ABSTRACT

The study was aimed at examining the relationship between pornography and psychosocial adjustment of secondary school students in Imo state. The study was guided by four research questions and four null hypotheses which were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted the correlation design. The subject for the study consisted of 567 SS2 students from 18 secondary schools in Okigwe Education Zone in Imo state. Three instruments were used for data collection which was titled Pornography Questionnaire, Psychological Adjustment Questionnaire and Social Adjustment Questionnaire and were validated by three experts in Education Psychology, Guidance and Counseling, Measurement and Evaluation from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. The test-retest reliability was conducted and it yielded a stability indices of 0.82,0.79 and 0.85 for the three instruments respectively while the homogeneity of the items was established using Cronbach Alpha method which yielded indices of 0.78 and 0.83 0.76for the three instruments respectively. The research questions were answered using the Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient while the hypotheses were tested using the Analysis of variance from the Simple Linear Regression at 0.05 level of significance which revealed the following findings: A positive, high and significant relationship exists between pornography and psycho-social adjustment of secondary school students. Pornography had 44.2% and54.8% contributions in predicting psychological and social adjustment of secondary school students respectively; a high and significant influence of gender exists in the relationship between pornography and psychosocial adjustment of students Gender predicted 37.1 %and 69.7%contributions in predicting the relationship between pornography and psychological as well as adjustment of secondary school students. Of the variance observed in the relationship between pornography and psychological.The study then recommended that the government schools and parents should ensure that restrictions are placed on the student's frequent use of internet. The school management should ensure that access to pornography sites are blocked in their I.C.T (Information and communication technology) centre's among others.