Impact of Relationship Education Training on the Management of Marital Discords Among Young Couples in Colleges of Education in Nigeria

Abstract

This research work investigated impact of Relationship Education Training on the Management of Marital Discords among Young Couples in Nigerian Colleges of Education. Experimental research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised of all young couples in the 85 accredited Colleges of Education in Nigeria. Eight Colleges were used as sample schools for the study and a total of 240 conflicted and devitalized young couples in the eight Colleges of Education served as sample size for the study; 120 served in the experimental group and another120 for control group. Three sets of research instrument were developed and used for this study (A baseline questionnaire for young couples so as to assist the researcher in selecting the devitalized and conflicted couples for the study, Relationship Education Training Manual, and a Pre-test Post test questionnaire were also used in answering the research questions and also test the null hypotheses. The researcher employed the services of four (4) first degree holders as research assistants. This is because the study covered a large geographical location that will take a lot of time for the researcher to cover and to also have a successful and smooth conduct of the training and the administration of the research instrument. Descriptive statistics (Frequency, Percentage and mean) were used in answering the research questions. The Null hypotheses were tested using Independent t-test statistics at 0.05 Alpha level of significance. Findings from the study revealed that most of the respondents were ignorant and lack adequate knowledge of Relationship-education. Based on the results, the following recommendations were made: Remuneration, good salary, job satisfaction of social workers and counselors should be enhanced and regularly reviewed with full monitoring by the government officials. Training and retraining of counselors in the area of marriage relationship education should be organized regularly by the government and religious leaders as a way of updating the marriage counselors with useful knowledge in the area of relationship-education.

Key Words: Marriage, Relationship education training, Marital discord and Young couples

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/9-11-10

Publication date:June 30^th 2019