THE IMPACT OF LOVE AFFAIRS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG FEMALE STUDENTS AT QUAID-I-AZAM UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD

Abstract

The current study examines the Impact of Love Affairs on the Academic Pel!ormance among Female Students at Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Many studies have shown that love affairs or friendship has both positive and negative impacts, ho·wever, it depends on the nature of affairs. The love affairs mean a relationship between . unmarried male and females. However, the love affa;,'s at the university level have a positive correlation with the academic pel!orl1lance among females' students. The need to belong theory was applied which stated that females are going towards love affairs or friendships due to care and safety and mental satisfaction. The quantitative research approach was chosen and designed a descriptive study. The universe of the study was Quaid-i-Azam University and target population were females who have some sort of friendship either inside the university or outside the university. The multiple sampling techniques have been applied due to the vast nature of the topic, where snowball, .simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used The total sample size was limited to one hundred andfifty (150) female respondents. The closed-ended questionnaires were used for data collection and the data were analyzed through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences and boYh descriptive and inferential statistics were applied The findings of the research showed that females who were involved in love affairs or friendship both at the university or outside the university were pel/orming better academic pel!ormance. Females were spending their time together, work on assignments, projects, and research work together. Moreover, the majority of women were enjoying love and affairs life and academic life as well. Women were stated that their partner is helping in studies a;1d other academic work. Moreover, partners are the sources of motivation for females. Majority of respondents were at the age of 1 8-2 ~ which is the age offullmaturity and the age of love affairs and friendship. Women who were involved in romance were more likely to improve their grades, pel!ormed belfer academic results. The results of inferential statistics also showed that there is a strong correlation between love affairs and improvement in academic pel!ormance among female students at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Similarly, females keep in mind the negative impacis as well and limit theirfriendship with studies and academic activities.