Preventive Counselling on well-being of undergraduates in Nigeria University

Counselling is considered developmental rather than therapeutic and is aimed at assisting students to learn the techniques and skills involved in problem-solving and long-term planning. The counselling for the development of the undergraduates whole person must be viewed from the perspective of prevention. The study examined preventive counseling on well-being of undergraduates in Nigeria University. The dimensional well-being of undergraduate students includes Physical well-being, Economic well-being, Social well-being, Development and activity, Emotional well-being, Psychological well-being, Life satisfaction, Domain specific satisfaction, Engaging activities and work. The study used descriptive survey study designs with both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were employed. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaire from 240 undergraduates across 100 - 400 Level from Lagos state University, Ojo at Faculty of Education. A percentage was used to describe the students’ distribution according to sex, while t-test was used to test for the formulated hypothesis. The findings revealed that the Preventive Counselling on well-being viewed person of students and proved to be moderately effective in influencing undergraduate total wholesomely. It was concluded that Preventing Counseling services has an effect in shaping undergraduates well-being wholesomely. Based on this findings, the following recommendation were made that all undergraduate students should be made to register with the counselling centre and Government policy through her agency must make it mandatory for all undergraduate to have Guidance Counsellor.