ABSTRACT Road safety advertisements incorporating fear arousing messages are not uncommon in the media. Years of research into fear appeals has yielded inconsistent results and this notwithstanding, they are usually used as a road safety campaign strategy. In Ghana, where all efforts are being made to reduce traffic accidents, the use of fear arousing messages has not been spared. In an experimental study, the researcher investigated the effectiveness of this message on risky driving attitude...
ABSTRACT The current study examined factors that influence the psychological health of adolescents with congenital limb deformity in Ghana. Adolescents with congenital limb deformity (AWCLD) experience a plethora of physical, psychological, and social effects of a disfiguring birth defect. Amputation, a procedure theorized to promote psychological health by increasing functional ability and minimizing disfigurement, further adds to the burden of congenital limb deformity. Body image and self-...
ABSTRACT This study examined the influence of diabetic patients’ perception of their illness and their levels of religiosity on their mental health problems. A sample of 194 diabetic patients (50 Type -1 and 144 Type-2) was drawn from two major hospitals (Korle-Bu Teaching and Tema General Hospitals) in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The cross-sectional survey method was used and the participants were administered with the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Broadbent, Petrie, Main,...
ABSTRACT Using the research survey method, the study sought to assess how psychosocial determinants like religion, cultural identity and gender role ideology affected the help-seeking behaviour of married persons in the event of them experiencing intimate partner violence, as well as the relationship between age, gender, education and help-seeking. A convenient sampling technique was used to collect data from two hundred and five participants comprising 100 males and 105 females. The Pearso...
ABSTRACT The act of street begging has been associated with some challenges such as accidents, harassment, low self-esteem and others. Limited studies have actually focused on persons with disabilities involved in street begging in Ghana despite the distress resulting from interactions of these experiences. Therefore the aim of this study was to understand the psychological experiences of visually impaired street beggars in Ghana. The study employed a qualitative approach specifically phenom...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the relationship between parenting styles, adolescents self-esteem, assertiveness and emotions (Depression, Anxiety and Stress) of adolescents. Two hundred adolescents between ages 12 and 19 were sampled randomly from five senior secondary schools in the Greater Accra Region. Participants responded to the parental Authority Questionnaire, the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale, The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale and The Assertiveness Inventory. Two major paren...
Abstract Siblings’ relationships are one of the longest and one of the most influential relationships in the development of psychological well-being, and the formation of attitudes. The present study investigated the influence of the presence of having a brother or sister with intellectual disability and the positive and negative sibling relationship on the psychological well-being of the siblings. A sample of 69 siblings of a brother or sister with intellectual disability from four speci...
ABSTRACT The present study examines experiences of work-family conflict and its impact on psychological strain among military personnel in Ghana. The study adopted a concurrent mixed-method approach involving two phases, a qualitative phase and a quantitative phase. In the qualitative phase, 17 military personnel were interviewed using face-to-face semi-structured interviewing. The quantitative phase involved a cross-sectional survey with 200 military personnel. Thematic analysis of the qua...
The study investigated the influence of organisational culture and climate on organisational effectiveness using a sample of manufacturing organisations in Ghana. Using a correlational research design, data were collected from 274 participants of three manufacturing organisations using reliable research questionnaires. Standard multiple regression and hierarchical regression analyses were conducted on the data. The results showed that, organisational culture was significantly and positiv...
This study examined predictive factors that cause perpetrator behavior in domestic violence. Data for study were obtained from a survey conducted between March and May 2014 in Medina and its environs in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Two hundred and fifty-three (253)participants took part in study. Three major statistical tests were used to analyze the hypotheses. These were the Pearson‟s Product Moment correlation coefficient, standard regression and the two ANOVA. Findings reveal t...
The level of psychological distress and health-seeking behaviour (HSB) among patients with orofacial tumours (OFT) were assessed using explanatory sequential mixed methods designed in a two-component study. A sample of 272 comprising 143 patients with OFT and 129 patients with general periodontal diseases who served as a comparison group aged between 18 and 83 years were purposively selected from the Oral and Maxillofacial Units of the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital, 37 Military hospital and...
This study was conducted to examine the impact of emotional intelligence on quality service delivery and customer loyalty. Training and age were used as moderators. A total of 500 participants comprising 200 retailers and 300 customers were sampled through purposive and convenience sampling. Participants’ age ranged between 19 and 40 years. Emotional intelligence was measured with the assessing emotions scale and quality service delivery and customer loyalty were measured using the SER...
ABSTRACT The role of traditional healers in Africa, in general, and Ghana, in particular, cannot be underestimated. The many reasons leading to this could include, but not limited to, inadequate access to quality health care in terms of facilities, health personnel and affordable health care. Inasmuch as efforts have being put in to standardize the practices of traditional healers to offer health services in Ghana, there seem to be challenges especially in the area of mental/psychological hea...
ABSTRACT The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children-second Edition (KABC-II) is a foreign psychological test which is increasingly being employed by practitioners in Ghana in the assessment of intelligence and cognitive abilities in children although it has not been locally normed as yet. Thus, the performance of 90 school children in Ghana aged between 6 and 12 years, whose sociocultural backgrounds may differ considerably from those for whom the KABC-II were normed, was investigated in thi...
ABSTRACT Poor communities in Africa are disproportionately affected by mental disorders globally. Current research proposes that improving mental health in poor communities requires building their mental health competence. There are however limited community mental health competency studies in African context, to inform diagnosis of social realities of mental health in such communities and guide intervention planning. Integrating the social psychology of participation and community mental hea...