The article examined the relationship between Self Efficacy and Work Performance using Albert Bandura's Social Cognition Theory as a theoretical framework. Bandura's main proposition was that individuals with high self efficacy believe in themselves and go on to exhibit high performance while individuals with low self efficacy do not have confidence in themselves and end up with low performance. The review of Iiterature revealed that findings have been varried with some studies having a positive relationship between self effficacy and work performance, some a negative relationship and some no relationship between the variables. However it was discovered from the studies that several interveining variables such as nature of the task, inteligence, personality, skill level, motivation, supervision, training, level of the worker, education, etc mediated the relationship between self efficacy and work performance. Thus, Bandura's Social Cognition theory has great implications for the world of work and performance in organisations, but may not necessarily act in isolation, but in conjunction with other organisational variables to foster optimum job performance.

This research examined the influence of gender and age on job satisfaction among employees working in the public service of Nigeria. 3000 participants from the head quarters of Nigeria's federal service were randomly chosen for the study. Participants were dichotomized into 1620 males and 1380 females, 1590 older employees and 1410 younger employees. The instrument used for the study was the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (r=0.89). The design employed was the 2x2 factorial design while the two way ANOVA was used for data analysis. The results of the study revealed that the female employees experienced a higher level of job satisfaction than the male employees. Furthermore, the older employees of 45 years and above experienced a higher job satisfaction than the younger employees of 20 years and above. There was no significant interaction between age and gender. The implication of this finding is that the expectation of male workers from the organization seem to be higher than that of the females as a result of their heavy financial obligations to their immediate and extended families in line with the African culture. Also, older employees were more satisfied because their long stay had attracted many benefits which younger employees could not obtain.

Illicit drug users experience adverse life events, but few studies have examined the role of impulsivity, pornography, and gambling among secondary school students in these events. This study employed a simple random sampling to investigate the role of impulsivity, gambling, and pornography in predicting illicit drug use among secondary school students in Uyo metropolis. Participants were two hundred and thirteen (213) students purposively recruited from Monef High School. Using anonymous psychometric robust illicit drug use and behavioral addiction inventories, relevant data were collected which aided the investigation. The threeway Factorial ANOVA found that predictor variables have no relevant explanatory power on illicit drug use F(1,205)= 2.73, P>0.05. However, Impulsivity interacted with pornography to significantly influence illicit drug use F(1,205)=7.49, P<0.05, as well as impulsivity interacting with gambling to influence illicit drug use F(1,205)= 2.92, P<0.05. Results of the Factorial ANOVA document that impulsivity and pornography were the strongest influencers of illicit drug use among secondary students and were therefore seen to have potential effects in the fight against illicit drug use among students. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for practice, highlighting the need to develop recreational, educational awareness programs, which will contribute to more focused planning of mental health services, harm reduction measures, and outreach programs, as intervention mechanisms to aid in reducing illicit drug use among secondary school students.

Family Background and the Development of Delinquent Behaviour among Adolescents 'Wanderers, beggars, truants' and the like are referred to as those who are in need of care and protection (Muncie, 2000). From the above, one can distinguish delinquency from crime in two major ways. Firstly, delinquency is a more inclusive term than crime, which means that it includes in addition to law violation, some other acts or behaviours like 'beyond parental control', 'wandering, truancy, begging', being exposed to 'moral danger', being exposed to the 'risk or slavery' and the like. These behaviours and/or acts are essentially not criminal. Secondly, delinquency is different from crime in that the people involved are immature that is, delinquents unlike criminals, are immature, they are 16 years old or less (Adebowale & Anifowose, 2017). Manifestation of delinquent behaviours is one of the major problems associated with adolescents in secondary schools today (Ugwu& Stanley, 2017). The pervading incidence of delinquency among adolescent is alarming and calls for serious consideration especially as juvenile delinquency has been rated a global issue (Carter &

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