ABSTRACT

The study examined family background as correlate of child socialization: a case study of selected schools in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. Descriptive research survey design was adopted in assessing the opinions of the respondents with the use of questionnaire. Three hundred and fifty respondents were used as the representatives of the entire population of the study. Five null hypotheses were generated and tested with the use of the Pearson Product Moment Correlation for hypothesis one; One-way Analysis of Variance for hypothesis two, three and four while hypothesis five was tested with the application of the independent t-test statistical tool at 0.05 level of significance. At the end of the data analyses, the result shows that:

(1)         there is a significant relationship between home and children’s social adjustment.

(2)         there is a significant relationship between the parental socio-economic status and children’s social adjustment.

(3)         there is a significant relationship between parental ethnic backgrounds and children’s social adjustment.

(4)         there is a significant relationship between parents’ religious backgrounds and children’s social adjustment.

(5)         there is no significant gender difference in the academic performance of children due to home backgrounds.