INFLUENCE OF GENDER AND SELF DISCIPLINE ON DATING VIOLENCE AMONG UNDERGRADUATES

Abstract

The study examined the influence of gender and self discipline on dating among sampled undergraduates ofNnamdiAzikiwe university numbering two hundred andforty (240). 111(46.3%) were males while 129(53.8) werefemales. The ages of the participants rangedfrom
19 to 30 years, with mean age of21.93 year and standard deviation of2.60. Two instruments were collapsed into a  questionnaire and used in the study. They are an 18 item scale measuring self discipline, and a 25 item questionnaire measuring dating violence which was
developed by the researchers. The researchers adopted a 2x2 factorial design. The statistic used was the two way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The finding of this study revealed that there was significant difference between people of high self discipline and people of low self-discipline (f (1, 236) 6.93, p<.05 level of significance). Males and Females did not differ significantly in their experience of dating violence, although male scores were higher in
perpetrating violence.