Attitude of Students towards Alcohol Abuse in Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSRJRME) - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 6
Abstract
The study was carried out to access the attitude of students towards alcohol abuse in University of Agriculture, Makurdi in Benue State. A sample of 1,458 students was used for the study using a random sampling technique. A questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data collected while Chi-Square and t-test were used in testing the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Results of findings based in hypotheses tested indicated that 1386 (95.10%) of the respondents with expected frequency of 729.0 agreed that there are factors responsible for students attitude towards alcohol abuse while 72 or 4.90% of the respondents disagreed. Also, the findings revealed that only 4 (90.03%) of respondents with expected frequency of 729 said that there are no factors responsible for abuse of alcohol in students’ behavior while 1454 (99.70) respondents agreed that there are factors responsible for abuse of alcohol in students’ behavior. From the findings too, male respondents have alcohol abuse mean of 3.0240 with standard deviation of 0.27664 while female respondents have alcohol abuse mean of 3.0239 with standard deviation of 0.27439. The difference between the male and female is not statistically significant so there is no significant difference in male and female students’ attitude towards alcohol abuse.
Authors and Affiliations
Onah Daniel Oche, Onah Anthony Adams, Uku Greg Orngu
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