ABSTRACT Divorce is unexpected experience among married men and women that cut short their life dreams against the divine intended purpose for marriage and family as a unit. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing divorce among Christian couples in MCK Mwiteria Circuit. Specifically, the study sought to establish the influence of infidelity on divorce among couples in MCK Mwiteria Circuit, to evaluate the influence of domestic violence on divorce among couples in...
ABSTRACT Globally marital unions are constantly facing myriads of challenges putting relationships in a crisis mode. The study was to explore factors influencing marital stability among elderly couples aged over 55 years in Westlands Sub-county of Nairobi. This study used the following study objectives; To explain the extent to which factors in the management of conflict influence marital stability among elderly couples in Westlands sub-county, Nairobi, Kenya, To describe the factors of quali...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate into the challenges experienced in drug and substance abuse cessation efforts by students in secondary schools in Machakos County. The following were the four objectives of the study; to investigate individual challenges experienced by students in secondary schools in Machakos Town in their effort to stop abusing drugs, to establish family challenges experienced by students in secondary schools in Machakos Town in their efforts to stop ab...
ABSTRACT Retirement occurs when one leaves formal employment to other engagement that may not be part of their previous work. It can also be seen as cessation of one stage of life to a new one. Most studies have concentrated on allocation and disbursement of pensions and the experiences of the retirees. Few studies have identified factors that influence the adjustment of retirees from civil service in Kenya. The objectives were to establish the influence of pre- retirement preparations on ad...
ABSTRACT The study examined the influence of self disclosure, perceived stigma and social support on students’ attitude and intentions to seek counselling. Four hundred and ninety nine (266 male and 233 female) undergraduates of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, aged 18 to 28years (mean age= 23.90, SD= 2.70), participated in the study. Attitude was measured using Attitude Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale while Intentions was measured using Intentions of Seeking Counselling...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the association between trauma centrality, emotion regulation strategies, and PTSD symptoms. It was also aimed at testing the nature of association between event centrality and PTSD could change as a function of emotion regulation strategies (moderation). Participants were 859 internally displaced Tiv persons (male = 434, females = 425), randomly selected from two major temporary camps of the displaced Tiv persons in Markurdi, capital of Benu...
The purpose of this study was to find out teachers’ knowledge of suicidal behavior risk factors of adolescents in public Secondary Schools in Nyandarua South District, Kenya. The study employed a concurrent triangulation research methodology; both descriptive cross sectional survey and naturalistic phenomenology designs were used. Probability and non probability sampling methods were used to sample 73 teachers and 11 teacher counselors respectively. The study used 50% of the total popu...
ABSTRACT The study of psychological empowerment have been neglected locally,regionally and internationally. Different empowerment programs that have been introduced worldwide have failed to address the matter from a psychological standpoint. Negligence of psychological empowerment programes globally has therefore contributed to high rate of unemployment amongst the youth’s.The fact that the youth’s are the most disadvantaged group drive the researcher to carry out a study that targeted th...
ABSTRACT The researcher sought to study on the strategies used by Midlands State University students to cope with academic stress. The research was enriched with a couple of theories,relavant literature by other authors and previous studies that supported the research. The students were sampled using stratified random sampling. Stratification comprised of strata that are first, second and fourth year students from the Psychology Department in the Faculty of Social Sciences who made up a total...
ABSTRACT Learning disabilities (LDs) encompass a very extensive range of academic problems which can give rise to social and psychological problems. Apart from experiencing academic problems, pupils with LDs experience strong feelings of frustrations, sadness and shame as a result of repeated failure and this can lead to psychological difficulties. These psychological problems are experienced at home and at school and if not addressed they add to the burden of the condition and could find the...
ABSTRACT Differential Item Functioning (DIF) is the different probability of responding to a test item by individuals with the same ability level, but from two different groups. The groups may be based on gender, race or disability. DIF can be detected by methods such as Mantel-Haenszel (MH) and Logistic Regression (LR) which classify DIF items into negligible, moderate, and large DIF. Conditions such as Sample size, Ability distribution and Test length may have a significant effect on DIF de...
ABSTRACT The research investigated the presence of psychopathology in deaf Nigerian children. It also sought to determine the factors that may be responsible for the presence of psychopathology. Additionally the research investigated the possibility of deafness impacting on the psychopathological development of deaf children in age related ways. Data for the study was drawn from a sample of six hundred and fifty seven (657) participants. These were made up of the children's group of four hund...
Abstract The aim of this study was to assess the nature and characteristics of negative self- image among selected categories of Nigerians and manage those that manifested high negative self-image. In doing this, the study was carried out in two phases namely: the test development and standardization of Negative Self-Image phase and the assessment and management phase. In the test development phase, test items that constitute the Negative Self-Image Inventory (NSII) were generated and pilot-t...
ABSTRACT Incarceration of women in KWP produces various indices of existential harms experienced cognitively as meaninglessness and functionally as ineffective coping. The women enter prison in perilous states which potentially disrupt their lives, restrict their liberties, challenge their self-identity, and distort their global meaning, diminishing their prospects for mental and behavioral health recovery. Thus, women need to restore coherence and transform the prison experience into optimal...
ABSTRACT Reports from Homa Bay County Education Office (HCEO) indicated that out of its five sub-counties(Rachuonyo North and South, Homa Bay, Ndhiwa and Mbita), K.C.P.E grades for Rachuonyo North sub-county (RNSC) continued to be below average despite County ranking relatively well nationally in KCPE (position 18 and 14 out of 47 counties in 2012 and 2013 respectively). In the 2010 KCPE, unlike for the other four sub-counties in RNSC only 21 girls out of 1630 and 41 boys out of 2167 scored b...