INFLUENCE OF CHILD TRAFFICKING ON PERSONALITY AND ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENT AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

(A CASE STUDY OF EDO STATE, NIGERIA)

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ABSTRACT
This study investigated the influence of child trafficking on personality and academic adjustment among junior secondary school students in Edo state, Nigeria. This study employed ex-post-facto design. The population of this study was 264 for both victims and non-victims of child trafficking. Opportunistic sampling technique was used for the study. Three Research questions and three null hypotheses guided this study. The instruments adopted for this study were: Psychological stress inventory, Beck Depression inventory and Bell academic adjustment inventory. The SPSS Statistical package version 20 was used to analyze the data. Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and independent t-test. The findings revealed that differences exist between victims and non-victims of child trafficking in their personality psychological stress, personality depression and academic adjustment. Victims of child trafficking have higher personality psychological stress than non-victims (t = 15.931, p = 0.000), also, victims have higher depression than non-victims (t = 31.482, p = 0.000). The non-victims have higher academic adjustment than victims of child trafficking (t = 31.682, p = 0.000). It was recommended among others that victims and non-victims of child trafficking should be sensitized on the effects of child trafficking on personality and academic adjustment of school children.