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  • 标题:Peer pressure and home environment as predictors of disruptive and risky sexual behaviours of secondary school adolescents
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  • 作者:Dorothy Ebere Adimora ; Immaculata Nwakaego Akaneme ; Eucharia Nchedo Aye
  • 期刊名称:African Health Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:1680-6905
  • 电子版ISSN:1729-0503
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:18
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:218-226
  • 出版社:Makerere University Medical School(Uganda)
  • 摘要:

    Background: Not much is understood about the predictive power of home environment and peer pressure on disruptive behaviour and risky sexual behaviour of adolescents. Objectives: The study investigated the predictive power of home environment and peer pressure on disruptive behaviour and risky sexual behaviour of adolescents in secondary school class two in Enugu State, Nigeria. Four research questions and four null hypotheses guided the study. Methods: The design was a cross sectional survey of correlational study. The study was carried out in the six Education zones in Enugu State, Nigeria. The population was all the 31,680 senior secondary class two (SS11) adolescents in 285 secondary schools in Enugu State, Nigeria in 2015/2016 academic session. The instruments for data collection were an observation schedule, an interview session and a structured questionnaire of four clusters. To determine the R-squares for each regression model, a multivariate multiple regression model was conducted using “MANOVA” and “MVREG”. Results: This study indicates adolescents who reported their home environments to be stimulated displayed compliant behavior and none or lowered risky sexual behaviour, whilst those with chaotic and unstimulated home environment displayed disruptive behaviours. It was found that adolescents who show a heightened sensitivity to positive peer pressure demonstrated compliant and no or lowered risky sexual behavior whilst, those that are engaged with negative peer pressure strongly exhibit disruptive and risky sexual behaviour. Conclusion: Unstimulated home environment and negative peer group could consequently interact to predispose these adolescents to disruptive behaviour and risky sexual behaviour.

  • 关键词:Home; peer group; disruptive; behaviour; adolescents.
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