PERCEIVED SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION ADJUSTMENT STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY LOCALGOVERNMENT EMPLOYED MARRIED WOMEN IN KWARA STATE

Abstract

This study investigated the Perceived Sexual Dysfunction Adjustment Strategies among Local Government
Employed Married Women in Kwara State. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study.
The simple random sampling technique was used to select 70 Local Government Employed Married
Women from each of the 6 proportionate sample selected LGAs making total number of 420 participants.
Self-developed instrument tag Sexual Dysfunction Patterns Questionnaire (SDPQ), was administered to the
selected respondents. Frequency count and simple percentages were used for demographic data, mean and
rank order were used for the for research questions, while Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA) statistical
methods was used to test the three null hypotheses formulated for the study. The findings showed that there
was no significant differences in the expression of respondents on hypothesis one that base on educational
attainment (0.42<3.00 = p-value 0.661), while hypotheses two and three indicated that there is significant
differences in the expression of respondents based on age (7.06<3.000= p-value 0.000) and religious
affiliation (10.92<3.00 = p-value 0.001). Based on the findings, the researchers recommended that
married women irrespective of their educational status should recognize the impact of sexual dysfunction
on marriage and adopt appropriate strategies to combat sexual dysfunction.