Abstract:
This study was mainly concerned with assessing the association between
the incidence of acts of indiscipline within selected secondary schools with the
adolescents in the same schools. It was hoped that the data that would be
collected would be analysed with a view to confirming the existence of discipline
problems in the selected secondary schools and establishing the existence of
some association between the acts of indiscipline and the adolescents in the
selected schools.
The overriding assumption of the study was that any specific findings
from one selected school would apply equally to the other one without loss of
generality.
Findings have shown that there exist discipline problems in schools
which in fact have occurred and recurred over a long period of time. Most of
these problems of indiscipline in schools, especially the more severe ones,
depended on one's measure of severity, can safely and confidently be predicted
to be associated with the adolescents in the schools.
