Emotional Abuse, Personality Types and Academic Performance of Primary School Pupils in Akwa Ibom State

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This study investigated Emotional Abuse, Personality Types and Academic Performance of Primary School Pupils in AKwa Ibom State. Three research questions and three corresponding hypotheses were used to guide the study. The study adopted correlational research design. The sample of 500 primary school pupils (Basic 5) were drawn from the population through simple random sampling techniques are used for the study. Three instruments titled “Emotional Abuse Scale (EAS)”, “Personality Types Scale” (PTS) and “Academic Performance Test” (APT) were used for data collection. Face and content validity of the instruments was ascertained by experts in test and measurement and Guidance and Counseling. The reliability co-efficient of the instruments was also determined through Cronbach method and coefficients for EAS was 0.83 PTS was 0.77 and APT 0.84 respectively. The instruments were personally administered by the researchers through the help of research assistant (teachers). The analysis of the data was done using Pearson product correlation to answer the research questions while their corresponding hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance, research question three were tested with multiple regressions while its corresponding hypothesis was tested with ANOVA associated with regression at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The summary of the findings showed that; there was significant relationship between emotional abuse, personality types and academic performance of primary school pupils in Akwa Ibom State independently taken. There was significant relationship between personality types (type A and type B) jointly taken and academic performance of primary school pupils in AkwaIbom State. Based on the findings of the study, recommendations and conclusion were made.

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