Factors Responsible For Sexual Abuse As Expressed By Students Of Federal College Of Education, Osiele Abeokuta, Nigeria

CHAPTER FIVE
DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Preamble
    This chapter focuses on a general discussion of findings of this study. It also presents the conclusion, recommendations and suggestion for further research. The study was designed to find out the factors responsible for sexual abused is expressed by students of College of Education, Abeokuta, Ogun State. To achieve this, a questionnaire tagged ‘factors Responsible for Sexual Abuse Questionnaire” (FRSAQ) was designed in other to determined he expressed factors responsible for sexual abuse and four hypotheses were formulated and tested.
    The researcher also found out whether or not there was any significant difference in the expression of the factors responsible for sexual abuse by students of College of Education, Abeokuta on the basis of Gender, Religion, Level, and Age of the respondents.
Discussion
    The results of the study are discussed based on the distribution of respondents by Gender, religion, level and age. Distribution of respondents according to sex indicates that each gender had frequency of 84 respondents for males with a percentage of 42.0% and 116 female respondents with 58.0%. The age distribution indicates that 22 or 11.0% respondents are in the age bracket of 16 – 20 years 95 or 47.5% respondents are in the age bracket 21 – 25 years while 83 or 41.5% respondents are in the age bracket of 26 years and above.
    Distribution of respondents by religion indicates that 140 respondents with a frequency percentage of 70.0% are Christians, while 60 respondents representing 30.0% of the total sample are Muslim (Islam).
    In table 4, items ranking analysis was presented and it was used to answer the research question and it also revealed that item 7 was ranked 1st with a mean of 3.215 and it shows that “sexual abuse occurs when males are pre-occupied with viewing pornography”. Item 4 was ranked 2nd with a mean of 3.200 and it shows dresses revealing part of the breast or abdomen”. Item 20 was ranked 3rd with a mean of 3.110 and it stated that “sexual abuse occurs when the individual is unable to control his sexual urges”.
    In the factors responsible for sexual abuse, the respondents expressed that indecent dressing was the most influential factor because it has the highest mean score of 2.953 among all other factors therefore, it was ranked 1st. next influencial factor as expressed by respondent students was the peer group factor, it has a mean of 2.653 and it was therefore ranked 2nd influential. Factor is the emotional factor and it was ranked 3rd because it has a mean of 2.640 which is lesser than the means of indecent dressing factors and peer group factors. The least influencial factors is the Revenge/punishment factor, it was ranked 4th because it had the lowest mean among all other factors and its mean is 2.505, therefore it is least influencial.
    Hypothesis one states that there is no significant difference in the expression of the factor responsible for sexual abuse among male and female students of College of Education, Abeokuta. The result shows that there is no significant difference in the expression of male and female students toward sexual abuse because the calculated t-value of 0.44 is less than the critical t-value of 1.96. Hence the hypotheses was accepted. This result agrees with the findings of Schemidt (1987), who explained that gender differences in other aspect of sexuality such as desire for sex. Motive for having intercourse and arousal response to erotic materials are not so well documented or else the differences that existed as generation ego have evaporated in recent years. For the most part, then male and female are now quite similar in their sexuality. One may conclude from the finding that both male and female respondents agreed that indecent dressing, peer groups, emotional and Revenge/Punishment factors are responsible for sexual abuse. 
    Hypothesis two stated that there is no significant difference in the expression of the factors responsible for sexual abuse among respondents who are Christians and their Muslim counterparts. The result shows that no significant difference was found and the hypothesis was therefore accepted. Hypothesis two was accepted because the calculated t-value of 0.72 is less than the critical t-value of 1.96. This shows that even religion of the respondents do not even make any difference in the perception of the factors responsible for sexual abuse; both Christians and Muslims believed in the same factors to be responsible for sexual abuse.