Behavioural Problems of Juvenile Street Hawkers in Uyo Metropolis, Nigeria

Abstract

<p>The study sought the opinions of Faculty of Education Students of University of Uyo on the behavioural problems of juvenile street hawkers in Uyo metropolis. Five research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. This cross-sectional survey employed multi-stage random sampling technique in selecting 200 regular undergraduate students in the Education Faculty of the University of Uyo for the study. The Juvenile Street Hawkers Opinioniare (JUVSHO) developed by the researchers was used in data collection. The hypotheses were tested using chi square statistic at p≤.05 level of significance and appropriate degrees of freedom. Results indicate that juvenile street hawkers develop maladjusted patterns of behaviour, which in turn impair their academic, moral, social, physical, and psychological growth and development thus affecting their future negatively. Based on these findings, it was recommended that government should provide free basic education, improve workers remuneration, provide academic grants and aids to economically disadvantaged parents, and create jobs for unemployed parents, inter alia, in order to keep children from hawking under the guise of subsisting family income at the expense of their total development. Also, the implications of these findings for counselling psychologists in the school system were given.</p

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“…Nigerians do not feel safe anywhere: at home, work, airports, on the highways and even within the hallowed precincts of places of worship and this does not make room for national development (Jike 2003;Tambawal, 2011). Udoh and Joseph corroborates this point as they emphasis that street trading because of it is negative effect such as the influence of criminal peer groups on children and young persons, impact negatively on society and in the long term results to underdevelopment in the nation (Udoh & Joseph, 2012).…”

“…Meanwhile, it is important to note that these children face a lot of risks during and after these works. For example, these children return late at night which poses health risks and exposes them to criminal indulgence (Udoh & Joseph, 2012;Jacks et al, 2019). In addition, as identified by Udoh & Joseph, street hawking impacts society negatively because it eventually lead to the under development of a nation (Udoh & Joseph 2012).…”

“…For example, these children return late at night which poses health risks and exposes them to criminal indulgence (Udoh & Joseph, 2012;Jacks et al, 2019). In addition, as identified by Udoh & Joseph, street hawking impacts society negatively because it eventually lead to the under development of a nation (Udoh & Joseph 2012).  Street Begging: Like street hawking, begging has been viewed to be common in Nigeria and associated with juvenile delinquency (Tambawal, 2011;Bukoye & Procedia, 2015).…”

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“…This trend is refer to as; child street trading (Ashimolowo, Aromolaran & Inegbedion, 2010), child street hawking (Mathias & Dada, 2013), juvenile street hawking (Udoh & Joseph, 2012) and child street vendor (Ugochukwu, Okeke, Onubogu &Edokwe, 2012). Children are preferred to adult in hawking goods because; they are less criminal and a cheap labour to the employer (Arhedo, Aluede &Arhedo, 2011; Anumaka, 2012).This led to increase in the number of children who roam the street daily hawking goods while those of their age are in school.…”