Abstract:
The range of the problem of moral disengagement is wider than it seems, everything pertaining to the behaviours or attitudes, which the adolescents exhibit today either in school such as truancy, bullying, examination malpractice. Moral disengagement may lead to disaster socially, psychologically and academically especially to the adolescents. The study investigated psycho-social factors as predictors of moral disengagement among in-school adolescents in Ibadan metropolis. The study adopted a survey research design. Six secondary schools were selected using stratified random sampling while simple random sampling technique was used in selecting 300 students. The instrument that was used in the collection data was the questionnaire. Inferential statistics of Pearson's product moment correlation (PPMC) and multiple regression were used to analyse the data at level of significance of 0.05. Findings revealed that there was significant positive correlation between parenting styles and moral disengagement (r =0.382, p<0.05) and self-esteem (r =0.570 p<0.05). It was also revealed that parenting styles and self-esteem jointly contributed 32.1% to the prediction of moral disengagement. Also, the two psycho-social factors relatively contributed to moral disengagement in the following magnitude; self-esteem (?= 0.605, t= 7.460, P<0.05), parenting styles (?= .233, t= 3.898, P<0.05). Consequently, it was recommended that parents should instill the right morals in their children and wards as this would make them to exhibit behaviours that conform to the school, environment and their society at large.
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