Effects Of Bibliotherapy Counselling in Curbing Anxiety and Depression among Students in Women Centers for Continuing Education in Sokoto Metropolis
*1Mukhtar Salihu Nawait and 2Sumayya Ango Namadi
*1Department of Business Education, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State Nigeria. Emai: ayodejiolafare@gmail.com
Cite this as: Nawait, M. S., & Namadi, S. A. (2026). Effects of Bibliotherapy Counselling in Curbing Anxiety and Depression among Students in Women Centers for Continuing Education in Sokoto Metropolis. Rima International Journal of Education, 5(2), 206—220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.65760/rijessu.v5.2.15
Abstract
This study investigated on the effectiveness of bibliotherapy counselling in reducing depression and anxiety among married women attending Women’s Centres for Continuing Education in Sokoto State. The study adopted quasi-experimental survey of pre-test and post-test control design. Eighty (80) married women were sampled for meeting inclusion criteria via multi-stage sampling and assigned to an experimental bibliotherapy group (n = 40) and a control group (n = 40). Two Objectives and two hypotheses were formulated that guided the study. Two adopted questionnaires named Beck Depression Inventory (ADI) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) were used for data collection. Data were analyzed using one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to control for pretest scores. All statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 26. The results showed dramatic reductions for the bibliotherapy experimental group. It was recommended that bibliothrapy counselling intervention should be integrated among the counselling services render in the center.
Keywords
Bibliotherapy Counselling; Depression; Anxiety; Women’s Centres; Adult Education; Mental Health Intervention; Sokoto
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