Influence Of Home Video On The Moral Behaviour

This study was on the influence of home video watching on the moral behaviour of junior Secondary school students in Adamawa state, Nigeria. The study had five objectives, five research questions and five null hypotheses. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population was thirty five thousand, eight hundred and seven (35,807) adolescent students in junior secondary schools in six (6) local government areas in Adamawa state. Multistage sampling technique was used to administer the instrument to 500 students selected in all the six schools in the study area. Four rating scale structured questionnaire titled Video Viewed and Moral Behaviour (VVSB) was used for data collection. Data collected were coded into SPSS version 22. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was employed in testing hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 while t-test was used to test hypotheses 4 and 5 at 0.05 level of confidence. The result show that 54% of the respondents are male, 31.2% prefer to watch drama film and about 65% confirmed that home video has impacted positive change to their moral behavior. The effect of home video watch and television viewing on moral behavior of junior secondary school Adamawa State includes: exposure to media violence has been positively related to subsequent aggressive behaviour, ideas, arousal, and anger. The results also show that home videos have influence on the academic performance and moral behaviour of junior secondary school students. The result revealed that home videos have both positive and negative influence on youth morality. It was recommended among others that parents should control the types of home video viewed by adolescents at home. In addition, they should minimize time spent by adolescents viewing videos at home.