ABSTRACT This multivariate study examines the relationships among parental status, parental level of education, class size, location of school parental involvement, teacher effectiveness, academic motivation and academic self-concept on pupils’ academic performance. The research design for the study was a sequential explanatory with mixed methods approach. Stratified, simple random and purposive samplings were used to sample 324 pupils from the population for both quantitative and qualitat...
ABSTRACT Job involvement and employee turnover have been implicated in many studies as serious challenges for organisational management. Although, several factors have been empirically linked with these variables, the role of personal values and perceived job characteristics has not been studied in-depth among workers in Anambra State. This study, therefore, examined the influence of personal values and perceived job characteristics on job involvement and turnover intention among workers in ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated how large class size and the psychological classroom environment influenced students‟ academic performance. Again, the researcher sought to determine the extent to which large class size and psychological classroom environment influenced the manner in which teaching and learning was mediated in public senior high schools. To achieve this, the survey design was employed. 320 students were purposively selected from ten (10) public senior high schools in the K...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the influence of transformational and transactional leadership styles and employee personality traits (locus of control and self-efficacy) on work-related outcomes. Work-related outcomes were defined in terms of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The cross-sectional survey design was employed. A total of 178 employees of First Capital Plus consisting of both males (n=87) and females (n=91) were asked to fill questionnaires that contained Work ...
ABSTRACT Universities have unique features from regular business entities. However, like any other organisation the environment in which they operate is constantly changing, and they need to change not only to survive but to compete successfully to achieve set objectives. This study examines universities and how they achieve success in change implementation, given their culture and readiness for change tendencies. A total of 528 participants made up of academic and non-teaching staff, as wel...
ABSTRACT Adolescence is one of the critical stages in the development of an individual. This is the stage at which a lot of experimentation takes place. The main aim of this study was to find out the impact peer pressure has on the decision-making of adolescents. The design was causal comparative (ex post facto). Questionnaire developed was used to obtain data from senior high school students in the Accra Metropolis. In all, 260 respondents were selected through stratified, purposive, and sim...
ABSTRACT The study examined the influence of leadership styles and organizational culture on organizational innovativeness among Ghanaian organizations. One hundred and seventy five (175) respondents were conveniently sampled from six organizations in the manufacturing, telecommunication and financial sectors in Ghana for the study. All selected participants completed questionnaires on Leadership approaches, Organizational culture typologies, and Organizational innovativeness constru...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to ascertain the impact of bullying behaviour and personality traits on psychological health of junior high school students in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The study used the descriptive survey design with quantitative approach. Multi-stage sampling procedures were used to select a sample of 390 junior high school students for the study. Three questionnaires adapted from the Olweus Bullying Questionnaires, Brief Symptoms Scale and Eysenck’s Person...
ABSTRACT The research investigated the impact of depression, anxiety and spirituality on the quality of life of prostate cancer patients in Ghana. The Survey research design was employed and the simple random sampling technique was used in selecting twenty-nine (29) prostate cancer patients as participants. Four hypotheses were tested using the One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression Analysis. The research outcome indica...
ABSTRACT Marriage is an important social institution which is cherished and respected in most African societies. However, the trend has changed as most of the contemporary youth in Akropong Akuapem in the Eastern Region of Ghana do not seem to cherish or respect marriage anymore. The purpose of this study was to find out the reasons for the change in attitude towards marriage among the youth. A semi-structured interview guide was used to elicit the views of the youth, traditional leaders,...
ABSTRACT The study was aimed at gathering information on clients' perception of the quality of psychiatric services rendered to them at the outpatients department of the Accra psychiatric Hospital.The data was collected with the aid of a structured interview schedule. The main findings were that clients are generally satisfied with the quality of services rendered to them at the Psychiatric Hospital on most of the indices used. However, they had dissatisfaction in the following areas: ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine senior high school students’ expectations of teachers’ classroom behaviour with respect to teaching, discipline and personal qualities. The cross-sectional descriptive survey design was used for the study. The sample for the study was drawn through purposive and stratified sampling based on gender. A total of 400 students drawn from four senior high schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis namely; St.Augustine’s College, Holy Child Senior High, Academy ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire instrument having six underlying constructs, and to then use it to predict retirement adjustment and satisfaction. Economic, health, social and psychological variables were used as the Independent Variables to predict retirement adjustment and retirement satisfaction as the Dependent Variables. Designed as a descriptive survey using inferential analyses and purposive sampling by the snowball method, three research questions and...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of multisensory technique on reading performance of children with dyslexia. A total of ninety-nine (99) participants comprising of fifty-three (53) dyslexic participants and forty-six (46) normal participants. The study employed a within subject or repeated measure design as participants served as their own control. A pretest and post-test was given to participants. The instrument used in the study for the collection of data was phonological task o...
ABSTRACT This study assessed Risky Sexual Behaviour and its relationship to Self-esteem and Parent-child communication among Late Adolescents in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. It also ascertained the demographic determinants of Self-esteem, Parent-child communication and Risky Sexual Behaviour of the students. These were with a view to providing information on the role of Self-esteem and Parent-child communication on Risky Sexual Behaviour of the students in the study area. The study em...