Effects of Reality Therapy on Affect and Social Perception of Sexually Molested Girl-Child with Disability towards Education

Abstract

This study investigated effects of reality therapy on affect and social perception of sexually molested girl-child with disability. The specific objectives are to study the extent to which reality therapy can be used to better/enhance affect and social perception towards education; using the pretest-posttest design research which is a quasi-experiment. The population of the study was twenty (20) sexually molested girlchild with disability. The sample size was fifteen (15). Affect and Social Perception Scale was the instrument used to obtain data in this research. The intervention (Reality Therapy) was given and data were collected and analysed using both
descriptive and inferential statistics comprising of simple percentages, frequencies and tables to answer the two research questions. The two hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Covariance. The results revealed that Reality Therapy bettered the acquisition of affect and enhanced the social perception of sexually molested girlchild with disability. This study concluded that Reality Therapy enhances and betters the acquisition of affect and social perception and recommended that Reality Therapy should be encouraged and updated to meet the special needs of sexually molested girl-child with disability.