Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of Psychosocial Strategies for Managing Behaviour Problems

The study was designed as a survey to investigate secondary school students perceptions of psychosocial strategies for managing behaviour problems in Ebonyi North education zone of Ebonyi State. Two research questions guided the. study. 200 students from eight secondary schools were sampled for the study through simple random sampling. Two instruments were used for data collection with reliability scores of 0.76 and 0.87 respectively. The data were analyzed using mean scores. The result revealed, among other things, that uncooperative attitude of teachers and lack of respect for students by teachers are some of the perceived causes of behaviour problems. It further revealed that isolation, labeling/name calling, flogging and kneeling down are among the strategies perceived by students for managing behaviour problems. Some recommendations were made based on the findings of the study. Keywords: Behaviour problems, psychosocial strategies, adolescents, DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-19-07 Publication date :July 31 st 2019