Samukolo, Olive (2007) Sexual Behaviour of the Mentally Retarded in Selected Vocational Training Institutions. Masters thesis, University of Zambia.
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Abstract
The study focused on the sexual behaviour of the mentally retarded students in vocational training Institutions in Ndola and Lusaka districts, Zambia. There has been no empirical research existing in the study of sexuality and mental retardation in Zambia, although there is scanty literature on the sexual behaviour of the able-bodied adolescents. The few studies that have been done in Europe and elsewhere have mainly focused on mature individuals with mild or moderate intelligence in communities and patients in hospitals. Many people with mental retardation do have a sex drive and express it through solemasturbation, exactly like the majority of adolescents. The mentally retarded have sexually inappropriate behaviour including touching, grabbing, stripping, fondling, masturbation, hypersexuality and sexual abuse (Bouras, 1999). Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to study the sexual behaviour of the mentally retarded students. On account of the subjective nature of sexuality, the research study took qualitative stance for the most part. Qualitative data was also used for qualification of the recorded sexual behaviour. The interpretation and detailed discussion of quantitative data was made easier by qualitative data. 60 respondents participated in the study. Respondents consisted of principals, Vice principals, Heads of departments (Administrators) (N = 10), lecturers (20), parents (20) and caretakers or hostel staff (10) from the vocational training Institutions in Ndola and Lusaka districts. Questionnaires and in-depth interviews were used to obtain information from respondents. Frequencies and percentages were used to analyse the quantitative data obtained. The qualitative data collected was transcribed from the field notes and subjected to thematic analysis. It was presented in form of document analysis in which data was examined closely by the main emerging themes.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Geoffrey Obatsa |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2019 09:03 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 09:03 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8918 |
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