CHALLENGES OF IN SCHOOL-ADOLESCENT AS EXPRESSED BY SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ETSAKO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EDO STATE, NIGERIA
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2014
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The Department of Human Kinetics Education, Faculty of Ilorin, University of Ilorin
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Adolescents are confronted with the challenges of transition from childhood to adulthood mostly without much tutor or awareness of the challenges and changes which the period enclosed. This crisis result in the manifestation of such problems as bullying, teenage pregnancies, drug abuse, different forms of violence and other vices that are linked with maladaptive behaviours. The study investigated adolescents’ challenges as expressed by secondary school students in Etsako West LGA of Edo State. A multi-stage sampling technique was adopted for this study. At stage one, five public and five private schools with large population of students were purposively selected. At stage two, the students were stratified into age, class level, gender and school type. Finally, twenty (20) students were randomly selected from each of the ten schools. This makes a total of 200 respondents who participated in the study. A self-developed instrument titled “Adolescents’ challenges Questionnaire” (ACQ) was used to collect relevant data for the study. The questionnaire was pilot tested, validated and the reliability co-efficient of 0.65 gotten revealed that the instrument is reliable for the study. A Four Point- Likert Type scale developed questionnaire gave opportunity for respondents to pick an option that they mostly agreed/disagreed with. The major finding of the study revealed that “Academic Related challenges” is the highest challenge of adolescents. Other findings are that age of the respondents does not influence their expression on adolescents’ problem while respondents’ class level, gender, school type, religion and class type influenced their expression on adolescents’ challenges. The counseling implication of the findings is that counselors should consistently organize counseling programmes for students on study habits and study culture that would enhance academic success. Based on the findings of the study, therefore, it is recommended that Counselling Association of Nigeria through the Federal, State, and Local Government should weave in “Moral Education” into the education curriculum at all levels so as to impact in the adolescents, full knowledge of “adolescence”, to teach the changes, challenges and societal expectations of adolescents at this crucial stage. With this full knowledge adolescents will be able to adjust well to the challenges and work on the various problems of adolescence as revealed in the past literatures.
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Adolescent, Adolescence, Transition