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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: There has been increasing incidence of violent behavior among adolescents the world over and Nigeria in particular. How to contend with violence in Nigerian schools is one of the greatest challenges facing the present administration in Nigeria. It is against this background that the researcher took interest to conduct study on some of its probable predictors. This may help in providing prevention and remediation strategies. This study investigated the perceived impact of divorce and geographical separation of couples on bullying behavior of in-school adolescents. Survey design carried Expo facto was adopted. 368 in -school adolescents who fell under divorce and geographically separated couples constituted the sample. Two research instruments namely: Parents Habitation Questionnaire (PHQ) and Bullying Behavior Questionnaire (BBQ) were used for the collection of data. Binomial test of proportion and average Mode value were used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.01 level of significance. Among the major findings is that divorce is strongly perceived to be affecting bullying behavior of in-school adolescents. Therefore, the results of this study would be beneficial to parents, teachers and policy makers in education. Parents and teachers would be enabled through the results of this study to access information on appropriate intervention strategies to adopt for the prevention and management of adolescents' bullying behavior. Attempt to decrease the incidence of peer-bullying through policy and practice would help to create a conducive school learning environment. Among the recommendations is that parents should spend more quality time with their children. |
| Keywords: divorce, bullying, geographically separated couples, deviant behavior, adolescent |
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