Dr Julius Samson & Dalhatu M. Halima
Abstract
This study sought to investigate the influence of social security and psychological well-being on academic outcome of girl-child in colleges of education in North West, Nigeria. Three questions and hypotheses guided the study. The research design adopted for the study was survey. The population of this study was made up of 2,522 female students from 13 colleges of education in North West, Nigeria. The sample size for the study was one hundred and ninety four (194) female students. A researchers-developed questionnaire titled Social Security and Psychological Wellbeing Inventory (SSPWI) was used to collect
information from the respondents which was then correlated with their Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). PPMC(r) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of this study revealed that significant relationships exist between social security and psychological well-being; between social security and academic outcome; and between psychological well-being and academic outcome among female students in Colleges of Education in North West, Nigeria. It was recommended, among others, that college management should provide a safe and supportive environment that can positively affect female students’ well-being thereby enhancing their ability to focus on academics and perform better.