ABSTRACT
The research looked at how self-esteem, peer pressure, and parental practices affected juvenile delinquent conduct among senior secondary school students in Edo State's Oredo Local Government Area. Seven research questions served as the study's compass, and seven hypotheses were examined at the 0.05 level of significance. Sigmund Freud's psychodynamic theory and Albert Bandura's social cognitive learning theory served as the study's pillars.This study used a correlational research design. The 2,384 Senior Secondary School II (SSS II) pupils in Edo State's Oredo Local Government Area made up the study's population. A total of 350 students—256 males and 94 females—from five public Senior Secondary schools in Edo State's Oredo Local Government Area made up the study's sample size. The Roesenberg's SelfEsteem Scale (SES) and a self-made questionnaire called Parenting Style, Peer Influence, Selfesteem and Juvenile Delinquency (PSPISEAJDQ) were used to gather data for this research. Direct delivery was the approach used by the researcher and other research assistants to administer the equipment. Along with two (2) additional specialists from the Department of Educational Evaluation and Counselling Psychology, the researcher's supervisor verified the tools. Parenting Style, Peer Influence, Self-Esteem, and Juvenile Delinquency subscales revealed coefficient values of 0.87, 0.74, 0.80, and 0.86, respectively, when the reliability of the instrument was assessed using Cronbach Alpha statistics to determine internal consistency of the items. In order to communicate with the principal of the five (5) chosen schools and acquire permission to administer the questionnaire to the pupils, the researcher requested an introduction letter from the Department of Educational Evaluation and Counselling Psychology, University of Benin. Product Moment Correlation Statistics by Pearson. A number of linear Progression and Fisher’s Z test statistics were used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Parenting style, peer pressure, and juvenile delinquent conduct among senior secondary school pupils in Edo State's Oredo Local Government Area did not significantly correlate, according to the results. Nonetheless, a favourable relationship between adolescent delinquency and self-esteem was discovered. Juvenile delinquency among senior secondary school students in Oredo Local, Edo State, is also predicted by parental style, peer pressure, and self-esteem. Additionally, the results indicated that there is no significant correlation between juvenile delinquency among senior secondary school pupils in the Oredo Local Government Area based on sex and parenting style or peer influence. Nonetheless, it was shown that among senior secondary school pupils in the Oredo Local Government Area, there is a substantial correlation between juvenile delinquency and self-esteem depending on sex.
