Abstract: The study examined the “Influence of Expenditure Patterns on Family Cohesion Among civil servant couples in Adamawa and Taraba States, Nigeria”. To achieve this, objectives were raised for the study which is to examining the general expenditure patterns among civil servant couples in Adamawa and Taraba states Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 9,563 civil servant couples from six (6) senatorial zones of the two states. Six hundred and seventy (670) respondents were sampled using proportionate random sampling. The instrument for data collection was a developed questionnaire which was validated by two researcher’s supervisors and two experts in the department of vocational and technical education. The reliability coefficient calculated for the instrument was .856. Frequency and percentages were used to analyze the bio data of the respondents. Mean score was also used to analyze research questions while t-test statistics was used to test all null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the analysis indicated that there are no defined expenditure patterns followed by civil servants of the study area. It was also found that there is no family cohesion among civil servant couples in Adamawa and Taraba states. It was recommended that organizations that are associated with marriage should be educating prospective couples on the need to harmonize the expenditure so as to enhance their family cohesion.
Keywords: Expenditure, Patterns, Cohesion, Civil, Servant.
Title: INFLUENCE OF EXPENDITURE PATTERNS ON FAMILY COHESION AMONG CIVIL SERVANT COUPLES IN ADAMAWA AND TARABA STATES, NIGERIA
Author: ASENAH DAVID FACI
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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