RESILIENCE AND SCHOOL COUNSELLING AS DETERMINANTS OF STUDENTS’ AFFECTIVE DOMAIN TOWARDS CIVIC EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH WEST NIGERIA
Abstract
Observations had shown persistent increase in moral decadence, such as disobedience to rules and regulations, examination malpractices, , damage to school property, cybercrime, and a horde of other social menace expressed by some secondary school students despite been taught subjects that mold good citizens behaviour such as civic education. This study examined
psychological resilience and school counselling as determinants of public senior secondary schools students affective domain towards civic education in South West Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population were all students from mixed public senior secondary schools, in SSS. II in Southwest Nigeria (748,468). 1,800 respondents were selected
through systematic random sampling technique, using a questionnaire titled ‘Psychological Resilience, School Counselling and Students Affective Domain towards Civic Education Questionnaire (PRSCSADCEQ)’with reliability coefficient of 0.80 for data collection. Four(4) research questions were analysed using Pearson moment correlation, and the descriptive statistics and zero-order correlation, Findings revealed a significant relationship between psychological resilience and students’ affective domain towards civic education in southwest Nigeria; r (1798) = 0.180, r2 = 0.032, p<0.01. Likewise, a significant relationship between school counselling and students’ affective domain towards civic education in southwest Nigeria; r (1798) = 0.471, r2 = 0.222, p<0.01. Furthermore, students’ affective domain towards Civic education also correlated with psychological resilience (r=0.180, p<0.01), and school counselling (r=0.471, p<0.001). Based on the findings, it is recommended that a functioning counselling unit should be provided at schools also, all stakeholders including parents, and government should be concerned in relation to the psychological resilience and school counselling and affective domain of secondary school students.