Abstract
This study investigated the personality types and patterns of marital conflict among the staff of universities in southwest Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. 1330 married staff members, proportionately selected from nine universities, using a multi-stage sampling technique, constituted the study sample. Prevalence of Patterns of Marital Interaction Questionnaire (PPMIQ) and Personality Type Questionnaire (PTQ) were used to collect data for the study. The results showed that 67.1% of the staff indicated that they experienced demand-withdraw pattern, while 26.8% experienced constructive pattern. Only 6.1% experienced a destructive pattern. The results also showed that the largest percentage of the staff (20.3%) indicated that the possessed Introverted Intuitive personality while 16.9% and 16.8% demonstrated Extroverted Thinking and Extroverted Feeling personalities respectively. The smallest percentage (1.9%) demonstrated Introverted Sensational Personality. Also, from the result of this study, it is obvious that married staff in universities in southwest Nigeria have one form of marital conflict or the other. Furthermore, based on the results of the analysis, it could be concluded that all three patterns of marital conflict are being experienced by the married staff. The demand-withdraw pattern, however, appeared to be the typical pattern among the married staff.
Highlights
Personality types may be described as the grouping of individuals based on how they differ in gathering information, process information, reach conclusions and their communication styles
Which personality types are associated with the patterns of marital conflict among the married staff of the selected universities in southwest Nigeria?
What is the influence of each personality type on patterns of marital conflict among the married staff of selected universities in southwest Nigeria?
Summary
Personality types may be described as the grouping of individuals based on how they differ in gathering information, process information, reach conclusions and their communication styles. Personality type, may be related to patterns of marital conflict in several ways. McAdams (as cited in Bono, Boles, Judge & Lauver, 2002) opined that differences in individual personality types may be described at three levels. Level one involves a person’s personality type. Level two involves what a person does (contextually influenced strategies, goals, and concerns). Level three involves how the person makes meaning of his or her experiences-life narratives
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