Psychological Well-being between Institutional and Non Institutional Orphan Children in Gulele sub city, Addis Ababa
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the psychological wellbeing among
institutional and non-institutional orphan children in Gulele Sub City of Addis
Ababa. This study was conducted on randomly selected Gulele sub-city,
particularly in Hope for children organization, Angles children’s home and
kechene orphanage. Hope for children organization is used to identify orphan
children who are living in the community. The data were collected from 140
institutional and 149 non institutional orphan children whose ages range between
10 and 18 years old .The data were gathered through questionnaire and
psychological wellbeing scale. Quantitative methods of data analysis were
employed using percentages, t-test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Pearson
correlation. The results of the study revealed that using mid value of the
psychological wellbeing scale, institutional orphan children are relatively not
psychologically well compared to the non-institutional children. On the other
hand, ANOVA showed that there is statistically significant difference among
children of different educational levels in terms of psychological wellbeing.
Furthermore, the result of post Hoc comparison revealed a significant mean
difference only between Primary and Tertiary level. Similarly, the finding from
Pearson moment correlation revealed statistically significant negative correlation
between age and children’s psychological wellbeing. However, the independent
samples t test revealed that orphans do not differ in their psychological wellbeing
as a result of their current place of living and gender. The researcher, therefore,
concluded that rather than current place of living and gender, orphan children’s
educational background and age have impact on their psychological wellbeing.
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Institutional Orphan, Children in Gulele sub city