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DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS IN OBIO/AKPOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF RIVERS STATE

ANGELA E. ABAA, EKE KADIRI AWAKUNU

Abstract


The study examined demographic factors associated with social anxiety disorder among secondary school adolescents in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The study adopted the correlational research design. Three research questions as well as three corresponding hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study consisted of all 14,784 senior secondary school students (SSS 1, 2 and 3) in the 16 public secondary schools in Obio/Akpor LGA of Rivers State. A sample of 300 students were drawn for the study using the purposive sampling technique. Four instruments were adapted and used to collect data for the study. They include: Social Anxiety Disorder Scale (SADS), Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), Self-efficacy Scale(SES), and Parenting Styles Scale (PSS). The reliability of the instrument was determined through Cronbach Alpha statistics and the following reliability coefficients were obtained 0.87, 0.81, 0.88 and 0.79 respectively. The research questions were analyzed with linear regression, while the hypotheses were tested with multiple regression and t-test statistics. The findings of the study showed that family type and parenting styles relate significantly to social anxiety disorder among adolescents in secondary schools in Obio/Akpor Local Government of Rivers State. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that, counseling for adolescents with social interaction anxiety should be encouraged in schools with the aim of improving students’ interactional skills so as to reduce their level of social anxiety. More so, parents and care givers should be mindful of the type of parenting style they adopt in training their children as this could have a positive or negative influence on the children’s level of social adjustments in new or unfamiliar situations.

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Family Type;Parenting styles;Social Anxiety Disorder

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