Abstract The study investigated psychological empowerment, organizational justice and abusive supervision as predictors of work engagement among employees in manufacturing industries. Three hundred and thirty two workers drawn from Coscharis Beverages and Pure Water Manufacturing Company Ltd., Lagos and Happy Home Manufacturing Company, located at Kirikiri industrial area in Lagos participated in the study. Four instruments which include Psychological Empowerment Scale by Spreitzer (1995), O...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate emotion regulation, dispositional mindfulness and length of stay as factors in somatic symptoms among prison inmates, cross-sectional design was used. Participants were two hundred and nine (209) prison inmates. Their ages ranged between 18 – 62 years, with mean age of 30.9 and standard deviation of 8.68. Three instruments were used for data collection: Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Mindfulness Awareness Attention Scale and Somatiza...
ABSTRACT The study investigated influence of perceived organizational support and self efficacy on burnout among nurses. Two hundred and nine (209) nurses from Federal Medical Centre Umuahia participated in the study. Among them were 2 males and 207 females. The Perceived Organizational Support Scale, General Self Efficacy Scale and Maslach Burnout Inventory were used to elicit the participants’ responses on burnout. A crosssectional survey design was employed and 2-way ANOVA was used to ...
ABSTRACT Interpersonal injustice and job complexity as predictors of workplace aggression were investigated among a sample of 320 employees drawn from two campuses of university of Nigeria, Nsukka. Workplace aggression was assessed with 33 items that made up the three types of workplace aggression by Baron, Neuman and Gedders (1999) while interpersonal injustice was measured with 4 items drawn from Organizational Justice Scale developed by Colquitt (2001) that assess the domain of interperso...
Abstract The 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 ...
ABSTRACT The research mainly aimed to assess the Impact of the psychological breach on the employee-organizational relationship (EOR) at a religious organization. This study was carried out at Celebration Ministries International. It also sought to bring out the psychological contracts that are prevalent at a religious organization and how they in turn cause harm on the employee-organisational relationship. The research employed a qualitative descriptive research design which allows the use o...
ABSTRACT Women deal with a certain level of mental stress which puts them at risk of Common Mental Disorders (CMD), particularly depression. In Zimbabwe, mental distress goes unnoticed and undiagnosed due to the current huge mental treatment gap in the nation. This study sought to identify the prevalence of CMD risk and depression as well as their determinants among women who attended a mental health communication program in Harare Central Province named Psycook. A total population sample of ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to determine work life balance strategies for women in the civil service particularly those in the Ministry of Agriculture Agritex Department at the head office in Harare. In this study, 40 female employees were used as the research subjects. Questionnaires were used as the key research instrument. Data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20. Mean was used to make sense of demographic data while ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses whi...
ABSTRACT This study has mainly been predisposed by the fact that children born with HIV are reaching in their youthful stage however they are facing so many problems in handling their status hence bringing about inconsistency in ART adherence. The fight against HIV has been ongoing for decades and it has caused a lot of havoc worldwide. The main goal of the research was to explore on the psychosocial and mental health challenges that youth living with perinatal HIV are facing. The research ma...
ABSTRACT The research was concerned on investigating on the impacts of flooding on the lives of the elderly people who have been affected by the Tokwe Mukosi floods and their coping strategies in Masvingo Province. Quite a number of researches had focused on the impacts of floods on people, but little research has been seen focusing on the older adults. The research used a phenomenological research design to find out on the impacts of the flooding on the elderly adults and their coping s...
Abstract This chapter was the introductory part of the research on the stigma of mental illness from the perspective of those experiencing it. Thus, this chapter covered the background to the study which gave a basic explanation of what motivated the researcher to do research focusing on the above-mentioned area. The chapter also covered the statement of the problem, purpose of the study, research questions, significance of the study, assumptions, delimitations of the study, limitations and d...
ABSTRACT The study focused on contraceptive use among women living with HIV enrolled for the birth cohort study. Also core to the study was an analysis of the factors that have facilitated the use of contraception amongst women living with HIV. There is a knowledge gap and limited research and on contraception use among women living with HIV. The study was guided by a conceptual framework that shows the various factors that could predict the utilization of contraception. The research adopted ...
ABSRACT The research has been necessitated with the desire to assess employee perception towards internal conflict resolution systems at Harare International Airport in the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe. The desire to understand the influence of perceptions in organizations inspired the researcher so as to provide recommendations to the management worldwide in light of the findings. The prevailing disturbing trend between employee perceptions towards conflict resolution systems an...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the influence of permissive, authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles as predictors of disposition towards antisocial behaviour among adolescents. One hundred and thirteen (113) students from Neuso High and ST Charles Secondary Schools in Sanyati District participated in the study. Participants were drawn from Form 1 to Form 4, both boys and girls. Data was entered using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and analysed using both descrip...
Abstract The study was about Determinants of Burnout among the Employees of Gweru City Council. Participants were 50 employees (m= 35; f= 15) who were identified and recruited through stratified random sampling. The Maslach Burnout Inventory was adopted for use in the study. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics (i.e., frequencies and percentages). Results revealed that burnout among employees of Gweru City Council emanated from work overload, interpersonal conflict, role conflict an...