Personality, Social Economic Status and Domestic Violence On Women Living in Kasenyi II Kakajjo Village, Kampala, Uganda.

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.