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Impact Of Cultism On Psychosocial Adjustment Of Students In Secondary Schools
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The result of this study will also benefit
school administrators, parents, researchers, government and co-operate
bodies. The study will be beneficial to school administrators because it
will help them to understand better the causes of some of the
behaviours exhibited by these students and how to help them overcome the
emotional outburst they display through group or individual counseling,
dramas on the adverse effects of cultism on individuals, orientation
for new entrants into the school and posters placed on notice boards
within the school. The findings of the study will also be beneficial to
the academic community as a whole, since it is a research effort and
reference material.
Parents will also benefit from the study because
it will provide them with an in depth knowledge of the level of cult
involvement and the psychological harm it has caused their wards. Such
awareness will enhance their advisory role performance to their wards on
the consequences of associating with cultists. Parents will also become
more co-operative with the appropriate authorities in the handling of
issues of secret cults in schools.
Based on the results of the
study, the State Government will be able to pass bills on the
consequences of involvement in cultism in schools and also in planning
and formulating Educational policies and providing adequate study
equipment and environment conducive for teaching and learning as well as
recreational facilities in our schools which in turn necessitates the
attainment of school objectives.
1.7 Scope of the study
The
study is aimed at examining the impact of cultism on the psychosocial
adjustment of students in secondary schools. It will cover students of
five selected secondary schools in Education District II of Lagos State.
1.8 Operational Definition of Terms
Cult: An extreme religious group that is not part of an established religion.
Cultism:
A kind of gang behaviour that is contrary to the accepted norms and
values of the larger society and is characterized by oath-taking,
secrecy and violence.
Psychosocial Adjustment: Psychosocial
adjustment refers to the relationship between the individual and their
world, as well as to the individual’s unique perceptions of their place
within that world.
Psychological Adjustment: Psychological adjustment
reflects the relative adaptation of an individual to changing
environmental conditions.
Social adjustment: An effort made by an
individual to cope with standards, values and needs of a society in
order to be accepted.
Secondary school: A School for children who are between the ages of eleven and sixteen/eighteen year.
Students: Someone studying at a school (university)
Gender: The sum of biological characteristics by which male and female and other Organisms are distinguished.
Age: The number of years someone has lived or something has existed.
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