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Self-Awareness and Behavioural Problems among Secondary School Students in Lagos Metropolis

Aruwajoye Evelyn Omotolani

Abstract

In a modern world, behavioural problems are the challenges confronting school age pupils in such a way that it causes maladjusted social vices whereby most students are open to truancy, drugs addicts, aggressive behaviours, and disruptive attitudes among others. There is need for teachers in a secondary school to acquire adequate knowledge to tackle such situation when the needs arise especially, in an adolescent age. This study therefore investigated “Self-awareness and Behavioural Problems among Secondary School Students in Lagos Metropolis”. The study was carried out in Mainland Local Government Areas of Lagos State. The population consisted of 300 teachers drawn from ten public and ten private schools from Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. The study employed a descriptive survey research design; the research instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire by the researcher. The instrument is aimed at collecting specific information from targeted respondents; the questionnaire was designed using four Likert scale. The questionnaire is also divided into three sections: Section A sought the personal information or demographical data of the respondents. Section B & C contain questions drawn from the research questions. It was designed to ensure that the objectives and the statement of problem stated in chapter one are explored. A pilot test was carried out to ascertain the reliability of the instrument. The findings in indicated that most of the students with an emotional intelligence tools such as; self-motivation, self-regulation, self-awareness and social skills better in their respective school compared to their counterparts who were with behavioural problems. The procedure used for data collection was direct administration of questionnaires to respondents who were capable of giving the required information, Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation was used for analysing data and to provide answers to the research questions. Som

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