BULLYING BEHAVIOUR AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ILORIN SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NIGERIA
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2017-09
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Department of Education, University of Maiduguri.
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This paper investigated bullying behaviours and psychosocial adjustment of secondary school students. The researcher sought to determined the forms of bullying behaviour and psychosocial adjustment exhibited by students and also to determined whether there are gender and gat differences in bullying and psychosocial adjustments of students. The sample was 288 students drawn using stratified sampling technique from both private and public secondary schools in Ilorin South Local Government Area. An adapted questionnaire titled “Bullying Behaviour and Psychosocial Adjustment” (BBPAQ), patterned after Olweus Bullying Behaviour Questionnaire, was used to collect data from the students. The two research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation. Research hypotheses 1, 2, 5 and 6 were tested using uncorrelated t-test while research hypotheses 3 and 4 were tested using one-way ANOVA, at 0.05 level of significance. The results reveals that are nicknames and due to size rank highest among 25 types of bully, knowledge of handling stress and worries rank first among types of psychosocial adjustment; no study also found that there are no significant differences in students’ bullying and psychosocial adjustment due to gender, age and type of school. Based on the findings, the researchers pointed to the fact that most common form of bullying is the indirect bullying and it was recommended among others that school administrator, psychologists, counselors, teachers and parents pay more attention and address bullying behaviours among students.
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Bullying Behaviour, Psychosocial, Adjustment, Secondary School Students
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Uyanne, E. O., Ajagbe, F. N., Bibire, A. H. & Akinsemoyin, L. O. (2017)