Moderating Role of Resilience on Marital Stress as a Predictor of Depression among Married Primary School Teachers

Abstract

The study investigated the moderating role of resilience on marital stress as a predictor of depression among married primary school teachers, with one hundred and thirty-five (135) married teachers comprising 102 females and 33 males with the age range of 28-69 years, with a mean age of 40.83 and S.D 9.04 were selected as participants with the aid of multi-stage (cluster, purposive and availability) sampling techniques. Zung (1965) Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), Omoluabi (1994) marital stress inventory (MSI) and Connor and Davidson (2003). Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) were used for data collection, a cross-sectional survey design was adopted, while a moderated hierarchical multiple regression was used for data analysis. Finding shows that marital stress positively predicted depression at sig.= .000 which is lower than the threshold value of at p< .001, resilience negatively predicted depression among primary school teachers at sig.= .000 which is not up to the threshold of at p< .001. Hence, clinicians should find a way to assist their married primary school clients to have high resilience so as to take care of marital stress for depression to be absence.