This study investigated the influence of empathy, knowledge, and personal distress on HIV-IAIDS-related stigmatization and discrimination in a normal population ,(N = 346). Participants ranging' in age from 18 to 69 years responded to a validated questionnaire. The results showed a significant main and joint influence of empathy, knowledge, and personal distress on stigmatization and discrimination. Stigmatization and discrimination are thus identified as great obstacles in the fight against ...
ABSTRACT Although various studies have established a relationship between dispositional empathy and caregiver-child interactions, the influences of the individual dimensions of dispositional empathy have not been adequately explored among caregivers in the early childhood care and education (ECCE) setting. The current study examined how the empathic dispositions of ECCE caregivers in the Ghanaian setting influenced their beliefs and intentions about their interactions with the children in the...
This study was carried out to examine the Role of Women in Community Development in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. A total of six (6) communities in the study area were used for the study. 230 people were selected through simple random sampling techniques to complete the questionnaire. The instrument used for the study was a structured questionnaire designed by the researcher for the collection of data and the survey r...
The problem of childlessness which is majorly caused by sickness, diseases and infertility in Awgu L.G.A gave rise to this study. This study investigated the Public Perception on the Impact of Childlessness on Married Couples in Awgu Local Government Area, of Enugu state. The study was conducted between November 2017 and May 2018. Six research questions and two hypotheses were formulated. The research design used was sample survey descriptive design. The quantitative and qualitative instrumen...
ABSTRACT This study was done to ascertain the psychosocial factors and their impact on unsafe abortion in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. One hundred (100) women who had ever had abortion(s) and were visiting the Family Planning Units of the Ridge Hospital and La General Hospital as well as the Obstetric and Gynaecological Unit of the 37 Military Hospital were the participants of the study with ages between 9 and 50 years. Data was collected using a questionnaire and analysed with the Logi...
The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of parental bonding on emotional stability of undergraduate students of Psychology and Sociology Departments of Nasarawa State University Keffi. The research adopted a cross sectional survey design. Purposive and simple random sampling was used to select a sample of 100 participants from the population of undergraduate of Psychology and Sociology Departments of Nasarawa State University Keffi. Data was collected via the administration o...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the roles of sex and parent’s level of education on the development of children’s self-esteem among secondary school students in Keffi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State. The researcher adopted simple random sampling technique to draw the sample population of fifty (50) students of Kofar Hausa Secondary School Keffi. Two research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The instrument utilized for the study consisted of the Rosenberg Self-esteem Sc...
When we think of African Americans we immediately associate them with slave history and when we think of the indenture system, we associate it with the Asian migrant workers of the nineteenth century British colonies. Neither of these assumptions have been carefully clarified in the Indian indenture scholarship. Although, indenture history of North American colonies of Britain was extensively covered by economic historians and migration studies, very little has been discussed in regard to the...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page i Certification ii Dedication iii Acknowledgements iv Table of Contents vi Abstract ix CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Background to the Study 1 Statement of the Problem5 Research Questions 7 Research Objectives7 Significance of the Study8 Research Hypotheses 8 Scope and Limitations of the Study 9 Operational Definition of Terms9...
ABSTRACT Lifestyle of every individual is susceptible to constant changes as a result of what we encounter during our lifetime with such changes also peculiar to Personality trait which is not also stable and changes much more quickly during childhood, which is often referred to as temperament in children. Temperament is regarded as the precursor to personality. Self-efficacy has been found to be related to the personality traits of extroversion and subjective well-being. There are well-docum...
ABSTRACTThe study examined the impacts of peer influence and religiosity on attitude towards alcohol consumption among undergraduates of Ekiti State University. The study used 194 participants selected through cluster sampling method. The data were collected using questionnaire; the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith, Resistance to Peer Influence scale and a 19-item short version of Scale to Assess Attitude towards Alcohol and Alcoholism. A pilot study was conducted to validate these sca...
The Nigerian broadcast media sector is a work culture of pressure, stress, overload, inflexibility, and excessive hours of work. Employees are stretched to their limits by work and deadlines, in a bid to attain professionalism. Central to radio and television production is desire to satisfy the communication information, education and entertainment needs of audience members. However, surprisingly, despite the rapid growth of the broadcast media, there has been a strong notion that programmes...
Research proposal about body language explain some of the important gestures of body language, according to some psychology. Obviously, it' an interesting research and could help in lots of different things. It' concerned of detecting liars and what is the physical activity guide you to detect the liar. In general it' a psycholinguistics research, it leads the researcher to acquire new knowledge and experience. This topic could guide the reader and the researcher to understand the human bei...
ABSTRACT This study comparatively explores the learning environment in undergraduate programmes of private and public universities. Using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 20.0, this study adopts the Independent T-test to analyze if significant differences exist in the perceptions of the learning environment held by students from four (2 public and 2 private) tertiary institutions in Edo State, Nigeria. The study tested for significant differences in the perceptions of students ...