International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) |Volume VI, Issue XII, December 2022|ISSN 2454-6186
Muhammad Shafi’u Adamu, Bagudu Alhaji Adamu, & Binta Ado Ali
Department of Educational Psychology & Counselling, Federal University Dutsin-ma, Katsina State, Nigeria
Abstract: This research work investigated the relationship between parental communication styles and substance use of adolescents among senior secondary school students in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study employed the descriptive survey method involving the use of a questionnaire. The total population for the study was all substance-use adolescents in secondary schools in Kaduna State obtained from school records. For the study, three hundred and sixty-three (363) respondents were purposively selected from 12 randomly selected senior secondary schools in the three senatorial zones of the state, as 351 responded and returned the completed questionnaires representing 98.3 % The instruments used in the study were the 18-item parental communication measures adopted from life Skills Training questionnaire designed and standardized by Botvin (2007) and Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Involvement Scale adopted from Moberg’s (2011) Students’ Behaviour of Substance Use. Three objectives, three research questions and three null hypotheses were used and tested using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Results showed that there was a significant relationship between aggressive parental communication style and substance use of adolescents (r= 0.945. p= 0.000). There is no significant relationship between assertive parental communication style and substance use of adolescents among secondary school students with (r= -0.574, p = 0.000). The findings also showed a significant relationship between passive parental communication style and substance use of adolescents with (r=0.482, p = 0,001). It was recommended that parents, counsellors, psychotherapists, and stakeholders in education should be exposed to the adequate counselling strategies on the relationship between parental communication style and substance abuse of adolescents.
Keywords: Parental Communication Styles, Adolescent, substance Use.
I. INTRODUCTION
Effective communication within the family plays an important role in ensuring the smooth psychosocial development of children, thereby providing individuals with sound behavioural education. Misunderstandings and malfunctions are more likely to occur if there is poor communication between the parents and their children. Communication is the pillar that maintains the mechanism of peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding between peoples. One of the key audiences for effective family communication is young people from the age of 12 to their 20s (considered adolescents), and who are in their transition from childhood to adulthood. This is the time when