EFFECT OF ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING ON TEENAGE MOTHERHOOD IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy is a global problem with adverse consequences. This phenomenon becomes necessary to find ways and strategies to curb the problem. This study, therefore, examined the effect of assertiveness training in reducing the frequency of teenage motherhood in Nigeria. Two hundred and forty female Secondary School Students were randomly selected from six Education District in Lagos State. The study adopted a pre-test, post-test control quasi-experimental design; a simple random sampling technique was utilized to gather the participants for the study. The participants were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The training programme for the experimental group lasted eight weeks. Adolescence Personal Data Inventory (APDI) (r-0. 77) with a five-point Likert scale response was used to gather data from the participants. The two hypotheses formulated in the study were analyzed with an analysis of covariance at a 0.05 level of significance. It was found that the assertiveness training programme is an effective technique that could be used for female students to prevent them from being victims of teenage motherhood. It is therefore recommended that parents, teachers, and counsellors should be skillful in the use of assertiveness training to help female adolescents.