Abstract: This study examined the influence of gender, parental marital status and social support on family quality of life of college students. A total of 377 college students participated in this study with 106 male and 271 females .Family Quality of Life scale (FQOL) was used to measure three subscales, interaction, parenting and emotional well-being. ANOVA revealed that students with high social support scored higher in all subscales of family quality of life scale than those with low social support. The study also showed that students with married parents scored significantly higher in subscales of interaction, parenting, and emotional well-being than those from divorced parents. Gender difference showed that female students scored significantly higher than male students on interaction and parenting scales but there was no significant difference on emotional well-being scale for both genders.
Keywords: parenting, interaction, emotional well-being, social support, marital status.
Title: Family Quality of Life: Influence of Social Support, Gender and Parental Marital Status
Author: Abel Gitimu Waithaka, Priscilla N. Gitimu, Raphael Birya., Elizabeth Kalu
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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