Domestic Violence and its Effect on the Academic Performance of Students in Jordan

Abstract

The study aimed at investigating the effect of domestic violence on the academic performance of students from the advisors' point of view, and also to know the effect of experience, gender, qualification of educational advisors and the students' financial level.

The sample of the study consisted of 90 educational advisors, 46 males and 44 females from  Jordanian public schools in Amman, Irbid and Karak. Means and standard deviations and T-test were used to analyze the results.

Results showed that there are statistically significant differences in educational advisors' attitudes towards the effect of domestic violence on students' achievement, it also shows that there are statistically significant differences at (a= 0.05) in their attitudes due to experience variable, and no statistically significant differences at (a= 0.05) in their attitudes due to gender variable, there are a clear statistically significant differences in educational advisors' attitudes towards the effect of domestic violence on students' achievement due to their qualification and the students' financial level variables.

Key words: Educational Advisors, Domestic Violence, Academic Achievement