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Relationship Between Step-fathering And Personality Development
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1.4Research Hypotheses
The following null hypotheses will be formulated and tested in the study:
1.
There will be no significant relationship between step-fathering and
personality development of adolescents in schools.
2. There will be no significant difference between step-fathering and social adjustment of students in schools.
3.
There will be no significant cultural import in step fathering style on
the personality development on the personality development of
adolescents in schools.
4. Step fathering will not significantly affect personality development of adolescents.
5.
There will be no significant difference in the academic performance of
children who are brought up by their biological fathers and those
brought up by their step-fathers.
1.5Significance of the Study
This study will be of great benefit to the following individuals:
1.
Step fathers: They would benefit from this study because it will enable
them to have a better insight into the essence of forming a good role
model to the adolescents or children.
As a father, one has the
responsibility of high moral uprightness and discipline. With this
study, step fathers would be able to understand the fact that they need
to help their step children by giving the best they can in order to
bring them up in a proper manner so that they would adjust well and
develop good personality.
2. Children: Step-children and
other young ones in the society would learn from this study because it
will enable them to be able to understand deeply the essence of
attachment to their fathers be it step-father or real father. With the
findings and recommendations of this study, students or adolescents
would have better insight into the need for properly up bringing of
children by parents, especially the father or step-father as the case
may be.
3. Society: The society will also benefit from the
findings of this study in that it will help the people in the society
to be able to understand better the role of step-fathers and fathers to
their children or step children as the case may be.
4.
Upcoming researchers, readers, scholars and the general public would
learn from the findings and recommendation of this study.
1.6Scope of the Study
This
study will cover the relationship between step-fathering and
personality development among senior secondary school II students in the
Mainland local government area of Lagos State.
1.7Definition of Terms
Some operational terms were defined in the study thus:
1. Step-fathering: A system or situation where one is brought or trained by mother who has been remarried.
2.
Personality: This is the state of existing as a particular person. The
whole nature and character of an individual.
3. Development: The act of action of developing or the state of being developed a gradual unfolding.
4.
Authoritative parenting: Parents who always give orders or command to
their children and expect them to obey them without minding the outcome
of the command, one who possesses the power to give orders.
5.
Authoritarism parenting: Parents who favour and demand obedience to
rules and laws whether or not they right or wrong.
6.
Laissez-fair parenting: Parents who form the principle of allowing their
children’s activities to develop without control.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study attempted to investigate the relationship between step-fathering and personality development among SS II students in secondary schools in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State.Relevant literature review was carried out under sub-headings.The descriptive research survey was used to assess the opinions of the selected respondents using the questionnaire and the sampling technique.One hundred and twenty (120) respondents were selected and used as samples to represent the populati ... Continue reading---
