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    The representation of women in Ugandan war narratives
    (Makerere University, 2019-11) Akite, Beatrice
    This study is an examination of Mary Karooro Okurut, Goretti Kyomuhendo and Julius Ocwinyo’s novels: The Invisible Weevil (1998) Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War (2007) and Fate of the Banished (1997) respectively. The study analyses the construction of female characters based on their interactions with other characters in the novels; shaped by war. It surveys the roles played by female characters as agents of peace in the novels during war atrocities. The study further examines the impact of war on the female characters in war which effect spills over in homes and weighs heavily on women. The study proposes that literature has been used by the writers to portray the active participation of women in war, which historically has been relegated as the business of men. Although war tries to suppress the voices of women and their active participation in the war, the women in the texts come out as active agents in protecting their families and the entire society from getting wounded by war effects. While Kyomuhendo and Okurut craft women who are active participants in the war, those who come face to face with war, in The Invisible Weevil (1998) or those to whom war come to like in Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War (2007), Ocwinyo in Fate of the Banished (1997) portrays women victims in the novel. Ocwinyo crafts female characters who are the backbone of families left behind by warriors like Apire. The study cuts across the images of women in such war currents, their role in the war, and the impact of war on innocent characters. A conclusion is drawn that both male and female authors of war narratives employ female characters in the novels in order to bring out their roles in aiding their families and community survive during conflict.
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    Parentification, peer relations, school attendance and psychological well-being among ordinary level students in Kampala
    ( 2019-11-12) Nantumbwe, Zenah
    This study investigated the relationships between Parentification and peer relations, school attendance and psychological wellbeing of ordinary level students in Kampala. There were 173 participants from three Universal Secondary Education (USE) day schools in Kampala. The participants were given questionnaires, The Parentification Youth version, Index of peer relations, filled in number of days missed for school attendance rate and the psychological wellbeing measurement scale. Findings indicated that parentification was significantly related and had an effect on peer relations and psychological wellbeing but was not significantly related or predictive of school attendance, and peer relations mediated the relationship between parentification and psychological wellbeing. The results are discussed in terms of implications of parentification on children’s development emphasizing the importance of interventions as well as implications for clinical practice in treating parentification effects during childhood.
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    Interpersonal relations, depression and psychological wellbeing of adolescents
    ( 2019-11-10) Katengeke, Alice Wakuma
    This study sought to investigate the relationship between interpersonal relations, depression and the psychological wellbeing of adolescents. The objectives of this study were to investigate the relationship between interpersonal relations and depression of adolescents, to investigate the relationship between depression and psychological wellbeing of adolescents and to investigate the relationship between interpersonal relations and the psychological wellbeing of adolescents. A cross sectional correlational study design was used in this study and the study was purely quantitative. A sample size of 360 adolescents was targeted but 283 adolescents participated in the study. Stratified random sampling was used to select schools and simple random sampling was used to select schools from each of the strata and to select the adolescents. Two types were statistics, which included descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) used for adolescents’ interpersonal relationship, depression and psychological well-being and inferential statistics (Spearman correlation coefficient) used to test the relationships as stated by the hypotheses of this study. Findings revealed a significant moderate negative relationship (rho = -.453, p < .05) between adolescents’ interpersonal relationship and depression, a significant strong negative relationship (rho = -.751, p < .05) between depression and psychological wellbeing of adolescents, and a significant moderate positive relationship (rho = .402, p < .05) between interpersonal relations and the psychological wellbeing of adolescents. It was concluded that the findings of this study were similar to most of the earlier studies highlighting the role of interpersonal relations on depression and psychological well-being of adolescents as well as the role of depression on psychological well-being of adolescents. It was concluded that interpersonal relations interventions as well as depression intervention should be provided to the adolescents to improve reduce depression among them and thus improve their psychological well-being.
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    The contribution of radio to promoting girl child education in Uganda: A case study of Voice of Muhabura, Kisoro District
    (Makerere University, 2019-10) Nyiramahoro, Aphia
    The study investigated the contribution of radio to the promotion of girl child education. Based on 88.9 Voice of Muhabura (VOM) FM in Kisoro District, the study investigated how radio sensitises its audience about the value of girl child education and how it contributes to eliminating hindrances to this education. It also identified the challenges that limit radio’s contribution to promoting girl child education. The study was guided by the combined rationale of the development media theory, direct effects media theory and agenda setting theory. It adopted a case study research design and collected both qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative data was collected from VOM FM’s manager and employees using interviews and focus group discussions, respectively. Quantitative data was collected from the radio’s listeners using a survey questionnaire. Data was analysed using qualitative content and descriptive methods, with the descriptive method aided by the SPSS (Version 22) and Excel program. Results indicate that VOM FM contributed to sensitising listeners about the value of girl child education and to eliminating hindrances to girls’ access, retention in and transition through school education until they complete as desired. The programmes by which VOM made this contribution included Eseza Memorial, Amago Yacu, Kids Show, Ikimeza, Action for Women Rights, Action for Development and District Hour. However, only Amago Yacu and Ikimeza were popular among listeners. VOM FM used on-air educative talk shows between hosts and invited guests, and direct interactions between hosts and listeners to enlighten the target audience about the value of girl child education and ways of dealing with hindrances to this education. However, listeners assessed the radio’s contribution in this matter as moderate, which suggested that it needed to be improved. The contribution was moderate partly because of the financial, technical, programming and other internal challenges the radio faced plus the external challenges, including power outages, lack of electricity and extreme poverty within its audience. From these findings, the study recommended to the radio’s management to attract more advertisers and programme sponsors as a means of raising the resources required to deal with the financial and technical challenges. The radio’s management was also urged to design its programming to suit the promotion of girl child education to a level that satisfies its listeners. Further research was recommended into how radios can design competitive programming.
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    Peer influence, substance abuse and risk to drop out of school among secondary school adolescents
    ( 2019) Kiwanuka, Rudovic
    In this study, I investigated the relationship between peer influence, substance abuse and risk to drop out of school among secondary school adolescents. Specifically, I investigated the relationship between peer influence and substance abuse; peer influence and risk to drop out of school; substance abuse and risk to drop out school, and the differences between risk to drop out of school among secondary school adolescents at a different level of substance abuse. Finally, I explored the combined effect of peer influence and substance abuse on risk to drop out of school among secondary school adolescents. A correlational study design was employed utilizing a sample of 330 respondents from Makindye secondary schools, Kampala Capital City Authority. Data was collected using questionnaires and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) Version 23. The findings revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between peer influence and substance abuse (r = .74, p< .01); peer influence and risk to drop out of school (rs = .50, p < .01); and substance abuse and risk to drop out of school (rs = .63, p< .01). From the results, it is concluded that the more secondary school adolescents get involved in substance abuse, the more likely they will drop out of schools. It is therefore recommended that secondary school managers should have effective intervention in prevention, response and recovery related to substance abuse among their school adolescents.