dc.description.abstract | This study focused on factors influencing anti-social behavior among school going students in
Kiambaa constituency of Kiambu County. The study was guided bythe following objectives: To
establish how the presence of both parents in a family influences student’s antisocial behavior, to
establish the extent to which single parenthood influence student’s antisocial behavior, to
establish the extent to which family economic status influence student’s anti-social behavior and
to determine the role school variables play on students antisocial behaviors. The study targeted
the secondary school children in Kiambaa Constituency, all the 8 Public secondary schools in
Kiambaa Constituency were considered for the study, a total of 80 students were targeted by the
study.
The methodology that was employed in this study was census where all the public secondary
schools were included in the study and simple random sampling to select students from each of
the 8 schools. The findings of this study revealed that presence of both parents contributes to the
development of parent-child relationship, that parent involvement ascribe to a parent’s ability to
seek out his or her children and manifest an interest in their behaviors. Love was revealed to be
very important in the child behavioral development, parents who suffer from emotional
adjustments manifests low self-esteem in them, consequently the study revealed that remarriage
and step-parents have effects ondelinquency as shown by 89% of the respondents.
The study concludes that presence of both parents contributes greatly to the development of
parent-child relationship, that children who come from families where both parents were presents
were happy and reported having good relationship with their parents this was unlike for those
children who come from families with only one of the parents. The study recommends that in
order to control the delinquency development in children, school variables such as the role
played by the teachers should be mended to provide wellbeing of the school children. | en_US |