Relationship Red Flags and Conjugal Satisfaction of Secondary School Teachers in Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District, Nigeria
*1Idopise Okon James, 2Ogho Ifeanyi Nyorere, & Unwanaobong D. Uyanga
*1&3Department of Sociological Foundations of Education, University of Uyo Email: idopisejames500@gmail.com1* & 3unwanauyanga@gmail.com3
2Department of Educational Foundations, University of Benin, Edo State Email: inyorere@yahoo.com
Abstract
The researchers investigated the difference in conjugal satisfaction of secondary school teachers based on red flags in their marital relationship in Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District, Nigeria. Three research questions were raised for the study. Ex-post-facto design was adopted while the population comprised 2,895 teachers in the 89 public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District. A sample size of 340 legally married teachers was selected for the study through the use of a multi-stage sampling procedure. In one of the stages, balloting method of random sampling was used in the selection of 34 sampled schools as well as 10 married teachers from each of the sampled schools for instrument administration. The researchers’ structured questionnaire titled “Relationship Red Flags and Conjugal Satisfaction of Teachers Questionnaire (RRFCSTQ)” was used for data collection, with the reliability co-efficient of .76 and .83 for relationship red flags and conjugal satisfaction of teachers respectively, using Cronbach Alpha statistics. Descriptive statistics (mean) was used to answer the research questions. All the findings revealed a low conjugal satisfaction of teachers based on verbal bullying, physical abuse and infidelity. Conclusion was drawn from the finding while the researchers’ recommended among other things that, spouses should avoid insulting comments, name-calling and public embarrassment of their partner so that they and their children can grow up with high self-esteem
Keywords
Relationship Red Flags, Conjugal Satisfaction, Verbal Bullying, Physical Abuse and Infidelity
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