HEALTHFUL SOCIO-EMOTIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND SPORTS AS CORRELATES FOR IMPROVING SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AMONG PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OYO TOWN

Abstract

This study investigated healthful socio-emotional environment and sports as correlates for improving
school attendance among public secondary schools in Oyo town. The descriptive survey research design
was adopted for this study. The sample size for this study consisted (996) students through multistage
sampling procedure. Questionnaire with four scale was used for data collection. The instrument has four
scales with reliability values as follows: Healthful Socio-emotional Environment Scale (HSES) = 0.69,
Sports Scale= 0.71 and Improving School Attendance Scale (ISAS) = 0.77 through Cronbach’s alpha
respectively. The demographic data of the respondents were analyzed with frequency counts and
percentages while inferential statistic of multiple regressions was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05
alpha level. The finding revealed that healthful socio-emotional environment and sports were relatively
and compositely significant for improving school attendance among public secondary schools’ students in
Oyo town. Based on the findings the following recommendations were made; That Zonal and Local
inspectors of education should ensure that every secondary school within their authority have conducive
and enabling environment for both academics and sporting activities. That government should provide
sports facilities, equipment and supplies for all secondary schools which will attract attention of students
to be in school regularly and punctually.