The Impact of Gender, Family Type and Age on Undergraduate Parents’ Perception of Causes of Sexual Abuse
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2016
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Impact of Gender, Family type and Age on undergraduate
parents’ perception of causes of child Sexual Abuse. Three hypotheses were formulated and tested. There was a
review of relevant literature. The population for the study were 2014 sandwich contact students of Delta State
University, Abraka who were about 2000 in number. The sample size of 303 was drawn using the stratified
random sampling technique. The instrument for this study was a questionnaire and it had face, content and
construct validity from expert judgment and factor analysis. The reliability was assessed with Cronbach Alpha
statistics and yielded an r value of 0.90. The data was analysed with t-test statistics and the results revealed that
variables of gender and age have no impact on undergraduate parents’ perception of causes of child sexual abuse.
But family type has impact on their perception of the causes of child sexual abuse. Recommendations made
include the followings: that counselors should organize parents’ conferences and use such fora to enlighten
parents on their roles to their children or wards in terms of provision of basic needs as well as supervising and
monitoring them, the government should provide students with adequate learning materials so as to reduce the
financial burden on parents and thus enhance their care for their children.
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child sexual abuse, poverty, neglect, perceptions, single parent
Citation
Onoyase, A. (2016). The Impact of Gender, Family Type and Age on Undergraduate Parents’ Perception of Causes of Sexual Abuse. Higher Education Studies, 6(2).