Greener Journal of Educational Research

Greener Journal of  Educational Research Vol. 8(4), pp. 094-100, June 2018

 ISSN: 2276-7789 

Research Article

Manuscript Number: 071217085

(DOI: http://doi.org/10.15580/GJER.2018.4.071217085)

 

Effects of Marital Stability and Divorce on the Academic Performance of Adolescent Students’ in Senior Secondary Schools in Ogun State, Nigeria

 

Dr. OYEROMI Samson O.¹, OLAOLU Festus A.²,

FADOKUN James B.³, and OMIYALE Grace T.⁴

 

 

National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration, Ondo, Nigeria

 

Emails: ¹iamforchrist2014@ gmail. com, ³jamesfad2000@ yahoo. com,

⁴tolutade2002@ yahoo. com

Abstract

The study aimed at examining the effects of marital crises and divorce on the academic performance of adolescent in the senior secondary schools.  Adolescence as a transitional stage into adulthood with physical changes and attending personality identify crises.  This stage therefore needs parental attention, unfortunately, marital crises and divorce at such a particular stage is inimical to the academic performance of adolescence and its fractional effects on both male and female adolescence.  The study used chi-square and student t-test to the test the hypotheses.  It was established that marital crises and divorce has significant negative impact on adolescent academic performance.  The study also affirmed that the effect of marital crises and divorce have effects on both male and female adolescent students.  The study however, recommends that marital crises and divorce should be discountenanced in the society.

Keywords: Marital instability; marriage; academic performance.

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