Effect of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) on Change of Aggressive, Violent and Anger Behaviours of Technical Students
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Abstract
The paper examined the effect of rational emotive behavior therapy on the item change of aggressive, violent and anger behaviours of Senior Secondary Technical students of Edo and Delta States. The instrument used to collect data for the study was the Technical Student Violent Behaviour questionnaire (TSUB) which was a 15 items instrument and tested for reliability which yielded reliability of 0.72 using Cronbach alpha. The design of the study is a Quasi-experimental Design and Behavior the t-test independent variables was used to test the hypotheses while mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions. The findings of the study indicate that rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) is very effective in the treatment of aggressive, violent and anger behaviours of Senior Secondary Technical College Students in Edo and Delta states of Nigeria. The recommendations amongst others includes that teachers should be trained on the effective use of REBT on the treatment of aggressive, violent and anger behaviours of Senior Secondary Technical College students.