Effect of Social Skills Training Counselling on Academic Anxiety among Secondary School Students in Kano Metropolis, Kano State, Nigeria

Altyb Alsanosi Yousif Hassan and Bushra Lawan Gadanya
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Altyb Alsanosi Yousif Hassan: Associate professor, Department of psychology, Alsalam University Sudan
Bushra Lawan Gadanya: Aminu Kano College of Islamic and Legal Studies, Department of Geography

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2024, vol. 8, issue 3s, 4096-4104

Abstract: Secondary school students are at their adolescent stage, during this stage many adolescents are face with problem of anxiety, therefore there is the need for proper counseling program to which would improve their ability to recognize, understand and manage their emotions. The study assessed the effect of Social Skills Training Counselling Technique on academic anxiety among Secondary School Students in Kano Metropolis, Kano State, Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to find out the level of academic anxiety among Secondary School Students in Kano Metropolis, Kano State, effect of Social Skills Training counselling technique on academic anxiety among Secondary School Students in Kano Metropolis, Kano State and difference in the effect of Social Skills Training counselling technique on academic anxiety between boys and girls Secondary School Students in Kano Metropolis, Kano State. Based on these objectives one correspondent research question and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Quasi experimental design in form of pretest posttest only design was employed in the study. The population of this study comprised both male and female SS II students in senior secondary school students in Kano Metropolis, Kano State. Out of 145 SS II students identified with higher academic anxiety (60) SSII students were proportionally selected from the target population to form the sample size. The data collection instruments used for pretest and posttest in the study was an adopted instrument “Academic Anxiety Inventory†. Validity and reliability of the instrument was obtained and the reliability index of 0.68 was established. The t-test for related sample and for independent sample were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found out, the level of Academic Anxiety among senior secondary school students in Kano Metropolis, Kano State is high with 50%, there is significant effect of Social Skills Training (SST) counselling technique on Academic Anxiety among senior secondary school students in Kano Metropolis, Kano State and there is no significant difference in the effect of SST counselling technique on Academic Anxiety between Boys and Girls senior secondary school students exposed to SST Counselling technique in Kano Metropolis, Kano State. It is recommended that since there is no significant difference in the effect of social skills training counseling technique on academic anxiety between boys and girls senior secondary school students in Kano state therefore the same treatment package of social skills Training counseling technique should be applying for both boys and girls students to reduce higher level of academic anxiety

Date: 2024
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