Influence of Domestic Violence on Senior Secondary School Students’ Career Choice in Kwara State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the influence of domestic violence on senior secondary school students’ career choice in Kwara State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examined the level of domestic violence and career choice as experienced by the students. Two research questions were raised and one hypothesis was postulated. A descriptive survey type of research design was adopted. The population for this study comprised all senior secondary school students in Kwara State, Nigeria. Senior secondary schools were stratified into three senatorial districts and a senatorial district was randomly selected. 450 senior secondary school students formed the target population of which 300 and 150 students were proportionately sampled for public and private senior secondary schools respectively. The results showed that the majority of 82.0% of the secondary school students in the selected senatorial district of Kwara State experienced a moderate level of domestic violence. The result also showed that the level of career choice of the majority of 85.6% of senior secondary school students in Kwara State was high. There was a significant influence of domestic violence on students’ career choice, ?2 (n = 450) = 6.945, p < .05. This study concluded that domestic violence had an adverse influence on the career choice of secondary school students in Kwara State, Nigeria. It was therefore recommended among others there should be a sensitizing programme for young couples, parents and guardians on how to manage each other against domestic violence and its consequences on homes and students because students are leaders of tomorrow of our society.