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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: The study investigated stress and their consequences among married female sandwich undergraduates in Southwest Nigeria. Stressors of interest were occupational stress, family responsibility stress, academic activities stress, financial stress, cultural roles stress, religious roles stress and programme generated stress. The consequences of these among the women on the sandwich programme were examined and ranked. Also, the contribution of each of the stressors to stress in the women was examined. The study was a descriptive research of the survey type. The population was all married female sandwich undergraduates from Southwest Nigeria in four hundred (400) and five hundred (500) levels of 2012/2013 academic session on the sandwich academic programmes of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. A sample of 181 women was selected through stratified random sampling techniques. The research instrument was a questionnaire which was validated by the researchers. One (1) research question was raised and one (1) hypothesis was postulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Results of the analyses revealed that the women experienced different magnitudes of the consequences of stress. Also, all the stressors taken together significantly predicted stress among the women. Counselling implications of the findings were highlighted. Based on the findings, it was recommended that married female undergraduates should be aided financially through scholarships and awards because demands of the roles of being married women conflicted with demands of education in their lives. In addition, cultural expectations for the married woman in the society should be subjects of interest to counsellors in marriage counselling. |
| Keywords: Stress, levels of stress, married female sandwich undergraduates, occupational, family responsibility |
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