Factors Facilitating Youth Restiveness In Lafia Metropolis of Nasarawa State of Nigeria. Implications for Counselling Youths for National Stability and Integration.

Abstract

The paper investigated the factors that aid youth restiveness in Lafia metropolis of Nasarawa State. The population consisted of all the youths who are within the ages of 19-35 years.  A sample size of 500 was through the multi stage random sampling technique selected from the population of youths living in Lafia in Nasarawa State. A questionnaire titled “Factors of Youth Restiveness” was designed by the researcher. The questionnaire was validated for face, content and construct. The reliability was ascertained by the test-retest method .Three research hypotheses were raised to guide the study at 0.05 level of significance. Hypothesis I was tested by students’ t-test, hypothesis two by Pearson Product Moment Correlation and hypothesis iii by multiple regression analysis. Findings from the study indicated a significant difference between male and female youths and their restiveness, and no significant difference in youths’ restiveness and their religious background. Unemployment, poverty and lack of infrastructural facilities are predictors of youths’ restlessness. Unemployment was the highest predictor. This study has implications for counselling youths for national stability and integration. Recommendations were made to curb youth restiveness.