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    Date rape among undergraduates in south-western Nigerian federal universities
    (2016) Ofole, N. M.
    The increasing number of date rapes occurring on University campuses and the need to decrease rape supportive attitudes point to the need for continued research on this field. Correlational survey design was adopted to examine the extent to which attitude towards date rape is associated with the respondents' emotional empathy, beliefs in rape myths and gender. Simple random sampling technique was adopted at three stages to draw one thousand two hundred and sixteen undergraduates comprising 645 (53.2%) males and 571 (46.8%) females from three Federal universities in South-western, Nigeria. Respondents' ages ranged from 16-32 years with mean of 18.21 years. College Date Rape Attitudes Survey (a=0.71); Beliefs about Women Scale (a=0.78) and Multi-Dimensional Emotional Empathy Scale (r=0.77) were adopted for data source. The results of the Product Moment Correlation Coefficient tested at 0.05 level of significance showed that while emotional empathy had inverse relationship with attitude towards date rape, beliefs in rape myths had positive relationship. Attitude towards date rape also differed on the basis of gender. It was concluded that psycho-demographic variables correlated with attitude towards date rape. Rape prevention programmes should therefore be broadened to incorporate strategies that could reverse erroneous rape myths as well as provide appropriate therapies to enhance the emotional empathy of University students.
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    Moderating effect of attitude and perception on adoption of safer sex practices amongst students in tertiary institutions in Anambra State
    (Ife Centre for Psychological Studies, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2013-12) Ofole, N. M.
    Attitude and perception strongly predict the adoption of safer sexual practices. Descriptive Survey Design was adopted to examine the moderating effect of attitude and perception of students in tertiary institutions in Anambra state on the adoption of safer sexual practices. Two thousand, five hundred and fifty respondents (Male=1,150 Female= 1,400) with age range of 16 to 28 years (x =20.05; SD=3.6) were drawn from an estimated students population of 25,250 using Stratified Sampling Technique. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. A 22 item self- report questionnaire was used for data collection. Multiple Regression and t-test were used to analyze the data at 0.05 level of significance. Attitude and perception have a joint contribution of 61 % of the variance in dependent variable. However, perception made more potent contribution (Beta= .0.331; t= 3.11; P= <.05) than attitude (Beta= .117; t=2.04; P<.05). Gender and socio-economic background also have significant contribution. There is need for Counsellors in tertiary institutions to mount intensive and comprehensive reproductive health campaign messages that systematically incorporate beliefs, knowledge, attitude and subjective norms to effectively persuade and promote behaviour change among the students.
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    Implications of parents' knowledge, attitude and practices of child physical abuse in building a safer world
    (Faculty of Education University of Ibadan, 2017-07) Oyekola, A.O.; Melekeowei, D.
    This study investigated parents' knowledge, attitude and practices of child physical abuse in Ogun State. The descriptive survey research design was adopted. A convenience sample of202 male and female parents from Abeokuta South and Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun state were selected using stratified and random sampling technique. A self-developed questionnaire tagged “Parents' Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Child Physical abuse Scale” was used for data collection. Simple percentages and means were used in answering the research questions. It was found that parents' knowledge of what constitute child physical abuse and practice is low. Though, most parents condemned child physical abuse there were believes that some abusive acts can be used as disciplinary measures. It was recommended that enlightenment programmes should be organized and intensified to create more awareness and fast track a paradigm shift from the use of abusive punitive strategies by parents and caregivers to build a safer world
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    "Attitude of education stakeholders towards maintenance of school resources: an educational psychologists perspective , "
    (His Lineage Publishing House, 2013-07) Ogundokun, M. O.; Ogunlade, O. O.
    This paper examined the relevance of maintenance of school resources in the achievement of educational goals and objectives. It equally highlights the quantity and quality of the school resources within the reach of schools. Attention was highly paid on non-challant attitude of some education stakeholders (parents, teachers, government and even the students who are direct beneficiary of all educational programmes). Most of them holds, carelessly, some major school resources such as turning out school premises to political meetings and other social engagement which reduces the quality and quantity of materials available in the school setting there after some recommendations were made which includes among others; government should encourage education stakeholders to maintain school resources adequately to avoid a waste. School resources must be provided and maintained correctly by education stakeholders. Political meetings and other social meetings in school should be stopped. The general public should be sensitize to the need for maintenance culture in the school and the society at large etc.