ACCEPTABILITY OF DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED MATERNITY WEARS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN TEACHERS IN NIGER STATE
ACCEPTABILITY OF DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED MATERNITY WEARS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN TEACHERS IN NIGER STATE
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2011-06
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MOHAMMED, AISHATU SONFADA,
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Abstract
The quest for providing appropriate maternity wears to pregnant women over the years to suit
their status both at home and in the society has been a matter of challenge to designers in our
locality. The bane of this challenge lies squarely on lack of professional fashion designers, the
use of inappropriate materials, indecent maternity wears directly imported without taking into
consideration the peculiarity of our socio-cultural make-up. It is on this premises that the
research on the “Acceptability of designed and constructed maternity wears for pregnant women
teachers” was carried out. The study was aimed at ascertaining the extent which the designed
and constructed maternity wears were acceptable, comfortable, decent and affordable to
pregnant women. It also investigate the uniqueness and right choice of materials for the
designed and construction of maternity wears. The study which is basically a descriptive survey
research and production of new design concept was adopted. The non-probability purposive
sampling method on 100 pregnant women teachers using a structural question using the 5 point
interval Likert Scale. To fully test the research, five null hypotheses postulated and were
analyzed using the Statistic Packages for Social Science – SPSS version 17. The t-test on the first
null hypothesis which stated that there is no significant difference on the level of acceptability
has its result as 0.007 less than p-value of 0.05 (0.007 = P<0.05) and was therefore rejected.
The second null hypothesis on comfort and decency had its value as 0.011 which is less than
alpha and was also rejected. Furthermore, the third null hypothesis in significance difference of
the uniqueness of new concept wears produced a result of 0.002 less than alpha and was reject.
More so, the fourth null hypothesis on difference on perception on the right choice of material
used, the result was 0.000 less than alpha (0.000 = P<0.05) and was rejected. The difference of
significance on the fifth null hypothesis of cost and level of affordability was 0.405 greater than
alpha (0.405 = P>0.05) and thus accepted. Based on these findings and tests of null hypotheses,
the study recommended that local production of maternity wears be encouraged as well as
government should revive the textile industry to make textile materials locally available so as to
make productions of wears that are appropriate with on socio-cultural settling. The study
concluded that maternity wears appropriately designed and constructed would be accepted by
Pregnant Women Teachers because it makes them comfortable and decent.
Description
A THESIS REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER’S
DEGREE IN EDUCATION (HOME ECONOMICS-CLOTHING AND
TEXTILES)
DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA.
JUNE, 2011.
Keywords
ACCEPTABILITY,, DESIGNED,, CONSTRUCTED,, MATERNITY WEARS,, PREGNANT,, WOMEN,, NIGER STATE.