MARITAL STRESS AND JOB PERFORMANCE OF FEMALE TEACHERS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF SOKOTO METROPOLIS

Abstract

The main thrust of the study was to investigate marital stress and job performance of secondary school female teachers in Sokoto metropolis by employing the correlational design. From the five schools under the Ministry of Science and Technology, the entire population of 72 female teachers was deliberately used as the sample of the study. One of the instruments used for collecting data for the study is a self-designed Marital Stress Scale (MSS). Both its construct and content validity were ascertained by experts in the field and also its reliability coefficients of 0.75, 0.69, 0.85, 0.72 and 0.87 were realized by test re-test method. The other instrument was an adopted Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ 20) with an alpha coefficient of 0.95. Construct validation studies and many evidence of performance according to theoretical expectation ascertained its validity. With the use of Pearson product moment correlation a major finding of the study revealed that there is significant relationship between financial distress and job performance. A major recommendation offered was that there is need for married employees to seek pre-marital, marriage and personal counselling during which factors contributing to marital stress will be discussed to make them have the awareness of the effects of family-work distress on job performance