Author(s): Jummai Grace Tabat

Abstract:
Marriage as a social and universal institution recognized and respected all over the world and which is usually contracted amidst joy, happiness and merry making among couples, family members and friends is face with lots of challenges. This research work investigated the impact of Marital Discords on Young Couples in Colleges of Education, Nigerian. Experimental research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised of young couples in the 85 accredited Colleges of Education in Nigeria. Eight (8) Colleges were used as sample schools for the study and a total of 240 conflicted and devitalized young couples in the eight sampled Colleges served as sample size for the study; 120 served in the experimental group and another120 for control group. Three sets of research instrument were developed and used for this study (a baseline questionnaire which assisted the researcher in selecting the devitalized and conflicted couples for the study, relationship education training manual, and a Pre-test Post test questionnaire were also used in answering the research questions and also tested the null hypothesis). Descriptive statistics were used in answering the research questions. The Null hypothesis was tested using Independent t-test statistics at 0.05 alpha level of significance. Findings from the study were presented and meaningful recommendations were made base on the results.