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Impact Of Cultism On Psychosocial Adjustment Of Students In Secondary Schools
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Ohuakanwa (2011)
described psychosocial adjustment as the quantity of harmony which
students experience in their personal and interpersonal behaviours. It
also refers to the ability of students to actively go through school,
interacting with other members of school without fear of losing self in
the process so as to actualize the essence of schooling in the face of
turbulent social environmental issues, personal and interpersonal that
may tend to create barriers. It can simply be said to be a student
ability to be actively integrated into the school to be able to achieve
the essence of school and avoiding negative tendencies that may negate
achievement of healthy outcomes in school. This means that the student
should be able to relate cordially with others, be friendly and be smart
in making good friends, should be able to establish intimate
relationships without losing self, should be able to enjoy the love and
encouragement of parents and siblings, he should also enjoy adequate
teachers and administrative consultation so as to allow adequate
integration. When a student is able to strike such balance in school he
achieves adequate psychosocial adjustment that engenders the
actualization of healthy outcomes in all aspects of life within and
outside the school.
According to Hendriksen and Schrans (2008)
psychosocial adjustment can be defined as the adaptive task of managing
upsetting feelings and frustrations. They identified six domains of
psychosocial adjustment which are; peer relations, dependency,
hostility, productivity, anxiety and depression and withdrawal.
It is
against this background that this study was faced with the problem of
validating the impact of cultism on psychosocial adjustment of secondary
school students in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State. The
problem of the study put in a question form is: What impact does cultism
have on the psychosocial adjustment of secondary school students?
1.2 Statement of the problem
Over
the years, there have been reported cases of violence and other
anti-social behaviour exhibited by cultists in our institutions of
higher learning. These have metamorphosed into cases of violent
aggression, victimization, bullying, rape, threat to lives and
destruction of school facilities. As a result of this, researchers in
the educational sector have gone into investigation to determine the
causes of these violence and anti-social behavior displayed by cultists.
Hawkins
(1998) while commenting on cultists, opined that to avoid emotional
distress, they (cultists) display their anger on others through violent
acts of aggression. They engage in frequent fights and violence. They
also use alcohol and drugs to blunt their feelings so that no act will
seem too bad for them to perpetuate.
Egbochukwu (2009) in assessing
the problems of cultists asserted that they (cultists) are apprehensive,
highly irritable, irresponsible, dishonest and insincerity of purpose
and lies characterize them.
Therefore this study tends to investigate
to ascertain whether cultism is a major determinant of some of the
anti-social behaviour exhibited by cultists.
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