PSYCHO-SOCIAL PREDICTORS OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IJEBU NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA

This paper examined the psycho-social predictor of anti-social behaviours among adolescents in secondary schools in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. two hypotheses were developed by the researcher. The descriptive research design of the ex- post facto type was adopted for this study. The population of this study comprises of all adolescent students in public secondary school in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The study sample consisted of one hundred and fifty (200) respondents from five public secondary schools in Ijebu North Local Government. The sample was based on fourty (40) respondents from each school which comprises of both male and female SSS2 students, in each school selected. The respondents were selected using, stratified, random sampling techniques and simple random techniques. three standardize instruments was used to elicit relevant information from the respondents such as The Substance Abuse Attitude Scale developed by Chappel, Veach, & Krug (1985), Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale developed by Zung (1965), and Peer Pressure Inventory (PPI) developed by Clasen, & Brown, (1985), The data collected were analyzed using multiple regression analysis (MRA) and the result was tested significance at 0.05 level. Based on the findings, the following recommendation were made: That school going adolescent should desist from all forms of anti-social behavior, the gospel sound moral counselling should be preached and spread among adolescent, adolescent’ should be watchful of the friends they keep and government should make available modern recreational facilities for the adolescent within the school environment as it said that “an idle hand is the Devil’s workshop”