Behavioural Problems Among Secondary School Students in Osun State: A Nexus of Principals’ Administrative Effectiveness

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The thrust of this paper was to examine the influence of administrative effectiveness of school principals in managing the behavioural problems among secondary school students. A survey research design was employed for the study. A total of 300 teachers was selected from three Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Osun State using multistage sampling procedure. An adapted instrument titled Questionnaire on Principals’ Administrative Effectiveness and Students’ School Behavioural Problems (QPASBP) was used to collect information from the respondents. Data collected were analysed using percentages, relative strength index and multiple regression. The results showed a prevalence rate of 27.2% of behavioural problems among secondary school students. The result showed that disruption/vandalization of school properties (RSI = 0.512), thuggery (RSI = 0.481) and lateness to school (RSI = 0.480) were the prevalent behavioural problems among secondary school students. Again, the result showed that the most three areas of administrative effectiveness among the principals were instructional management (RSI = 0.724), internal relations (RSI = 0.724) and students’ performance (RSI = 0.724). Finally, the result showed that there was a combined predictive ability of areas of principals’ administrative effectiveness on management of students’ school behavioural problems (R2 = 0.034; F = 1.681, p< 0.05). It was concluded that fewer number of students engaged in various types of behavioural problems such as disruption/vandalization of school properties, thuggery and lateness to school and this was due to the administrative effectiveness of secondary school principals in Osun State.

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