ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of leadership and perceived organizational politics on work outcome (organizational citizenship behaviour, OCB; and counterproductive work behaviour CWB) among public sector employees. Employees at the Electricity Company of Ghana served as the population for this study. Data was collected through the distribution of personally administered questionnaires to the respondents who were chosen by convenience non-probability sampling...
ABSTRACT Internet addiction is one of the growing social problems in many African countries and Ghana is no exception. Hence, this cross-sectional study assessed the impact of internet addiction on interpersonal relationship and social functioning. It also examined whether demographic characteristics such as sex and educational levels influence internet addiction, interpersonal relationship and social functioning. A sample of 330 Student respondents from University of Ghana, Action Progressiv...
ABSTRACT The present study seeks to find out the influence of religiosity, social support, social negativity and selected demographic variables on the mental health of women in Accra. A total of two hundred (200) women living in Accra at the time of data collection were used in a cross-sectional survey. Ninety-two (46%) of the participants had a history of various mental illnesses and were reporting for review at the Accra psychiatric and Pantang hospitals. One hundred and eight (54%) had no ...
ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to examine Africentric coping, adjustment and quality of life among breast cancer patients. The study recruited 200 breast cancer patients using the purposive and convenience sampling methods. Participants were administered tests assessing coping, adjustment, quality of life and psychopathological symptoms. The findings revealed that breast cancer patients use cognitive methods in coping with breast cancer. However, the results showed that breast cance...
ABSTRACT The extent and speed to which farmers adopt available innovations/technologies can significantly improve crop production and promote food security locally, nationally and globally. However, there is evidence that farmers do not easily adopt farming innovations. In an attempt to understand and predict farmers’ innovation adoption behaviour, recent studies have focused on farmers’ background and economic factors with little attention to psychological factors, particularly within t...
ABSTRACT Threats to security at airports have become a serious global menace affecting various economies around the world. Ghana will be no exception if measures are not taken to avert such threats. This research assesses proactive behaviour among security personnel in the aviation industry in Ghana. The study also sought to assess the role personality traits and organisational culture play in predicting proactive behaviour among the study participants. Participants for this study were secu...
ABSTRACT The present study investigated factors and values that influence the development of personality in the Akan concept, the extent to which the Akan theory of day name determines personality of an individual. In addition, it sought to determine the relationship between the Big Five personality factors, the Africentric worldview and the Akan personality factors. The study is a mixed methods design. The first part is a qualitative study that involves an in-depth interview with eight part...
ABSTRACT Mental health services are considerably underfunded. In recent years, Ghana has attempted a shift to community-based mental health care, deemed to neutralise challenges identified with institutional care. Six years after the passage of Ghana’s Mental Health Act (Act 846) of 2012, challenges persisted. Meanwhile, studies on caregiver experiences are limited. This study explored the experiences of professionals and family caregivers in community-based mental health care in the Easter...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the influence of psychological factors and human capital on career development at the Volta River Authority in Ghana. It also investigated the moderating role of organisational support on the relationship between psychological factors and career development, as well as the relationship between human capital and career development. One hundred and ninety four employees were purposively sampled across departments from five locations of Volta River Authority in Gh...
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurial cognitions is gradually receiving attention in Ghana in recent times. The decisions people make concerning the development of entrepreneurial businesses are key in the performance of the business. The present study conducted a two-fold study using mixed methods, to examine the relationship between analytical and intuitive cognitive styles and entrepreneurial decision making approaches amongst community participants. Study one which was quantitative in nature administe...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at investigating the influence of thin media and personality dimensions on body image dissatisfaction and self-esteem. Two-hundred undergraduate students from University of Ghana were conveniently sampled for this study. These participants filled Multidimensional Body Self-Relations Questionnaire, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, Media Influence Questionnaire and The Big Five Inventory (BFI). Results of the study indicated that there was a significant negative relationshi...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at investigating how organizational culture directly and indirectly (via worker autonomy) affects employees’ innovative behavior. Data for this study was collected from 165 employees, working in the service sector (banks, insurance companies and media) in Ghana. All participants were made to respond to questionnaires on organizational culture, worker autonomy and employee innovative behavior. Four hypotheses were tested using correlation and regression analysis. T...
ABSTRACT Predictors of drug involvement among secondary school students in Ibadan were examined in this study. Two hundred and four (204) students comprising 113 males and 91 females, whose age ranged between 13 and 25 years (M = 16.32, S.D. = 1.81) participated in the study. Data collected with a structured questionnaire were subjected to independent sample t-test, and regression analysis. Psychosocial factors (life purpose, need for achievement and self-esteem) significantly predicted drug ...
ABSTRACT Studies on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intentions in Ghana have not investigated the possible influence of informal groups on these organizational outcomes. The study compared organizational commitment, job satisfaction and turnover intentions among employees in informal groups and those who were not in any informal group. Job satisfaction, organizational commitment and groups (employees in informal groups and those who were not in any informal group) wer...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the extent to which employees’ perceived organizational safety climate predict their psychological capital and job satisfaction at the Tema Oil Refinery in Accra, using a survey research design. A total of 248 respondents were selected using Stratified random sampling technique. Questionnaires that contained the 50-item Occupational Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50) (Kines et al., 2011), 24-item Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Luthans, Avolio & A...