Impact of Interpersonal Relationship on Risks Associated with Substance Abuse Among Senior Secondary School Students in Borno State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the impact of inter-personal relationship risks associated with substance abuse among senior secondary school students in Borno State. The population of the study comprised 25,580 senior secondary school students in Borno State. The schools were stratified into urban and rural. Borno State has a total of 73 schools comprising urban with 48 and rural schools with 25. 40% of the samples were drawn from the population. Thus, 29 schools were selected using simple random sampling technique of fish bowl method to draw 19 urban and 10 rural schools. 10% of the respondents were drawn from the entire population of 25,580 which comprised 15,572 males from single schools, 603 females also from single schools and 398 from mixed schools. A total of 2,558 copies of questionnaire were administered while 2,542 were retrieved. A researcher developed questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection and a reliability index of 0.76 was obtained after pilot tested. Frequency counts and percentages were used to analyse responses. A two-way Factorial Analysis of Variance was used to test the null hypotheses and pair wise comparison test was used to determine where differences existed at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that significant differences existed between school location (urban/rural) and gender (male/female) students in their interpersonal relationship risk associated with substance abuse. It was recommended among others that, the school authority should advice the students to imitate good behaviour from parents, relatives and friends; and Students should be guided to make friends who are of good character and behaviour.

Keywords: Impact, Interpersonal Relationship, Risk Associated, Substance Abuse

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-8-09

Publication date:March 31^st 2020