ABSTRACT This study attempted to find out the views of teachers and students on parenting styles and their effects on self esteem of children and to assess the extent to which the school environment was affecting the self esteem of children. The study was conducted at Tsiame Senior High School in the Keta Municipality. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select gender as a stratification variable. In addition, a disproportionate gender was used for the study. The main instrum...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to evaluate the factors influencing children behaviour using University of Cape Coast Kindergarten as a case study. The outcome of this study was to help shape people’s understanding of the behaviour of children at the kindergarten level and the factors that influence these behaviours. The descriptive research was employed in obtaining information about this topic. Three categories of people were considered as a sample population: teachers, parents and ...
ABSTRACT Most public secondary school students in South-west Nigeria are faced with inadequate emotional, financial and social supports in the home and among peers. Most times, such students are without adequate learning materials, a condition which is not favourable for effective learning and that could hamper academic performance. Despite these challenges, these disadvantaged students still demonstrate willingness and desire to succeed in their academic endeavours. However, factors attribu...
Abstract This study assess the impact of home based HIV counselling and testing in expanding access to HIV voluntary counselling and testing in rural Nigeria. The participants of the study were 1, 200 drawn from five constituent wards in Saki town in four streets, in 12 households using multistage sampling techniques. The participants aged 15 – 55 years. The instrument used for data collection was HIV counselling and testing client intake form. The design adopted for this study was pre-post...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to determine the effects of selfconcept on academic performance of Junior High School form three students in Elmina township. Simple random sampling was the technique used by the researcher in this study to draw the sample of schools. In all, 280 form three students from the six selected Schools were used as respondents for the study. The research design adopted by the researcher was the Ex Post Facto and the instrument developed and used for elic...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to identify the counselling needs of Polytechnic students using Takoradi Polytechnic in the Western region of Ghana as a case study. It aimed at finding out their prevalent counselling needs, sources of support available to students and whether they desire services provided by the counselling department of the institution, taking into considerations variables such as; age, gender, academic level, programme of study and marital status. Descriptive research d...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of premarital counselling on adjustment among Christian couples in the Cape Coast Metropolis. A case study was used as the design for the study. Convenience sampling procedure was used to select the three churches from the metropolis. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data for the study. Using Tabacknik & Fidell (1996) procedure for sample size determination, a sample size of 300 Christian couples were selected ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to evaluate the guidance services in the Colleges of Education in the Western Region of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A sample of 250 students and 63 staff members were selected for the study through purposive, stratified and simple random sampling procedures. Data were collected using a questionnaire adapted from a questionnaire designed by Adzakpa (2016). Data collected were analysed descriptively and inferentially ac...
ABSTRACT This study employed the descriptive survey to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of HIV counsellors in HIV counselling and testing in the Central Region of Ghana. In all, 140 HIV counsellors from the Central Region were sampled through the use of the purposive sampling procedure. The convenient sampling procedure was adopted to carry out the observation sections. Questionnaires and observation guide were used to collect the necessary data for the study. Descriptive statist...
ABSTRACT Research on the influence of work stress on the mental health of many workers like medical officers, air traffic controllers, nurses and teachers have been given some attention or recognition by the researcher on stress. However in Ghana one group of workers who seem to have been neglected is female bankers. The researcher decided to find out the impact of stress on job effectiveness and home interaction among career women in the banking institutions in the Cape Coast and Takoradi mu...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted in order to ascertain the level of marital satisfaction of married people in the Sunyani Municipality of the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Purposive and quota sampling techniques were used to sample 320 respondents for the study. The level of marital satisfaction was assessed with four variables; sex, religion, age and educational levels of respondents. Five research questions were formulated to keep the study in f...
ABSTRACT Child sexual abuse, a very disturbing problem in the society is on the increase in the Ghanaian society; hence the child is not protected by those he/she trusts. The research aims at delving through the types of child sexual abuse, the causes and the effect of child sexual abuse. It also aimed at looking for what motivates disclosure, patterns of disclosure and what prevents disclosure. The study was limited to 70 respondents. The target population for the study comprised sexually ab...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the effects of study and self-reward skills counselling on study behaviour of students in Ghanaian public universities. It was designed to achieve two major objectives. Firstly, it was to determine the effects of study and self-reward skills counselling on study behaviour and its five dimensions namely time management, concentration, consultation, note taking, and reading and library use. Secondly, the research was intended to ascertain the difference in the...
ABSTRACT Retirement is voluntary or involuntary withdrawal from active work role. It poses emotional problem to several people who are about to retire and even those who are still having many years to spend in service. Pre-retirement anxiety could, therefore, constitute psychological problems which, more often than not, brings about apprehension, maladjustment and social tensions. Past studies on retirement focused on mental health and influence of sociological factors, only few studies are ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to identify the determinants of career indecision among senior high school students in Ghana. This study employed the descriptive survey design. Data were collected using a four-point Likert-type scale questionnaire. Data analysis and presentation of results were done using Mean, Standard Deviation, Independent Samples t-test, Analysis of Variance and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The study revealed that lack of career information, self-knowledge, decision-ma...