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    ASSESSMENT OF ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF DELINQUENCY AMONG STUDENTS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KARU LGA OF NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA
    (Department of Educational Foundations, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2019-06-20) Allahnana, Kwanza Maikudi; Aladi, Blessing Okpe; Guda, Yakubu Jude
    The study investigated the difference in antisocial behavior exhibited among secondary school students in Kara Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Two objectives with corresponding research questions and hypotheses wen used. The subjects are 1185 secondary school students that served population with 123 schools of both public and private. A purposive sample technique was used to select 356 students. They were made up of 176 males and 170 females with age ranging between 12 and 20years. The instrument usedfor data collection called Questionnaire on Antisocial Behavior of Delinquency (QABDJ. Validity index of 0.89 with the reliability of 0.86 index were obtained. The results obtained revealed that the public school students exhibited higher ability to engage in antisocial acts than the private school subjects on the measures of delinquency trait scale. The differences between the two groups were statistically significant, cal. t- 2.10 was greater than observed /= 1.98 with dj-344 at P>0.05. Thus, the first research hypothesis that there is difference in antisocial behavior of two different schools was therefore upheld. Further analysis revealed that gender contributed significantly in the majority of antisocial behavior in the study sample. The study concludes that antisocial behavior among secondary school students established that public secondary school has some characteristics that propelled their students to develop antisocial behavior than private schools. The study recommends that government and private should equally provide support to the more disadvantaged families to reduce the risk of double conviction of the delinquency victims.