Perception of Undergraduate Students towards Comprehensive Sex Education in School Curriculum

Abstract

Comprehensive Sex Education has emerged as an important educational concern due to increasing awareness regarding adolescent health, emotional well-being, gender sensitivity and responsible social behaviour. This paper is focused on examining undergraduate students’ perception towards  Comprehensive Sex Education in the school curriculum. A quantitative descriptive survey method was employed for the study. 100 undergraduate students were selected from the departments of English, Economics and History of the University of Lucknow (Campus), Lucknow through convenient sampling technique. A self-constructed Likert-scale questionnaire was used for data collection. Statistical techniques such as Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, and One-Way ANOVA were used for analysis and interpretation of data. The findings showed that the majority of undergraduate students possessed favorable perception towards  inclusion of Comprehensive Sex Education in school curriculum. No statistically significant difference was found between male and female students or among students belonging to different subjects . Similarly, no significant difference was observed among male students and female students on the basis of subjects, they belonged to. The study shows that educated youth increasingly recognize the importance of scientifically accurate and age-appropriate comprehensive sex education for awareness, emotional development, personal safety and healthy social relationships.

Keywords: Comprehensive Sex Education, Undergraduate Students, Perception, School Curriculum, Adolescents, Awareness.