ABSTRACT The study used a cross-sectional design to investigate the role of emotional labour, gender, and age on employee job-related affective wellbeing. A total of two hundred bankers from nineteen different banks in Nsukka and Enugu cities participated in the study. They comprised unequal sample of 136 males and 64 females aged from 20-39 years (young adult workers), with a mean age of 29.5 years; and 40-65 years (old adult workers), with a means age of 52.5 years. The emotional labour su...
INTRODUCTION This dissertation is about the well-being of Namibian secondary school educators as well as the employee and organizational outcomes thereof. Chapter 1 focuses on the background and motivation for the study, the problem statement, justification for the study, as well as research objectives and methodology used in this study.
ABSTRACT The research investigated the influence of parental monitoring, birth order and gender on adolescent health risk behaviour. Three hundred and fifty (350) participants (175 female and 175 male) participated in the study. Participants’ ages ranged from 15 years to 21 years, with mean age of 18 years. Two instruments were used for data collation in the study: Parental Monitoring Inventory and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviour Scale. A three-way ANOVA was used for data analysis and th...
ABSTRACT Investigated in the present study were workplace social support variables and personality types as predictors of job satisfaction. Two hundred and fifty staff of Nigeria Breweries Ama Enugu State who volunteered participated in the study. Their average age was 28 years and they were mainly junior and medium level staff. Valid questionnaire were used to collected raw data about the study variables and multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 16 was used to analyze the data. T...
ABSTRACT The study used a cross-sectional design to investigate the role of emotional labour, gender, and age on employee job-related affective wellbeing. A total of two hundred bankers from nineteen different banks in Nsukka and Enugu cities participated in the study. They comprised unequal sample of 136 males and 64 females aged from 20-39 years (young adult workers), with a mean age of 29.5 years; and 40-65 years (old adult workers), with a means age of 52.5 years. The emotional labour su...
ABSTRACT This empirical study examined leader-member exchange, psychological empowerment, and organizational trust as antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviour among teachers. Two hundred and fifty-five (255) teachers comprising 127 males and 128 females were randomly selected using a cross-sectional design from teachers of four secondary schools in Nsukka Local Government Area. Their ages ranged between 23 to 60 years. Four instruments that were locally standardized using Nige...
Abstract The study investigated the influence of responsibility and gender on problem-solving. Eighty (80) final – year students of the Institute of Ecumenical Education, Enugu participated in the study. Participants were volunteers within the age range of 22 and 28 years with a mean age of 25 years. The instrument for data collection was the Eysenck General Intelligence Test – 4 (EGIT – 4) developed by Eysenck (1981) and which was modified for use in Nigeria by Ihekuna (1991). Tw...
Abstract This study examined the effect of Evaluative conditioning on attitudes of smokers towards smoking behaviour: With self-efficacy as a moderating variable. Evaluative conditioning was varied into evaluative condition group and control group. Fifty male volunteered undergraduate student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka who were smokers participated in the study. Their age range was between 18 and 30years with a mean age of 23.7000. Self-efficacy scale, five dimensions of attitude s...
ABSTRACT In this study, the relationship between core self-evaluations, self-monitoring, supervisory support and taking charge was examined cross-sectionally among sales employees drawn from three (3) mobile money organizations. Supervisory ratings of subordinates’ taking charge behaviour were collected and matched with 200 subordinates’ self-ratings of core self-evaluations, self-monitoring and supervisory support characteristics .The researcher performed hierarchical regression ana...
ABSTRACT Stroke has been documented to be the second commonest cause of death, and a major disability in survivors. In sub-Saharan Africa, stroke is the leading cause of preventable death and disability in adults. There are a lot of challenges associated with stroke ranging from cognitive to behavioural changes as well as problems with perceived quality of life. The aim of the study was to examine the cognitive and behavioural changes as well as perceived quality of life of in individuals dia...
ABSTRACT Background: As compared to developed economies, stroke is a rising epidemic affecting mostly the younger workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), exerting a severe toll on the physical, psychoemotional, cognitive and social lives of its victims with a 3-year mortality rate of 84%. The occurrence of seizures lead to poor prognosis and increased mortality in stroke patients. Early screening for seizures and effective prognostication of the functional outcome of stroke may improve the out...
ABSTRACT Reducing the loss of life due to suicide has become a critical international mental health goal. Several researches in the field of suicide prevention have focused on the role of medical facilities, schools and other local or state organizations and the role of religious leaders as gatekeepers has been overlooked. Using a qualitative approach, the study explored the attitudes of Christian, Islamic and Traditional religious leaders within the Ga East Municipal District of Ghana toward...
ABSTRACT Stroke is a public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa due to the high and adverse consequences of mortality and morbidity and its effects on survivors, family and caregivers in general. It accounts for 10% of the world’s total mortality rate and it is the highest cause of disability in adults; and the highest bed occupancy. In sub-Saharan countries, there is a great burden of stroke because it occurs among young population and unavailability of well-structured rehabilitation stra...
ABSTRACT This study explored social constructions of gratitude among orthopaedic patients in Southern Ghana and investigated how gratitude relates to post-traumatic experience in this sample. The sequential mixed method was used in this study. Study 1 was a qualitative study where sixteen (N=16) participants took part in an in-depth individual interview on their constructions of gratitude in relation to their experience. Thematic analysis revealed that gratitude emanated from the feeling of ...
ABSTRACT Evidence indicates that persons with disability are more likely to be victims of violence and discrimination relative to people without disability. The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) estimates the number of persons with disability in Ghana to be about 3% of the population. Evidence from the existing literature consistently indicates that discrimination and violence are negatively associated with subjective well-being. However, there are few studies in Ghana that have examined the ...