TY  - JOUR
T1  - Sociological Variables as Determinants of University Undergraduate’s Involvement in Secret
Cult in Southwest, Nigeria
AU - Bilqees Olayinka, Abdu-Raheem 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 16
IS  - 5
SP  - 169
EP  - 174
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2019.169.174
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2019.169.174
KW  - University undergraduates
KW  -cultism
KW  -academic culture
KW  -sociological variables
KW  -societal values
AB  - This study investigated sociological variables
as determinant of involvement of university
undergraduates in secret cult in Southwest, Nigeria. The
study adopted descriptive research design of the survey
type. The population consisted of all university lecturers
in Southwest, Nigeria. The sample comprised of 600
lecturers selected from 10 universities including federal,
state and private owned using multistage sampling
procedure. Simple random sampling techniques was
adopted to select two federal three states and five private
universities. Simple random sampling technique was also
used to select sixty lecturers from each university sampled
to make a total of 600 L. The instrument used for the
study was a questionnaire titled Sociological Variables as
Determinant of University Undergraduate’s Involvement
in Secret Cult Questionnaire (SVDUUISCQ). The validity
of the instrument was established through face and
content validity while the reliability was determined using
test-re-test. The instrument was first administered on
20 L from a university that was not part of the sample.
The instrument was re-administered again on the same set
of lecturers after 2 weeks. The scores of the two tests
were correlated using pearson product moment correlation
co-efficient analysis and the reliability co-efficient of 0.74
was obtained. The data collected were analyzed using
pearson correlation and regression statistical tools. It was
found in the study that sociological variables contributed
significantly to university undergraduate’s involvement in
secret cult in Southwest, Nigeria. It was therefore
recommended that children should imbibe moral, spiritual
and societal values. Parents should wake up to their duties
on the children and government should make necessary
provisions for universities to give room for academic
culture that could discourage cultism.
ER  -