Home Environment as Correlates of Adjustment Problems of Secondary School Adolescents in Benue State

This study was designed to investigate the extent to which home
environmental factors such as family stability, preventing style, n ~mb e ro f
wires in the house, number of children in the family, socio-economic status of
the prevent on determine adjustment problems experience by schooling
adolescents in Benue State.
The study was guided by fiye (5) research questions and one (1)
hypothesis. The population for the study in made up of J.S.S-I1 and SS-It
adolescents how the 15 selected secondary'behplds in the state.
Four hundred (400) students both make god females from Urban and
Rural secondary schools, were selected for the study consisting of 154 as
males and 216 as females.
The instruments were for the study were house environment and
adjustment problem inventories. In analyzing the data, mean and standard
deviation were used. Multiple regression was under to test the null hypothesis
at 0.05 level of sufficient.
During the analysis, it was revealed that
Both male and female adolescents experienced high adjustment
problenis in connection with people and adjustment to school while
male adolescent have high adjustment problerns in family unity female
adolescents have family un~ty.
Both adolescents from Urban and Rural secondary school experienced
high adjustment problems in connection with people, adjustment to
school and in family unity.
That both JSS-II and SS-I1 adolescents experienced high adjustment
problems in connection with people, adjustment to school while JSS-II
adolescent experienced high adjustment problems to family uni.:y, SS-II
adolescent have moderate adjustment problems to family unity.
That both male adolescent from Urban and rural secondary school
experienced high adjustment problems in connection with people,
adjustment to school and in family unity.
That both female adolescents from urban and rural secondary schools
experienced high adjustment problems in connection with people and
adjustnient to school while both of then experienced moderate
adjustment problems in family unity.
The null hypothesis stated that there will be no significance connection
between adjustment problems experience by male and female
adolescents is accepted.