Bad Friends Research Articles

Family Leadership Styles and Deviant Behaviours of Primary School Pupils in Enugu State, Nigeria

OBJECTIVE: This study examined family leadership styles as determinants of deviant behaviours among primary school pupils in Enugu State, Nigeria. 
 
 METHODS: The study adopted a correlational research design. A total of 821 pupils were drawn as the sample for the study. A questionnaire was used as an instrument for the study.
 
 RESULTS: The major findings of the study revealed that primary school pupils exhibited 12 out of 15 types of deviant behaviours such as indulging in exam malpractice, not devoted to studies, Bullying weaker pupils, fighting among pupils, lateness to school, and keeping bad friends among others as identified. It also showed that the authoritarian family leadership style had a significant relationship with primary school pupils’ deviant behaviour. Again it was discovered that the authoritative family leadership style also called assertive, democratic or balance family leadership style had a significant relationship with pupils’ deviant behaviours negatively. Moreover, permissive family leadership style had also a significant relationship with primary school pupils’ deviant behaviours. The result also indicated that neglectful family leadership style had a significant relationship with primary school pupils’ deviant behaviours. Furthermore, the result showed that family size had a significant influence on deviant behaviours exhibited by primary school pupils in Enugu state.
 
 CONCLUSION: Rewarding and praising children who have good behaviours and assigning models to role-play by pupils with deviant behaviours may help to curb deviant behaviours among primary school pupils.

HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES ASSOCIATED WITH VIOLENT BEHAVIOR OF THE PERSON AN APPLIED FIELD STUDY ON PSYCHOTHERAPY CENTERS IN CAIRO

This study aimed at identifying the health and environmental variables of the violent behavior of the individual in a sample of women and male and female children in the social welfare institutions in Greater Cairo. The sample of the study included (75) single cases for women and male and female children. (25) single children (25) single male children. The researchers used the case study methodology using a regular random sample. The researchers used the interview form to renew these variables. Results: 18 cases of the total sample of the study and the number of 75 respondents were violent behavior as a result of mental health variables and 1 case violence was the result of hormonal health variables, 20 cases suffer from family disintegration represented by separation of parents, 7 caseswere subjected to violence by the father's wife and 15 by the mother's husband, 10 cases were subjected to violence because they were orphans, 2 cases were subjected to social violence because they were the result of an illegal relationship, 5 cases were subjected to violence from one parent due to substance abuse، 5 caseswere subjected to violence from the alternative family ,3were subjected to violence from their husbands,4cases were subjected to violence in care homes, 6 cases were subjected to violence becauseof the ideas of a wrong cultural environment and 8 cases of the total sample were subjected to violence because of the poor economic conditions . Two cases of the total sample practiced violence as a result of bad friends and 2 cases experienced violence as a result of their viewing of the visual media and 50case experienced violence as a result of their poor mental state resulting from violence against them. (19) cases of the total sample suffered from health problems due to violence. The main Recommendations: Identifying the behavior and its components and the extent of the influence of ideas in behavior, Methods of solving problems in a scientific way, Methods of dealing with stress and anxiety, Positive thinking patterns in dealing with problems, Positive communication skills with others, Patterns of human figures and dealing with them

IMPLEMENTASI PERATURAN BUPATI NOMOR 5 TAHUN 2015 TENTANG PENERAPAN PEMBELAJARAN MUATAN LOKAL DALAM BENTUK PESANTREN SEKOLAH DI SMPN 1 ASEMBAGUS

SMP Negeri 1 Asembagus (State Junior High School 1 Asembagus) is the one of reference schools in implementing Situbondo Regent’s Regulation Number 5 in 2015 with coaching activities of reading and writing al-Qur’an in the form of Pesantren Sekolah (Concept of Islamic Boarding School in the School) so that the students can read al-Qur’an well and memorize Juz Amma at least 25 chapters correctly until these activities can give birth to the generation who have intellectual intelligence and noble character. The results showed that the Implementation of Regent’s Regulation Number 5 in 2015 at SMP Negeri 1 Asembagus (State Junior High School 1 Asembagus) by hold up Pesantren Sekolah (Concept of Islamic Boarding School in the School) activities. Supporting factors include intrinsic motivation of the students, Support from their family, and support from teaching staff of Tahfidul Qur’an Institution of Sukorejo Islamic Boarding School. Inhibiting factor include bad friends.

The Effect of Earthquake on Youth Tendency to Artificial Narcotics Consumption in Bam Township

This research is aimed to study the effect of earthquake on changing the pattern of traditional narcotics consumption into artificial narcotics in Volunteers of addiction abandonment in Green Houses. The present research is a discretional study. The subjects of research include 150 males who were going to abandon the Consumption of artificial narcotics and had referred to the centers of Green House. By observing them, the test was evaluated by distributing questionnaires. Data analysis was performed by using the methods of descriptive statistics ( chi – 2 test) Findings the abundance, cheapness , easy availability to materials, preferred Communication, The relationship to bad friends, addict parents, Low Self – Confidence are meaningfully related to youth tendency to artificial narcotics consumption after earthquake. Request of youth Volunteers from Green Houses to a bonbon addiction should be considered as an interaction between individual psychology and effect of cultural abnormality in Society. Social abnormality after earthquake Caused youth tendency to use narcotics and consequently they have changed their pattern into artificial narcotics Consumption.

UPAYA GURU AKIDAH AKHLAK DALAM MEMBINA AKHLAK SISWA DI MAN 1 PADANG

This research is to find the efforts of the teachers of Akidah Akhlak in guiding the students’ akhlak in and out side of the classroom, to explore the problems in guiding, and to give the solution for the problems. The method of the research is descriptive qualitative with the informan are the teacher of Akidah Akhlak, the Headmaster, teachers, and students. The instruments are collecting the data by using observation, interview, and documentation. The result showed that the teachers guided the students to have good akhlak by explaining the materials well, showing the examples, avoiding the students to cheated in examination, giving advises to be serious in learning, and giving an educated punishment to the students’ falsity. Outside of the classroom, the teachers give the examples, praying zuhur together, giving kultum (preaching for 7 minutes), flag ceremonial, joining for the religious activities, cooperating with all teachers. Then, the problems are less carefulness from the teachers with the parents, unwell environment, absence from joining the religious activities, and choosing ungood friends. The efforst done by the teachers are cooperated raisingly between schools, teachers, parents, and societies. The teachers give pressure for the lesson, and give attention to the akhlak of the students. The teachers also must give good examples for the students, and give advises for them who had bad akhlak, and give advices for the parents to give attention to their children not to get bad environment and bad friends in order to be good children to make their akhlak better

“I Tried to Resist and Avoid Bad Friends”

Urban informal settlements are sites of high HIV incidence and intimate partner violence (IPV). Young men in these contexts often draw on a youthful hypermasculinity that prioritize sexual dominance and displays of violence, although many aspire to a traditional masculinity, which is less violent and uses economic provision and social dominance to control women. Working with young men, we undertook a gender transformative and livelihood strengthening intervention to reduce HIV risk and IPV perpetration. We sought to understand how the wider social context shaped the project’s outcomes. We undertook thirty-eight in-depth interviews and three focus groups postintervention. We conducted thematic analysis using Campbell and Cornish’s conceptualization of social contexts: material–political context, relational–network context, and symbolic context to understand how contexts shaped outcomes. For the material–political context, livelihoods improved, but the continued high levels of unemployment meant that while men may have earned more they did not establish a new relationship to the economy; they still struggled to get jobs and only secured precarious and unfulfilling work. In the relational–network context, men’s main partners and family were supportive of men’s attempts to change, however only narrowly toward a traditional masculinity. Men’s peers were major barriers to men’s attempts to change. In the symbolic context, the accessibility of a “traditional” masculinity provided a resource for men to draw on, which contrasted with the youthful hypermasculinity. We argue that in these informal settlements the social contexts only enabled certain forms of change to occur for young men, limiting the potential for more radical gender equitable transformations.

The Risk Factors That Lead to Addiction and Relapse among Addicted Patients

Background: Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder in which compulsive drug seeking and drug-taking behavior persists despite of serious negative consequences. The purpose of this studywas to assess the risk factors that lead to addiction and relapse among addicted patient. This study was conducted at Benha and Abassia mental hospitals. A descriptive design was used to achieve the purpose of this study. A purposive sample of 80 adult patients was selected from the hospitals of the above mentioned settings. Three instruments were used for this study as: (1)structured interview questionnaire to assess demographic data about the patient, risk factors of addiction and patient’s perception about addiction, (2) Social adjustment scale to measure social adjustment and (3) Social competence scaleto measure social competence. Results: the most common risk factors for addiction were psychological problems, weak will power, bad friends, and family problems, pressure at work, physical problem and cigarette smoking respectively., Relapse was higher in male than female with highly statistical significant difference There for, it was concluded that psychological problems bade friends, cigarette smoking and family problems could lead to addiction and relapse.Recommendation: Stress management and assertiveness training program should be provided for those patients to relive their psychological problems, also thy need educational programs and awareness of the dangers of drug abuse and its negative effects on the individual and society

CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPREAD OF ADDICTION PHENOMENON AMONG FEMALES IN THE SLUMS

This study aims at identifying the contemporary social and psychological variables such as: the social standard, the family circumstances, education, ecological environment, escaping from problems and tension and feeling inferior, and their relationship with the spread of addiction phenomenon among females in the slums, in addition to identifying the suffering of the habitants in the slums and the stages of falling in addiction. The study uses the descriptive method. Data was collected through personal meeting and a questionnaire. The sample consists of (41) females who live in the slums .Some theories are used such as: The functional theory, which explains that addiction is the failure of the addict to play his role and that addiction is a delinquent behavior that opposes all the common things in the social system. In addition to the theory of social learning, which explains addiction as an educated behavior, resulted from joining a group of addicts . The results indicate a significant relationship between the contemporary social and psychological variables such as: family disintegration, bad friends, the spread of some wrong beliefs about addiction, poverty, escaping from problems and life circumstances and the addiction of women in the slums. Some of the recommendations of the study are: - The importance of keeping the stability of the family and the good example inside the family as the results show that females are affected with family disintegration more than males. - The importance of guiding females through media about the consequences of addiction in order not to be easily led through imitating or following a member of the family. - The importance of studying the slums and including them in the projects of the state.

The Prediction of Young Homicide and Violent Offenders

Aim was to investigate a range of potentially modifiable risk factors for boys in late childhood for later violence and homicide convictions. Boys from the Pittsburgh Youth Study (N = 1,517) were measured through self-reports and official records in late childhood (ages 11–13) on a large number of potentially modifiable risk factors, and were followed up in juvenile and adult criminal records in terms of violence and homicide. Predictors of conviction for homicide largely overlapped with predictors of conviction for violence. Twenty three out of 28 possible risk factors significantly predicted later violence convictions. Regression analysis identified four significant modifiable risk factors in late childhood for any violent offenders: physical abuse, parental stress, bad friends and low school motivation. The higher the number of early risk factors, the higher the probability of later conviction for violent offenses including homicide. The discussion focus on single-, and multi-modal interventions in late childhood to reduce later violence and possibly homicide.

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The purpose of this study is to study anxieties of mothers related to their children’s future. Qualitative method was used in order to study anxieties of mothers from different socio-economic levels. Sample of the study participants are 129 mothers living in Istanbul. 32 of those mothers are from upper socio-economic level, 57, from middle socio-economic level and 40, from lower socio-economic level. A half-structured interview form designed by researcher was used as data collection instrument. Descriptive analysis technique was used in interview analysis according to qualitative data analysis. Ä°n the result of the study, anxieties about their children not having a good education, having bad friends, not having a job with which they would be happy, having health problems, not being able to find a good job are frequently observed. All mothers in lower, middle and upper socio-economic groups are anxious about their children having a good education. This was strikingly the leading factor in lower and middle socio-economic groups. Problems are the leading anxiety factor in upper socio-economic group. Mothers in lower socio-economic group did not utter anxiety about their children not maintaining family ties, not realizing their children, having no child, having no social reputation. Key words: Anxiety, anxiety about future, mothers.

The most common reasons and incentives of tendency to addiction in prisons and rehabilitation centres of Zahedan (Iran).

In most European countries the ratio of addicts and normal people is 1 to 5,000, and in some third world countries such as Morocco, Egypt, and South Africa this figure is 1 to 1,000. In Iran, the situation is worse, and there is one drug addict per 100 people. The research method in this study is analytical descriptive. The study population consisted of all rehabilitated addicted men and women who were spending their time in prison. Total sample size were 134 people (99 men and 35 women).A special designed questionnaire used to collect data, which included socio-demographic characteristics. The validity of the questionnaire has content validity and for reliability, Cronbach α was used which was 0.78. The formal years of education was 4.3 year. The average age of the first drug use was 12 years for men and 22 years for women. Sixty-nine point seven percent of men used drugs with their friends and 31.4% of women used drug with their husbands. The men more than women, single men more than married women, and illiterates or poor literates were more at risk. Most men blamed bad friends and women blamed physical and psychological problems as the cause of addiction. The singles got addicted due to bad friends and married individuals were addicted due to emotional distress. The majority of age group (27-13 years), got addicted due to bad friends and older groups addicted due to emotional distress. In other words, the older the person gets, the influence of bad friends decreases, and the effect of psychological distress due to conflict and adversity increases.

Predisposing Influence of Home Factors, Negative Self Component and Peer Orientation on Substance Abuse among Okada Riders in Ibadan

The use of motor-cycles (Okada) for carrying passengers from one destination to another for commercial purposes has crept into Nigerian’s transportation activities and gradually becoming the most popular, possibly because it is faster especially when there is terrible holdups and can also drop an individual at his door step. Nevertheless, it has added greatly to the incidence of road accidents whereby special orthopedic departments are created in Nigerian hospitals to attend to the victims. The recklessness and misbehaviours of the Okada riders has been traced to substance abuse. This study, therefore, investigated the predisposing influence of Home factors, Negative self component and Peer orientation on substance abuse among Okada riders in Ibadan. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. A total of 300 participants were randomly selected from 10 Okada parks in Ibadan metropolis. Their ages ranged from 1635 with a mean of 24.7. They responded to four validated instruments, namely: Animasahun [16] Crime Behaviour Factor Battery; Negative self component of Animasahun [49] Academic success barrier battery; Peer orientation scale of Gasa [50] and Miller [51] Substance Abuse scale. Three research questions were raised and the Original Research Article British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, 4(9): 1320-1333, 2014 1321 results showed that each of the independent variables has a significant positive correlation with substance abuse, while they jointly contributed a total of 58.4% to the prediction of substance abuse among Okada riders in Ibadan. Based on this, it was recommended that public lecture and sensitization programmes should be put in place to teach the young Okada riders about the evils of substance abuse, and also exposed to assertiveness training to boost their self component and to make them difficult to be influenced by bad friends. The intervention is believed to help in reducing the excesses of the Okada riders in the society.

Study of the rate of Hopelessness and its associated factors in Youth of Yazd city, Iran

ObjectivesEarly adulthood is a complex period of life wherein meeting ones well defined goals is very important. Social competition leads a young person to try to be a perfectionist and fear of failure results in hopelessness. As the majority of the population of Iran is young, assessment of the rate of hopelessness in this population could be important. Materials and methodsThis cross sectional descriptive analytical study included 400 residents of Yazd city in the 18 – 30 years age group. Besides a questionnaire for demographic data, Beck hopelessness inventory test was also used. Sampling was done through random clustering method and data was analyzed with SPSS software, version 11. ResultsOf the total, 39.5% of individuals had mild, 19.25% had moderate and 3.25% had severe hopelessness. The status of hopelessness was statistically correlated with drug and alcohol abuse, parental support, relation with parents, problem with children, bad friends, educational status, age and the gap between reality and idealistic thinking. The rate of hopelessness was more significant in the 24-30 years age group ConclusionConsidering the fact that hopelessness rate is high in the 24-30 years age group and inadequate jobs and income are the main obstacles for marriage, economic and moral support for the young could be very important factors in decreasing the rate of hopelessness in young.

Maternal Employment And Child Behaviour: A Case Of Children In Remand Home

Over the past 25 years, the employment rate of mothers with young children has increased drastically. As mothers engage in economic activities, the time spent with children diminishes and this may have social and psychological effect on the children. Using the data obtained from the Boys\' Remand Home and Girls\' Remand Home in Lagos, this paper examines the impact of mothers\' employment on the behaviour of these children. It also examines, among other things, the type of family the children belong to, their mothers\' level of education, how they were initiated into bad behaviour and the number of years spent in the home. Results show that the proportion of males who are involved in bad behaviour is greater than that of females. Most of the children are from monogamous home. Maternal education has a significant impact on child\'s behaviour. Most of the mothers engage in economic activities. Mothers\' occupation affects time spent with children. More than three-quarter of the children claim that their mothers do not devote enough time for them. Some of the behaviours the children engage in include stealing, quarreling, being stubborn and associating with bad friends. Mothers\' occupation has a significant impact on child\'s behaviour. Neighbours, friends and foreign movies also exercise some influence on child\'s behaviour. More than half of the children, however, are of the view that if their mothers had spent much time with them, they would not have engaged in bad behaviour. Keywords: Maternal characteristics; Child\'s behaviour; Remand home; Influence; Monogamy; Polygyny Gender and Behaviour Vol. 6 (1) 2008: pp. 1633-1644

Good friendships, bad friends: Friendship factors as moderators of the relation between aggression and social information processing

The primary objective was to examine whether the associations between aggression and social information processing was moderated by friendship quality and the aggressiveness of the best friend. Drawn from a larger normative sample of 5th and 6th graders, 385 children (180 boys) completed questionnaires pertaining to friendship quality and social information processing. Friendship and peer nominations of behaviours were collected. Results revealed positive associations between aggressive behaviour and the endorsement of aggressive coping strategies in cases where the protagonist was an unfamiliar peer. However, one important exception emerged: no significant associations between aggression and aggressive coping were revealed for children with high-quality friendships with aggressive peers. In cases where the protagonist was the best friend, there was a significant relation between aggression and vengeful coping, but only for those participants who had a low-quality friendship with an aggressive friend.

Accounting for Friendship: Moral Ordering and Category Membership in Preadolescent Girls' Relational Talk

In this article, I explore how preadolescent girls, with low-income and multiethnic backgrounds, negotiate social and moral norms of conduct and accomplish the local social organization of the group over time. The girls were audio recorded as part of fieldwork in an elementary school in Sweden. The analysis combines conversation analytic examination of talk-in-interaction and ethnomethodological concerns for members' understanding of social categories. As demonstrated, the girls deploy diverse forms of collaborative judgmental work (complaints, accounts, membership categorization work, etc.) to describe coparticipants as good versus bad friends. Resistance (denials, justifications, recycling, substitutions, counteraccusations) to category ascriptions solidified negative category membership (of a bad friend) and eventually cast a girl as friendless. The detailed analysis demonstrates that the girls provide their own rendering of the seemingly neutral (and romanticized) activity of relational talk, thereby transforming it into an activity for indexing inappropriate behaviors, strengthening social relations of power, and justifying social exclusion.

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Running Away from Home

PARENTratings of the behavior of 2,967 children aged 4-16 who had been referred for mental health services and 1,300 nonreferred children were analyzed with the goal of determining the incidence and correlates of running away from home. Running away was from 5-30 times more frequent among referred children than among normal children. Several behavioral problems were significantly associated with running away among referred children, including truancy, bad friends, poor relations with parents, disobedience, stealing, use of alcohol and drugs, lying, suicidal threats and gestures, cruelty, and destructiveness. Results suggest that for a substantial portion of runaway youth, the act of running away may be symptomatic of broader syndromes of psychopathology and patterns of maladaption, and that programs for runaways should be linked more directly to mental health services for disturbed children and their families.

Soseki: A Tragic Father

'H delicate features. He had enjoyed taking her out into the streets in the baby carriage. And he would walk home gazing at the angelic little face in slumber.'l In this passage from Michikusa, his autobiographical novel of 1915, Natsume Soseki recalls his days in Kumamoto, shortly after Fude, his first child, was born. He was then teaching at the Fifth Higher School, and, in 1899, at the age of thirtytwo, had become a father for the first time. His pride and joy as a new father is quite evident in this passage. His widow Kyoko, in her Soseki no Omoide, also talks about how much he loved his first child, holding and cuddling her often.2 From Kumamoto he was sent to England by the government for further study in the English language. S5seki, leaving behind Ky5ko, who was then expecting their second child, and sixteen-month-old Fude, set out for England in September 1900. During the more than two years that he was away from Japan, Soseki sent numerous letters to Kyoko, of which about two dozen have been published. In these letters he often asks fondly about Fude, and also suggests ways to bring her up properly. S5seki tried to impress his young wife, who was ten years his junior, with the importance of becoming a good mother. She could do this, he suggested, by reading, thinking, and meeting persons of noble ideals.3 His advice included remarks such as: 'Don't spoil Fude too much; don't give her too many sweets; don't make her sit too much on the floor, because this might hinder the proper development of her legs,' and 'Don't let her play with bad friends.'4 On one occasion Soseki was very pleased to receive a snapshot of Fude, com-