Perceived Influence of Family Violence On Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Benue State, Nigeria: Counselling Implications

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@article{1713741,
      author = {Kumun Martin, J. A. Ako, M. Goshwe},
      title = {Perceived Influence of Family Violence On Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Benue State, Nigeria: Counselling Implications},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2026},
      volume = {9},
      number = {7},
      pages = {1756-1762},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1713741.pdf},
      abstract = {The study investigated perceived influence of family violence on academic performance of secondary school students in Benue State, Nigeria. Indices of family violence in this study are Physical and sexual violence. Two research questions were raised and two hypotheses guided the study. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of 75, 969 secondary school students in 290 public secondary schools in 23 local government areas in Benue State. The sample size was 398 secondary school students. Multi-stage sampling was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled: Perceived Influence of Family Violence on Academic Performance of Secondary School Students Questionnaire ?(PIFVAPSSSQ). The instrument was made up of 28 items, which elicited responses on the variables of the study from the respondents. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions; while Chi-square of goodness was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was found that family violence has significant influence on academic performance of secondary school students in Benue State. The researcher concluded based on the findings of the study that family violence influence the academic performance of secondary students in Benue State. It was therefore recommended that the availability of guidance and counselling units should be a prerequisite to establishing secondary schools.},
      month = {January},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I7-1713741}
  }