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The study examined parental factors predisposing aggressive behaviour among secondary schools students in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State. The study was specifically undertaken to examine whether students have positive perception of parental discipline, parental role model and parental substance use as a social factors responsible for aggressive behaviour in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State. The study also investigated the influence of gender and school location on their perception of the social factors. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population of the study covered all the three thousand two hundred and seventy two (3272) Senior Secondary School (SSS) students in the 16 secondary schools in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State. A sample of one hundred and sixty three (163) secondary school students was used for the study while the simple sampling technique was used as the sampling technique. The mean and standard deviation was used to analyse the research question 1. Hypotheses were tested with the t-test for two independent sample means respectively. The test of hypotheses was carried out at 0.05 level of significance. The result from the analyses showed that parental factors (parental discipline, parental role modelling and parental substance abuse) were positively perceived as predisposers of aggressive behaviours among students in secondary schools in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State. It was recommended that parents should be affectionate, accepting and helpful to their children; schools should have regular parent awareness programs based on their experiences and research.
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