Crime Behavioural Tendency of School-Going Adolescents in Ibadan: Home Background, Self- Regulation and Parenting Processes as Predictors

Adewuyi H Omoponle,Muraina K Olanrewaju

doi:10.36018/dsiij.v13i.204

Adewuyi H Omoponle, Muraina K Olanrewaju

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https://doi.org/10.36018/dsiij.v13i.204

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The study investigated the crime behavioural tendency of school-going adolescents in Ibadan: home background, self-regulation, parenting processes as predictors. The study adopted a descriptive research design of ex-post-facto type. Multistage sampling method was used in selecting 500 participants from 5 local government areas in Ibadan, Oyo State. The variables were measured validated instrument which with reliability co-efficient of 0.81. The data obtained were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and multiple regression at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that there was a significant correlation among home background, self-regulation and parenting processes and crime behavioural tendency of adolescents, self-regulation made the most significant relative contributions followed by parenting processes and home background. Therefore, on the basis of the findings, it is recommended that adolescents and parents should be re-orientated on the need to provide appropriate need and support for the adolescents and that counselling psychologists should intensify their effort to organize conferences on the implications of these factors (such as self-regulation, parenting processes and home background among others) to crime behavioural tendency of adolescents.

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The study investigated the crime behavioural tendency of school-going adolescents in Ibadan: home background, self-regulation, parenting processes as predictors
This age bracket is retained by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2015) that gave the figure of such population as 1.2 billion and explains that adolescence is an age of opportunity for children, and a pivotal time for the rest of the world to build on their development in the first decade of life, to help them navigate risks and vulnerabilities, and set them on the path to fulfilling their potentials
The result of the first research question revealed that, correlations existed between home background, self-regulation, parenting processes and crime behavioural tendency of adolescents

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The study investigated the crime behavioural tendency of school-going adolescents in Ibadan: home background, self-regulation, parenting processes as predictors. Adolescents crime behavioural tendency is characterized by having symptoms such as disregarding societal expectations, laws, violating rights of others (property, sexual, legal, emotional violations), physical aggression, instability in life and showing impulsive behaviour that break criminal laws (Nnachi, 2000). These comprise behaviours that cause immediate injury (physical or otherwise) as well as behaviours that cumulate into negative effects. For the purpose of this paper, home background, self-regulation and parenting processes was considered as predictors of crime behavioural tendency

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