Need Satisfaction, School type and Indiscipline Behaviour among Secondary School Adolescents in Cross River State
Kingsley B. Abang & Melvina N. Amalu
Department of Educational Foundations
University of Calabar, Calabar
Email: bekomabang@gmail.com; melvinaamalu@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of school types need satisfaction on indiscipline among senior secondary school students in Cross River State, Nigeria. An ex-post facto design was adopted in carrying out the study. 1250 senior secondary school students were drawn as sample from both public and private secondary schools using stratified and simple random sampling technique. The Student Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ) instrument was used for data collection. Two null hypothesis were formulated and tested using One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Independent t-test and Fisher’s Least Significant Difference (LSD) at .05 level of significance. The result showed that need satisfaction and school types significantly influence students’ indiscipline behaviour. Based on the finding, it was recommended among others that parents should provide their children/wards psychological, emotional and physiological needs of their children/wards.
Keywords: Need satisfaction, school type, adolescents, indiscipline, behaviour
