Causal Factors Influencing Advesity Qoutient of Secondary School Students Affected By Communal Violence in Plateau State.

Background: The aim of this research was to study the causal factors influencing students’ adversity between junior and senior secondary school students in Plateau State. Four hundred and thirty one Six hundred junior secondary school students and seventy two of twelfth grade and 373senior secondary school students were selected by multi-stage random sampling techniques.

Methods: The ten instruments used for collecting data were: A scale on self-esteem, a

scale on dominance, a scale on self-confidence, a scale on sense of personal freedom, a scale on achievement motivation, a scale on ambition, a scale on enthusiasm, a scale on responsibility, a scale on future orientation, and an adversity quotient scale. The data were analyzed by validity test of the causal relationship model.

Results: The results of the study were as follows: (1) variables influencing the adversity quotient of 1junior and senior secondary school students were ambition, enthusiasm, dominance, sense of personal freedom, self-esteem, self-confidence, and achievement motivation. (2) Variables are directly influencing the adversity quotient of junior secondary school students was personal freedom while the variables both directly and indirectly influencing the adversity quotient of students were future orientation, sense of personal freedom, and enthusiasm. (3) Variable are directly influencing adversity junior secondary school students s was self-esteem, the variables are indirectly influencing the adversity quotient of these students was dominance and achievement motivation while the variables both directly and indirectly influencing the adversity quotient of these students were sense of self-confidence, responsibility, self-esteem, self-confidence, and ambition.