The Effectiveness of Communication Skills Counselling in Improving the Quality of Marital Relationship of Couples

Bilhatu Kumah Dagari, Hadiza Adamu

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The focus of this paper is to determine the effectiveness of communication skills counselling in improving quality of marital relationship of couples. The population of the study consists of Diploma II student of 2009/2010 academic session, Institute of Education in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, totaling about 275 subjects, each comprising of male and female married couples who were randomly selected and assigned to experimental and control groups. An experimental design of post-test only control groups was administered to generate data from the subjects of the study in the two groups for seven (7) weeks. An instrument titled “Couples Communication Skills Questionnaire section on Improving Communication†was administered to both experimental and control groups for data collection. A t-test technique was used to analyze the data. The result showed a statistical significant difference between mean scores of participants in the study. Based on this finding, recommendations were made on how to experience quality marital relationship in communication of couples

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