Socio-economic Factors as Correlates of Teenage Pregnancy among Selected Public Senior Secondary School in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria

Pregnancy is a physiological process, presenting with history of missed period, fatigue, breastenlargement and tenderness, vomiting together with light-headedness. Teenage pregnancy has nodoubt because it is far-reaching consequences on the student, family and the society at large. Thisstudy investigated Socio-Economic Factors as Correlates of Teenage Pregnancy amongAdolescents in Selected Senior Secondary School in Ibadan North Local Government Area, OyoState, Nigeria. The study adopted social learning theory. Descriptive survey research design wasadopted. Purposive sampling techniques was used to select 255 adolescent. Questionnaire wasused as research instruments. Data were analysed using Descriptive and inferential statistics ofPerson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). Result revealed that, there is a significantrelationship between peer influence and teenage pregnancy among selected senior secondaryschool students (r = .353, n=255, p (.000) <.05). There is a significant relationship betweenParent’s religion and Teenage pregnancy among selected Secondary School Students (r = .419,n=255, p (.000) <.05). There is a significant relationship between Parent’s income and Teenagepregnancy among selected Secondary School Students (r = .281, n=255, p (.000) <.05). Finally,there is a significant relationship between Parent’s marital status and Teenage pregnancy amongSecondary School Students (r = .375, n=255, p (.000) <.05). Conclusively, there was a significantrelationship between the Socio-Economic factors and Teenage pregnancy. The study recommendsthat, ministry of education, school authorities and Leaders in our various religion organisationsshould deal with the problem of teenage pregnancies by inculcating moral instructions, the schoolcurriculum, churches and mosques.