Abstract
<p>The study investigated parenting styles of in-school adolescents in south-East, Nigeria. Three research questions were formulated to guide the study at .05 level of significance. The study adopted a survey research design. The population for the study consisted 137,095 in-school adolescents in secondary school in South East, Nigeria. The sample for the study was 1200 senior secondary school II adolescents. The instrument for data collection was a 53-item questionnaire. The instrument was validated by three experts, two from the department of educational foundations, and one from the department of science education, all from faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Mean and standard deviation were used for data analysis. The study reveals, among others, that the parenting styles in-school adolescents were exposed to were authoritative, authoritarian and permissive. The study recommended, among others, that more school counselors should be employed and retained through in-service training programmes, capacity building workshops and refresher courses on adolescent value and moral upbringing. </p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0779/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
Highlights
2.1 Scope of the Study The content scope of this study focuses on the parenting styles of in-school adolescents in South Eastern Nigeria
The results obtained from data analysis were presented in the table 1, 2 and 3 respectively based on the research questions that guided the study
These findings show the prevalence of authoritative, authoritarian and permissive parenting style which support the study of Perozzi (2007) on the behaviour of adolescent based on the type of parenting style exhibited by parents but differ because the current study highlighted the constituents of the parenting style while, Perozzi’s study only examine the behaviour of adolescent based on the type of parenting style
Summary
According to United Nations Family Planning Association, (2007) and World Health Organization (WHO) (2009), an adolescent is a young person between 10-19 years with his or her own views and evolving decision making capacities. This is often a stage when conflict and tensions arise and adolescents become identified as problematic by parents. An adolescent is defined by Hornby, (2000) as a person growing up from childhood to adulthood (12 or 13years) with drastic changes in the social, emotional and cognitive aspects Adolescents increase their ability to think abstractly and eventually make plans and set long-term goals. These in-school adolescents cannot be left at the fate of the school environment for proper upbringing rather, it should go beyond school and peer influence to home and parental influence
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