| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality, social
economic status and domestic violence on the women a case study carried out in Kisenyi II
Kakajjo Village, Kampala Uganda, with an intention to achieve the objectives; To examine the
effect of personality on social economic status, to investigate the relationship between social
economic status on domestic violence and to find out the relationship between personality and
domestic violence
A sample of 132 respondents was studied.
Data was collected using self-administered questionnaires and later analyzed using SPSS version
23.0.
The data was collected and crosschecked for completeness; it was then edited, coded, entered
and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 22). It involved
both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. In the descriptive statistics, there are
frequency tables that summarized data. For inferential statistics, cross tabulations were used from
which P-values were used to test the significance of the hypothesis tested at 95% confidence
level (α = 0.05) and if the P-value is less or equal to α (0.05), there was a significant relationship.
The study revealed that; There is significant relationship between marital status and personality
traits of the households. (P=0.00<0.05). The strongest associations were found for low
agreeableness and high neuroticism, which were consistently associated with domestic violence
perpetration as later found out by Megan C. Kearns, John F. Stover, and Sherry L. Brown in
2018
For age, it is only being getting upset easily and having a natural talent for influencing people
that are not significantly related to age of households. (P= 0.055 and 0.105 respectively) > 0.05.
There is a significant relationship between marital status and domestic violence (P= 0.000).
Education level is also significantly related to domestic violence (P-values are less than α=0.05).
Therefore, it was recommended that couples should be encouraged to grow their self-esteem, and
trained on how to solve complex problems that may come as a result of domestic violence.
Additionally, couples should be educated about the effect of domestic violence; this can help to
reduce the impact of domestic violence on the households. | en_US |
