Consequences of Pre-Marital Sexual Behaviours as Perceived by In-School Adolescents in Ogbomoso Metropolis, Nigeria
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Consequences, Pre-Marital Sexual Behaviours, In-School AdolescentsAbstract
Adolescence is a period of heightened heterosexual awareness accompanied by high degree of sexual drives. The navigation of this period into adulthood may be successful for some while others experience major stress and found themselves engaging in behaviours that place their destinies now and in the future at risk. The study investigated consequences of pre-marital sexual behaviours as perceived by in-school adolescents in Ogbomoso metropolis. Multistage sampling technique was adopted. At stage one, the purposive sampling technique was used for selecting one boy only, one girl only and thirteen co-education secondary schools in Ogbomoso metropolis based on location, population and year of establishment. At stage two, the researchers stratified the respondents into different strata of gender, age, school type, parent’s highest educational and class level. At stage three, the researchers employed simple random sampling technique to select 400 in-school adolescents consisting of 230 males and 170 females. Thus, a total number of 400 respondents participated in the study. The “Consequences of Pre-marital Sexual Behaviour Questionnaire” (CPSBQ) was administered to the respondents to collect relevant data. The t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistics were used to test five generated null hypotheses and where the result of ANOVA showed a significant difference, Duncan Multiple Range Test (DMRT) statistics was used to determine the group(s) that contributed to the significant difference. Item 17 (“Broken fellowship with the people of God”) ranked 1st with a mean score of 3.76 while item 14 (“Loss of self-esteem”) ranked 20th with a mean score of 3.24. The findings equally showed that there were no significant differences in the responses of the respondents in their perception of the consequences of pre-marital sexual behaviours based on gender, school type and class level but significant differences were found on age and parents’ highest educational level. Based on the findings, recommendations were made for implementation. All the stakeholders (Professional Counsellors, all the tiers of the Government, policy makers, parents and the religious leaders) should invest time to counsell and guide adolescents in order to overcome the pressures of sexual lust in their lives so as to fulfill their destinies now and in the future.
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