Examining the Effect of the Current Economic Hardship on Students Behaviour and Its Implication on their Academic Performance: A Study of Some Selected Senior Secondary Schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Mukhtar Iliyasu, Abubakar Mansur Danjeka

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This study examined the current economic hardship on student’s behaviour and its implication on their academic performance: a study of some selected public senior secondary schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study employed survey design. The target population comprised of students in state owned senior secondary schools in Zaria LGA of Kaduna State. Three hundred and twenty-six (326) respondents were selected using purposive sampling technique. The data was collected by means of well-structured questionnaire. In analyzing the data, Probit regression statistical method was used. The results of this study showed that there was a significant relationship between economic hardship, students’ behaviour and academic performance. It was concluded that there is a significant relationship between the variables. This study therefore, recommended that Parents/Guidance should improve their support on their children, leading to improving their low self-esteem and lifelong learning difficulties despite the level of economic hardship for better lives of their children. Government at all levels should provide support for children from impoverished backgrounds. The teachers need to be warm, supportive, genuine, empathetic, towards learners who are psychologically unstable due to Hardship, so as to raise their self-confidence, self-direction, self-esteem and self-image. Every effort must be made to ensure that the affected children through the use of psychological services and social welfare have stable, family-based care and adequate social support. Government should also increase funding allocation, ensure effective supervision, provision of more learning materials to facilitate learning in the schools. Economic empowerment programs should be embarked on to enhance parent’s income to take care of their children education leading to their better performance.


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