TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgment iv
Table of contents v
List of tables vi
Abstract vii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Introduction 1
Statement of the problem 13
Purpose of the study 14
Operational definition of terms 14
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
THEORETICAL REVIEW 16
Social Learning Theory 16
Cultivation Theory 18
Cognitive Dissonance Theory 20
EMPIRICAL REVIEW
Music preference and adolescent’s sexual permissiveness 21
Parental monitoring and adolescent’s sexual permissiveness 24
Gender and adolescent’s sexual permissiveness 26
Summary of the literature review 28
Hypothesis 29
CHAPTER THREE: METHOD
Participants 31
Instrument 31
Procedure 34
Design/Statistics 34
CHAPTER FOUR
Result 35
CHAPTER FIVE
Discussion 40
Implication of the findings 44
Summary and conclusion 45
Limitation of the study 45
Recommendations 46
REFERENCES 48
APPENDIXES
Abstract
This study was a survey aimed at ascertaining whether
music preference, parental monitoring and gender are factors in adolescent
sexual permissiveness. A sample of 405 adolescents were drawn from three
secondary schools within Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State.
Three instruments were used in the data collection. They include: Sexual
Permissiveness Scale (SPS), Music Preference Scale (MPS) and Parental
Monitoring Measure (PMM). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze the
data collected. Three research hypotheses were postulated and tested. The
findings showed that music preference was a significant factor in adolescent’s
sexual permissiveness F (1, 388) = 13.81, P <.001. Parental monitoring and
gender were not significant factors in adolescent sexual permissiveness. However, the interaction between music
preference and parental monitoring yielded a significant factor F(1, 388) =
8.08, P <.01. The interaction between Parental monitoring and gender yielded
a significant interaction F(1, 388) = 11.25, P < .001. The implications of the findings were
discussed focusing on the dangers of exposure of adolescents to sexually
provocative music. Recommendations were
made for provision of relevant education, as well as sexual health services to
parents, adolescents, and other relevant bodies.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Technological advancement and urbanization has turned the world into a global community. This trend brought about social changes in the society and to our social lives. As a result of this, there is a tremendous increase in the level of neglect and breakdown of moral values, especially among adolescents. Today, sexual permissiveness has become a characteristic of the social life of adolescents such that it has raised a lot of concern about adolescents’ behaviours in connection with sexual matters.
Petigny (1965) defined sexual permissiveness as the freedom to take part in sexual activities which were previously considered unacceptable or freedom to view violent and sexually provocative materials including movies, music, art and literature. Hornby (2010) defined sexual permissiveness as allowing or showing a freedom of sexual behaviours and matters that many people do not approved of. On that note, one could simply define sexual permissiveness to be toleration of a wide variety of sexual behaviours and attitudes. It could also be defined as the granting or inclination to grant permission; tolerance or lenience towards sex or ideas of sex or to have sex. High prevalence rate of sexual activities among adolescents is likely to lead to an increase in teenage pregnancy, school dropout, academic under achievement, abortions, unplanned motherhood and maternal mortality, as well as infection with sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. Onyeonoru and Adeboyejo (2007) posit that sexual experiences are more common among adolescents and that the age of first sexual experience is declining. They stated that this could be because there is now a higher prevalence of adolescents experiencing early sexual activity. Most often, it happens that the society do frown at these adolescents due to the series of problems they face.
