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Family Emotional Climate, Gender, Age and Level as Correlates of Academic Performance among Undergraduates
Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
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Family Emotional Climate, Gender, Age and Level as Correlates of Academic Performance among Undergraduates
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E.E., Ebenuwa okoh
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This study examined family emotional climate, gender, age, level as correlates of academic performance among undergraduates. To guide the study, two hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study is a survey. Purposive random sampling technique was used to sample 136 students from the Department of Guidance and Counselling based on age, gender, and level. A research instrument titled “Family emotional climate and academic performance†was used to solicit information from respondents. The instrument has face, content and constructvalidity. The internal consistency of the items in the instrument wereassessed and its reliability index is 0.91. Correlation matrix and multi regression statistics were used to analyze the data. Findings revealed that there is intercorrelation relationship among the variables while results on the second research question and hypothesis showed that there is significant composite relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable. Counsellors should develop programmes where parents should be educated on ways to create conducive psychological environment then could enhance academic performance among students.
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Manuscript Central
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2016-04-05
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/36
10.15520/jassh2336 |
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Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities; Vol 2 No 3 (2016)
2395-6542 10.15520/jassh23 |
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eng
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http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/36/39
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Copyright (c) 2016 Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
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