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The Influence Of Socio-cultural Variables On Marital Stability Among Couples
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1.6 Significance of the Study This study will be beneficial to these individuals:
(1)
Couples: Men and women who are in marital unions, would benefit from
the findings and recommendations of this study, because, it will enable
them to be more informed concerning factors that tend to make or mar
marriages. With this study, they would be able to learn how best to make
their marriages to work well or factors that can disintegrate it.
(2)
Parents: Parents would learn some factors that would help their
children of marriageable ages to live peacefully with their would-be
partners. Parents of children in marriageable ages would be able to
abreast with the facts that would lead them to be in good positions to
become marital counsellors to their children/wards.
(3)
Counsellors: Counsellors would see this study as a good information that
will help them to be in good position to give proper advice on factors
that help or destroy marriages, with the study, counselors would be able
to guide individuals who seek to marry on the best part to follow so as
to guide and secure their marriages.
(4) The Society: The
society is the beneficiary of happy marriages, because, if families are
at peace, it be beneficial to the society because the products of a
peaceful family is a product of united and peaceful society. Not only
that, individuals in the society will be exposed to a better knowledge
of the factors inherent in marital union.
1.7 Scope and
Limitations of the Study The scope of this study will be the influence
of socio-cultural variables on marital stability among couples in
Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. The research will cover
Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State since the research is
making use of only Mainland Local Government Area, the generalizability
of the findings is limited to the local government area. However, this
study cannot present all the marital problems exhibited by all the
couples in Lagos State considering the scope the generalizability of the
findings can only be applicable to the other couples in similar
conditions. There could be other problems that manifest among couples in
Lagos State, but this study will be restricted to the one’s highlighted
in the hypotheses.
1.8 Operational Definition of Terms The following operational terms will be defined in this study thus:
1.
Culture: This is defined as a term emerged whole of idea and things
produced by men in their historical experience by 1910 America
Anthropologists were using “Culture†to refer to distinctive of traits
characterizing particular tribal societies.
2. Culture
Heritage: This is a process of bringing together people of different
ideas and cultural background to have common interest and perceive a
common goal.
3. Marriage: Marriage husband and wife or
the legal joining together of two person’s of opposite sex as husband
and wife.
4. Cultural Variables: This means culture
differences and variations among individuals in a given society or
community. They can be socio-economic variables, education, age,
religion, etc.
5. Marital Stability: This refers to
happiness, bliss, or compatibility in marriage. The following factors
can bring about stability in marriage, they are age, religion,
socio-economic status, culture, etc.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]The study attempted to investigate the influence of socio-cultural variables on couples’ marital stability in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. The study employed the descriptive research survey for the assessment of the opinions of the respondents. The questionnaire was used to collect vital information for this study. A total of 160 (one hundred and sixty) respondents were sampled for this study to represent the entire population of the study. Four null hypotheses were test ... Continue reading---
