Influence of Religious Inclination, School Type and Attitudeon Upper Basic Social Studies Students Sexual Behaviour in Edo and Delta States
Keywords:
Religious Inclination, School Type, Attitude, Social Studies, Sexual Behaviour
Abstract
This study examined the influence of religious inclination, school type and attitudeon Upper Basic SocialStudies Students sexual behaviour in Edo and DeltaStates. Three research questions were raised and three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. This study adopted a Descriptive Survey Research Design on a population of fifty-one thousand, six hundred and twenty-four and a sample size of 720 respondents was employed via the multi-stage sampling technique. Findings of the study revealed amongst others that, there was no significant relationship between religious inclination and school type and Upper Basic Social Studies Students towards sexual behaviour. There was a significant relationship of Upper Basic Social Studies Students’ attitude towards sexual behaviour. The study concluded that religious inclination and school type does not influence Upper basic Social Studies students sexual behaviour in Edo and Delta States; and that the attitude of Upper Basic Social Studies students influences their sexual behaviour in Edo and Delta States. The study made recommendations accordingly.
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Bearman, P. S. &Brückner, H. (2015). Promising the future: Virginity pledges and first intercourse1. American Journal of Sociology, 21(2),48-67.
Beekers, D. &Schrijvers, L. L. (2020). Religion, sexual ethics, and the politics of belonging: Young Muslims and Christians in the Netherlands. Social Compass, 67(1), 137-156.
Bialystok, L., & Wright, J. (2019). ‘Just Say No’: public dissent over sexuality education and the Canadian national imaginary. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40(3), 343-357.
Bourke, A., Boduszek, D., Kelleher, C., McBride, O., & Morgan, K. (2014). Sex education, first sex and sexual health outcomes in adulthood: Findings from a nationally representative sexual health survey. Sex Education, 14(3), 299-309. doi:10.1080/14681811.2014.887008
Daryanti, E., Sansuwito, T. & Elba, F. (2021). The relationship between electronic media and sex behaviour among early adolescents in junior high school in Tasikmalaya. The 4th International Virtual Conference on Nursing, KnE Life Sciences, 1-9. DOI 10.18502/kls.v6i1.8587
Ekanem, I. B. (2021). The influence of school type in modifying sexual behaviour of secondary school adolescents. [unpublished project], AkwaIbom State College of Education, AkwaIbom State, Nigeria
Haresh, P. (2014). An analytical study of attitude toward sexual behaviour among graduate and post-graduate student. The International Journal of Indian Psychology, 01(04), 102-108
Heras, D., Lara, F. &Fernández-Hawrylak, M. (2016). Evaluation of the effects of the sexual education programme SOMOS on sexual experience and attitudes of adolescents towards sexuality. Revista de Psicodidáctica, 21(2), 321-337
Hisham, A.R. &Pargament, K.I. (2015). Religious coping among diverse religions: Commonalities and divergences. PsycholRelig Spiritual 7(1), 24–33
Igberaharha, C. O. &Onyesom, M. (2021). Strategies for boosting students’ enrolment into business education programme of colleges of education. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 10(3), 1107-1116
Igberaharha, O. C. (2014). Challenges of new technologies and mentoring in teaching and learning business education in Delta State tertiary institutions. Nigeria Journal of Business Education, 2(1), 92-104
Igberaharha, O. C. (2016). Computer assisted instruction (CAI) in the learning of final accounts by business education students in Delta State tertiary institutions. Delsu Journal of Educational Research and Development, 15(1), 161-170
Jung, J.H. (2015). Sense of divine involvement and sense of meaning in life: religious tradition as a contingency. J Sci Stud Relig 54(1), 119–133
Kar, S. K., Choudhury, A., & Singh, A. P. (2015). Understanding normal development of adolescent sexuality: A bumpy ride. Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences, 8(2), 70–74.https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-1208.158594
Kiboi, J. (2018). Relationship between religiosity and sexual behaviour among Christian high school students in Kiambu County, Kenya. [Unpublished dissertation], Kenyatta University
Loveth, A. N., &Isoken, O. F. (2020). Eliciting Social Cultural Predictors of Risky Sexual Behaviour among Adolescents and Young Adults in Nigeria. Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health and Exercise, 9(2), 57.
Luhrmann, T.M. (2020). How God becomes real: kindling the presence of invisible others. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., Oxford UK
Moon, J. W. (2021). Why are world religions so concerned with sexual behaviour?. Current opinion in psychology, 40, 15-19.
Nigussie T, Legese T, Abebe L, Getachew S. &Alemayehu D. (2020). Magnitude of risky sexual behaviours, determinants, and consequences among high school and preparatory school students in MizanAman Town, Ethiopia. Journal of Midwifery and Reproductive Health. 8(1), 2096-2104. DOI: 10.22038/jmrh.2019.40248.1450
Onyesom, M. &Igberaharha, C.O. (2021). Inclusive values and pedagogies needed by business studies teachers for effective inclusive education in secondary schools. International Journal of Education and Practice, 9(1), 220-229
Reis, M., Ramiro, L., Matos, M. G., Diniz, J. A., &Simões, C. (2011). Information and attitudes about HIV/AIDS in Portuguese adolescents: State of art and changes in a four year period. Psicothema, 23, 260-266.
Rogers, A. A. (2017). Parent–adolescent sexual communication and adolescents’ sexual behaviours: A conceptual model and systematic review. Adolescent Research Review, 2(4), 293-313.
Seventeen Magazine (2008). In Girls face sexual pressure in co-ed schools. Retrieved on March 23rd, 2023 from www.girlslearndifferently.com
Smith L., Jackson S.E., Vancampfort D., Jacob L., Firth J., Grabovac I. (2020). Sexual behaviour and suicide attempts among adolescents aged 12–15 years from 38 countries: A global perspective. Psychiatry Res. 287, 112564. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.112564.
World Health Organization (2017). WHO HIV epidemiological surveillance update for African region, Geneva.
Zaidi, A. U., Couture-Carron, A., Maticka-Tyndale, E., &Arif, M. (2014). Ethnic identity, religion, and gender: An exploration of intersecting identities creating diverse perceptions and experiences with intimate cross-gender relationships amongst South Asian youth in Canada. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 46(2), 27-54.
Published
2024-04-24
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E. M, A., E. C, O., & P. O., D. (2024). Influence of Religious Inclination, School Type and Attitudeon Upper Basic Social Studies Students Sexual Behaviour in Edo and Delta States. GPH-International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, 7(04), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11061753
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