ABSTRACT The study examined the effects of cognitive style and context on students’ creativity using one hundred and twelve (112) participants drawn from Capital City Secondary School Awka, Nigeria. Participant’s responses from Group Embedded Figure Test (GEFT) and Divergent Thinking Task (DTT) used in measuring cognitive style and creativity respectively were subjected to 2-wayANOVA statistical test. The results of the analysis shows that a significant main effect was observed for cognit...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of context, cognitive style and gender on problem solving. Two hundred and forty (120 males and 120 females) SSII and SSIII students of University of Nigeria Secondary School, Enugu Campus (UNEC) were used as participants. Participants age ranged from 14-19 years with means age of 16.5 years. Two sets of materials used were the Oltman, Raskin, Heman and Witkin (1971) Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) used to classify participants into field depend...
ABSTRACT This study examined the influence of media body model and objectified body consciousness on body image: the moderating role of self-esteem. One hundred and twenty female adolescents aged between 14 and 17 years (M = 15.58 years, SD =1.07 years) participated in the study. Media body model was varied into fat and thin media models. The objectified body consciousness scale (McKinley & Hyde, 1996), body image acceptance and action questionnaire (Sandoz & Wilson, 2006) and the Rosenberg s...
ABSTRACT This study examined the relationship between locus of control, self-esteem, gender and attitude towards child adoption in Nsukka, Enugu State. Three hundred and three (303 people) of Nsukka local Government workers participated in the study (150 males and 153 females). Their ages range between 21years and 55 years with a mean age of (38.90) years. Three instruments were used for data collection namely: selfesteem scale developed by Rosenberg (1965), locus of control scale developed b...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the role of civic engagement, personality and sensation seeking on the social well-being of undergraduates. Participants were four hundred and fifty one (451) undergraduates. Their ages ranged between 16 to 35 years, with a mean age of 22.07. Cross sectional design was adopted. Four instruments were used for data collection. Civic Engagement Scale (Dolittle & Faul, 2013), Big Five Inventory (John, Donahue & Kentle, 1990), Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking ...
ABSTRACT This experiment investigated the effects of imagery, cognitive style, and gender on prospective and retrospective memory. One hundred and sixty (160) participants, comprising 80 males (mean age = 22.54 years) and 80 females (mean age = 21.30 years) were randomly selected using the table of random numbers on a population of 200 third and second year undergraduate students of the Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The stimulus materials used were Group Embedded Fi...
Abstract This study investigated the effects of levels of processing, distinctiveness and gender on event-based and time-based prospective memory. One hundred and twenty students (60 males and 60 females) of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki (EBSU) with a mean age of 23.31 years participated in the study. The stimulus material was a meaningful prose passage. Event-based and time-based prospective memory were tested with the Prospective Memory Test (PMT). Data were subjected to multivariate a...
Abstract This study was a survey aimed at ascertaining whether music preference, parental monitoring and gender are factors in adolescent sexual permissiveness. A sample of 405 adolescents were drawn from three secondary schools within Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State. Three instruments were used in the data collection. They include: Sexual Permissiveness Scale (SPS), Music Preference Scale (MPS) and Parental Monitoring Measure (PMM). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to ...
ABSTRACT Exposure to intense psychological trauma is associated with significant emotional burden and stress. Trauma victims suffer from myriads of adverse psychological consequences, particularly Post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. This study examined resilience, social support and self-efficacy as predictors of PTSD symptoms among adult trauma victims. A cross-sectional design was adopted in the study. Two hundred and eighty-one (281) adults consisting of 131(46.6%) males and 1...
ABSTRACT The study investigated personality, family conflict and age in marriage as predictors of postpartum distress. Two hundred and seven (207) women in their postpartum period participated in the study and were purposefully drawn from Federal Medical Center and Specialist Hospital Lokoja. Three hypotheses were tested: Personality will not significantly related to postpartum distress. Family conflict will not significantly related to postpartum distress. Age in marriage will not significan...
ABSTRACT Domestic violence has been defined as “the range of sexually, psychologically and physically coercive acts used against women by current or former male intimate partners (Danson, 2005), it’s specific objectives sought to identify the demographic characteristics of the respondents in terms of Age, Educational level and Number of years worked, to determine the level of domestic violence of women in Rubavu District Rwanda, to determine the level of social development in Rubavu Distr...
ABSTRACT United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)/ Wold Health Organisation (WHO) statistics estimate that 33 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. Women face the greatest risk of acquiring HIV due to substantial mucosal exposure to seminal fluids, prevalence of non-consensual sex and sex without condom use. Studies by WHO (2006), there is a positive relationship between sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and domestic violence. The studies indicate that there is a recip...
ABSTRACT The study investigated internet usage, social support and gender as predictors of self concept among four hundred and eighty six (486) undergraduate students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. They consisted of two hundred and thirty (230) males and two hundred and fifty six (256) females aged 18-32 years with a mean age of 25 years. Three instruments were used in this study: Self concept questionnaire, Social support questionnaire and Internet use inventory for undergraduate. Lin...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine the impact of mentorship and girl child education in secondary schools in Garowe, Puntland, Somalia. The study objectives were; to establish the relationship between guidance and counselling and girl child education in Garowe, Puntland, to find out the relationship between role modelling and parental attitudes toward girl child education in Garowe, Puntland and to establish relationship between learning environment and girl child education in Garowe, Puntl...
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