PERCIEVED SOCIAL SUPPORT OF STREET BEGGARS IN LAGOS METROPOLIS
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The situation of street begging in Nigeria is appreciated with different
categories of beggars found at motor parks, religious worship centres, markets,
road junctions, venue of ceremonies and worst still on the university campuses .
The situation is quite embarrassing with efforts of governments in curbing the
menace of street begging not yielding fruits. The present study examined the
perceived social support of street beggars. It adopted the descriptive research
of the ex-post facto type. A random sample of three LGAs was selected and
516 participants took part in the study.out of these participants there were
311(60%) males and 205 (40%) females. Hausas were 284(55%), Yorubas
were 162(31 %), lbos were 40(8%) and others were 30(6%). The age ranged
from 12-65 years with standard deviation of 38years. All the participants
reported low perceieved social support. The findings revealed no significant
difference in gender , tribes and age groups in perceived social support. It was
recommended that families, government and non-governmental organisations
should weave social support round the beggars. It was concluded that formal
and informal organizations, as well as grass-roots movements, should be
recognized as partners in the construction of social support for beggars.
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B Philosophy (General), BF Psychology