Nwankpa G.E,* Uwana-Abasi, P.A. ** and Amao S. Clement **

*Dept. of Social Work, Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan

** Dept. of Sports Management Studies, National Institute for Sports, Surulere, Lagos

Abstract

The study examined the effects of physical and educational neglect on psychosocial well-being of students in selected secondary schools Ibadan metropolis. The study adopted a descriptive survey design and the sample size was three hundred secondary school students. The study adopted simple random sampling to select two secondary schools in the study area while self-structured questionnaire was used as research instrument for data collection while Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to analyzed the data collected. The study revealed that there was positive significant relationship between physical neglect and psychosocial wellbeing of secondary school students in Ibadan metropolis (r = .636, n= 300, p <.05) and there was positive significant relationship between educational neglect and psychosocial well-being of secondary school students in Ibadan metropolis (r = .726, n= 300, p <.05). It was consequently concluded that parents should make efforts to stay together with their children to ensure that their welfare is properly catered for as well as classroom teachers and school counsellors should advice pupils’ parents and guardians to avoid acts that will result in child neglects irrespective of their socio-economic status.