Psychosocial problems of Adolescents living with and without parents: The case of upper elementary school students in Dawo district, South West Shoa Zone, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents living with and without parents in the case of ten upper elementary schools in the Dawo district. The study employed quantitative research design of cross-sectional survey. Data were collected from 179 adolescents from living with parents and another 89 adolescents from living out parents aged 13 to17 years. One adapted instruments; The Ryff (1995) psychological wellbeing standardized scale was used to gather data from study participants. Data analysis included percentage, independent t-test and one way ANOVA. The independent t-test revealed that adolescent female had a significantly lower from compared to male adolescents. The independent sample t-test revealed a female had a significant lower in psychosocial problems compared to male. Males were more psychosocial problems than females. Results from one way ANOVA also showed that there was a significant difference in psychosocial problems among living with parents of different family sizes. Significant difference in psychosocial problems observed between adolescents from 2-4 family sizes and ≥9. Hence, the study recommends that it is important to provide an appropriate intervention programs that address the psychosocial issues that adolescents face and Government, Non Government Organizations working on Adolescents and other donor organizations have to work jointly to create psychosocial support strategies