Influence of Job Stress and Organisational Justice On Burnout Among Academic Staff of Polytechnics in South West Nigeria (Published)
This research investigated the influence of job stress and organisational justice on burnout among academic staff of polytechnics in South West Nigeria. The research adopted descriptive survey research method and multi stage sampling technique. The population for this research is the entire staff of polytechnics in South West Nigeria and the participants consists of four hundred and eighty (480) academic staff of polytechnics in South West Nigeria who were selected through multi-stage random sampling technique. Three major instruments were adopted to collect data for this study. Namely: Job-Related Tension Index (JRTI) developed by Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, Snock and Rosenthal (1964), Measure of Organisational Justice (MOJ) developed by Colquit (2001) and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) developed by Maslach and Jackson (1986). Findings of this research revealed significant influence of job stress and organisational justice on burnout among the participants. It also revealed no significant gender difference in burnout among academic staff of polytechnics in South West Nigeria. While contributing to the existing knowledge on the research area, it also made recommendations to management, regulatory bodies and government at large on policies and strategies that can be put in place in polytechnics to reduce or eradicate burnout
Keywords: Academic Staff, Burnout, Job Stress, Nigeria, Organisational Justice, Polytechnics, South-west
Assertiveness Training And Cognitive Restructuring Technique On Self-Esteem Of Female Undergraduate Victims Of Relationship Violence In South-West Nigeria (Published)
This study used a pre-test-post-test, control group quasi-experimental design to investigate the effects of assertiveness training and cognitive restructuring technique on self-esteem of female undergraduate victims of relationship violence in south-west Nigeria. The sample for the study comprised of ninety female undergraduates students who have experienced relationship violence. They were screened using the Severity of Violence Against Women Scale (SVAWS) and selected through multi-stage sampling technique from three randomly selected Universities (Ibadan, Lagos and Olabisi Onobanjo) in South-west Nigeria. The participants were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. The two treatment groups were exposed to eight-weeks training in Assertiveness and Cognitive Restructuring Training, while participants in the control group received no training. Two validated instrument: Severity of Violence Against Women Scale (SVAWS) and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were used. Three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data was analysed using Analysis of Covariance. There was significant main effect of treatment in the pre-post self-esteem scores of female undergraduate victims of relationship violence in the experimental and control groups (F(2,87) = 43.884, P < .05). Also, there was significant difference in the main effect of age in the pre-post self-esteem scores of female undergraduate victims of relationship violence between young and older participants (F (2,87) = 16.808, P < .05). However, that there was no significant interaction effect of age in the pre-post self-esteem scores of female undergraduate victims of relationship violence in the experimental and control groups (F(3,86) = 0.188, P < .05). Therefore, psychological intervention programmes should be put in place in universities through their counselling centres to help undergraduates rediscover their potentials and develop competence to relate intelligently with others.
Keywords: Age, Assertiveness Training, Cognitive Restructuring, Nigeria, South-west, University