Citation

Akintoke VA. Arab. J. Bus. Manag. Rev. (Kuwait) 2016; 6(3): 1-6.

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(Copyright © 2016, ZARSMI & Arabain Group of Journals)

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Abstract

The study investigated the influence of religious beliefs and educational level of couples on domestic violence in Ekiti State, Nigeria. A sample of 516 people were selected from all the married people in Ekiti State, Nigeria using stratified random sampling technique. The instrument was a questionnaire designed to collect information on the participants' experience and involvement in domestic violence. The instrument has reliability co-efficient of 0.86 which was established using a test re-test method. Two hypotheses were postulated and tested at 0.05 level of Significance. Analysis of data using (ANOVA) revealed that couples religious beliefs significantly influence Domestic Violence (F = 26.96) Schaefe Post-hoc test showed that, there exist a significant pair wise difference between Christian and Muslim couple, Christian and other religion, Muslim and other religion in terms of prevalence of Domestic Violence among couples. It was also found out that couples' educational level significantly influencde Domestic Violence (F = 2.53) Scheffe Post-hoc test also showed a significant difference in domestic violence between Grade II certificate holders and Ph.D holders and a significant difference between B:Ed/HND holders and Grade II holders. Based on the findings, it was recommended that couples should be compatible in their religion and that, would be couples should consider each other's educational level as an important factor in partner's selection, ensuring that gap in their educational qualifications is not too wide.

Language: en