Poverty and Marital Instability as Determinants of Child Molestation Amongst Secondary School Instructors in Kwara State

Abstract

The study investigated the poverty and marital instability as determinants of child molestation amongst secondary school instructors in Kwara state. The study adopted descriptive design of ex-post-facto type. Multi-stage sampling technique was to select 408 participants from 5 local government areas in Kwara State. The variables were measured using validated instrument with reliability co-efficient of 0.81. The data were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and regression at 0.05 level of significance. The result confirmed that there was correlation amongst poverty, marital instability and child molestation, poverty made the most sizable relative contributions observed via marital instability. Therefore, based on the findings, it was recommended that counselling and marital psychologists should intensify their effort to arrange conferences on the implications of instability on child molestation.