Traumatising factors influencing interpersonal relationships of university students

Abstract

This paper explores depression quality of life and emotional abuse as traumatising factors influencing interpersonal relationships of university students in Nigeria. A descriptive research design of correlation type was employed to analyse data collected from 200 sampled participants out of which 115 (57.5%) were male and 85 (42.5%) were female. The results established that depression (χ2 = 6.069: p .536) and less emotional abuse (χ2 = 124: p < .725) were not significantly associated with poor interpersonal relationships of the participants. In the final correlation analysis, quality of life (r =.309, p < 0.001) and emotional abuse (r =.197, p < 0.001) significantly correlated with interpersonal relationships, while depression (r = −.393, p < 0.001) had an inverse relationship. The study suggested that there was a need to address factors affecting university students’ interpersonal relationships.

Keywords

• depression
• emotional abuse
• interpersonal relationship
• quality of life