ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OF FEMALE SCHOOL DROPOUTS: EXPERIENCE FROM SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Teenage-pregnancy; School-drop-outs; psychological impacts; social impacts.Abstract
he menace of female school-drop-outs is becoming an all-pervading phenomenon in Nigeria. The level of vulnerability female school-drop-outs to myriad of social ills is alarming and this has inhibited their role performance as mothers, wives, peace builders and crucial social support for their communities and the country in general. The study sampled 384 out of female adolescent dropouts in South-West Nigeria. The questionnaire was subjected to face and content validity to ascertain its suitability for the study. The reliability of the questionnaire was tested using split half technique. A reliability coefficient of 0.70 was used to certify the reliability for the study. Data collected were subjected to descriptive statistics of frequency, percentages, mean, standard deviation while inferential statistics of Kruskal Wallis test and chi-square test were used to test the hypotheses. 65.5% of the respondents engaged in gambling; 64.6% engaged in violence, among others, implying that female school drop-outs engage in vices such as gambling, violence, stealing and prostitution. It also indicated that female school dropouts are usually exposed to psycho-social and health related challenges such as stigmatization, depression, alcoholism and sexual promiscuity. Hypothesis tests revealed that there exists significant differences x2 (2) – 26.82, P<0.05 in the causes of female dropouts in schools across the selected states and that there is a significant relationship between socio-economic status and the causes of female drop-outs in Southwest Nigeria. The study recommends the scaling up of sex education among youths and skill acquisition to empower female school drop-outs for socio-economic emancipation.
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