ABSTRACT Using300 purposively selected private and commercial automobile drivers in Lagos. Nigeria as participants. and with a combination of FGD. interview and questionnaire. the study investigated the influence of psychosocial factors such as (locus of control. age. years of driving experience. marital status and educational status) on aggressive behavior among the drivers based on the frustration - aggression hypothesis. Given the chaotic traffic situation in Lagos. premise was that the ag...
ABSTRACT Background: The improvement of community tolerance of people with community tolerance of people with mental illness is important for their integration. Little is known about the knowledge of and attitude to mental illness in sub-Saharan Africa. Aim: To determine the knowledge and attitudes of a representative community attitudes of a representative community sample in Nigeria. Method: A multistage, clustered sample of household respondents was studied in of three states in the Y...
ABSTRACT Presently, there is no available logotherapeutic model for understanding the experiences of persons in crises, specifically the victims of sexual assault in Nigeria. The paper first reviewed the literature on some of the available models: equilibrium, cognitive and psychosocial transition. The author has added the existential/logotherapeutic model to literature and based on this model subsequently developed a technique in order to better identify the condition of victims of sexual as...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore or find out the challenges foster students encounter in a bid to achieve satisfactory basic education.The descriptive cross sectional design was used. The target population for the study was 689 foster students and 2,689 non foster students. A sample of 210 respondents was selected from foster and non - foster students using the simple random sampling technique. Questionnaires were used to gather the data on the variables selected for the stu...
Abstract The role of social and demographic variables in influencing barriers to health improvement among Alberta immigrants and the Alberta general population was assessed in this study. Data were sourced from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 1 of 2001. Using logistic regression analysis, it was found that job status played significant role in influencing barriers to improving immigrants’ health. Among the general Alberta population, however, immigrant status, sex and mar...
Abstract This research was carried out to find out the effects of self-esteem and illness vulnerability on perception of quality of water packaged in cellophane bags, popularly known in Nigeria as “pure water”. The interest in “pure water” stemmed from the increase in the packaging, marketing, and consumption of the commodity in Nigeria and the health implications for millions of the nation’s citizens and residents who consume pure water. Participants in the research, whose design...
ABSTRACT Surgical patients have been known to benefit immensely from psychological interventions. This study set out to assess the pre and postoperative anxiety levels and depression and the effect of cognitive therapy among Nigerian surgical patients, The effects of gender and educational status on perioperative anxiety and depression were also evaluated. Study design . The study utilized a controlled outcome design to evaluate the efficacy of self instructional training (SIT) and rational e...
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 ...