RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONAL FACTORS AND MARITAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION STRATEGIES AMONG MARRIED PEOPLE IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the relationship between personal factors and marital conflict resolution strategies among married people in Enugu State. To guide the study, three research questions and five null hypotheses were formulated to establish the degree of relationship. The correlational survey design was adopted in carrying out the study. Using an estimated population of 246,849 couples, the multi-stage sampling involving purposive random sampling procedure as well as stratified sampling method was used to compose a sample of 600 married people. A researcher constructed questionnaire titled ' Family conflict resolution strategy inventory (FCRSI) with face validation and a reliability co-efficient of 0.84 was used in data collection. On the spot administration and collection of data was used. The data collected were analyzed through the use of frequencies, mean scores, standard deviation, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and t-test of significant relations...