ABSTRACT This Study aimed at investigating the relationships between Music Education, Music Performance and secondary school students‘ Self Concept and Academic Achievement. Researchers believe that music helps in enhanced brain activity which increases student‘s ability to perform certain academic tasks. There are, however, inconsistencies on how music influences Self Concept and Academic Achievement. The researcher aimed at seeking to establish the relationship between each of the indep...
ABSTRACT Substance abuse is a problem to many people across the world. Programs and activities have been put in place to fight drug and substance abuse in schools. The Ministry of Education through the report of the presidential party in education and manpower training for the next decade and beyond and the Commission of inquiry on the education system of Kenya recommended that peer counseling services be established in all educational institutions. Peer counseling was therefore integrated i...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between exams anxiety, academic performance and other selected correlates, which were, academic procrastination, Locus of control and academic resilience. Indeed, the phenomenon of exams anxiety has been widely studied in relation to academic performance. However, exams anxiety, as a psychological construct, also needs to be understood in terms of other related factors that might precipitate it. In addition, the study also inv...
ABSTRACT The ability to understand and use information from text is a key predict of a student’s success in school learning. Not all factors related to this ability have been adequately investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine metacognitive knowledge and cognitive reading strategy use as predictors of reading comprehension performance among form three students in Lari Sub County, Kiambu County. The study also tested for gender differences in metacognitive knowledge and cogniti...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between parenting style a person was train with, attachment style and later marital satisfaction as well as the factors affecting marital satisfaction in the Ghanaian context using concurrent mixed method design. Two hundred married participants comprising 86 males and 114 females were conveniently sampled from the Greater Accra region of Ghana for the study. Correlational survey design was used to investigate the relationship between parentin...
ABSTRACT Customer service delivery has become relevant in modern organizations due to global competition requiring a need for employees to be sensitive to the needs of clients. It is therefore necessary that psychological factors which influence customer services are investigated. This study aimed at exploring the relationships among self monitoring, job crafting and contextual performance among customer service employees. Data for the study was collected from 254 customer service personnel,...
ABSTRACT The study sought to find out the influence of organisational learning and employees creativity on the quality of work life among employees in Ghanaian organisations. The design of the study was a sequential explanatory mixed research design. The populations consisted of all employees in Ghanaian organisations. Samples were drawn from lecturers in University of Cape Coast, Educational Foundations Department, nurses from University of Cape Coast hospital, staff from Vodafone Ghana, Gh...
This paper discuss the effects of frustration on performance. The research was carried by the approved process and steps. The frustration was created by giving list of anagrams to 22 participants and the hypothesise were participant will perform better in list A in which no frustration was given and participants will take time on list B in which frustration was created.
ABSTRACT The study investigated the Knowledge and Awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder among school teachers in Ekiti State. The study is a school based cross-sectional study. A total of 107 teachers were sampled for the study. Knowlecege of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASK-ASD) was used to assess knowledge while an ordinary awareness questionnarc was used to assess the teachers awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) . Five hypotheses were tested. 111e result revealed that there is no sig...
ABSTRACT This study used a 2x2x2 factorial design to examine framing, certainty and gender effects on security strategy decision. One hundred and twenty (60 male, 60 female) first year students of psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, whose ages ranged from 16-29 years (M = 20.35 years, SD =2.85 years) participated in the study. Framing was varied into positive and negative framing conditions certainty was varied into certainty and uncertainty conditions, while gender was categorized in...
ABSTRACT The study investigated HIV/AIDS status, locus of control and religious affiliation as factors in death anxiety among three hundred and ninety (390) adults in Nsukka Local Government Area. It was hypothesized that HIV/AIDS status, locus of control and religious affiliation will not be a significant factor in death anxiety among adults in Nsukka Local Government Area. Three instruments were used for data collation in this study: The Death anxiety scale, Locus of control of behav...
ABSTRACT The study investigated personality and social support as predictors of life satisfaction among a population of 601 staff of Nigerian Prisons, Enugu State. Data were collected using Life Satisfaction Index-Short Form (Barrette & Murk, 2009), Big Five Inventory (John, Donahue & Kentle, 1991) and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988). Multiple regression analysis was used to test the significance of the hypotheses. The result of the st...
ABSTRACT The study investigated role of parental education, self-efficacy and achievement motivation in academic engagement among three hundred and fifty-six (356) university of Nigeria, Nsukka undergraduates, (male and female). Three instruments including demographic data were used in the study: The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale- Students version (UWES- S), the New General Self-Efficacy Scale (NGSE) and the Nigerian Adaptation of Herman’s (1970) Questionnaire Measure of Achievement ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the role of personality difference, coping strategy and stress symptomatology among pregnant women in Enugu metropolis. Two hundred and twenty pregnant women were selected from two hospitals in Enugu Metropolis. One hundred and ten participants were selected from each of these hospitals. Three instruments were used to collect data for the study namely: the brief cope scale (Carver, 1997), type A behavior scale (Omoluabi, 1997) and psychophysiological symptom c...
ABSTRACT This study used a cross-sectional design to investigate the influence of dispositional mindfulness and spirituality on readiness to change cannabis use. Participants were one hundred and fifty seven (157) cannabis users. Their ages ranged between 17 - 44 years, with a mean age of 24.50 (SD = 4.28). Three instruments were used for data collection. Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaires (Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer, & Toney, 2006), Spiritual Experience Index-Revised (Genia, ...