Relationship between Life Satisfaction, Social Interest and Participation in Extra Curricula Activities among Undergraduates in a Nigeria University

Dr. B. A. Adeyemi

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Dr. B. A. Adeyemi

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life satisfaction, social interest, extracurricular activities and undergraduate students

Abstract

The study determined the level of life satisfaction, social interest and participation in extracurricular activities among the undergraduate students of University of Lagos. It also examined relationship between life satisfaction and social interest and investigated deregulatory effect of life satisfaction and social interest in participation of extracurricular activities. This is with a view to ensuring that students relate well with one another. The study employed the survey research design. The population of the study consisted of all undergraduate students of University of Lagos. However, 200 undergraduate students were purposively selected in the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Social Sciences using stratified sampling techniques. An instrument titled "Questionnaire of Life Satisfaction, Social Interest and Participation in Extra Curricular Activities among Undergraduates Students" was developed to elicit information from the respondents. Four research questions and two research hypotheses were generated and answered. Data were analyzed using simple percentage, multiple regression, Spearman correlation and chi-square statistics. Among others, the results showed a significant relationship between the students' level of life satisfaction and their respective levels of participation in extracurricular activities (χ2 =. 19.99, p

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Relationship between Life Satisfaction, Social Interest and Participation in Extra Curricula Activities among Undergraduates in a Nigeria University. (2014). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 14(A4), 39-45. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1011

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