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Adolescents Resilience and their Educational Advancement in Secondary Schools in Mbanga Sub Division Littoral Region, Cameroon

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Adolescents Resilience and their Educational Advancement in Secondary Schools in Mbanga Sub Division Littoral Region, Cameroon


Nsom Emmanuel Ansah | Nkemanjen Donatus Achankeng



Nsom Emmanuel Ansah | Nkemanjen Donatus Achankeng "Adolescents Resilience and their Educational Advancement in Secondary Schools in Mbanga Sub Division Littoral Region, Cameroon" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-2, February 2022, pp.441-450, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49259.pdf

Bouncing back and taking responsibility of our action is what we need to overcome the 21st century challenges. The purpose of this study was to investigate “the role of agency in the educational advancement of adolescents in Mbanga Sub Division. Agency was operationalized as; understanding how mind work, future picture through symbols, directed mind, forethought about the future, optimistic about dreams, blame of failures, responsible for action, reflect before acting and sound thoughts. The study employed mixed method and questionnaire was used for data collection. The purposive sampling technique was used with the sample of 260 students. Data was analyzed using both the descriptive and inferential statistics. The descriptive statistical tools were frequency count, percentages and Spearman rho test to establish the relationship between agency and educational advancement. The findings revealed that: Findings affirmed that there was a significant and positive relationship between agency and educational advancement of adolescents (P <0.001 far less than 0.05 level). The positive sign of the correlation value (R= 0.496**) implied that adolescents were more likely to advance in their education or resist academically when their agency was high. Based on the findings, some recommendations were made that the adolescents should be sensitized on forums like seminars, television and radio to be more resilient and agentic so than their performance should increase and which will make them to remain in school despite adversities. Adolescents should be seen as contributors to the welfare of society not passive agents.

adolescents, resilience, agency educational advancement


IJTSRD49259
Volume-6 | Issue-2, February 2022
441-450
IJTSRD | www.ijtsrd.com | E-ISSN 2456-6470
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