Influence of Parental Socio-economic Status on Conduct Disorder among Secondary School Students in North-Central Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the influence of parental socio-economic status on conduct disorder among secondary school students in North-Central, Nigeria. Seven research questions and four hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The research employed a descriptive survey design. The population of the study was 951,377 students in North-Central. The sample was four hundred (400) students drawn from the population. A self-design questionnaire was used for the study. The questionnaire was titled: Socio-economic Status on Conduct Disorder Questionnaire (SSCDQ). The reliability coefficient index of 0.89 was obtained using test-retest. The data collected were analyzed using mean scores, standard deviation, t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The findings showed that there was no significant influence among students in both hostility, deceitfulness and violations based on socio-economic levels. The study further indicated that there was no significant influence between male and female students in their manifestation of conduct disorder. Based on their findings the study recommended that parents need to be engaged in high paying employments such as professional occupation as study showed that the higher the level of parental occupation, the lower the students conduct disorder.