Relative and Joint Contribution of Emotional Intelligence, Peer Pressure, Academic Stress and Parental Socio-Economic Status to the Variance in Academic Adjustment Among School Children

Abstract

This study was carried out to investigate the influence of emotional intelligence, peer pressure and academic stress on the academic adjustment among school children. Five research questions and five hypotheses guided the study. The correlational research method of the ex-post facto research design. A sample size of 3,000 secondary school students were randomly selected from schools across the six states of South-South zone of Nigeria. Questionnaire was the instrument used in data collection. The data was analysed using Pearson coefficient of determination and regression statistics for the research questions and hypotheses respectively. The result showed that emotional intelligence, peer pressure and academic stress have significant influence on academic adjustment among secondary school students while parental socio-economic status has no significant influence. The result also showed that all the independent variables joint contributes significantly to the dependent variable. Recommendations were made based on the findings.

Keywords: Emotional Intelligence; Peer Pressure; Academic Stress; Parental Socio-Economic Status; Academic Adjustment; School Students