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The Influence Of Parental Separation On Academic Achievement Of Secondary School Students
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Research Questions
(i) Will single parent family have any significant influence on students academic performance?
(ii) Do parent socio- economic status have any significant influence on students academic performance?
(iii) Do students from single parent family performed better than students from intact family ?
(iv) Does students gender have any influence on students academic performance?
Research Hypothesis
(i) There is no significant relationship between single parent family and students academic performance
(ii) There is no significant relationship between parental socio-economic status and students academic performance
(iii)
There is no significant difference between academic performance of
students from single parent family and academic performance of students
from intact family.
(iv) Gender difference does not have any significant influence on students academic performance
Significance of the Study
The
study hopes to contribute to knowledge by shedding light on the effect
of parental separation on the academic achievement of the students in
secondary schools. It will also generate enough data for teachers,
social workers, government, counsellors, psychologists and parents
concerned with the care and welfare of the children under their watch.
This study also hopes to inform and guide parents on the need to
maintain their homes as separation could have adverse effects on
children. In addition, this study would also seek to enlighten students
on the effect parental separation and socio-economic status of parents
would have on their academic performance.
Operational Definition of Terms
Parent:
Parents are caretakers of the offspring in their own specie i.e. one
who takes care of his/her biological children.
Guardian: Guardians are people who by appointment or by relationship have the care a person.
Adolescent: An adolescent is child between childhood and adulthood usually between the ages of 10 and 19.
Adolescence:
This is a transitional state of physical and psychological human
development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to
legal adulthood.
Parenting: This is the process of
promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and
intellectual development of a child from infancy to adult hood.
Separation:
The condition of being apart, especially the condition of two peoplewho
had lived together or been married living in different places
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study examined the influence of parental Separation on Academic Achievement of Secondary School Student in Lagos Educational District II. Descriptive research design was used. The population for the study comprised all the secondary school students in Lagos Educational District II. Stratified Random technique was used to collect the sample. The instrument for the study was a self construct questionnaire titled “Influence of parental separation on academic Achievement of secondary scho ... Continue reading---
