ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the influence of socio-economic background on self-esteem of female adolescent students in the Ho Municipality in the Volta Region of Ghana. The study employed a descriptive survey design with the quantitative approach. A sample of 400 female adolescent Senior High School students were used for the study. The participants were selected using the simple random and purposive sampling procedures. A close-ended type questionnaire developed by the research...
This study investigated the impact of leadership style and demographic variables on employees’ job satisfaction in four selected telecommunication companies in Lagos, Nigeria. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design in which 227 participants were accidentally sampled from a employee population of 1174. Participants comprised of 102 males and 125 females aged between 19 and 59 years with mean age of 33.82 and standard deviation of 8.12. Primary data were generated through structure...
ABSTRACT Work ethics which has been a major concern in Nigerian public and private financial institutions . is not known to be given much research attention on contemporary workplace issues that impact employee productivity. This necessitated the survey, which involved a sample size of 230. Participants that include male and females were drawn from employees of different branches of a commercial bank in Lagos. Using standardised scales for data collection, results of multiple regression analy...
ABSTRACT Life satisfaction, identified as one of the important components of quality of life, is generally low in Nigeria. Most studies on life satisfaction have been focused on the effects of psychological factors to the neglect of the importance of house-ownership and neighbourhood effect. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of house-ownership, religious commitment, self-esteem, social support, personality factors and the moderating effect of neighbourhood on life satisfaction...
There are indications. that gender influences involvement in risky activities including sexually risky behaviour. The present study therefore sought to explore gender differences in responsible sexual behaviour among in-school adolescents. Using a cross-sectional survey design, two hundred and fifty InSchool adolescents drawn from Secondary Schools in Ondo State, South West Nigeria participated in the study. Participants were made up of 97 (38.8%) males and 153 (61.2%) females, with ages rang...
ABSTRACT This study examined the influence ofpersonality factors (that is, need for achievement, need for affiliation, and need for power) on knowledge sharing intention. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted while a total of207 employees selected from two commercial banks inNigeria using accidental sampling technique participated in the study The participants were made of 113 (54.6%) males and 94 (45.4%) females. Their ages ranged between 26 and 47 years with a mean of33.35 and standar...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationships between socio-cultural values, work-family conflict and work attitudes among managers in the financial services sector. Although previous studies have investigated work-family conflict and other types of work attitudes, little is known regarding how an individual‟s socio-cultural values, together with their experience of work-family conflict influence their work attitude (job satisfaction, organizational commitment and job involvement). The ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among organizational learning, empowerment and creativity. The design of the study was a Cross- sectional survey design. A sample of 157 employees from four financial institutions in Accra, namely Barclays Bank, Ghana Commercial Bank, Ecobank Ghana Limited and Enterprise Insurance Company Limited was used for the study. Participants constituting 54% were from ages 25-35, 24% were from ages 18- 24 and 17% were also from ages 36...
ABSTRACT This study examined the extent to which Africentric worldview influence the relationship between stress and psychological health among primary caregivers of children with intellectual disability in Ghana using the mixed methods design. The quantitative phase recruited and assessed 160 primary caregivers using standardized measures assessing Stress, Africentric worldview, Africultural coping, and Psychological health. Results from MANOVA indicated that primary caregivers of children w...
Abstract Objective—To provide information on the profile, comorbidity and impact of insomnia among an understudied group of elderly Africans. Method—Using the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), the 12-month prevalence of three forms of insomnia was assessed in face-to-face interviews conducted with a regionally-representative sample of elderly Nigerians, aged 65 years and over (n=2152). The association of insomnia with quality of life, rated with the WHO Quality of...
ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to assess the effect that country-of-origin and price have on efficacy of advertisements for a product. The African population has noticeably not featured much in country-of-origin research in spite of the growing size and complexity of the African consumer market. Country-of-origin refers to the country of manufacture, production, or growth where an article or product comes from. In realizing the goals for which it was set to achieve, this experimenta...
The main purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effects of religious orientation and locus of control on the psychological phenomenon called learned haplessness. Six hundred (600) new entrant students into the Diploma in Applied Psychology programme of the University of Jos participated in the study. The study utilized the experimental design. Word anagram was used to induce and assess learned helplessness. It was hypothesized that, 1.participants who were externally contro...
ABSTRACT Background: We aimed to determine the association between the neuro-radiological characteristics of stroke lesions and post-stroke major depression among survivors in Ibadan, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT This study examined the cognitive and behavioural functioning of patients with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Further, it examined whether the adherence to cultural Africentric values has any significant influence on the quality of life (QOL) among Spinal Cord Injury patients. Ninety (90) participants comprising 45 patients and 45 healthy controls between 18 and 70 years of age were sampled for this study. They were administered tests assessing cognitive failures, attention, fluency, memo...
ABSTRACT With the changing nature of family systems in Ghana, majority of informal sector workers risk suffering poverty and poor well-being in their old age. It is therefore imperative that these workers actively plan for their life after retirement. This study examined social representations of retirement and retirement planning among informal sector workers in urban and rural Ghana. Simultaneous qualitative and quantitative mixed method design was used to gather data. The qualitative compo...