ABSTRACT
The employees of the Federal University Oye Ekiti are individuals who provide labor to the
organization. The aim of the study was to predict the influence of depression on job performance
among University employees of the Federal University Oye Ekiti.
The study is a cross sectional study and was conducted in Federal University Oye Ekiti involving
206 pa1ticipants that included. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from
the participants. Respondents were surveyed with Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a measure
of depression symptom severity, the Health Productivity Questionnaire (HPQ), and items on
demographics. Data was then analyzed using statistical software SPSS 20.0.Version.
The result indicated that about 48 (23.3%) of pa1ticipants were depressed on their jobs, minor
levels of depression symptom severity were associated with decrements in job performance, the
result showed a relationship between depression and job performance (P< 0.05). There was no
association between job performance and socio-demographic characteristics (P> 0.05).
Abstinence from work as a variable was found to be significantly influencing job performance
and there was a significant negative relationship between abstinence from work and job
performance (P
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