Influence of Online Social Movements on Knowledge and Attitude Towards Domestic Violence Among Facebook Users in Kwara State, Nigeria
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2025
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Ebonyi State University Journal of Mass Communication
Abstract
Domestic violence is a menace that is ingrained in every society, however, it perpetuation has
left a longing bruise in the psychology and physical make up of victims. Movement against this
act has overtimes been championed both online and offline and it consequences are worth
examining. It is against this backdrop that this study is inspired to assess the influence of
movement against domestic violence on the thought and attitude of Facebook users. The study is
premised on social learning theory and it undertook a questionnaire survey. Facebook
communities were used in identifying Facebook users that are acquitted with domestic violence
movement activities on Facebook. Facebook communities like Offaly domestic violence support
service and Nigerians against domestic violence were platforms in which respondents for the
study were selected.. Using the purposing sampling technique, a total of 220 respondents were
purposely selected for this study. The questionnaire was designed with Google-form and 220
links were distributed across to the selected members of Facebook domestic violence community
on Facebook via direct message (DM) of the selected respondents, a total of 173 responses were
recorded from the exercise. Data were analyzed with statistical package for social science
(SPSS), analytical results were through frequency and simple percentages .The findings of this
study suggest that Facebook offers support for victims of domestic violence and orchestrate
petitions to punish domestic violence perpetrators. Findings also indicate that Facebook provide
enlightenment that reshape approaches of reacting to experiences of domestic. It is recommended
that Facebook community should provide a rehabilitation section for perpetrators of domestic
violence to remold their mental frame and make diminutive the record of domestic violence in
the society.
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Influence of Online Social Movements on Knowledge and Attitude Towards Domestic Violence Among Facebook Users in Kwara State, Nigeria
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Subair, B.D. (2025). Influence of Online Social Movements on Knowledge and Attitude Towards Domestic Violence Among Facebook Users in Kwara State. Nigeria. Ebonyi State University Journal of Mass Communication, Vol.12(1), pp. 221-234.