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Career choice is a critical decision that significantly shapes an individual's life trajectory, influencing their personal fulfillment, financial stability, and social contribution. While various factors influence career decisions, parents play a pivotal ro...
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Alcohol abuse among youths is a significant public health concern worldwide, with its effects extending to various aspects of individuals' lives, including health behavior. Several socio-cultural factors contribute to the prevalence of alcohol abuse among y...
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With the advancement of civilization, social media has gained more importance in people's daily lives, impacting their overall life satisfaction, social trust, and emotions (Clement, 2019). The rapid and exponential expansion of social media has given rise to a new social environment. The modes of communication have evolved from conventional in-person co...
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Aging is a natural process accompanied by physiological, psychological, and social changes. In rural areas like Giade Local Government Area (LGA) of Bauchi State, Nigeria, where resources and healthcare infrastructure may be limited, addressing the needs of the...
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The study habits of university students are indeed a critical factor in determining their academic success. Effective study habits, such as time management, consistent study schedules, and focused study sessions, are crucial for academic achievement (Credé & Kuncel, 2015). Nevertheless, students frequently encounter various challenges that have an impact on their capacity to sustain efficient study habits, one of w...
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According to Onyehalu (1986), the family is the adolescent model. The social learning theory provides a comprehensive picture of the role of parents in socializing children. Children can learn the patents' norms and value system through imitation and modeling (Imaobong, 2002). Onyehalu (1986) study on juvenile delinquency found that family background is directly associated to juvenile delinquency. It was strik...
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Some nurses have been perceived to have poor interpersonal relationships with patients. This, could affect their productivity and also inhibit psychological torture and wellness of patients. Thus, nurses require emotional labour to overcome these challenges. Emotional labour is the degree of one‟s display of appropriate emotion in response to the patient and the management of feelings to create a publicly observable emotional display as the situation demands. Transactional...
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The importance of dissertation writing towards sustaining academic and intellectual culture cannot be overemphasised. However, the dissertation processes are often fraught with certain inhibiting factors such as low efficacy and anxiety. Hence, there is the need to build in the students a minimum level of confidence and efficacy through cognitive therapies such as metacognitive strategy and achievement motivation training. Previous studies on successful completion of doctor...
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The number of candidates seeking admission into universities is increasing at geometrical rate without a corresponding increase in the number of available space. After passing the School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) conducted by either West African Examinations Council (WAEC) or National Examinations Council (NECO) and the University Matriculation Examination (UME), the candidates are admitted into various academic programmes. However, at the end of every session, the Gr...
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Ineffective school adjustment is one of the challenges of academic achievement in secondary schools in Nigeria. Poor adjustment to school transition has negative effects on student‘s well-being which in turn adversely affect their performance. Studies revealed that issues such as anxiety, attitude to school, motivation, interest in schooling, peer influence etc impact positively and negatively on secondary school student‘s transition from one class to another. H...
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The clamour for the inclusion of entrepreneurship in the curriculum of Nigerian universities has been on the increase. This growing interest may not be unconnected with the rapid rise in the rate of unemployment among school leavers in every facet of human endeavour. Studies on entrepreneurship in the developed countries have been extensive, but research work in Nigeria has not been adequate in investigating the psychosocial factors responsible for entrepreneurial intention...
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This study investigated the effects of brainstorming counselling technique on low self-esteem of secondary school students in Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria. The quasi experimental, pre-test, post-test control design guided the study. Three research questions and three null hypotheses were formulated. The population of the study comprised all the JSS III students in the two randomly selected public schools in Kaduna North Local Government Area....
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This study investigated the effects of brainstorming and thought stopping counselling techniques on academic task-avoidance among secondary school students in Minna metropolis, Nigeria. Five research questions were formulated with their correspondinghypotheses to guide the study. The hypotheses postulated were tested at 0.05 Alpha level of significance. Quasi-experimental design was adopted for the study using pretest, post-test, control group design. A sample size of 48 pa...
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The study examined the Assessment of Academic Achievement of Senior Secondary School Students on Standardized Economics Achievement Test in Bauchi, Bauchi State Nigeria. The study adopted Expost facto research design. The population of the study consisted of 18,389 Senior Secondary students. Clusters sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 377 from Eight Senior Secondary School Students across three Educational zones by the application of Kcrejcie and morgan...
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This study assessed the effect of Positive Reinforcement on Mathematics Anxiety among Primary School Pupils in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State. Two Counselling Techniques of Token Economy and Praise were used to address the problem of Mathematics Anxiety among Primary School Pupils in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State The study employed quasi-experiment involving pre-test and posttest research design. Six research questions with corresponding null hypotheses...
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The importance of marital adjustment cannot be over-emphasized; the adjustment of each marriage or family is eventually the growth of the nation at large. Marital adjustment as referred to in this study as individual‟s subjective experience of marriage in terms of how their needs will be met, and how the individual‟s expectations and desires are to be satisfied. In addition satisfaction of the needs of each spouse is essential to marital adju...
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Adolescents have always been exposed to peer influence and parental support, but the kinds of peer influence that they encounter have changed tremendously in the past years. Peers can influence everything from what an adolescent chooses to wear to whether or not an adolescent engages in drug related or other delinquent behavior. Thus, knowledge of the effects of peer support is important for all in the society. Teachers and other education pr...
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The study examined the effects of Sequential Decision-Making and Cognitive-Restructuring Techniques on Stress among Female students of Colleges of Education in Kano State, Nigeria. Quasi-experimental Design involving Pre-test, Post-test Group Design was employed. The population of the study comprised of NCE II female students in Kano state, identified with stress symptoms. A sample of 28 respondents made up of fourteen (14) married and single were assigned into two (2) trea...
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This study examined the Effects of Rational Self Analysis (RSA) and Cognitive Restructuring (CR) Counselling Techniques on Bullying Behaviour among Secondary School Students in Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria. It has six stated objectives to carry out the study upon which six research questions, hypotheses and basic assumptions were respectively or correspondingly formulated. The research design used for this study was quasi experimental design using pre-test post-test. 164 sec...
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This study investigated the effects of positive reinforcementand social skills training counselling techniques on sullenness among senior secondary school students in Kaduna metropolis, Nigeria.A quasi – experimental design of pretest, posttest controlgroup was employed for this study. The population of the study consisted ofone hundred and fifty (150)senior secondary school students who showed symptoms of sullenness drawn from three selected public senior secondary s...
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This study investigated the effect of social skills training and values clarification counselling techniques on aggressive behaviours of senior secondary school students in Kontagora Metropolis, Niger State, Nigeria. The objective of the study was to determine the effect of social skills training and values clarification counselling techniques on aggressive behaviours (hostile, emotional, instrumental & relational) of senior secondary school students in Kontagora, Niger...
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This study examined the effect of positive reinforcement counselling technique on absenteeism among secondary school students in Bakori Local Government Katsina State, Nigeria. A quasi experimental design involving pre-test, post-test treatment group was adopted for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used in selecting fifteen (15) samples out of the total number of (425) absentees identified using class attendance daily register to serve as the treatment group. The...
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The study examined the effects of Rational-Emotive Behaviour and Systematic Desensitization therapies on SS1 Students‟ test anxiety in Government Senior Secondary School, Township, Jos. This was motivated by the increasing incidence of mass failure of students in West African Examination Council (WAEC) and Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This anxious state seems to make students fear examinations and engage in malpractices. The study examined the followin...
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This study was undertaken to find out the acquisition of management skills and how this stabilises a marriage relationship in term of conflict in the home. The study was also aimed at discovering the effect of treatment on couples who attended a management skill programme and those who do not. A total of two thousand couples were selected by purposive sampling technique from ten churches in the Northern Cross River State. These couples were found to have some deficiency in...
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This had been an attempt to investigate the attitude of mother-in-law towards daughter-in-law as a determinant factor in marital stability, in carrying out this study,Questionnaire on the Attitude of Mother-in-law towards Daughters-in-law as a Determinant of Marital Stability (QAMDDMS) was developed and percentage, mean and chi-square at 0.05 level of significant were used to test the hypotheses. The results of the study show that the communication patterns...
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