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    Parenting styles, parental monitoring and adolescents‘ risky sexual behavior
    (Makerere University, 2018) Alawiya, Ahmed
    The study investigated the relationships between parenting styles, parental monitoring and adolescents risky sexual behavior of 300 secondary school adolescents of senior four to six of 2016 in Rubaga Division, Kampala district, aged 16 to19 years. A cross sectional study design using quantitative approach was adopted. Simple random sampling technique was used to give every adolescent an opportunity to participate in this study. Primary data was collected using questionnaire that comprised of scales to measure parenting styles, parental monitoring and adolescent risky sexual behavior, supplemented by secondary data. Three Hypotheses were tested using one-way ANOVA, Spearman rank order correlation coefficient and two-way ANOVA. The findings showed significant differences in adolescent risky sexual behavior according to the different parenting styles, a strong negative relationship between perceived parental monitoring and adolescent risky sexual behavior (rho=-.764) and a significant combined effect between perceived parenting styles, perceived parental monitoring and adolescent risky sexual behavior. The study recommended that parenting styles and parental monitoring should be emphasized and used by parents to control the activities of their children whether at home or at school.
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    Peer influence, substance abuse and risk to drop out of school among secondary school adolescents
    ( 2019) Kiwanuka, Rudovic
    In this study, I investigated the relationship between peer influence, substance abuse and risk to drop out of school among secondary school adolescents. Specifically, I investigated the relationship between peer influence and substance abuse; peer influence and risk to drop out of school; substance abuse and risk to drop out school, and the differences between risk to drop out of school among secondary school adolescents at a different level of substance abuse. Finally, I explored the combined effect of peer influence and substance abuse on risk to drop out of school among secondary school adolescents. A correlational study design was employed utilizing a sample of 330 respondents from Makindye secondary schools, Kampala Capital City Authority. Data was collected using questionnaires and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) Version 23. The findings revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between peer influence and substance abuse (r = .74, p< .01); peer influence and risk to drop out of school (rs = .50, p < .01); and substance abuse and risk to drop out of school (rs = .63, p< .01). From the results, it is concluded that the more secondary school adolescents get involved in substance abuse, the more likely they will drop out of schools. It is therefore recommended that secondary school managers should have effective intervention in prevention, response and recovery related to substance abuse among their school adolescents.