Title:
CAN SCHOOL DISCIPLINE PREDICT ADOLESCENT STUDENTS PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT? LESSONS FROM BUI DIVISION, NORTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON

Authors:
Patrick Kongnyuy

Abstract:
This study intended to find out the influence of school discipline on the personality development of students. Specifically, it sought to examine how corporal punishment influences students' personality development; investigate whether suspension as concerns school discipline has an influence on students’ personality development; and ascertain if students' expulsion from school influences their personality development. Three hypotheses were formulated as follows: corporal punishment has no significant influence on students' personality development; there exist no significant relationship between suspension of students from school and their personality development; and expulsion of students from school significantly affects their personality development. The study adopted a descriptive survey on a population of 1,592 students. A sample of 388 were selected using the simple randomly sampling and subsequently the convenient sampling techniques. The instrument used for data collection was a 20-items closed ended questionnaire. The chi-square was used to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed that at a 0.05 level of significance and 6df, there is a significant relationship between corporal punishment and regulations and students' personality development with calculated x^2(91. 821) is far greater than the critical value (21.026); there is a significant relationship between school suspension from school and students' personality development with calculated x^2(51.791) is far greater than the critical value (21.026); and that there is a significant relationship between expulsion of students from school and students' personality development with calculated x^2(161. 917) is far greater than the critical value (21.026). It was then recommended that the government should provide teachers and school administrators with lots of resources necessary to develop safe and effective methods for encouraging positive students' behaviour.

Keywords:
: School, Discipline, Personality Development, Adolescent, Cameroon

DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2020.30315