EFFECT OF COUNSELING ON PUBLIC TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS STUDENT’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS INVOLVEMENT IN CYBER CRIME IN KWARA STATE
BY:
AMARI BASHIR RICHARD
OCTOBER 2016
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The internet creates unlimited opportunities for commercial, social and educational activities. But with cybercrime the net introduces its own peculiar risk. In Nigeria today, numerous internet assisted crimes are committed daily in various forms such as online fraud, hacking, piracy, cyber harassment etc. usually these crimes are committed by youths. The research thus determined the effect of counseling implication on public tertiary institutions students’ attitude towards involvement in cybercrime in Kwara State. A pretest-posttest, control group quasi experimental design was adopted for the study. 3800 tertiary institution students selected through
cluster random sampling technique (M=24 61; F=1339) participated in the study. Four null hypotheses guided the research. A self-develop questionnaire known as Students Involvement in Cyber Crime Questionnaire (SCCQ r.086) was used for data collection. T-test and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) parametric statistics were used for data analysis. Treatment had significant effect on tertiary institution students’ cybercrime tendencies (F(1,3552)=329.902;p< 05;N´2=09). The experimental group had higher cybercrime tendencies mean score (x=68.29) than the control (x=61.01) gender had significant effect on participants cybercrime tendencies (F (1,3552))=4719;;p<05;n´2=0) other religion had the highest posttest mean score (76.116), followed by Christianity (68.83), traditional (65.62)while Islam has the least (63.04). Home type had significant effect on students cybercrime tendency (F(13552))=5.641;p<05;n´2=0) one parent married had the highest mean score (71.08) followed by single biological parent (68.51), guardian (64.34), foster parents (61.101) while intact had the least (58.93) based on the findings it was recommended that counseling programme should be organize for new and old students pointing out the danger/evils inherent in involving in cybercrime, parents should avoid divorce or single parenting so as to raise their children together.
Keywords: Counseling Implication, Public Tertiary Institution, Students, Cyber Crime.
