Peer and Home Factors as Predictors of Tendency to Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour among Secondary School Adolescents in South Eastern Nigeria.
ABSTRACT
Personal experience on the increasing cases of same-sex sexual behaviour among secondary school adolescents especially in South Eastern Nigeria has necessitated the present study.
The study investigated how peer and home factors of polygamy, monogamy, separation (divorce), authoritative permissive and authoritarian parenting styles could be predictors of tendency to same-sex sexual behaviour of students in South Eastern Nigeria.
In pursuit of the afore-mentioned objective, five (5) research questions and four (4) null hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study was 215,658 SS I and SS II students from all the states that make up the South East.
The design adopted was a correlational survey design with a sample of 1,200 secondary school students drawn from 12 schools in the South Eastern part of Nigeria made up of 5 states: Imo, Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi. Multi stage sampling technique was used for the study.
The instrument for data collection was a self- developed “Sexuality, Peer, and Home Factor Questionnaire (SPHFQ)”. The instrument was validated using three experts in the field of Guidance and Counselling and Measurement and Evaluation.
The researcher with the help of two research assistants distributed and collected the questionnaire from the students after responding to the questionnaire.
The overall reliability coefficient was 0.81. The research questions were tested using mean and standard deviation and Pearson correlation, while null hypotheses were analyzed using ANOVA and t-test associated with multiple regression.
The findings of the study revealed, among other things that: There are prevailing or common same sex sexual behaviours, peer factor is a predictor of tendency to same-sex sexual behaviour, separation (divorce) is a predictor of tendency to same-sex sexual behaviour, polygamy is a predictor of tendency to same-sex sexual behaviour, permissive and authoritarian are predictors of tendency to same-sex sexual behaviour.
Based on the findings, some counselling implications were highlighted. Recommendations were also made among which is that close supervision and monitoring on peer association or relationship should be carried out by parents, teachers, guardians etc to checkmate their excesses.
Parents should monitor friendships and relationships of their children especially friendships or relationships with people of same sex inorder to detect when they err or go contrary to their expectations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE i
APPROVAL PAGE ii
CERTIFICATION iii
DEDICATION iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v
TABLE OF CONTENTS vi
LIST OF TABLES vii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study 1
Statement of the Problem 10
Purpose of the Study 12
Significance of the Study 12
Scope of the Study 15
Research Questions 15
Hypotheses 16
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 17
Conceptual Framework 18
Concept of Peer 18
Concept of Sexual Behaviour 20
Concept of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour 22
Concept of Family (Home) 25
Concept of Adolescence 33
Diagrammatic Representation of the Major Variables in the Study 38
Theoretical Framework 39
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Development by
Sigmund Freud (1963) 39
Psychosocial Theory of Personality Development by Erik
Erikson (1963) 43
Maslow’s Needs Theory (1968) 46
Review of Related Empirical Studies 48
Studies Related to Home Factors and Adolescents’ Sexual Behaviour 48
Studies Related to Peer Factor and Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour 52
Summary of Literature Review 55
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHOD 58
Design of the Study 58
Area of the Study 58
Population of the Study 59
Sample and Sampling Technique 60
Instrument for Data Collection 60
Validation of the Instrument 60
Reliability of the Instrument 61
Method of Data Collection 61
Method of Data Analysis 62
CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS 63
CHAPTER FIVE: DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUMMARY
Discussion of Results 72
Conclusion 78
Educational Implications 79
Recommendations 79
Limitations of the Study 81
Suggestion for Further Studies 82
Summary of the Study 82
REFERENCES 84
APPENDICES
INTRODUCTION
In the world today, the issue of same-sex sexual behaviour has gained so much ground that people are now fighting for its recognition, acceptance and legalization. Its influence in schools, churches, and families are such that the topic cannot be glossed over.
Globally, the issue of same-sex sexual behaviour among secondary school adolescents is fast becoming a threat to education.
It has been observed that these students especially those in the boarding houses or hostels seem to derive much interest and pleasure in same-sex sexual behaviours (Ahmadu, 2001).
Same-sex sexual behaviour is a sexual orientation in which someone is sexually attracted to another person of same-sex.
Same-sex sexual behaviour simply means the desire to have erotic experiences and responses with persons of same-sex.
It is worthy of note that sexual behaviour increases when an individual reaches puberty or what may be said to be the adolescent stage. Little wonder then these adolescent students engage themselves in same-sex sexual behaviours.
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