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    Psycho-sociological variables predicting cultic behaviour among undergraduates in South-West, Nigeria
    (Positive Psychology Association, Nigeria with headquarters in Department of Guidance and Counselling University of ibadan, Nigeria., 2018) Olukoya, R.; Animasahun, R.; Oluwole, A.; Busari, O.; Adeyemi, A. O.
    The incidence of cultic behaviour such as murder violence is becoming increasing in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The menace of this behaviour remains indelible in the minds of the victims and members of the society at large. In fact it has posed serious problems to parents, guardians, educators and management of tertiary institutions at large. This study therefore investigated psycho-sociological variables in predicting cultic behaviour among undergraduates in South-West Nigeria. The descriptive research design of the correlational type was adopted. The sample consisted of 1,200 participants from three federal and three State Universities. Data was collected and analysed using Multiple Regression and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between self-efficacy, aggression, drug abuse, parental influence, peer influence, anger and self-esteem and cultic behaviour among undergraduates in South-West Nigeria. However, gender, age and self-concept were not significantly correlated with cultic behaviour of undergraduates in South-West Nigeria. Recommendations were made that all stakeholders should be watchful and make concerted efforts to nip the manifestation of the behaviour on the bud to curb the menace of this behaviour in the tertiary institutions.
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    Adolescents’ premarital sexual behaviour: the roles of peer pressure, socio-economic status and parent-child relationship
    (2019-01) Adeyemi, A. O.
    In recent times, there are records of prevalence of mortality among adolescents owing to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unwanted pregnancy, abortion, induced pregnancy and related issues. This disastrous situation is traceable to adolescents' engagement in premarital sexual behaviour. This motivated an examination of peer pressure, socio-economic status, and parent-child relationship as correlates of adolescents’ premarital sexual behaviour. The study adopted descriptive survey design of the ex-post facto type. Three hundred adolescents were randomly sampled from secondary schools in Ibadan South-East Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria. Data were collected using reliable instruments (Premarital Sexual Behaviour Scale a-0.87; Parental-Child Relationship Scale a =0.77; Socio-economic Status Scale a =0.73; Peer Influence Scale a = 0.75). Three research questions were raised and answered at 0.05 level of significance using Pearson's Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis. The study discovered that peer pressure (r = .883, P<0.01), parental socio-economic status (r = -.203, P<0.01) and parent-child relationship (r = -.536, P<0.01) significantly correlated with adolescents' premarital sexual behaviour. Among others, it was recommended that parents should build a healthy relationship with adolescents so as to be able to monitor and guide them against premarital sexual behaviour while school administrators and policy makers should intensify the teaching of sex education in secondary schools in order to acquaint adolescents with the dangers inherent in premarital sexual behaviour
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    Conscientiousness, self-efficacy, social support and health information-seeking behaviour of senior secondary school adolescents in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State
    (2018) Adeyemi, A. O.
    In recent tunes, it has been observed that poor knowledge on health state and status has led to high morbidity and mortality. There is prevalence in poor health-information knowledge, ignorance, increased STIS, HIV/AID, risky health behaviour, abortion and the like. The danger posed by poor health knowledge motivated an investigation of the health information-seeking behaviour of adolescents using conscientiousness, self-efficacy and social support as predictors. The study adopted a correlational study with a sample of 200 adolescents randomly sampled from Ibadan North local Government Area of Oyo State. Four reliable measuring instruments were used to collect data. Three research questions raised analysed were using Pearson product moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. The result showed that conscientiousness, self-efficacy and social support positively correlated with health information-seeking behaviour. The regression analysis showed that the three factors jointly accounted/or 42.2% of the total variance in adolescent information-seeking behaviour. Social support was found to be the strongest predictor followed by self-efficacy and conscientiousness. Among others recommendations, parents, teachers and significant individuals are enjoined to help students out with their demand to know much about their health status. School counsellors are admonished to help students to build their self-efficacy to help them to he bald enough to seek for health information. The government should also employ school counselors who will assist students to build their personality (conscientiousness) to enhance self-control on their health issues. This might go a long u-«v in reducing self-prescription and misuse of drug
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    Predisposing factors towards risk-taking behaviours among in-school adolescents in Ibadan metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria
    (Department of Social Work, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2016-06) Adeyemi, A. O.; Komolafe, T. O.
    The percentage rate of violence and societal menace rampant in the society today has been recorded to be a by-product of adolescent risk related behaviours. This created an interest in the investigation of predisposing factors towards risk-taking behaviours among in-school adolescents in Ibadan metropolis. The study adopted a correlational research design with a randomly sampled 300 male and female in-school adolescents. Data were collected, using questionnaire measuring family dynamics (Inventory of parent and peer attachment (α=0.78), self-esteem (Rosenburg self-esteem scale (a=0.76), school connectedness (Youth transition survey (α=0.77) and risk-taking behaviour (Youth at-risk and general stability survey (α=0.82). Three research questions were raised and answered. The data were analysed using Pearson's Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Linear Regression at 0.05 level of significance. Result revealed a positive correlation between risk-taking behaviour and self-esteem and negative correlation with family dynamics and school connectedness. High family dynamics and school connectedness will reduce the likelihood of students engaging in risk-taking behaviours. The result also showed that three predictor variables (family dynamics, self-esteem and school connectedness) are potent predictors of risk-taking behaviour F (3,396) = 6.875, R' 85, =P<0.001). The most potent factor was family dynamics, followed by school connectedness and self-esteem. Counseling intervention, such as self-monitoring, peer pressure management, self-regulation, values clarification, and thought-stopping, could help adolescents to withstand the likely effects of low family dynamics, school connectedness and high self-esteem all of which are implicated in this study. Finally, in-school adolescents from a positive family background and a high connection to school may not likely engage in risk-taking behaviours as a result of positive attitude they imbibe both from home and school. School programmes and counselling activities should be channeled towards building students' interest in schooling. Parents are also enjoined to provide social support to the adolescents by showing love, warmth, care and affection.
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    Ibadan adolescent rebelliousness: attendant effects of self-esteem, gender, age, family type, peer influence and socioeconomic status
    (2016-05) Adeyemi, A. O.; Oluwole, D. A.
    This study examined the psychosocial predictors of rebelliousness among school age adolescents in the Ibadan. Specifically, age, gender, family type, peer influence, socio economic status, and self-esteem formed the psychosocial predictors used in this study. Three research questions were raised and answered in the study; whereas the decisions on the questions were taken, at 0.05 level of significance. The research design used is descriptive survey of ex post-facto type. 421 in-school adolescents were randomly selected from five public secondary schools in Ibadan, Oyo State. The instruments used for this study were distributed to participants. Multiple regression statistics was employed to analyze the data collected from the participants. The results of the analysis indicated that all the independent variables jointly have 16% variance of rebelliousness of adolescents. Family type, socio-economic status, and self-esteem have significant contribution, whereas age and gender do not contribute significantly to rebelliousness of adolescents. In addition, only peer influence (r=.156) have significant relationship with adolescent rebelliousness at 0.05 level of significance. It was recommended that parents should be equipped with adequate parenting skills, whereas peer counselling should be organized for adolescents, as such will provide appropriate ways to respond to significant others that will devoid of rebelliousness.
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    Psycho-social predictors of academic underachievement among senior secondary schools students in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State
    (2016-06) Adeyemi, A. O.
    The study examined psycho-social variables as predictors of academic underachievement among senior secondary schools in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey design of the ex-post facto type. A total of 288 senior secondary school students were randomly selected across Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State. A reliable instrument was used with coefficient alpha above 0.7. Three research questions were drawn and tested with Pearson’s product correlation and multiple regression. The result showed that there was a significant relationship between self-esteem, self-efficacy, large class size, study habit, socio-economic status and academic underachievement. The most potent predictor of academic underachievement was test anxiety. Followed by study habit, socio-economic status, self-efficacy and self-esteem. But large class-size was not a potent predictor of students' academic underachievement. This implies that there is high likelihood that student academic underachievement is an evidence of increased self-efficacy, self-esteem, test anxiety, socio-economic status, study habit; while increased socio-economic status will reduce the tendency of students' academic underachievement. Among others it was recommended that school counsellors should organize academic performance- boosting programmes. They should also develop one- on- one relationship with students in the school so as to help students develop high self-worth and good study habit, which can go alleviate anxiety and improve academic achievement
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    Inter-parental conflict, parent-child relationship on emotional security of school-going adolescents in Ibadan South-West Local Government Area, Ibadan, Oyo State
    (Faculty of Education, Kampala International University, Tanzania, 2016-12) Adeyemi, A. O.
    The rate of loneliness, anxiety, depression, emotional distress, distrust in relationships among adolescents and their implications for student',' academic performance, relationship with teachers and peers, personality, choice of career, emotional development and preparation for life have been traced to variations in adolescents' emotional security. The foregoing has inspired investigation into inter-parental conflict and parent-child relationship as determinants of emotional security of school-going adolescents in Ibadan South-West Local Government Area of Oyo State. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design of the ex-post facto type, with a sample of 248 adolescents (between the ages of 13 and 19 years) randomly selected from junior secondary schools in Oyo State. Three measuring scales (Inter-parental conflict scale; r = 0.78, Parent-child relationship scale; r = 0.73 Emotional security scale = 0.76) were used in collecting data. Pearson's product moment correlation and multiple linear regression were used in testing three research questions at 0.05 level of significance. The result indicated that inter-parental conflict (r = -.821, P<0.01) and parent-child relationship (r =.885, P<0.01) significantly correlated with adolescents' emotional security. The regression analysis confirmed that the independent variables jointly accounted for 81.6% variance in the prediction of adolescents' emotional security. Parent-child relationship (Beta = .636, t= 14.883, P<0.01) was found to be the strongest predictor of adolescents' emotional security, followed by inter-parental conflict (Beta = .636, t= 14.883, P<0.01). By implication, reduction in inter-parental conflict will improve adolescents' emotional security, while a unit change in parent-child relationship will increase the likelihood for an improved adolescents' emotional security. It was recommended that parents should not discuss their grievances or exchange words in the presence of their children because of its effects on their emotional development. They were also enjoined not to transfer aggression to their children. School counsellors were enjoined to help adolescents develop emotional regulatory ski/Is to adjust unpleasant situations or events in life.
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    A correlational investigation of psychological wellbeing, academic self- efficacy, school climate and academic performance among female undergraduate students of University of Ibadan, Nigeria
    (2016) Adeyemi, A. O.
    Observations reveal that only few exceptional female undergraduates perform at their best in Nigeria institutions, host of others struggle to have good grades. This has lead to more female students’ frustration and dropout rate which attracted an investigation of psychological-wellbeing, academic self efficacy and school climate as correlate of academic achievement of female undergraduate students University of Ibadan. A descriptive research design of the correlational type was adopted for this study. An array of reliable measuring scales was used for the data collection. A sample of 55 female students was randomly selected 200 level guidance and counseling students in the University of Ibadan. The study recorded a significant relationship among the variables through a zero order correlation. A significant joint effect of psychological-wellbeing, academic self efficacy, school climate and academic achievement was found. The most potent factor was academic efficacy; followed by psychological wellbeing, and school climate. This justifies that female undergraduate student academic performance is likely to improve with increased influence of psychological wellbeing, academic self efficacy and good school climate. Therefore, it was recommended that the student affairs should monitor student performing below required and refer them to the counselor. The University counseling unit was enjoined to organized academic booster programmes to enhance the confidence of students towards achieving success. University administrators and the federal government should make all facilities available to make the school environment homely.
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    Building positive parent-teacher relationship for better educational performance of a girl-child: implication for counseling
    (Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), 2015-04) Adeyemi, A. O.
    Noting the importance of the parent teacher relationship to improving the educational performance of the girl-child, this paper discusses building parent-teacher relationship for better performance of a girl-child. Included in the discussion are conceptual issues in girl-child and education, importance of girl-child education, problems with the girl-child education and problems of performance of the girl-child in education. The role of positive parent-teacher relationship was emphasised and the "hows" of building positive parent-teacher relationship was discoursed. The characteristics of positive parent-teacher relationship by which it can be identified were itemised and implications of positive parent-teacher relationship to counselling was presented. It was recommended that Counselling psychologists should be available within the educational institutions to help teachers create the needed relationship with parents. Also, Counsellors should be involved in the lives of the females right from the creche to nursery, primary school and all around and that the female should be caught young with counselling give them appropriate and right information to boost their self image and consequently their performance.
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    Personological factors and sexing behaviour among in-school adolescents: implications for counselling psychology
    (2015) Adeyemi, A. O.; Muraina, K. O.
    Text messaging is the most popular form of electronic communication among adolescents. Approximately I in 3 teens send over 100 text messages a day. Recently adolescents have begun to use their cell phones to engage in sexual exploration with one another. This new occurrence has now been labeled as sexting. This new phenomenon includes writing sexually explicit messages, taking provocative pictures of themselves or other individuals, and transmitting these messages using technology. The purpose of this study was to examine personological factors and sexting behaviour among in-school adolescents: implications for counselling psychology. Descriptive research design of ex-post-facto type was used in the study. Multi-stage sampling technique was used in selecting nine hundred and sixty nine (969) participants out of one thousand (1,000) which were randomly selected from ten (10) Local Government Area in Oyo State, Nigeria. The respondents were measured with relevant adopted standardized scale (instruments) and the data obtained was analyzed using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) and Multiple regression statistical analysis of the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS). Three research Questions were raised and answered in the study. The result showed that adolescents' sexting behavior is significantly correlated with: (1) self esteem (r = .640; p<-05) and (2) social networking utilization (r= .659; p<.05), the independent variables (self esteem and social networking utilization) when pulled together have significant contributions to the sexting behavior among adolescents (R (adjusted) =.667 & R2 (adjusted) =.631) and each of the independent variables made a significant contribution to the prediction of sexting behavior among adolescents. In term of magnitude of contribution, social networking utilization made the most significant contribution (Beta= .385; t= 9.43; P<0.05) to the prediction follow by self esteem (Beta= .247; t= 1.62; P<0.05). In view of these findings, the study stressed that the parents/guardians should be enlightened on how to improve on their monitoring towards the students' peer selection and counseling psychologists should intensify their effort to organize seminars/conferences on these factors (such as self esteem and social networking utilization among others) as they significantly influence the sexting behavior among students