ASSERTIVE AND AGGRESSIVE COMMUNICATION STYLES AS PREDICTORS OF MARITAL INSTABILITY AMONG MARRIED TEACHERS IN OTUOCHA EDUCATION ZONE ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

Abstract 
This study investigated assertive and aggressive communication styles as predictors of marital instability among married teachers in Otuocha Education Zone Anambra state Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. Correlation research design was adopted for the study. The population of this study comprised of 421 married teachers in the 28 public secondary schools. The purposive sampling technique was used in the study to select all the 421 married teachers in the 28 public secondary schools However, the total population was chosen as sample for the study because the population is not too large and also the 
population is accessible to the researcher. Three instruments developed by the researchers were used for data collection which includes Assertive communication style questionnaire, Aggressive communication style questionnaire and marital instability questionnaire with the internal consistency reliability of 0.88, 0.86 and 0.83 were obtained for the three instruments using Cronbach apha respectively. Simple linear regression was used to answer the research questions 1 to 2 while research question 3 was answered using multiple regression. But regression ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result 
revealed that assertive communication style has a significant relationship with marital instability among married teachers. The finding also showed that aggressive communication style has a significant relationship with marital instability among 
married teachers, Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that married teacher should understand that communicating with anger is not good. And if what was discussed is not truly to his or her favour, it is important to express yourself.