Percieved Factors of Social Anxiety Disorder among Students with Emotional and Behavioural Disorder
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2022-10
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Students with emotional and behavioral disorders display a variety of behavioral disorders, ranging in severity from mild
to severe, and these disorders affect their relationships with others, including their peers. They are characterized by an incapacity
to learn that is not accounted for by mental, sensory, or health issues, an inability to establish or sustain satisfying interpersonal
bonds with classmates and teachers, and improper behaviors or emotions under normal circumstances. These difficulties that
students with social anxiety disorder experience affect their academic performance. Among order to better understand social anxiety
disorder in students with emotional and behavioral disorders in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria, this
study examined the perceived causes of the disorder. Descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The purposive random
sampling techniques was used to select a total of one hundred and twenty (120) teachers representing the teacher in ilorin west local
government. A questionnaire title perceived factors responsible for social anxiety disorder among students with emotional and
behavioral disorder (r=0.77). One research question was stated and one hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 significant
levels, Frequency count, Percentage, Mean and T-test were used to analysis data gathered. The findings revealed that the perceived
factors of social anxiety disorder among students with emotional and behavioral disorder in ilorin west local government, of kwara
state, were genetic, environmental, social, brain structure/biological, negative experience, inherited traits, cognitive partners. It was
also discovered that there was no significant difference in the perceived factors of social anxiety disorder among male and female
students with emotional and behavioral disorder (p>0.05). Hence, the study recommended that there is need for developing
programs to train, sensitized and mobilize teacher regarding the child behavioral and social anxiety problems and there is need for
government to establish counseling unit in secondary school in order to counsel students with social anxiety disorder and emotional
and behavioral disorder