Effects of Marital Conflict Management Skills on Marital Stability Among Literate Couples in Northern Cross River State

Effects of Marital Conflict Management Skills on Marital Stability Among Literate Couples in Northern Cross River State. 

ABSTRACT  

This study was undertaken to find out the acquisition of management skills and how this stabilizes a marriage relationship in term of conflict in the home. The study was also aimed at discovering the effect of treatment on couples who attended a management skill programme and those who do not. A total of two thousand couples was selected by purposive sampling technique from ten churches in the Northern Cross River State.

These couples were found to have some deficiency in management skill and so conflict were often times mismanaged. The couples for experimental study were put into two groups. The experimental and control. The experimental received treatment while the control did not. The experimental group programme was packaged into four weeks interaction sessions, each lasting for one hour. Pre-test post-test using couple’s checklist was collected from the two groups.

The two research designs of the study included the survey and quasiexperimental pre-test post-test. The principles of using two designs were employed to adequately maximize the collection of data. Analysis of the research questions was done using statistical package for social science (SPSS), means and standard deviations while the hypotheses were tested using both t-test for independent samples and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGES
Title Page – – – – – – – – – i
Declaration – — – – – – – – – ii
Certification – – – – – – – – iii
Acknowledgements – – – – – – – – iv
Dedication – – – – – – – – – vii
Table Of Contents – – – – – – – – viii
List of Tables – – – – – – – – xiv
List of Figures – – – – – – – – x
Abstract – – – – – – – – – xvii

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY – – – – – 1
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM – – – – 9
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY – – – – – – 12
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS – – – – – – 13
1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES – – – – – 13
1.6 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK – – – – – 14
1.7 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY – – – – – 21
1.8 DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY – – – – – 23
1.9 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS – – – 24

CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE – – – – 27
2.2 THE CONCEPT OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY- – – 30
2.3 TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE – – – – – 41
2.4 CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE – – – – – – 47
2.5 ISLAMIC MARRIAGE – – – – – – 50
2.6 MARITAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS – – – – – 61
2.7 MARITAL CONFLICT MANAGEMENT SKILLS (PACKAGE) – 66
2.8 TYPES OF MARITAL CONFLICT – – – – – 75
2.9 CAUSES OF MARITAL CONFLICTS – – – – 77
2.10 GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING – – – 86
2.11 EFFECTS OF CONFLICTS – – – – – 91
2.12 THE NEED FOR MARITAL COUNSELLING IN SCHOOL
COUNSELLING IMPLICATION – – – – – 116
2.13 EMPIRICAL STUDIES – – – – – – 119
2.14 SUMMARY OF THE REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE – 125

CHAPTER THREE: METHODS AND PROCEDURE
3.1 METHODS AND PROCEDURE – – – – – 129
3.2 THE RESEARCH DESIGN – – – – – 129
3.3 AREA OF STUDY – – – – – – – 132
3.4 THE POPULATION – – – – – – 133
3.5 SAMPLE – – – – – – – – 137
3.6 SAMPLING TECHNIQUES – – – – – 142
3.7 INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION AND ADMINISTRATON- 143
3.8 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION- – – – – 147
3.9 DATA ANALYSIS – – – – – – – 151
3.10 PILOT STUDY REPORT- – – – – – – 152

CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION – – – – – 158
4.2 DATA PRESENTATION – – – – – – 158
4.3 ANALYSIS OF THE RESEARCH STUDY – – – 162
4.4 TEST OF HYPOTHESES – – – – – – 178

CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND
CONCLUSION
5.1 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND
CONCLUSION – – – – – – – 198
5.2 SUMMARY OF RESULTS – – – – – – 198
5.3 RESEARCH FINDINGS – – – – – – 200
5.4 RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS – – – – – 206
5.5 RECOMMENDATIONS – – – – – – 208
5.6 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES – – – – 212
5.7 CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE – – – – 213
5.8 CONCLUSION – – – – – – – 215

REFERENCES – – – – – – – 217
APPENDICES – – – – – – – 233

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY  

The institution of marriage is as old as the creation of man. It is the coming together of two persons in love with consent of parents, guardians and witnesses for the purpose of procreation and companionship. In the context of this work, it is the heterosexual relationship of consenting adults who maintain some form of socially approved sexual relationship, sharing a common residence, engaging in economic co-operation and procreation.

Marriage is expected to be an affair of intimacy and compromise, where spouses complement each other.It is also expected to be “for better and for worse” but the current trend in the marriage dyad departs from these traditional assertions, as the marital union is today a mere association where rancour, conflict, savage mutual attacks are endemic (Burk, 2000; Dadi, 2004).

Today the couples tend to dwell together only when things are rosy and prefer to leave or separate when misunderstandings occur or when a conflictual situation arises. Despite the threats of the disintegration in marriages, there are still model marriages whose dispositions give hope for badly managed ones. Conflict is said to be good, especially when the tension so generated leads to change which may be thought aggressive, yet ultimately ends in convincingly peaceful resolution.

Thus, though conflict is disruptive, it helps to create awareness among different people, groups and society with respect to the existence of boundaries of common interest. Any attempt by any group to step beyond the bounds generates conflict, which may be capable of disrupting the entire system. Conflict here is seen as being both positive and negative. Essuman (1988) maintains that it is positive when the persons involved are agitating for positive changes in their relationship, and it is negative when conflict is due to their own selfish aims.

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StudentsandScholarship Team.