Counselling Services and Study Habits among Adolescents Student in Secondary Schools: A Pre-University Perspective

Abstract

This study was carried out to examine the influence between counselling services and study habits among adolescents student in secondary schoosl in Ikot Ekpene area of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. Four research questions and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The design used was the descriptive survey method. A population of 3,000 adolescents were used out of which a sample size of 239 were randomly selected using simple random sampling technique to select respondents for the study. The researcher constructed instrument called “Counselling Services and Study Habit Questionnaire” (CSSHQ), was used to collect data for the study, the reliability coefficient was tested using Cronbach Alpha Correlation analysis, it found 0.76.Independent t-test was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that, group counselling, orientation services, one-on-one counselling and information services influenced study habits of adolescents in secondary schools in IKot Ekpene area of Akwa Ibom State. Conclusions drawn from the study led to the following recommendations among others, school administrator should ensure that counselling is allocated in the school time table, so as to help in improving adolescent students study habits.