Research instrument
It consisted of three sections:
Section A: It contained structured questions about some demographic variables and also family characteristics of the students such as the family type, size and parental figure. Family type could be monogamous or polygamous; family size was defined by the number of children in the family which could be small (1 to 4), middle (5 to 7) or large size family (>8); and parental figure referred to the individual(s) whom the adolescents lives with which was categorised as both parents, single parent, or guardian.