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    Influence of Psychological Factors on Adolescent Deviancy Amongst Pupils From Single-Mother Families in Public Primary Schools in Nairobi County, Kenya
    (International Research Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities, 2023) Charo, Catherine Patterson; Maroko, Mokua Gilbert
    The study looked into how psychological factors affect teen deviance in single-mother families and in public primary schools in Nairobi County, Kenya. Specific goals of the study were to find out how common deviant behavior is among adolescents from single-mother families; to find out how emotional involvement and deviant behavior are linked. This is how the study worked: It had 100 participants. The tools for collecting data were questionnaires and interview schedules. The study was based on Erikson's phases of psychosocial. Proportionate simple random sampling was used to get a sample from each stratum totalling 164. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24 was used to look at quantitative data and do both descriptive and inferential statistics. Multiple regressions were used to test the study's hypotheses. Qualitative data, on the other hand, was used to find themes. Data was shown in frequency tables, mean tables, and figures. The study concluded that after completing all of the analysis of the objective, which aimed to investigate the prevalence of adolescent deviancy among single-mother families in public primary schools, the study came to the conclusion that the majority of the students have experimented with drugs and alcohol, abused other students at school, cheated and physically fought with other students, and did not forget that the majority of them skipped school. Additionally, the majority of students do not attend courses and engage in inappropriate behavior such as clothing inappropriately, using harsh language, and displaying arrogance toward professors and other students in general. The study recommends that parents should try and observe their children to mitigate experimenting on; drugs and alcohol abuse also they should advice against abusing others, in indecent dressing, cheating at school or even physical fight with others students. Also, the school should have a strong fence to reduce cases of sneaking out of school.