Peer Influence, Perceived Self-Efficacy, Family Style and Parental Monitoring as Correlates Affecting Bullying Behaviour Among In-School Adolescents in South-West Nigeria
Keywords:
Nigeria, SouthWest, Parent, Peer-influence, Self-efficacy, Adolescents, School, BullyAbstract
Bullying as an anti-social behaviour among in-school adolescents have lately become a significant concern for teachers, parents, psychologists and society in general due to the negative consequences these behaviour has on the teachinglearning process. In view of this, the study adopts a descriptive survey research design of ex-post factor type. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 12 local government areas out of 137 local government areas in South West Nigeria, making two each from the six states. Also, simple random sampling technique was used to select 2300 participants for the study from 60 public secondary schools across the 12 local government areas in South Western States used for the study. Five instruments used were Bullying Prevalence Questionnaire (BPQ), Peer Pressure Inventory (PPI), General Self-Efficacy (GSE), Parental Monitoring and Family Parenting Style. Data were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression. The independent variables made a joint contributive effect of variation in the prediction of perceived bullying among in-school adolescents. Also, there was significant relationship between peer influence and perceived bullying behaviour among in-school adolescents. Likewise, there was significant relationship between self-efficacy and perceived bullying behaviour among in-school adolescents. Similarly, there was significant relationship between parental monitoring and perceived bullying behaviour among in-school adolescents. Furthermore, there was significant relationship between family style and bullying behaviour among in-school adolescents. Therefore, it was recommended that Adolescents should be given appropriate orientation on the danger of negative peer influence on their well-being and the need to avoid the expression of violence in their relationship with their peers. Also, schools should endeavour to organize social reawakening activities that will enable in-school adolescents appreciate the need to develop friendly attitude instead of being a bully.
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