Implications of Boys' Behaviors on Girl Child's Psychosocial Adjustment and Academic Achievement in Mixed Secondary Schools; A Case of Vihiga County, Kenya

Abstract

This study set to establish the Implications of Boys' behaviors on Girl Child's Psychosocial Adjustment and Academic Achievement in mixed secondary schools in Vihiga County. `Social Learning Theory (SLT) by Albert Bandurain formed the study. Descriptive and correlational research designs were employed. A total of 92Director of Studies (DOS), 11604 form four students and 92 Focus Group Discussions (FGD) in all the 92mixed public secondary schools were targeted. Using stratified, simple random and saturated samplingtechniques37 DOS, 374 students and 37 FGD each consisting 5-7form four girls from Students' leaders council were selected. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study found that boys exhibit several behaviors during and out of class sessions which inhibit a girl-child psychosocial adjustment and academic achievement. The study thus recommended that Individual school administration in collaboration with DOS, teacher counselors and subject teachers should come up with school tailored policies and programs to ensure boys and girls coexist as brothers and sisters and are able to benefit from each other's strength academically and socially.