Cognitive Behaviour and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapies in the Reduction of Scarcity Mentality among In-School Adolescents in Oke-Ogun Geopolitical Zone, Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study determined the effectiveness of Cognitive Behaviour and MindfulnessBased Cognitive Therapies in the Reduction of Scarcity Mentality among In-School Adolescents in the Ibadan Metropolis. To ascertain the degree of therapeutic efficacy, a randomized sample of 60 senior secondary school students with 26, 15 and 19 participants respectively from three different secondary schools and in three different Local Government Area in Oke-Ogun geopolitical zone of Oyo state were chosen for the purpose. The quasi-experimental study employed a randomized sample that undertook training in Cognitive Behaviour and Mindfulness-Base Cognitive Therapies and with a control group were used. The instruments used for data collection are Perceived Scarcity Mentality scale, Scarcity Mentality Scale and Socio-economic status scale. Three instruments used have reliability coefficients of 0.80, 0.93 and 0.859 respectively. A pair of pretest-posttest data was obtained from each participant who formed the basis of the findings using ANCOVA for data analyses. Three hypotheses were formulated and tested at α = 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that there were significant differences in the main effect of treatment with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy being more significant in reducing Scarcity Mentality among In-school adolescents in Secondary school in Oke-Ogun. Also, the results showed that gender and socio-economic status have no significant main effect effects on scarcity mentality among in-school adolescents in secondary school in Oke-Ogun geopolitical zone of Oyo state. It was therefore concluded that Cognitive Behaviour and Mindfulness-based cognitive Therapies can be used to reduce scarcity mentality among school students and recommendations are also offered