Education, Male Child and Childlessness as Predictors of Spouse Abuse Among Rural and Urban Igbo-Nigerian Women

Nkwam C. Uwaoma, Agnes Osita-Njoku, Ann U. Madukwe

Abstract


This research work investigated education, male child and childlessness as predictors of spouse abuse among Ibowomen living in the rural and urban areas in Nigeria. The purposive sampling was used to select 331 married women, with age range of 22-66, and all living in Imo state. The spouse rape inventory (Sri) developed by Uwaoma, Udeagha and Madukwe, (2011) was used to collect data. The multiple regression analysis of the SPSS II version 15 was used to analyze data. The researchers found education and residential area as significant predictors while male child and childlessness were not significant predictors of spouse abuse. The discussion highlighted the role of education in equipping women with the knowledge of their sexual rights and skills on how to cope with marriage based problems especially when they live in the rural areas.

Key words: Education; Abuse; Spouse Abuse; Male Child; Childlessness

Résumé Ce travail de recherche a étudié l’éducation, les enfants de sexe masculin et l’infécondité comme des prédicteurs de violence conjugale chez les Ibo-femmes vivant dans les zones rurales et urbaines au Nigeria. L’échantillonnage raisonné a été utilisé pour sélectionner 331 femmes mariées, avec la gamme d’âge des 22-66, et tous vivent dans l’État d’Imo. L’inventaire viol conjoint (Sri) développé par Uwaoma, Udeagha et Madukwe, (2011) a été utilisé pour recueillir des données. L’analyse de régression multiple de la version SPSS II 15 a été utilisé pour analyser les données. Les chercheurs ont constaté domaine de l’éducation et résidentiel des prédicteurs significatifs tout enfant de sexe masculin et l’infécondité sont pas des prédicteurs significatifs de violence conjugale. La discussion a souligné le rôle de l’éducation à équiper les femmes de la connaissance de leurs droits sexuels et des compétences sur la façon de faire face à des problèmes de mariage à base surtout quand ils vivent dans les zones rurales.

Mots clés: Education; Violence; Violence conjugale; Enfant de sexe mâle; Infécondité


Keywords


Education; Abuse; Spouse Abuse; Male Child; Childlessness



DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.css.1923669720120801.378

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c)



Reminder

  • How to do online submission to another Journal?
  • If you have already registered in Journal A, then how can you submit another article to Journal B? It takes two steps to make it happen:

1. Register yourself in Journal B as an Author

  • Find the journal you want to submit to in CATEGORIES, click on “VIEW JOURNAL”, “Online Submissions”, “GO TO LOGIN” and “Edit My Profile”. Check “Author” on the “Edit Profile” page, then “Save”.

2. Submission

Online Submissionhttp://cscanada.org/index.php/css/submission/wizard

  • Go to “User Home”, and click on “Author” under the name of Journal B. You may start a New Submission by clicking on “CLICK HERE”.
  • We only use four mailboxes as follows to deal with issues about paper acceptance, payment and submission of electronic versions of our journals to databases: caooc@hotmail.com; office@cscanada.net; ccc@cscanada.net; ccc@cscanada.org

 Articles published in Canadian Social Science are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY).

 

Canadian Social Science Editorial Office

Address: 1020 Bouvier Street, Suite 400, Quebec City, Quebec, G2K 0K9, Canada.
Telephone: 1-514-558 6138 
Website: Http://www.cscanada.net; Http://www.cscanada.org 
E-mail:caooc@hotmail.com; office@cscanada.net

Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture