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Negative Behaviour I

ClassNotes Team 6 MIN READUPDATED 5 JUL 2026

Civic Education JSS 3 Second term

WEEK 1 & 2

Negative Behaviour I

Performance Objectives

Student should be able to:

1. Explain negative behaviour

2. State the types of negative behaviour

3. Explain the types of negative behaviour

Content

1. Meaning of negative behaviour

2. Types of negative behaviour

- Dishonesty

- Excessive love of money

- Ostentation living

- Disregard for time (African time)

- Drug trafficking

- Examination malpractice

- Cultism

- Religions crisis

 

Meaning of Negative Behaviour

Negative behaviour entails exhibiting attitude behaviour that is unacceptable to the society that one belongs to. Once you go against the rules and regulation that is guiding a society,  that is said to be that such person has gone on a negative behaviour,  that is,  he has gone out of the normal balance of the society.

Negative behaviour can be described as the slaying attitude of behaviour that is undesirable and does not conform to the ideal, or standard of the society.

The word has seen as a negative idea in a society are not been use in normal conversations in the society,  society is different from one another,  people violate the rules of the society because they do what is different from what is considered to be normal or morally correct in the society.

Types of Negative Behaviour

Dishonest

This is the quality that renders someone untruthful. Dishonesty is the inability of a human to go straight forward why putting up truthful decisions or truthful talk in a society or among people of the same peers, a person who displays this behaviour is known for telling lies, deceiving people and does not stand by the truth. A dishonest person is not transparent and is unfaithful such a person is not interested. A dishonest person is unreliable and people will not put their trust in such a person.

Excessive Love for Money

Excessive love for money is one of the bad class of negative behaviour although everybody needs money and money is a medium of exchange that is being generally accepted by people, whenever you want to get a product or thing but that doesn't mean it should become lord over one,  money is important for our survival in society but when one has an extreme desire for money such that one can do the unthinkable like killing or stealing to get it then one excess and extreme love for money which is the negative behaviour. Peoples extreme love for money will make them engage in money ritual in desperation to get money, a society frowns at this negative behaviour even the bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. So one has to know the way and the system or try not to love money excessively in order to still go with the balance of the society.

Examination Malpractice

Examination malpractice is evil as said by everybody and should be shunned away from, this do with cheating as a means of passing of examination which is done by student and students who engage in examination malpractice instead of studying hard to pass their exams, some engage in copying the work of their mate, some by examination question, some textbook or written materials into the examination room, these days, some students even bring some programs with the solution to the question for the examination. This is a negative behaviour common among the youth in the society and it should be stopped.

Disregard for Time (African Time)

It is a common saying that time lost can never be regained. People that treat time as if it is not important. It is common in most part of the world that people get to functions late. They have total disregard for time, they do not keep to time. If a function supposed to start at 3 pm people will not get there until 4 p.m. or 5 p.m. and then we'll say 3 p.m. that the program was supposed to start is just the African time. This is a negative behaviour in our society and it should be shunned.

Bribery

This is an act of taking or giving bribe. Bribery is giving something valuable such as money in order to get someone to do something, or to influence someone's judgement or conduct of a person in a position of trust. In our society, some people in need of contracts grease the hand of directors or people in charge of such contracts in an establishment with money so as to get a contract. This is not good,  it is a negative behaviour. Bribe are given to get unmerited or undeserved favour.

Cultism

This is the act of joining a secret society. Some student in higher institution of learning join cult group what are the extreme religious belief examples of cult groups in university and black axe, scorpions, blackberry etc members of this group to engage in a bad act, like killing, stealing, harassment and cultism is a negative behaviour, we should stay clear and not join the cult group because it is evil and exhibition away from.

Ostentation Living

This is a life characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others. If you say that someone or something is pretentious, you mean that they try to seem important or significant, but you do not think that they are.

Drug Trafficking

Drug trafficking is a global illicit trade involving the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws. Illicit drug trafficking is sophisticated and complex in nature, involving a wide variety of drugs from many different sources throughout the world. Traffickers keep abreast of peak demand areas and the "drug of choice" in specific geographic locations, whilst maintaining the flow of narcotics around the world. This illicit traffic not only violates national drug laws and international conventions, but also involves many other criminal activities, including racketeering, conspiracy, bribery and corruption of public officials, tax evasion, banking law violations, illegal money transfers, import/export violations, crimes of violence and terrorism.

Religions Crisis

The religious crisis is one of the main recurring problems in Nigeria, and it is often followed or preceded by ethnic clashes. The dominant ethnic groups in Nigeria threaten each other from time to time; violent clashes between ethnic groups and religious groups in Nigeria are no longer uncommon. Every problem has a cause, and the crisis of religion in Nigeria is not exempted.

Thus, as you see, the religious crisis is a disagreement between two groups of different religions that struggle against coherent existence without themselves.