Personal Factors and Student’s Conformity to School Rules in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. Volume 3 - Issue 2

Kingsley Akarowhe¹, Jonah² and John Effiong²*

• ¹Department of Educational Foundations, Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
• ²Department of Educational Foundations, Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria

Received: October 10, 2020   Published: December 10, 2020

Corresponding author: John Effiong, Department of Educational Foundations, Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nigeria

DOI: 10.32474/JAAS.2020.03.000156

 

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Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine the influence of personal factors on student’s conformity to school rules in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. Two research questions were answered in the study and two null hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significance. The population of the study comprised of 19,272 students in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. A sample of 213 students were drawn from the population using stratified random sampling technique. A questionnaire with 10 items designed by the researchers was used for data collection for the study. The instrument was subjected to face-validity by two validators from the Department of Educational Foundations, Guidances and Counselling, University of Uyo. The internal consistency of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha’s technique and a reliability coefficient of 0.79 was obtained. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the two research questions. The independent t–test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to test the hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that gender hadlow influence; and age hadhigh influence on student’s conformity to school rules in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. And also, gender had no significant influence on their conformity to school rules; andage had significant influence on student’s conformity to school rules in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. Based on these findings, it was recommended among other things that in the post- COVID 19 school era, school administrators should involve students in policy making process at school to ensure that they don’t feel alienated. This would help to inculcate in them a sense of belonging in the decision making process, hence inducing them to conform to school rules.

Keywords: Conformity; Personal Factors; Gender; Age; School Rules; Post-COVID 19

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