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THE STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF PARENTAL ALCOHOLISM ON ACADEMIC OF STUDENTS IN A SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL

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 Format: MS WORD ::   Chapters: 1-5 ::   Pages: 59 ::   Attributes: Questionnaire, Data Analysis ::   1,456 people found this useful

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CHAPTER ONE

1.0   INTRODUCTION:

1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Provision of quality secondary education is a challenge due to myriad of factors key among them government bureaucracy, parental factors among others. Parental alcoholism is cited as one of the major reason for declining levels of education in schools. Alcoholism refers to alcohol seeking and consumption behavior that is harmful both to the user and to others people (NACADA, 2014).

World health Organisation (2013) noted that alcoholic one of the oldest and the most commonly abused drug in the world. It is a psychoactive substance but society has allowed its use by the public either socially or for medication. The consequences of alcohol abuse are significant not only in terms of adverse health effects and health care costs but also in terms of lost earnings and decreased performance as well as loss of lives.

Alcoholism is a disease. It has a cause, symptoms progression, a diagnosis, an outcome and it has a course of treatment. It is recognized by the World Health Organisation as a cause of both physical and mental illness. The number of people who died in the world due to alcoholism in 2013 stood at 3.3 million people (WHO, 2013).

Alcoholism has significantly increased in African countries and Kenya is not an exception. NACADA (2014) noted that the class of citizens most affected by alcoholism are the youth who are considered to be the future leaders. People in charge of bringing up children have turned out to be indulging in drinking sprees hence abandoning or even neglecting their co-business of parenting.

Children of alcoholics and Substance abusers (COAs and COSAs) respectively are typically exposed to disorganization in the home, including negligence and/or abusive parenting, financial hardships and possible social isolation in attempting to conceal the disease from family and friends.

Ahmed and Ahmed (2007) noted that parental substance and alcohol abuse threatens the educational achievement of the child’s full potential by exposing them to a stress, chaotic and often frightening home. This has adverse effects on student’s education in terms of academic achievement, discipline, school attendance and learning motivation of the student.

Students academic gain and learning performance is affected by numerous factor including gender, age, teaching faculty, students schooling, father/guardian social economic status, what they consume, residential area of students, medium of instructions in schools, tuition trend, daily study hour and accommodation as hostelries or day scholar.

Many researchers conducted detailed studies about the factors contributing to students’ performance at different study levels. Graetz (1995) suggested that a student’s educational success is contingent heavily on social status of student’s parents/ guardians in the society. Considine and Zappala (2002) noticed the same that parent’s income or social status positively affects the student test score in examination.

According to Minnesota (2007) “the higher education performance is depending upon the academic performance of graduate students. Durden and Ellis quoted Staffolani and Bratti, (2002) observed that “the measurement of students previous educational outcomes are the most important indicators of students future achievement, this refers that as the higher previous performance is, better and will predict the student’s academic performance in future.

1.2   STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS

Academic performance of learners at all levels of education is used by stakeholders to assess the quality of education. However it is noted that factors outside the school may affect the academic performance of learners. The impact that alcoholic parents might have on their children’s educational outcome transcends income levels and social status as well.

The everyday pattern of parental alcoholism could mislead a child in terms of failing of tests, unwanted pregnancies, vandalism, drunk driving and other types of crimes. Finally, several research has been carried out on impact of alcohol consumption on young people but not even a single research has been carried out on parental alcoholism and its effect on academic of students in selected secondary school.

1.3   AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

        The main aim of the study is to examine parental alcoholism and its effect on academic of students in a selected secondary school. Other specific objectives of the study include;

  1. to determine the extent to which parental alcoholism affects the academic of students in a selected secondary school.
  2. to determine the influence of parental alcoholism on the academic of students in a selected secondary school.
  3. to determine the effect of parental alcoholism on the academic of a selected secondary school students.
  4. to proffer  possible solutions to the problems.
    1. RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1      What is the extent to which parental alcoholism affects the academic of students in a selected secondary school?

2      What is the influence of parental alcoholism on the academic of students in a selected secondary school?

3      What is the effect of parental alcoholism on the academic of selected secondary school students?

4      What are the possible solutions to the problems?

1.5   STATEMENT OF RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

HO:   Parental alcoholism has no significant effect on the academics of students in a selected secondary school.

HI:    Parental alcoholism has a significant effect on the academics of students in a selected secondary school.

1.6   SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

        The study on parental alcoholism and its effect on academic of students will be of immense benefit to the entire secondary schools in the sense that it will enable the government, both national and county, to encourage parental involvement program in which the school administration could join forces in sourcing motivational speakers. By doing so alcoholic parents would be integrated in the achievement of their children’s educational goals. It could also help in setting up a programmed teacher parent conferences where such forums may have teachers reporting their observations from different students. Finally, the study will contribute to the body of existing literature and knowledge to this field of study and basis for further research.

1.7   SCOPE OF THE STUDY

        The study on parental alcoholism and its effect on academic is limited to selected secondary school.

1.8   LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

Financial constraint- Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview).

Time constraint- The researcher will simultaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This consequently will cut down on the time devoted for the research work.

1.9   DEFINITION OF TERMS

Parental         Relating to a person's parent or parents.

Alcoholism      Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

Effect      A change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause.

Academic                Relating to education and scholarship.


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Pages:59
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