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INFLUENCE OF
NEED SATISFACTION ON PRONENESS TO STEALING AMONG FEMALE STUDENTS
ABSTRACT
The study
attempted to examine the influence of need satisfaction on proneness to
stealing among students at University of Lagos. Some literatures were reviewed
under relevant sub-headings.
The
descriptive survey research design was employed in this study in order to
assess the opinions of the selected respondents using the questionnaire and the
sampling technique.
A total of
120 (one hundred and twenty) respondents were selected and used as sample of
this study. Also three null hypotheses were formulated, tested and analysed
using the independent t-test statistical tool and chi-square at 0.05 level of
significance.
At the end
of the analysis, the following results emerged:
1. Hypothesis one found that there is a
significant influence of need satisfaction on proneness to stealing among
students in schools.
2. Hypothesis two revealed that there
is a significant difference in proneness to stealing among students who came
from low socio-economic status homes.
3. Hypothesis three indicated that
there is no significant gender difference in proneness to stealing among
students in schools.
4. Finally, it was shown in hypothesis
four that the ethnic backgrounds of students does not significantly influence
their proneness to stealing in schools.
All the null
hypothesis were tested at 0.05 level of significance.
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CHAPTER ONE
1.1Introduction/Background
to the Study
Discipline
is defined in the dictionary of psychology as the control of conduct either by
an external authority or by the individual himself (Drever, 1996).
Also Drever
(1996) defined school discipline as the externally imposed or self-generated
control of conduct to ensure its orderliness, social acceptability and
conformity to the school regulations to guide the behaviour of the students and
even the school staff.
Indiscipline
is therefore presented by Adelabu (1990) as a problem behaviour or socially unacceptable
behaviour which does not conform to the rules and regulations of the society or
an institution.
Nwana (1975)
investigated the types and intensity of offences in the Eastern State of
Nigeria’s schools. He identified the following nine categories of indiscipline
with percentage frequency of occurrence in parentheses:
Truancy
(28.89), disobedience (15.22), drug abuse (13.95), assault and insult (12.18),
dishonesty (11.6), wickedness (8.22), stealing (8.09), sex offences (1.66),
strikes and mass demonstration (0.19).
Stealing, a
frequent type of indiscipline carried out by students in our higher and lower
institutions is like a parasite eating deep into the moral sanity of the
youths. Stealing is very common among students at all educational levels be it
in primary, secondary and tertiary, but more often than not such acts are
treated or handled with levity as if they are normal. For example, students
have pet names for stealing which tend to cover up and play down the real
gravity of the offence. Such names include ‘pilfering’, ‘pick pocketing’,
‘tapping’ and so on (Olusakin, 1996).
According to
the Webster reference dictionary, to steal means to take away dishonestly or
wrongly especially secretly, to take, get or win by dishonest act or subtle means,
to take, get or effect surreptitiously.
To take by
surprise or without permission, with regard to the descriptions above, stealing
in this content can be regarded as an act of taking somebody’s property
secretly wrongly and unlawfully without his/her content (Uzodinma, 1998), so
whatever name stealing is given by various individuals, stealing is stealing
and it is bad in the society.
As Nkemdirim
(2000) puts it, many people steal because of several reasons. There are people
who steal because stealing also can be inherited from their parents, or blood
relations, others do steal because they want to satisfy one need or the other.
Most people steal in order to enrich themselves unduly, others steal because
they want to satisfy their material needs while many steal because they
associate with peers who are thieves or robbers. From any angle one view it
stealing remains a wrong and undesired act which runs counter to the acceptable
norms in any given society. It is a deviation from a normal behaviour and it is
carried out by those who violate the norms, mores and positive values in the
society.
According to
Olusakin (1996), obsessive stealing is referred to as ‘kleptomania’ which could
be described as a persistent neurotic impulse to steal, especially, without
economic motive in which the object stolen is usually believed to have symbolic
significance to the kleptomaniac.
Stealing is
an act of students’ indiscipline and it is very negative in nature and if not
checked and controlled, it could graduate into armed robbery which is presently
a social malaise resulting in loss of precious lives and property. The case of
stealing ought to be viewed with all amount of seriousness and could be seen as
a paramount force drawing the hand of the nation’s developmental clock
backwards socially, economically, politically and technologically.
Many people
may agree that stealing is bad, for example, one person may base his belief on
the deference to the law, another person may base it on the unthinking regard
for his conscience, while the other may be concerned with conformity to the
norms of his society, another may produce argument about the effect of stealing
on the society.
From
which-ever angle one views it, stealing is morally, socially and ethically
wrong and ought to be discouraged and frown at by the decent people in the
society (Anyanwu, 1990).
Uzomah
(1999) claims that the socio-economic status of parents have speedily dwindled
due to unemployment, retrenchment and lack of good environment to engage on
profitable ventures. This trend has caused low socio-economic status of parents
in many Nigerian homes.
This means
that majority of students in tertiary institutions, especially, in University
of Lagos (UNILAG) come from low or poor home background where parents could not
afford to sponsor fully their adolescents educational career hence these
adolescents resort to stealing to make ends meet and have what their parents
could not provide for them in school. That is why most female students steal
all manner of things ranging from underwears, brass, money, books, clothes,
dresses, pomades, soaps etc that probably belong to their counter parts because
their parents or guardians could not satisfy their wants by providing them
those things they do not have.
Jimoh
(1997), summarises it by saying that the most disturbing thing about the
problem of stealing among students mostly, female ones, is that even though
everyone seems to acknowledge that stealing is wrong and that many students
engage in this act at various levels, no worthwhile solutions have been found
to this burden some behavioural maladjustment in the society.
1.2Statement
of the Problem
Stealing is
taking away dishonestly and wrongfully, especially secretly, what belongs to
someone else. The effect of stealing cannot be overemphasised.
Olusakin
(1996) stated that the act of students’ indiscipline is very negative in nature
and if not checked can result to armed robbery which is presently, a social
malaise which results in loss of lives and property and often death or long
jail terms in prison. Stealing is a burdensome problem that has effect on the
moral, social, economic, political and technological development of the nation.
This is because students who learnt how to steal in the school, go out and
perpetrate the same evil attitude to the larger society thereby making it
impossible for Nigeria as a nation to develop. For example the cases of brazen
corruption and stealing in government circle are replete in our daily
newspapers. Cases of government functionaries pilfering or stealing away from
the commonwealth of the Nigerian nation lays credence to indiscipline and
stealing which are learnt from youth, which become inherent behaviours to the
perpetrator even when they become public servants or politicians.
1.3Purpose
of the Study
The major
purpose of this study is to examine the influence of need satisfaction on
proneness to stealing among female students at University of Lagos, Akoka,
Lagos State.
The specific
objectives of this study include finding out:
1. Whether need satisfaction influences
students’ proneness to stealing.
2. Whether students who come from the low
socio-economic backgrounds engage in stealing more than those who come from
high socio-economic background.
3. To identify the factors that cause
students to steal in schools.
4. To investigate whether there is
gender difference in stealing among students.
5. To find out whether the ethnic
background of students influences their proneness to steal.
6. To find out the remedies to
stealing.
1.4Research
Questions
The
following research questions were raised in this study thus:
(1) Will need satisfaction influence
students’ proneness to stealing?
(2) Are students who come from low socio
economic background prone to stealing more than those who come from high
socio-economic background?
(3) To what extent can the factors that
cause stealing be identified?
(4) To what extent will ethic background of
students influence their proneness to stealing?
(5) Is there any gender difference in
proneness to stealing among female students?
(6) What are the possible solutions to the
problems of stealing among female students?
1.5Research
Hypotheses
The
following hypotheses were formulated in this study:
1. There will be no significant influence of
need satisfaction on students’ proneness to stealing.
2. There will be no significant
difference in proneness to stealing among students who come from low
socio-economic status homes and those from high socio-economic status homes.
3. There will be no significant gender
difference in the proneness to commit stealing among female students.
4. The ethnic backgrounds of students
does not significantly influence their proneness to stealing in schools.
1.6Significance
of the Study
This study
will be beneficial to the following individuals in the society:
1. Students Generally: Students
especially the female ones would benefit from the findings and recommendations
of this study because it will enable them to have greater insight into the
effect of stealing or robbery on one’s life and future.
Female
students will through this study, be able to identify those factors that cause
one to steal and avoid them. It will avail them the opportunity of learning how
not to steal. The recommendations arising from this study will help students
especially, those who are prone to steal to avoid this inherent wrong habit in
them.
2. Teachers: Teachers would be able to
learn through this study, the most appropriate ways to teach students on how to
avoid stealing. The recommendations in this study will enable teachers to find
possible solutions to the problems of stealing among female students.
3. Parents: Parents would benefit
immensely from this study as its recommendations will direct them on how to
tackle the problems of stealing in their adolescent children/wards. This study
will expose to parents the consequences of stealing. The ways to arrest the
situation by identifying some factors which are possible causes of stealing
among youths and even the adult members of the society.
4. Counsellors: The counsellors in the schools
would find this study very relevant as its recommendations would enable them to
be more aware on the need to use counselling as a tool for remedying the
stealing habits of adolescents in school. The school counsellors would apply
the recommendations of this study as technique in counselling students to
observe to overcome stealing as wrong habit.
5. The Society: The society will not be
left out in benefiting from this study. The society, new researchers and indeed
students in all levels of our school system, especially the secondary and the
post secondary levels will find this study relevant because it will serve them
as a reference material.
1.7Scope of
the Study
This study
covers the influence of need satisfaction on proneness to stealing among female
students in tertiary institutions particularly, the University of Lagos.
1.8Limitation
of the Study
This study
is limited to the influence of need satisfaction on proneness to stealing among
female students at University of Lagos. This is because of limited availability
of finance, time and other necessary logistics which may pose hindrance to the
possible completion of the study.
1.9Definition
of Terms
Operational
terms used in this study were defined accordingly in this study.
Stealing:
Any act of taking people’s things illegally and wrongly without the consent of
the owner. It is an unlawful removal of the people’s properties without their
permissions.
Kleptomaniac:
The burning attitude of stealing even without economic goal or reason. This is
a natural tendency to steal irrespective of the situation.
Proneness:
This refers to the frequency at which an individual does something. This is the
constant or frequent or continuous occurrence of an individual’s character or
activity.
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