ABSTRACT
This study investigated the effect of length of marriage on sources of marital problems among married female students of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State. The population of married female students was 145; the sample was 103 of married female students. Descriptive survey designed was used. A simple random sampling method was used to select the married female students from the targeted school. Six hypotheses were raised and tested using Chi-square for data analysis and some of the findings are: (1) There is significant effect of length of marriage on sources of marital problems involving religious understanding among married female students of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic in Birnin Kebbi. (2) There is no significant effect of length of marriage on sources of marital problems involving sexual relations among married female students of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic in Birnin Kebbi. Therefore, it was recommended that husbands should try not to use religion to restrict their wives in school activities among other things that married female students need is to be helped, counselled and assisted so as to overcome these problems. It is also recommended that counsellors should organize a program for married female students to lecture them on how to stay with their in-laws and also how to interact with them.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
ABSTRACT
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
1.2 Statement of the Problem
1.3 Research Questions
1.4 Objectives of the Study
1.5 Research Hypotheses
1.6 Scope and Delimitation of the Study
1.7 Significance of the Study
1.8 Operational Definition of Terms
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Conceptual Framework of Marital Problems
2.3 Theoretical Framework of Marital Problems
2.3.1 The Conflict-Habituated Marriage
2.3.2 Devitalized Marriage
2.3.3 The Passive-Cogenial Marriage
2.3.4 The Vital Marriage
2.3.5 The Total Marriage
2.4 Origin of Marriage
2.5 Purpose of Marriage
2.6 Source of Marital Problems
2.6.1 Interpersonal Relationships
2.6.2 In-laws and Others
2.6.3 Economic Management
2.6.4 Polygamy
2.6.5 Religion
2.6.6 Sex
2.6.7 Children
2.6.8 Infertility or Barrenness
2.6.9 Tradition
2.7 Structural Variety in Marriage
2.8 Marital Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
2.9 General Effect of Marital Problems
2.9.1 Review of Related Empirical Studies
2.9.2 Summary and Uniqueness of the Study
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Research Design
3.3 Population of the Study
3.4 Sample and Sampling Techniques
3.4.1 Research Instruments
3.5 Validity of the Instrument
3.5.1 Reliability of the Instrument
3.6 Method of Data Collection
3.7 Data Analysis Method
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Descriptive Data
4.3 Hypotheses Testing
4.4 Summary of Findings
4.5 Discussion of Findings
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Summary of the Study
5.3 Conclusion
5.4 Recommendations
5.5 Implications for Counselling
5.6 Suggestions for further research
References
Appendices
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Education of women has been recognized as a crucial panacea for development of any nation. In virtually all public interactions, which have been convened to fashion out ways and means of optimizing the country's educational development, the need to provide women with equal opportunities of acquiring education including tertiary education has been emphasized. The continued emphasis of the need for quality, sound education of women is rooted in the saying that if you educate one woman, you have educated a nation. Government's effort at ensuring sound, quality education of women is reflected partly by its provision of post-primary female institutions of learning and its award of special scholarships to female students of various institutions of learning in the country. This intervention has spurred the women to pursue education to its zenith stage, the tertiary level. In the tertiary institutions established across the country, women have been enrolled in different courses of study. While some of these women are single, others are married. Married women have been acquiring tertiary education in the country with a plethora of challenges, which significantly affect their academic performance. It has been observed that most of the challenges affecting the performance of married female students of tertiary institutions have their roots in their marriage.
Marriage has been considered as a must-do thing by people in most societies of the world. This explains why in virtually all societies of the globe, unions called marriage exist between people of opposite sex. Marriage, which is embedded in the general culture of the society, involves a rigid, hierarchical structure that centres on the marital roles of the
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