Abstract
The research aimed at investigating the influence of domestic violence on secondary school students’ academic performance in Egor local government area of Edo State. The descriptive survey design with a correlational approach was used in the study. A questionnaire titled “Domestic Violence and Students’ Academic Performance (DVSAP)” was designed to fetch data from 400 respondents randomly selected from ten government secondary schools in Egor local government area of Edo State. To direct this investigation, two hypotheses were posed and postulated. The significance threshold for testing hypotheses 1 and 2 was set at 0.05. The reliability score was 0.84. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient Formula was used to analyze the data. The findings showed that domestic violence is associated with risk factors which lower self-esteem, antisocial personality traits, heavy alcohol and drug use, anger, depression, hostility and so on. Additionally, the findings also revealed that domestic violence due to the risk factors involved affects students' class participation and school behavioural patterns which lowers their academic performance. Arising from the findings, it was recommended amongst others that awareness campaigns should be put in place as this will enable victims to always speak up.
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Secondary School, Students, Academic Performance, Influence