inter-personal communications among others as significant factors influencing drug abuse among students, χ2 (9) = 120.720, p < .05. Drug abuse also significantly influence social, t (198) = 8.45, p < .05, and emotional behaviour, t (198) = 7.64, p < .05, of secondary school students in Kaduna State with more males than females being affected. It also revealed that drug abuse negatively influences students school work, χ2 (3) = 41.21, p < .05 with users reporting poor level of school work compared to others. Gender was also found to significantly influence drug abuse, χ2 (3) = 33.76, p < .05 with more males than females secondary school students in Kaduna State reporting drug abuse behaviour. Based on this, it was recommended that parents should make deliberate effort to instill high moral standard and ensure they monitor the kind of friends their children hang out with in the community, as doing so will help reduce drug abuse behaviour among secondary school students in Kaduna State, Nigeria.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9603
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectDRUG ABUSE,en_US
dc.subjectSOCIO-EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOUR,en_US
dc.subjectSECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,en_US
dc.subjectKADUNA STATE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAen_US
dc.titleDRUG ABUSE ON SOCIO-EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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