Evaluation Of Socio-cultural Variables And Its Impact On Marital Stability Among Couples

Evaluation Of Socio-cultural Variables And Its Impact On Marital Stability Among Couples

Chapter One

Preface

1. Background of the study

Culture is frequently defined and conceded as people’s way of life, which includes, among other effects, their material actuality. Every overgrown man or woman aspires to have a secure and happy marriage life, to be compatible in love, values, academics, economics, and, of course, to be socially respectable. This is harmonious with Onyema’s( 2018) contention that marriage is a social institution for the uniting of body and spirit. still, marriage stability might be altered by socio-artistic factors at times. The factors’ effect may be negative, performing in uneasiness and dissatisfaction in marriage, or positive, performing in a solid and happy cooperation. These characteristics range from artistic variety( in case of interethnic marriage), to educational, social, profitable and indeed religious background. Age difference is also included in these factors. For illustration, a lady formerly admitted that she’ll noway marry an illiterate, no matter how fat he is, since one day he’ll inadvertently use his parchment as a restroom towel. This candid concession implies incompatibility and class difference in training, both of which may vitiate marriage stability. The current insecurity in some marriages in our culture is a result of social, profitable, and artistic changes in people’s patterns of life. According to Amaonye( 2016), these changes have passed and continue to do at such a quick pace that they’ve not yet been integrated into our ways of life.

likewise, comity in couples’ social life is a significant influence in marriage stability and life. When couples’ social lives diverge, it may gesture a serious peril to connubial stability, because it takes time to understand why some social passages and engagement are vital. still, feting the significant effect of these sociocultural determinants on marriage may be a salutary moment in our culture moment in terms of marriage stability. According to Almond( 2020), it’s allowed that marriage provides the certainty of stability, love, and fellowship. Adman( 2018) supported this standpoint by claiming that nature didn’t produce humans to be alone. He went on to say that individualities who have noway endured the deep closeness and strong fellowship of joyful collective love have lost out on the topmost that life has to offer. Marriage is a social miracle that affects both immediate family members( couples) and other members of the society. A man and a woman are drawn to one other in marriage because they both believe that the cooperation would meet a range of their conditions, similar as love, values, fiscal support, social safety, and long- term fellowship. Marriage, still, isn’t without its troubles and obstacles. Indeed, there appear to be several gaps between an existent’s relational ideal and final relational reality. As numerous exploration demonstrates, dysfunctional communication practices might contribute to relationship breakdown( Hottman, 2015).

The objects of material life can not be attained without connubial stability. Anyanwu’s( 2020) perspective on connubial stability concentrated on the contradiction between the couple’s desire for megacity occupations and their traditional duties, as well as the performing uneasiness in marriage. Grown-ups, according to the argument, leave the protection of their traditional homes to seek jobs in metropolises and municipalities. In addition to the hoped- for profitable fulfillment, numerous couples are constantly presented with a variety of issues that may peril the security of their marriage. As a result, there’s a chance that they may be exposed to foreign styles of living that are fully different and in opposition with their own culture. According to Amanoye( 2016), the current insecurity in some marriages is the consequence of educational, social, and profitable changes that have passed and continue to do at such a quick pace that they’ve not yet been completely integrated into our way of life. In substance, marriage insecurity is caused by the ongoing movement of individualities from pastoral to civic areas, the entry of women into assiduity, the labor force, and business, as well as the changing profitable positions ofhusbands.However, it can occasionally beget problems latterly in life, If the foundation is shy. For illustration, currently’s children and teenagers are constantly separated from their parents and cousins, who might guide them through the process of conforming to unborn marriage life. According to Achuzie( 2019), further than ever ahead, teenagers cry out for the services of guidance and counsellors to help them with their diurnal enterprises, particularly the fight to establish a solid marriage. As a result, the focus on the need of early planning and outfit to nurture future connubial stability,etc.

Statement of the Problem

One of life’s most agonizing gests is connubial instability. Every wedded man and woman wishes to spend their lives together, joyously, until death separates them. still, this isn’t always the case since, at some point in their lives, conflicts do, leading to the marriage’s near or entire collapse. And this is one of the necessary difficulties that come with marriage. Socio-artistic factors similar as religious, age, socioeconomic status, social class, educational background, personality, traditional values, and so on influence the connubial stability of couples are veritably important variables in connubial stability, but the applicability of these factors isn’t honored by numerous couples, which is why there are breakages in numerous homes as a result of no love, lack of understanding, lack of comity, difference in age, education, and religion, and so on. According to Nduka( 2019), numerous people have failed to fete that when couples of different societies marry(inter-ethnic marriage), there’s a need to appreciate each other’s culture since this translates to appreciating the person you married and posterior connubial stability.

Unfortunately, marriages currently fail due to a lack of forbearance, collective trust, tolerance,non-child bearing, a lack of effective communication, a lack of healthy connubial stations, parallels between consorts, a lack of maturity, and a low socioeconomic standing.

This Ekpenyong( 2018 demonstrated that when couples aren’t from the same socio-artistic background, and don’t partake the same value system and norms, they tend to differ in understanding of themselves, and this, without a mistrustfulness, generates disunion and insecurity in connubial union. Although there’s a wealth of exploration on marriage torture and insecurity, many have lately addressed the variables that insure marriage success in Uyo original government, Akwaibom state. The study intends to assess socio-artistic factors and their influence on connubial stability among couples grounded on this conception.

Ideal Of The Study

The major purpose of this study is to estimate socio-artistic variables and its impact on connubial stability among couples. Other objects of this study include to

To probe whether religion has an impact on and connubial stability among couples.

ii. To find out whether race sigificantly influences connubial success among couples.

iii. To determine whether communication significantly influences connubial stability.

iv. To probe whether socio- profitable status has an impact on couples ’ connubial success.

Exploration Suppositions

The following exploration suppositions were formulated for testing in this study

HO1 There’s no significant influence of socio- profitable variable on couples ’ connubial stability.

HO2 There’s no significant influence of race on couples ’ connubial stability.

HO3 There’s no significant influence of religion on couples ’ connubial stability.

HO4 There’s no significant influence of communication on couples ’ connubial stability.

Significance of the Study

Chancing of this study will be helpful to couples and counselors and families. Marriage should be contracted through a careful planning and accidental marriage( that is marriages that aren’t planned but are forced on couples to save the family or families from embarrassment) should be avoided like a pest. Before a man weds his woman , both of them should reach the age of maturity. They should develop socially, economically, temperamentally, financially etc. For a happy marriage, they should maintain a feeling of love and affection. The woman must witness a feeling of being wanted and a sense of belonging, care and security. The hubby too needs love and affection to insure him of a stable marriage. Marriage mates should avoid cognitive error that is, they shouldn’t anticipate the other person to see it. thus, if the hubby wants the woman to bear in a certain way, he should inform her about his wishes, the same is true of the woman to her hubby. Sexual comity tends to foster connubial stability, connubial oneness to large extent depends on coitus. In fact, coitus is a form of communication and presumably, the most licit in which two persons( hubby and woman ) express oneness of mind and feeling. thus, mates in marriage should be socially compatible. Child- bearing is a factor that foster marriage may not be her fault. To avoid gratuitous dubieties, both hubby and woman should go for a medical scan to amend or correct the problem of childessness. For marriage to work out well, couples shouldn’t entertain the hindrance of in- laws or the third party pattern. They should avoid washing their dirty filling in the public. They should be of one religious side, common account, mind the same thing, maintain peace in the home and allow love and affection to rule their world. Empirically, the study will add to the general body of knowledge and serve as a reference material to pupil and scholars who wish to conduct farther studies in affiliated field.

Compass Of The Study

The compass of this study borders on evaluation of socio-artistic variables and its impact on connubial stability among couples. The study is still demarcated to wedded couple and counsellor in Uyo original government in Akwaibom State.

Limitation Of The Study

Like in every mortal bid, the experimenters encountered slight constraints while carrying out the study. The significant constraint was the skimp literature on the subject owing that it’s a new converse therefore the experimenter incurred more fiscal charges and important time was needed in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature, or information and in the process of data collection, which is why the experimenter resorted to a limited choice of sample size covering only connubial couple in Uyo, Akwa ibom State. still, this study can not present all the connubial problems displayed by all the couples in Lagos State considering the compass the generalizability of the findings can only be applicable to the other couples in analogous conditions. also, the experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work will stymie maximum devotion to the exploration. Howbeit, despite the constraint encountered during the exploration, all factors were played down in other to give the stylish and make the exploration successful