Abstract
This research studied the influence of insurgency on family relationship among the internally displaced persons in North-East, Nigeria. The major objective aimed at determining the influence of insurgency on family relationship of the internally displaced persons in North- East, Nigeria. Four (4) objectives, four (4) research questions and four (4) null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted the survey research design. The population for the study comprised of 229,721 IDPs in all the IDP camps of the three states in North-East, Nigeria. Atotal of 400 respondents were selected using stratified sampling techniques. The sample was obtained from the two highest populated IDP camps fromthe three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe state.A developed questionnaire which was pilot tested with reliability (Chronbach's alpha) of 0.842 was used for the study. Thus, a total of four hundred (400) copiesof the questionnaire were distributed while three hundred and eighty were (380) completed and retrieved. The demographic data was organized using frequency count and percentages while mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions. The findings revealed that; insurgency has significant influence on spousal relationshipwith2.33 mean and 1.10 standard deviation while the test of hypotheses revealed that the chi squarecalculated is greater than the table value ( 2 ï Computed = 143.03, 2 ï Critical = 40.12 at 0.5 level of significance). It was recommendedthat spouses (husband/wife) should be encouraged to have special time for themselves and their family, the same way they would if outside the camp.
