Teachers’ Perceived Factors of Deviant Behavior among Secondary School Students in Kwara State: Implication for Educational Managers
Authors: Suleiman Yusuf , Suleiman Jamiu Mahmood , Musa Mahmud Aremu , Abubakar Yusuf Abiola 
Published: May 2019

<p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">This study investigates students’ deviant behaviors as perceived by their teachers in secondary<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> schools with the aim of knowing the factors responsible for such behaviors. The study adopts the<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> quantitative approach to carry out the research. Stratifid and simple random techniques were used<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">nto select 380 participants that participated in the study. An instrument tagged “Factors of Deviant<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Behaviors and Measures Questionnaire" (FDBMQ) was used to elicit data from the respondents.<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Partial Least Square (PLS) software was used to assess the psychometric properties of the items<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> contained in the questionnaire, while Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to do<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> the descriptive analysis. In addition, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the three<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> hypotheses formulated for the study. Results of the study revealed three factors (parent, society and<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> school) that contribute to deviant behaviors. Findings also indicate measures that can be used to<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> minimize deviant behaviors. Also, the results of the ANOVA showed a signifiant difference, while<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT) was used as a <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>post-hoc </em><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">test to determine the group that</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">contributes to the signifiant difference. The results of the three hypotheses confimed that signifiant<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> difference exists on the basis of religion, age, and educational qualifiations. Based on the fidings of<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> the study, implication for educational managers and future research direction were provided.</span></span><br style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></p>