Effect of Socio-economic Status on Female Undergraduate Prostitution Tendency

Abstract

Prostitution tendency by female undergraduate students is affected by many factors such as family background, socio-economic status of parents, drug abuse, student self-esteemetc. (Ibu 2010). The present study was conducted to find out the effect of family socio-economic status on prostitution tendency of female undergraduate students in three Universities in the South-South regions of Nigeria. This study captures the population of 42,905 students consisting of 20,829 females and 22,976 males. The instrument used was female student's opinion questionnaire (FSOQ) designed by Ibu (2010) and measured on Likert-type scale of 1, 2, 3 and 4. The sampling technique used was stratified random sampling of 1,040 female students out of female population of 20,829, representing about 50% of the population under study.  Two hypotheses (the null hypothesis and alternate hypothesis) were tested. The results were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with SPSS statistical passage and the graphics were done using Microsoft word. For comparison of multiple groups, a post hoccomparative analysis was done using Fisher's least Significant Difference (LSD) of the data which were scored on a scale of 1 to 4. Differences were accepted as significant when P<0.05. The results showed that family socio-economic status significantly affected the prostitution tendency of female undergraduate students in the Nigerian Universities studied.