• Influence Of Social Demand, Peer Pressure And Economic Instability On Adolescents’ Behavioural Pattern

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    • Adolescents: The children, especially the youth in the society would benefit from the recommendations of this study because it will help them to understand the way of nurturing and bringing them up as adolescent. With this study, children would be able to identify some of the values in the family and society. With this study also, adolescents would be enable to know that they ought to be controlled and obedient to their parents, teachers and the significant others in their communities.
      Teachers: Teachers would no doubt, be able to understand more, the different aspect of adolescents’ behaviours. Some teachers are parents also, they will be exposed to the essence of child-upbringing by reading this work. This study will create important knowledge on parents’ demands, peer grouping and economic instability. Teachers will also be able to learn the more, that good parenting would be beneficial to both the teachers and the school system where both the teachers and the children are found. This is because, if the children are well brought up, they would be good and right thinking individuals in the society and the school.
      The Society: The society will benefit from this study because there will be great impact of this study on the individual in the society. Also both the new researchers and students who want to carry out new research on topics related to this study will find this study a reference point or material.
      1.7   Scope of the Study
      The study covers the influence of guidance and counselling on the psychosocial adjustment of students in secondary schools in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State.
      1.8Definition of Terms
      The following terms were defined in this study:
      (1)         Adolescence: This is described as the age of storm and stress. It is the age before eighteen years. It is a period between childhood and adulthood.
      (2)         Psychological Adjustment: This is the term that denotes the psychosocial and socialization of an individual child.
      (3)         Transition Period: This is the period in which an individual or a thing changes from one level to another.
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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined the influence of social demand, peer pressure and economic instability on adolescents’ behavioural pattern in Lagos State: Implication for Counselling in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. In this study, the researcher made some important recommendations that would help in finding possible solutions to the problems identified and investigated in this study. The study employed the descriptive research survey design which was used to assess the responses of th ... Continue reading---