This paper examines the patterns and trends in attitudes towards wife-beating among women in Nigeria and their determinants. Using the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey datasets, a multivariate logistic regression was fitted to assess the relationships between sociocultural factors and a woman’s attitude towards being beaten by her spouse. The results indicate a significant change over time...

This study examined the attitude of teachers towards the use of self-made video compact disc and its effect on JS II students’ academic performance in social studies in Calabar Municipality. Teachers’ Utilization of Video Compact Disc Questionnaire (TUVCDQ) and Social Studies Performance Test (SSPT) were administered to 12 teachers and 600 JSS II students respectively from 12 schools purposivel...

AIM To assess attitudes of students at the Split University Schools of Medicine, Economics and Business, and Electrical Engineering towards science and alternative medicine. METHODS There were 275 respondents surveyed for their opinion on science and different aspects of alternative medicine. The respondents were grouped into three major groups: medical students (83 or 30%), economics and bus...

The most usual procedure when facing decisions in complex settings consists in consulting experts, aggregating the information they provide, and deciding on the basis of this aggregated information. We argue that such a procedure entails a substantial loss, insofar as it precludes the possibility to take into account simultaneously the decision maker’s attitude towards conflict among experts an...

the purpose of this research was to investigate the attitude of vegetable growers towards sources of soil pollution in ray county. the study consisted of all vegetable growers (n=700) in ray county, located in tehran province, from which 70 vegetable growers were selected through random sampling technique. a planned questionnaire was used as the main instrument to collect data. the content vali...

the present research is a field study in order to investigate the attitude of mothers towards education of puberty problems, in secondary school children, girls age between 11-1.4 years old, in tehran, 1993.   the instrument used was a questionnaire and data was collected through a two section questionnaire. the first part contained demographic information (10 items), and the second section pos...

Introduction: Attitude plays a principal role in guiding human behavior toward achieving goals, awareness of its consequences and effective processing of complex information about living environment. The study aim is to assess the attitude of nursing students towards nursing profession in selected nursing institutes Ambala, Haryana. Material and Methods: A non-experimental research approach and...

the subject of this article is sociological explication of the social factors influencing fertility preferences of women in kerman, iran. the research method is survey and the data collection instrument is a questionnaire. the sample, selected through the cluster sampling method, consisted of 342 married women working in state agencies in kerman, iran. the findings revealed the highest correlat...

modern world is an interconnected space in which people in its different parts participate in a single common information system. the media are the main vehicles for this connectivity and can leave a strong impact on the attitudes of individuals towards aspects of family and childbearing. the media are also capable of changing the attitude of women toward the existing patterns of each culture t...