Assessment of Disruptive Behaviours Among Junior Secondary School Students’ in Aba South Local Government Area: Implication for Social Development Programmes in Education

ABSTRACT

The study examined destructive behaviour among junior secondary school students’ in Aba South Local Government Area (L.G.A.) and its implication for social development programmes in Education. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The study lasted for 6 weeks with 200 junior secondary school students’ randomly selected and observed for three weeks intervals using Students’ Observation Schedule (SOS). The data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics of frequency count and percentages as well as inferential statistics of t-test at 0.05 alpha levels. Result findings revealed high prevalence of disruptive behaviours while the hypothesis revealed that were significant gender differences in the prevalence of disruptive behaviours with male participants recording higher prevalence than their female counterparts. The study concluded that destructive behaviours are relatively high among junior secondary school (JSS) students’ in Aba South L.G.A, thus necessitating well planned social skills programmes. Recommendations were made among others, that proper integration of social skills programme be provided with interventions to curb the high prevalence of disruptive behaviours especially among the male students within the study area.

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