The RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATERNAL ATTACHMENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
The RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATERNAL ATTACHMENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
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1984-09
Authors
EKAE., IKE
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Abstract
The study was designed to find the relationship
between academic performance and maternal
attachment of six to seven year old children.
The sample was randomly selected from Class I
of the Ahmadu Bello University Staff School. It
consisted of 125 pupils who had been living with
their parents and who had the record of their
academic performance in the school.
The study was carried out through the use
of questionnaire which indicated the family background
and attachment behaviours of the subjects.
Another instrument used was the recorded mean
scores from the children's monthly tests. This
was computed to give the academic performance
scores while the responses on the attachment
behaviours were computed to give maternal attachment
indices.
To find the relationship between the two
variables five techniques were used. The raw
data were analysed using scattergrams, productmoment
correlation coefficient, regression analysis
and analysis of variance. But the frequency data
were analysed by the use of percentages and chi
square technique.The following findings.were made:
(a) There was some relationship between maternal
attachment and academic performance but the
relationship was insignificant. Addition
of other family variables showed that ttiese
variables influence maternal attachment
as well as academic performance,
(b) There was negative and significant relationship
between number of children in the family
and maternal attachment as well as academic
performance.
(c) Age of mother had a slight and insignificant
negative influence on maternal attachment,
and thus had a slight negative influence on
academic performance, too.
(d} it was found that the more highly educated
the mother, the more SECUE her attachment to
the children and the higher the academic
achievement of the children.
Considering the findings it was recommended
that:
(a) Families should reduce emphasis on number of
children and have fewer children that can be
taken adequate care of. What matters is the
quality, not the quantity. That more and more Nigerian women should
place education of themselves as a matter
of primary importance because it is an
enlightened mother that can bring up enlightened
children. Enlightened children make
an enlightened society and enlightened
society is a disciplined society. Adequate
education of Nigerian women would go a long
way to fight the war against indiscipline.
(c) That adolescents be given family education
before they start making their own homes.
This would help them plan their families in
a way to place child bearing at its right
time, when the children can enjoy maximum
attention from the mother.
The suggestion on further research on this
topic included a study of a typical Nigerian
environment, a study of the relationship between
academic performance and other attachments in
the family; a study of the relationship between
the two variables among younger children.
Description
A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMAD'J 3ELL0 UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL
FULFILMENT OF i'HE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
DEGREE OF MASTERS IN EDUCATION.
DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND
TECHNICAL EDUCATION,
AHMEDU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA.
SEPTEMBER, 1984
Keywords
RELATIONSHIP, MATERNAL ATTACHMENT,, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE,