Influence of Socio-psycho Factors on Secondary School Students’ Indiscipline in Ibadan North-East Local Government Area of Oyo State

This study examined the influence of socio-psycho factors on secondaryschool students’ indiscipline in Ibadan north-east local government areaof Oyo State. The act of indiscipline in public secondary schools hasbecome an alarming issue. Indiscipline is an act of behavioural disorderthat is classified as an act of delinquency, like, lying, stealing, playing truant,running away from school and so on. This study investigated the influenceof peer groups, parental influence and influence of society on students’indiscipline among secondary school students. The study adopteddescriptive survey research design. The study samples consisted of ten(10) public secondary schools, three hundred (300) senior secondaryschool students. Questionnaire was developed to collect data.Descriptive statistics such as frequency count, percentage and meanscore were used to answer the research questions, while multipleregression analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 5% level ofsignificance. The findings revealed that the level of parental influence on students indiscipline was high (Mean = 2.94 which translated to 69.7%);peer pressure has positive and significant influence on students’indiscipline among secondary school students (mean = 2.86 whichtranslated to 93.4%). Also, it was revealed from the findings that levelof societal influence on secondary school students indiscipline waspositively high (mean = 2.87 which translated to 86.5%). The combinedinfluence of socio-psycho factors (parental influence, peer pressure andsocietal influence) on secondary school students’ indiscipline was foundto be significant, F(3, 296) = 16.950); P < 0.05. The finding also revealedsignificant relative influence of socio-psycho factors on secondary schoolsstudents’ indiscipline; Parental Influence (â = 0.250, P < 0.05), PeerPressure (â = 0.170, P < 0.05) and Societal Influence (â = 0.160, P <0.05). It is therefore recommended that parents should be united andagreed together to correct their children when they exhibit bad behaviourinstead of indulging them. School administrators should ensure that thestudents have equal opportunity, the act of bullying other students by theprefects or seniors should stop. Also, teachers should correct any strangebehaviour among the students and not indulge them at any point in time.