Impact Of Family Conflict On Academic Performance Of Undergraduate Biology Education Student In UNN

Impact Of Family Conflict On Academic Performance Of Undergraduate Biology Education Student In UNN (Daniel)
Abstract
This research project on impact of family conflict on academic performance of undergraduate biology education student in Unn. These problems that bring about family conflict is attributed to lack of understanding among couples, poverty, background, social influence, early marriage etc. all these have their consequences which are fighting, quarrelling, maltreatment, emotional stress, neglect, lack of family affection, being away from home which has resulted to a great number of divorces and separation. As a result, the aim is to look into the issue of family conflicts. Findings show that many couples or married couples find it difficult to cope with problem when it arises which led to misunderstanding between another. It was also discovered that third party also brings family conflicts. Research also shows that couples are able to train their children in the way they should from the result of findings, recommendation include the married couples and the intending to marry should be given counselling.
Table of Content
- Title Page
- Certification
- Dedication
- Acknowledgement
- Table of Content
- List of Tables
- Abstract
Chapter One:
Introduction
- 1.1 Background of the Study
- 1.2 Statement of the Problem
- 1.3 Objective of the Study
- 1.4 Research Questions
- 1.5 Research Hypothesis
- 1.6 Significance of the Study
- 1.7 Scope of the Study
- 1.8 Limitation of the Study
- 1.9 Definition of Terms
- 1.10 Organisations of the Study
Chapter Two:
Review of Literature
- 2.1 Conceptual Framework
- 2.2 Theoretical Framework
- 2.3 Empirical Review
Chapter Three:
Research Methodology
- 3.1 Research Design
- 3.2 Population of the Study
- 3.3 Sample Size Determination
- 3.4 Sample Size Selection Technique and Procedure
- 3.5 Research Instrument and Administration
- 3.6 Method of Data Collection
- 3.7 Method of Data Analysis
- 3.8 Validity of the Study
- 3.9 Reliability of the Study
- 3.10 Ethical Consideration
Chapter Four:
Data Presentation and Analysis
- 4.1 Data Presentation
- 4.2 Analysis of Data
- 4.3 Answering Research Questions
- 4.4 Test of Hypotheses
Chapter Five:
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation
- 5.1 Summary
- 5.2 Conclusion
- 5.3 Recommendation
- References
- APPENDIX
- QUESTIONNAIRE
Chapter One
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
Conflict can be defined as the lack of peace in an environment. Conflict in a family therefore refers to a situation whereby the smooth interaction and relation among members of a family is disrupted because of one thing or another. It can be between the two parents or between parents and their children. Conflict in a family can be as a result of lack of trust, drunkenness, and lack of dialogue, lack of respect, joblessness and idleness. It comes in form of fights, quarrels, spouse battering, child abuses and child molestation. It can result to a bad atmosphere in the home, separation or even divorce. According to Walker (1999), studies carried out have shown that when one form of violence was found in the family, other forms were more likely to also occur and that violence in the family has a direct relationship to community violence and other forms of aggression and gender based violence. Law enforcement in many countries will not intervene in what is often called a “domestic quarrel” even though psychological research indicates that without such intervention, abusers are unlikely to seek help to stop their battering behavior. Research has found a strong relationship between violence in the home and violence in the community. Golden (2000) reports that it has been found that prior history of abuse can increase the likelihood of abusive behavior. According to Steinberg (1996), parental conflict and aggression or a conflict atmosphere in the home is related to offspring’s personal or violent crimes. Murphy and O’Farrell (1994) highlighted the view that parents play a central role in shaping the child’s development through their influence.
Thus if parents keep having conflicts in their homes, children are bound to be affected as they grow up. They also asserted that children learn through imitating and identification with the parents and other significant adults. If the children grow up in a family where violence is a common phenomenon, they may end up doing the same in their families, unless intervention is carried out. The first important influence on children is the family but children and families are interactive members of a large system of social institutions, such as the school, the workplace and 2 community. Parental involvement and education improve both family and child functioning. It has been found out that parental involvement in a child might have lasting effects on its behaviour. Steinberg (1996) assets that conflict is a critical aspect of family functioning that often outweighs the influence of family structure on the child’s development. He also reports that studies carried out have found that children’s health and social development is most effectively promoted by love and at least some moderate parental control. According to Seifert and Hoffnung (1997), children who have lived for years in situations of neglect or abuse suffer severe stress. They also state that students often receive long term support from parents or other adults at home as well as strong support from teachers and others at school. Involving parents in learning activities with their children at home is one kind of parental involvement that many educators believe is an important aspect of the child’s learning. If the family is undergoing conflict, parents will not have time for their children. Men, who more often use violence, do so in order to obtain and maintain power and control over others. The APA task force on violence and the family defined domestic violence as a pattern of abusive behaviors including a wide range of physical, sexual and psychological maltreatment used by one person in an intimate relationship against another to gain power unfairly or maintain that person’s misuse of power, control and authority.
Berk (1999) asserts that problematic school performance is among the more common problems associated with child abuse and neglect. Such children often experience difficulties with social relationship, problem solving and the ability to cope with new or stressful situations. According to studies carried out, some abused or neglected children develop aggressive behavior patterns, others become withdrawn while others even get PTSD or major depression. Kiura (1999) asserts that a healthy relationship between husband and wife depends on self-understanding, understanding spouse, balance between individuality, mutual relationship, proper management of conflicts, sexual harmony and sound skills in mutual dialogue and communication. He also says that parents need to assume responsibility for their children’s eternal destiny, educate them, prepare them for life and guide them towards the right way. If parents are not in harmony, it follows that their children will suffer too. They not only suffer at home but also when they go to school or visit friends by carrying the burden of their parents with them.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
In Nigeria today, hardly a week goes by before it is reported in the media that a child or its parents or both have been hospitalized or killed as a result of family conflicts. Other cases reported are those whereby a woman packs and leaves her matrimonial home with her children because she can no longer tolerate her husband’s behavior. There are even cases whereby it is the men who move out of their homes to look for peace elsewhere. There have also been cases of suicidal killings, where the head of the family kills his wife and children before killing himself. There is also the case of street children, some of whom are on the streets because they have run away from violent home environments, Ajila, C. & Olutola, A. (2007).
These incidents take place not only in rural areas but also in urban ones. Nigeria has also recorded some of these incidents. When families are in conflict, it affects children in their physical, cognitive, affective and even spiritual growth. Their lives are enclosed or imprisoned if they continue being exposed to a violent environment. For some, such an environment means that they have no access to formal education and their cognitive and affective developments are tampered with. This study, therefore, sought to find out the impact of family conflicts on a pupil especially on his or her academic performance and relationship with peers.
1.3 Objectives of the Study
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of family conflict on academic performance of undergraduate biology education student in UNN. this study was guided by the following objectives:
- To determine the extent to which conflicts in a family affect students’ academic performance.
- To establish the nature of the relationship between students who experience family conflicts and their peers.
- To establish whether it is the male or female students who are more affected by conflicts in families.
- To establish the nature of the relationship between students who experience family conflicts and their teachers.
1.4 Research Questions
The following research questions are therefore formulated
- To what extent do conflicts in a family affect students’ academic performance?
- What is the nature of the relationship between students who experience family conflicts and their peers?
- Who, in terms of male or female, is more affected by conflicts in families?
- What is the nature of the relationship between students who experience family conflicts and their teachers?
1.5 Hypothesis of the Study
The study formulated the following hypothesis for the study
- H0: There is no significant relationship between family conflict and academic performance of undergraduate biology education student in UNN.
- Hi: There is a significant relationship between family conflict and academic performance of undergraduate biology education student in UNN.
1.6 Significance of the Study
The findings of this study may be of help to teachers and parents and it will add knowledge to the body of literature on family conflict. The study will be of help to parents and especially those who experience problems in their families. They will understand how problems in a family can affect their students’ short-term life and to some extent, their future. This will encourage such parents to embrace dialogue and understanding in an effort of trying to solve their problems. In instances where the problems are severe, they can engage the services of a counsellor so that harmony prevails. The study will also contribute to the body of literature on family conflicts and its influence on a primary school students’ academic performance and interpersonal skills with specific reference to primary schools in Enugu Metropolis.
This study dealt with primary schools and thus it will make an improvement to the related situations. 5 It may also be of benefit to counsellors, especially those stationed in schools. They can be able to offer intervention measures to students who come from families that experience conflict in an effort to help them concentrate on their studies and build good relationships with other students. The findings may be useful to teachers especially because they spend more time with the students at school. They can intervene by referring students to the school counsellor or by calling the parents of the pupil and discussing the pupil’s behaviour and academic performance.
1.7 Scope of the Study
The study was carried out in Enugu Metropolis, Enugu state. It involved undergraduate biology education student in UNN within the state. The study used lecturers and students by filling in the questionnaires. The study was concerned with the impact of family conflicts on students in their academic performance and interpersonal relationships.
1.8 Limitation of the Study
Like in every human endeavour, the researcher will encounter slight constraints while carrying out the study. Insufficient funds tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature, or information and in the process of data collection, which is why the researcher will resort to a limited choice of sample size. More so, the researcher might simultaneously engaged in this study with other academic work. As a result, the amount of time spent on research will be reduced.
1.9 Definition of Terms
The following terms, which were important to the study, had the following operational meanings:-
Academic Performance:
This is how students are ranked in terms of educational achievement. In this study, academic performance means how the students fair on in their studies as compared to others in the same class.
Child Abuse:
The act of harming a pupil in a physical, sexual or emotional way. In this study, child abuse refers to any harm that undergraduate biology education student in UNN undergo, be it physical, sexual or emotional.
Conflict:
It is a mutual opposition or difference between two parents or between parents and their students in a family. It is a state of disagreement or argument in a family. In this study, conflict means the disagreements or oppositions that pupil under study face in their families, either directly from their parents or indirectly when they witness their parents’ arguments.
Delinquency:
Bad or Criminal behavior, usually of young people. In this study, it means bad or criminal behavior practiced by public primary school students.
Family:
It is a social unit made up of people related to each other by blood, birth or marriage. In this study, family is a social unit made up of public primary school students and their parents or guardians.
Family Conflict:
This refers to problems, oppositions or differences that occur within the family set up. In this study, it refers to problems, oppositions or differences that public primary school students face within their families.
Family Violence:
Physical force that is intended to hurt or kill within the family set up. It is characterized by serious physical injury, profound psychological trauma or sexual violation. In this study, family violence means physical or psychological injury that students experience within their families.
Impact:
This means to have a powerful effect on something or someone. It can also refer to a force that drives someone into behaving in a certain way. In this study, it means the force that drives students to act in a certain way.
Interpersonal Relationships:
This is how someone communicates with others; the way a person relates to others in a family or school. In this study, it refers to the way students communicate with peers in school and family members at home.
Maltreated Children:
These are children who experience cruelty from their parents. Maltreatment is characterized by minimal physical or sexual harm. In this study, it refers to students who are treated in a cruel way by their parents or guardians.
Pupil:
This is anybody, child or adult, who is enrolled in a primary school for Primary Education. In this study, the students include those who come from families where there is conflict and those whose families do not experience conflict.
1.10 Organization of the Study
This research work is organized in five chapters, for easy understanding, as follows
- Chapter one is concern with the introduction, which consist of the (overview, of the study), statement of problem, objectives of the study, research question, significance or the study, research methodology, definition of terms and historical background of the study.
- Chapter two highlight the theoretical framework on which the study is based, thus the review of related literature.
- Chapter three deals on the research design and methodology adopted in the study.
- Chapter four concentrate on the data collection and analysis and presentation of finding.
- Chapter five gives summary, conclusion, and recommendations made of the study.
Chapter Five
Summary Conclusion and Recommendation
5.1 Introduction
It is pertinent to note that this research was aimed at assessing the “impact of family conflict on academic performance of undergraduate biology education student in unn”. In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges associated with marital conflicts on the academic performance of students in Nigeria.
5.2 Summary
The study was an assessment of how family conflicts affect a pupil in terms of academics and the students’ relationship with others. The objectives of this study were:-
- To determine the extent to which conflicts in a family affect students’ academic performance.
- To establish the nature of the relationship between students who experience family conflicts and their peers.
- To establish whether it is the male or female students who are more affected by conflicts in families.
- To establish the nature of the relationship between students who experience family conflicts and their teachers.
- To determine the attitude of the students who experience family conflicts towards their parents, peers and school.
- To determine the role of the school’s counsellor in assisting students who experience family conflicts.
This study was conducted in UNN, Enugu state. Purposive sampling was used to select undergraduate biology education student in UNN. In each of these schools, class seven and eight students who constituted the sample were selected using stratified random sampling. The class teachers of class seven and eight in the schools selected were purposively selected into the sample. Statistical analysis was employed to draw conclusions according to stated research questions. Based on the
5.3 Conclusion
The study examined the effect of marital conflicts on academic performance of undergraduate biology education student in UNN. The results of the findings indicated that children of divorced/separated are prone to drug addiction, armed robbery, commercial sex workers and other forms of criminal activity. The reason is that most of them tend to be deviants or non-conformist by virtue of the fact that there was no body to monitor them and control their behaviour. Meanwhile, it was also discovered that children of the divorced/separated parents tend to go wayward, naughty, unruly and rebellious. Furthermore, the study also established that children who grow up in a single parent family are more used for trafficking, rituals and house helps than the children who grow up in an intact family. Majority of the respondents also agreed that children of the divorced parents are likely to face rejection, suffering and economic hardship and those of them that find themselves in unstable homes tend to be aggressive in nature and are more likely to be fostered out than the children whose parents are not divorced. A convincing assessment of the impact of marital instability on children status therefore requires a credibly exogenous determinant of marital instability. The findings from this study demand urgent attention by all concerned, including counselling psychologists, marriage counsellors, religious leaders, married couples and the entire public. This is because the study has revealed and confirmed the reality of marriage instability. Prevention they say is better than cure. Therefore, the results from this study should be of paramount interest and concern to marriage counsellors.
5.4 Recommendations
Based on the above conclusions, the researcher made the following recommendations:-
- Parents or guardians who are experiencing conflicts in their families should consider counselling options as soon as possible to avoid negative effects on their students.
- The schools and the Ministry of Education should consider training peer counsellors among the students so that they can assist their fellow students.
- Subject teachers should refer any pupil to the guidance and counselling officers when they detect a problem in them.
- Teachers in schools should frequently organise parents days whereby parents or guardians go to school and together with the students get a full report on the pupil’s overall performance.
- Parents and teachers should unite with a common goal of fully assisting students to excel academically and socially.
- All schools should have a school counsellor from whom students can seek assistance.
- The Ministry of Education should introduce in-service training in guidance and counselling for all teachers who do not have basic training in guidance and counselling skills. This will equip the teacher with skills to handle students who require assistance

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