Influence of Social Media and Deviant Behaviour on Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Asaba Urban, Nigeria
Keywords:
Academic Performance, Deviant Behaviour, Social MediaAbstract
Social media contributes to deviant behaviour (such as bullying, violence, and drug abuse) among secondary school students, which in turn negatively impacts their academic performance. Thus, this study examined the influence of social media and deviant behaviour on academic performance of secondary school students in Asaba Urban. Three (3) research questions were raised for the study. The population of the study comprised all the three hundred and forty-five (345) public secondary school teachers from the 21 public secondary schools in Asaba Urban. One hundred and twelve (112) teachers were selected using simple random sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection was a self-developed questionnaire. The questionnaire was validated by two experts in Measurement and Evaluation at Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba. One hundred and twelve (112) copies of the validated questionnaire were administered to the teachers from the 10selected public secondary schools in the study area by the researcher with the help of two research assistants and it was retrieved and analysed using mean and standard deviation statistics. Findings of the study revealed, that addiction to social media had negative influence on the academic performance of the secondary school students in Asaba Urban. It was recommended that educators should incorporate character education into the curriculum and provide academic intervention programmes for students exhibiting social media deviant behaviour.
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