Depression As Predictor Of Job Performance Among Employees Of Federal University Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

The employees of the Federal University Oye Ekiti are individuals who provide labor to the

organization. The aim of the study was to predict the influence of depression on job performance

among University employees of the Federal University Oye Ekiti.

The study is a cross sectional study and was conducted in Federal University Oye Ekiti involving

206 pa1ticipants that included. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from

the participants. Respondents were surveyed with Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a measure

of depression symptom severity, the Health Productivity Questionnaire (HPQ), and items on

demographics. Data was then analyzed using statistical software SPSS 20.0.Version.

The result indicated that about 48 (23.3%) of pa1ticipants were depressed on their jobs, minor

levels of depression symptom severity were associated with decrements in job performance, the

result showed a relationship between depression and job performance (P< 0.05). There was no

association between job performance and socio-demographic characteristics (P> 0.05).

Abstinence from work as a variable was found to be significantly influencing job performance

and there was a significant negative relationship between abstinence from work and job

performance (P

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