ABSTRACT The study investigated self-efficacy, peer pressure and gender as predictors of altruism among two hundred and eighty-eight (288) Secondary School students of Learning Field International Secondary School, Our Lady High Secondary School and In Land Doors Secondary School all in Onitsha, Anambra State. They consisted of one hundred and fifty six (156) males and one hundred and thirty two females aged 12-17 years with mean age of 14.5 years. Three instruments were used in this study: G...
ABSTRACT Domestic violence has been defined as “the range of sexually, psychologically and physically coercive acts used against women by current or former male intimate partners (Danson, 2005), it’s specific objectives sought to identify the demographic characteristics of the respondents in terms of Age, Educational level and Number of years worked, to determine the level of domestic violence of women in Rubavu District Rwanda, to determine the level of social development in Rubavu Distr...
Dalam kajian ini, pengkaji telah menganalisis mengenai bagaimana gaya keibubapaan memberi kesan kepada kemurungan dalam kalangan pelajar berdasarkan tiga jenis gaya keibubapaan iaitu autoritarian, autoritatif dan permisif. Objektif kajian ini adalah mengenal pasti gaya keibubapaan yang sering diamalkan oleh ibu bapa pelajar, mengkaji gaya keibubapaan autoritaran, autoritatif dan permisif member kesan terhadap kemurungan dalam kalangan pelajar, mengenal pasti tahap kem...
AbstractThe study investigated the role of Employee empowerment on organizational trust and role innovation among 272 employees drawn from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Organization trust was assessed with 32-item scale that addresses five dimensions of trust built from Mishra’s (1996) model for organizational trust, while employee work empowerment was assessed with 12-item empowerment scale developed and validated by Spreitizer (1995). Role innovation was measured with 6-item scale or...
Health psychology simply is the branch of psychology which consists of psychological and behavioural processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioural, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. This research paper will focus on importance of Health Psychology and its role and why it’s important. This research paper will include research on content like how Health Psychology has helped people who have gone th...
ABSTRACT The effective use of contraceptives among adolescents remains a challenge for most developing countries. Therefore, adolescents, both unmarried and married, are faced with many risky sexual behaviors. Many teenagers are faced with the risk of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS, unplanned pregnancies, and illegal abortions and even dropping out of school. This study evaluates the relationship between contraceptive use and risky sexual behavior among adolescent. This stud...
ABSTRACT This is a research that extends the previous work in job satisfaction and job insecurity, 200 individuals answered each question concerning how satisfied they were with their job. The study predicted that there will be a significant relationship job satisfaction and job insecurity on job commitment among non-academic staff in Fedral University Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State. One hundred and forty (140) non-academic were selected within University Oye Ekiti. This non-academic staffs were...
ABSTACT The importance of employee satisfaction and work motivation is growing all the time in various sector of education in Nigeria and how salary serves as a form of motivator to workers. If a person is committed to his or her work, he or she has self-control and commitment is also dependent on the reward a person gets from his or her performance. This study investigated work motivation and salary as predictor of perceived job satisfaction among secondary school staffs in Ado Ekiti. ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of parenting style on their children career choice in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The sample consisted of two hundred respondents who were conveniently selected from secondary schools within Oye local government in Ekiti State. The instrument used was a questionnaire which was administered to the respondents. Four (4) null hypotheses were formulated and tested. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was u...
ABSTRACT Organisational psychologists have long been interested in the concept of job satisfaction and how it affects the organisational functioning and efficiency. Today's world of competitive business environment i only likely to allow the survival of firms that can compete favourably in the global market; however the role of employee in ensuring a high level of firm competitive advantage cannot be over-emphasised. atisfied employees are likely to put every required effort to ensure sp...
ABSTRACT Females have· been seen across culture to have issues when it comes to expressing themselves in the public. In an attempt to express themselves without fear, certain individual related factors could have influence. The study investigated the influence of perceived body image and self-esteem on assertiveness among female students in Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti state Nigeria. Ex-post facto research .design was used in the study. Three hundred and fifteen female university...
ABSTRACT Various studies have implicated personality trait and other factors as determinants of academic performance. This study examined the role of parenting styles and personality trait in learning strategies employed by students particularly, among university undergraduates in Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti and Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE). In this study, parenting style (authoritarian, authoritative and permissive), personality trait (extraversion, openness, agreea...
ABSTRACT In understanding organisational behavior, Workplace incivility was assumed to be influenced by delayed salary and perceived organizational support in an organization. An ExPostfacto research design was adopted for the study while a sample of 152 local government workers completed measures of delayed salary, perceived organisational support and workplace incivility as measured by a well structured self -report instrument. Result of the findings shows that there is a significant di...
ABSTRACT Academic performance is the outcome of education and the extent at which students, teachers or institutions have reached their educational goals; which can be the function of several factors. The study examined influence of personality traits and self-efficacy on academic performance among Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Ekiti state. The survey made use of ex-post facto research design: where I 13 students were sampled using cluster sampling technique. Questionnaires compr...