Association between Fathers’ Involvement and Children’s Marriage Outcome Among Church-Going Couples in Westlands Constituency, Nairobi County-Kenya
| dc.contributor.author | Maina, Stella W. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-11T08:30:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-11T08:30:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-09-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The role that a father plays is crucial in the development of a child’s emotions, cognition and social adjustment and research has been done on the impact that fathers involvement has on a child’s development right from infancy through adolescence and into adulthood. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between father involvement and their children’s marriage outcome. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the level of fathers’ involvement among individuals; to establish the effect the involvement of fathers has on marriage relationships; and to investigate the relationship between father involvement and demographic factors. The study was based on the Attachment Theory as well as the Theory of Psychoanalysis. This study employed the survey research design among married individuals both male and female from Westlands Constituency in Nairobi County who were above eighteen years of age. The data was collected using questionnaires from 384 participants using simple random sampling. The completed questionnaires were then analysed by the use of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) whereby the descriptive statistics were analyzed using frequencies and percentages while the inferential statistics were analyzed by use of the Pearson correlation coefficient. The study found out that there was low father involvement among the respondents that participated in the study. Father involvement was also found to have a statistically significant negative effect on marriage relationship outcomes (r= -0.312 at a p-value of 0.000). Moreover, the study found out that father involvement had a statistically significant positive relationship with age (r=0.127; p<0.05), gender (r=0.294; p<0.05), education (r=0.603; p<0.05), and marital status (r=0.592; p<0.05); but a statistically significant negative relationship with the number of years married (r=-0.232; p<0.05) and type of father figure (r=-0.270; p<0.05). The study recommends that a similar study be conducted to determine why marriage relationship satisfaction is low in cases where biological father figures are present in the children’s lives. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/1378 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Tangaza University College | en_US |
| dc.subject | Association between Fathers’ Involvement and Children’s Marriage Outcome Among Church-Going Couples in Westlands Constituency, Nairobi County-Kenya | en_US |
| dc.title | Association between Fathers’ Involvement and Children’s Marriage Outcome Among Church-Going Couples in Westlands Constituency, Nairobi County-Kenya | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |