A Causal Comparative Study Of Family Demography, Psychological Traits And Academic Achievement Of Nigerian Adolescent Girls Involved In Street Hawking
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Date
2018-07
Authors
Ago, Habu Abdulrahman
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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In Nigeria, many school going adolescent girls have to work as street hawkers. It is a serious and challenging educational issue for many parties. This research aimed to examine the family demography, psychological traits and academic achievement of adolescent girls involved in street hawking at Yobe state, Nigeria using a Causal Comparative Study. The discussion in the study is underpins by the theoretical framework of Ecological System Theory, Theory of Reason and Action, Self-Efficacy Theory and Risk-Resilience Theory. A total of 394 respondents were involved in the quantitative study comprising of both adolescent girls involved and uninvolved in street hawking. For the qualitative part, adolescent girls from both category as well as their parents have participated in the study. Research data were collected through questionnaire, interview and document analysis. In this study the data was analysed using Statistical Pakage for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 22. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyse the quantitative data. Frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviation were descriptive statistics used to describe the demographic profiles of the respondents.Inferential statistics namely Chi-square tests, One-way between-groups Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and Logistic regression were also to answer the research questions. For the qualitative data, analysis was conducted manually using thethematic approach. Result of the Chi-square tests showed that there was significant difference in family demography, socio economic status and family size between adolescent girls involved and uninvolved in street hawking.
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Family demography, psychological traits , girls involved in street hawking