AN ANALYSIS OF HOMEMAKERS ATTITUDES TOWARDS HOUSEHOLD TASKS AMONG THE ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC STAFF IN TERTIARY INSTITUTION IN KOGI STATE
Ocheni Joshua & Oguche G. H. E
Department of Food, Nutrition and Home Science
Kogi State University, Anyigba
ABSTRACT
The study was carried out to determine the characteristics of most and least liked household tasks among academic and non-academic staff in tertiary institutions in Kogi State. Survey methods using questionnaire was used to generate data from the respondents Person correlation coefficient was used in interpreting the relationship between the dependent and independent variables to establish statistical test at 5% and 1% levels of significance. A sample size of 200 respondents were selected from each of the five (5) sample areas making a total of 1000 respondents in all were carefully tested. The result showed that most of the independent variables like age, number of children, education, marital status, income, category of the workers (Academic, non-academic), number of equipment owned by the homemakers are positively related to the dependent variables like cooking tasks, laundry tasks and cleaning tasks. The relationship was found to be significant at 1% and 5% level of confidence respectively. Some tasks are liked while others are disliked depending on the characteristics, properties or qualities of those tasks. Some tasks are preferred because the result is satisfying, creative, family appreciating, relaxing, recreative, fun, adequate equipment, pleasing spouse, comfort and beauty, achieving target, skills/competences, ability to cope among others. Boring, fatigue, repetition, time consuming, physical strenuous, in adequate equipment/storage facilities, not creative, inability to cope, result not satisfying, monotonous are some of the reasons why some tasks are disliked. Level of education plays important role on the homemakers’ job preference as the study showed that education is positively related to most of the household tasks tested. The relationship is significant at 1% level of confidence. This means that educated homemakers preferred more household tasks than the less educated homemakers. Education brings more clarity on a job. The more understanding a homemaker has on the job, the more his or her interest is increased on the job.
