Most African universities including Nigeria have witnessed youth violent activities laced with campus confraternities. The disturbing phenomenon has led to several theories on the emergence of this worrisome trend and what could be done to stave it off. This paper reviewed the major theoretical perspectives on the campus cult-violence and its attendant psychopathological behaviour among Nigerian youths. The review is selective and confined to the theoretical and investigative perspectives which presumably best fit Nigerian models of socio-cultural background. In the light of the existing empirical research which bears upon these theoretical conclusions; a conceptual framework -psycho-infrastructuralism was proposed as an intervention model. The framework shows the linkages between campus cult-violence and key factors of psycho-personality bias, frustration-aggression hypothesis, ethno-political theory and the environmentalist perspectives. It is suggested that, as a complex dynamic process, campus cult-violence activities and its key covariates must be measured and analyzed within psycho-infrastructural model.
The issue of family intervention in adolescent's sexual health has become a global health concern because of increased sexual risk-taking behaviour among adolescents. A research question was raised to elicit information from respondents on parents' perception on communication on adolescents' sexual health. Also, one hypothesis was generated to examine the relationship between parents' perception and communication on adolescents' sexual health. The descriptive research of the survey type was adopted. Seven hundred and twenty-one (721) parents were purposively and proportionally selected using multi-stage random sampling techniques. A selfconstructed questionnaire was used. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential analysis. The result shows that a majority of the respondents had proper perception on discussions on sexual health with adolescents. Also, parents' perception significantly influenced communication on adolescents' sexual health. The study recommends that parents and stakeholders should note the findings on the variables of interest and plan adequate counselling programmes.
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