Moderating Impact of Domestic Violence on Secondary School Students' Motivation to Learn, Self-Efficacy and Academic Performance in Lagos, Nigeria

The study investigated moderating impact of domestic violence on secondary school students’ motivation to learn, self-efficacy and academic performance in Lagos state. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. A population of 101 secondary school students that have experienced domestic violence and have received guidance counselling support service from their school counsellors were purposively selected for this study from fifteen randomly selected secondary schools in Education District V of Lagos State Nigeria. Three research hypotheses were tested and four standardized instruments were used for data collection. Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical tool was used to analyze collected data at 0.05 level of significance. Result shows that domestic violence has negative moderating impact on secondary school students’ self-efficacy, r (101) = .-033, p>.05. Motivation to learn, r (101) =.-029, p>.05 and academic performance, r (101) =.-047, p>.05 of students that were victims of domestic violence. Therefore, it was recommended that parents should be made to know through parent-teachers-association meetings of the fact that domestic violence negatively affects students’ self-efficacy, motivation to learn and their academic performance. Therefore, parents should avoid the occurrence of incidence of domestic violence.