Effects of commuter marriages among teachers and their families in Serenje district - central province, Zambia.
| dc.contributor.author | Chitundu, Dorothy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-31T08:21:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-31T08:21:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description | Thesis of Master of Science in Counselling. | |
| dc.description.abstract | In general, a healthy marriage setting is perceived as one in which a couple lives together in order to shape the value system of a family. Recently, many couples do not live together, but in a distant town or city, and are called commuter marriage or distance marriage. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of commuter marriages among teachers and their families in Serenje District. The study objectives were to; determine how often teachers involved in commuter marriages visited their families, establish the effects of commuter marriages on teachers and their families in Serenje district, determine challenges faced by teachers involved in commuter marriages at work and examine intervention measures that may strengthen the marital bond among the commuter. The study utilised a descriptive research design in which both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to gather general information from a number of commuter teachers. Respondents were selected using purposive, snow ball and simple random sampling techniques. The population for this study comprised of teachers in commuter marriage and school administrators broken down as 50 teachers and 10 administrators from selected schools in Serenje District giving a sample size of 60 respondents. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyse quantitative data whereas qualitative data was analysed manually. The research result has shown that, though many commuter couples visited their families regularly, commuter marriages had a lot of challenges than benefits and that couples could not balance work and family issues effectively. It was equally found that distant relationship had given rise to negative thoughts, emotionally disturbed children, mistrust and misunderstanding that led to couple conflict. The recommendations were that the Ministry of education must relook at the deployment policy of 2010, on married teachers so that after serving for two years, the teachers may be legible to be transferred. And the other recommendation is that basing on the challenges and effects teachers and families are going through, Ministry of education should transfer teachers in commuter marriages back to where their families are to strengthen marital bonds. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/8930 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | The University of Zambia | |
| dc.title | Effects of commuter marriages among teachers and their families in Serenje district - central province, Zambia. | |
| dc.type | Thesis |