Restiveness among youths has become one of the nagging global challenges. Consequently, its prevalence in Africa has become more worrisome now than ever before. This paper therefore examined unemployment and the incidences of youth restiveness in Africa: Implication for counseling. The paper adopted a qualitative approach relying mainly on secondary materials from documented evidences. Available data indicates persistent rise in the level of unemployment across different African countries. By the same token there have also been high incidences of restiveness among the youths in Africa within the same period. However, the paper brought to the fore specific instances of restiveness in select African countries namely; militancy and insurgency in Nigeria Niger Delta, xenophobic attacks in South Africa, socio-political crises in southern Cameroun, ethnic and religiously motivated restiveness in Mali and rising piracy and terrorism in Somalia as case studies. The paper identified poverty, unemployment, socio-economic and political inequality and marginalization as factors of youth restiveness. These factors no doubt are in high prevalence in Africa. Given the scenario, the implication for counseling is of great consequence as the concern revolves around how counselling services can be leveraged in the context so that the youths can be properly engaged to embrace genuine efforts towards self-development, skills acquisition, self-reliance and nation building. It is argued that the solution to unemployment and youth restiveness problems lie in part on counsellors constructive engagement with youths, on awareness creation through the media, education of the youth towards self-realization and on their pivotal roles in nation building.
The researchers investigated the effect of morality training technique on cohabitation behaviour among undergraduate students in Imo state university, Owerri. The pre-test, post-test, control group quasi-experimental design was adopted for this study. Two research questions and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05level of significant guided the study. The population of this study comprised 8,031 of 300 level students in Imo state university, Owerri. The researchers sampled 60 students for the study. The sampling techniques employed are purposive and cluster. Two instruments developed by the researchers were used for data collection, namely: Students Cohabitation Identification Scale (SCIS) and Cohabitation Detecting Scale (CDS). The instruments were validated by expects in Departments of Measurement and Evaluation as well as Guidance and Counselling. The reliability of the instruments was ascertained through test-retest method using Cronbach alpha statistics which yielded reliability coefficients of 0.81 and 0.85 for SCIS and CDS respectively. Data collected were analysed using mean score and standard deviation to answer the research questions. The hypotheses were tested using the analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) at 5% level of significance. The findings revealed among others that morality training technique (MTT) is significantly effective in the reduction of cohabitation among undergraduate at post-test and follow up test. From the above findings, it was recommended among others, that Counsellors should make use of morality training technique in curbing cohabitation behaviour among undergraduate students to enhance their academic performance.
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