Married Men’s Perception of the Influence of Dysmorphobia and Demographic Variables on Marital Consummation with their Spouses in Rivers South East Senatorial District, Rivers State

Abstract

The study investigated married men’s perception of the influence of dysmorphobia and demographic variables on marital consummation with their spouses in Rivers South East Senatorial District. It adopted a survey research design. Six research questions and five hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The population of the study comprised the entire married men in Rivers South East Senatorial District estimated to be 11,700. A population of 400 was drawn from the population using Taro Yamane formula. A researcher developed instrument titled: “Married Men's Perception of the Influence of Dysmorphobia on Marital Consummation Scale" (MMPIDMCS) was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by the researcher's supervisor, one expert in Counselling Psychology and another expert in Measurement and Evaluation. The reliability of the instrument was found to be 0.78 using test re-test method. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the independent samples t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study revealed that the married men in Rivers South East Senatorial District tend to have positive perception of the influence of dysmorphobia on marital consummation and that their perception on this regard differed significantly along the lines of age range, level of education, locality, religiousness and socioeconomic status. The study recommended that married men in Rivers South East Senatorial District should seek professional help from professional counsellors on the need to develop unconditional self-love in order to to boost the libido for their spouses.