A Study Of Family Disintegration And Deviant Behabiour
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Research Methodology
 Methodology is an important segment of any scientific research endeavour such that  some have described it as the heart of scientific research work. This is because it is the section devoted for the explanation of the general methods and procedures that were used in conducting the research work According to Stay and Margaret (1999), methodology is a step by step procedure by means of which research data are collected, collated and analyzed in order to achieve the general and specific objectives of the research. Specifically in this study, this section will focus on the research design, sample and sampling procedure as well as the instrument of data collection, validity and reliability of the study and the procedure for the administration of the instrument and method of data analysis adopted in this study.


3.3.1    Research Design
A research is a form of planned collection of data for the purpose of description and prediction as a guide to action or for the purpose of analyzing the relationship among certain variables (Nnamdi, 2003). This study is purely a survey research and survey design becomes the best method to be used in conducting the research. This is because of the focus of the study which aimed at examining the relationship between two operational variables.
3.3.2    Sampling Procedure
Osuala(1982) asserted that no concept is fundamental to the conduct of research and the interpretation of its result as in sampling. This is because it is always difficult to study the whole population under consideration. The sampling technique which was generally  adopted for the conduct of this study is multi-stage sampling technique. This is because the area of the study was first delineated into clusters with the use of cluster sampling method, secondly, purposive sampling method was used to purposely choose the specific areas that would be suitable to get relevant respondents for the study after which simple random sampling technique is used to select prospective respondents from the area selected for the study.
3.3.3    Sampling Size
Adewumi (1998) and Bichi (2004) believed that a survey research is a means of collecting information from a representative sample, to describe the situation as they exist. Best (1997) and Sax (1998) also stress that survey research design is a useful scientific tool to employ when one is interested in the opinions and behavior of people as welt as the relationship of these attitudes to the respondents overt behaviours. In this work however we will consider the random sampling technique in which one hundred and twenty eight (128) questionnaires will be distributed to the selected population size.
3.3.4     Research Instrument
The major data used for analysis in this research is primary data and it is essentially gotten from a primary source. As such, questionnaire is the major instrument of data collection for this study. According to Burns and Dobson (199)), the questionnaire is an important instrument which is used to elicit information that covers a long period of time in a minutes from the respondents. Also, Ipaye (1992) described a questionnaire as a sortof standardized interview. The questionnaire is sub-divided into four sections in which section A of the questionnaire sought information on the demographic data of the respondents. The section B sought information on experience of family disintegration while section C examined the variable in measuring family disintegration while section D examines the relationship between family disintegration and deviant behaviour.
3.3.5     Validity and Reliability of the Research Instrument
The validity of an instrument is how well it fulfills the function for which it is being used.Validity refers to the degree to which a test measures what it intend to measure (Denga : 1991). According to Adewumi (1998), a measuring instrument is said to be valid when it measures truly and accurately the quality and ability one wants to measure. Validity is of four  types, content, concurrent, predictive and constructs validity.