Sleep Quality and Attributional Styles as Correlates of Psychological Well-being among Senior Secondary School Adolescents in Oyo, Oyo State

dc.contributor.authorNike Oyebimpe OJEDIRAN
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-30T15:02:53Z
dc.date.available2025-09-30T15:02:53Z
dc.date.issued2024-12
dc.description.abstractProblems with psychological wellbeing among senior secondary school adolescent students could have dire consequences for their academic performance and overall health. This study, therefore investigated sleep quality and attributional styles as correlates of psychological well- being among senior secondary school adolescent students in Oyo town. The study employed the descriptive research design of correlational type. The population of the study comprised of all the six thousand, five hundred and fifty-five (6,555) senior secondary school adolescent students in class II (SSS 2) in public senior secondary schools in Oyo town. A sample of eight hundred and two (802) male and female senior secondary school adolescent students in Oyo town was selected. Data were collected using a research instrument- Questionnaire on Adolescents Psychological Well-being (QAPW) with three subscales (α=.755). Frequency counts, percentages, mean, and standard deviation, were utilised to answer the research questions. The Pearson’s product moment correlation and t-test analyses were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The results revealed that: there is a high level of psychological well-being among senior secondary school students in Oyo town (x̅=2.97); there is a high level of sleep quality among senior secondary school students in Oyo town (x̅=2.78); the prevalent attributional style among the senior adolescent students is the internal attributional style; sleep quality (r=0.861) and attributional styles (r=0.388) are significantly related with psychological well-being among senior secondary school students in Oyo town; male (x̅=2.84) and female (x̅=2.15) senior secondary school adolescents showed gender difference in psychological well-being. It is recommended among others that, periodic interventions by counselling psychologists be implemented for senior secondary school adolescent students in Oyo in order to enhance their psychological well-being. Keywords: Sleep quality, attributional styles, psychological well-being, senior secondary school adolescent students Word Count: 283
dc.identifier.citationKate Turabia
dc.identifier.otherM.ED
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.lcu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1135
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherLead City University, Ibadan
dc.relation.ispartofseriesM.ED
dc.subjectSleep quality
dc.subjectattributional styles
dc.subjectpsychological well-being
dc.subjectsenior secondary school adolescent students
dc.titleSleep Quality and Attributional Styles as Correlates of Psychological Well-being among Senior Secondary School Adolescents in Oyo, Oyo State
dc.typeThesis

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