Effect of Social Learning Therapy on Adolescents’ Aggressiveness among Senior Secondary School Students in Bukuru, Plateau State, Nigeria
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The study determined the “effect of Social Learning Therapy on adolescents’ aggressiveness among Senior Secondary School Students in Bukuru, Plateau State, Nigeria.” The study was guided by two objectives, two research questions and two research hypotheses. The study employed the quasi-experimental research design. The study targeted a population of one hundred and sixty (160) Senior Secondary school 2 students in Government Senior Secondary School Kungbwuna and Government Senior Secondary School Kwata-Zawan in Bukuru Metropolis, Plateau State Nigeria. The Sample of the study was 101 participants who were selected using the Cochran's (1977) formula for sample determination (finite population). The probability and non-probability sampling techniques were utilised to select the sampled schools and the participants. Data collection was carried out with the use of research instrument titled “Adapted Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire on Aggressiveness (ABPAQA). Data analysis was done using arithmetic mean and standard deviation while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test for independent samples with hypotheses tested at α=0.05 significance level. Pre-test means score showed that (Control: 66.08, Experimental: 65.43, mean diff: 0.64, p=.792); post-test means (Control: 64.20, Experimental: 39.17, mean diff: 25.03, t=8.63, df=99, p=.000). Findings revealed that; Social Learning Therapy was effective in reducing aggressiveness among students. The study concluded that findings provide compelling evidence for the efficacy of SLT therapeutic interventions in addressing aggressiveness among adolescent students in the Nigerian educational setting. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended among other things that; practicing counsellors, therapists, and teachers should adopt the use of SLT techniques in counselling and therapy to modify and treat aggressiveness in students.
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