ERIC Number: EJ840811
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Mar
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0094-1956
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Peer Group Counselling and School Influence on Adolescents' Self-Concept
Egbochuku, E. O.; Aihie, N. O.
Journal of Instructional Psychology, v36 n1 p3-12 Mar 2009
The study focused on the influence of peer group counselling and school influence on the self-concept of adolescents' in Nigerian secondary schools. Sixty-eight Senior Secondary School II students from three schools--a boys' school, a girls' school and a co-educational school in Benin City participated in the study. A pre-test, post-test control group experimental design was employed for the study. A 40-item self-concept scale adapted from Akinboye (1977) APDI, was validated and used to measure the self-concept of the participants. The internal reliability for the scale is reported to be 0.70 (Cronbach's alpha), and the test-retest reliability was 0.87. Three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Results of the statistical analysis of data indicated that peer group counselling had a significant positive effect on the self-concept of the participants (t-value of 6.58 is greater than the critical t-value of 1.96, df, 66). Similarly, school type was found to have a significant effect on the self-concept of adolescents--girls in the single-sex school had significantly higher self-concept than girls in the co-educational school. (F-value of 5.024 with df (3, 52). A significant interactive effect on self-concept was found between the treatment and school type. This interaction was ordinal and did not qualify the main effects. Implications for counselling are discussed. (Contains 5 tables.)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Research Design, Student Attitudes, Females, Self Concept Measures, Adolescents, Peer Groups, Measures (Individuals), Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Reliability, Single Sex Schools, Counseling
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Nigeria
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