GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT
The study examined the domestic enslavement of children and parental fight among themselves as correlates of anti-social behaviour of secondary school students in Akwa Ibom State. The research design used for this study was Expost-Facto design. The population consisted of all teachers and students of the secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. Proportionate stratified random sampling method was used to select the 220 respondents (20 teachers and 200 students). The instrument used by the researcher for the study was a research questionnaire tagged “DOMESTIC ENSLAVEMENT, PARENTAL FIGHT AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR QUESTIONNAIRE” (DEPFABQ). The instrument passed through face and content validation by experts in the field and the reliability coefficient obtained was 0.81. The data obtained was analyzed using independent t-test analysis. The result of the findings revealed that, there is significant influence of domestic enslavement of children on anti-social behavior of secondary school students in Akwa Ibom State. Also that, there is significant influence of parental fight among themselves on adolescence anti-social behaviors. One of the recommendations was that Parents must not argue or fight in the presence of their children, as this is likely to cause psychological damage, and poor academic performance in schools.
KEYWORDS: Domestic abuse, Adolescent, Anti-social behavior, domestic enslavement, parental fight.