Browsing by Author "Faworaja, O.R"

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    PERSONALITY TRAITS AND RELIGIOSITY AS PREDICTORS OF GENERAL HEALTH AMONG BLOOD DONORS IN IBADAN.
    (Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, 2017) Faworaja, O.R; Oguntayo, R; Popoola, A.O; Fagbamila, D.O; Oyeleke, J.T; Opayemi, A.S
    This study investigated personality traits and religiosity as predictors of general health among blood donors in Ibadan. It adopted expost facto design. The independent variables are Personality traits and religiosity while dependent variable is general health. The study was conducted in Ibadan city. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 260 participants consisting of 112 males, 138 females and 10 participants who indicated not their sex responded to questionnaire of Big Five Personality Inventory of Gerlitz and Schupp (2005), The Daily Spiritual Experience and Religiosity Scale (DSER) developed by Underwood and Teresi (2002), and Goldberg and Hillier (1979)’s General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). Mean scores, frequencies, percentages, Pearson's correlation and regression were used for analysis. The results disclosed that personality as a whole does influence general health among individual blood donors(R = .454; R2 =.206; F (5,252) = 1924.161; P<.01). Also, religiosity predicts the level of general health among individual blood donors in Ibadan city t(256) = 5.057; P<.01). The implication of these findings is to inform Federal government of Nigeria and the global society about how to educate individuals on how to manage general health considering psychosocial factors and the family setting.
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    SELF-EFFICACY AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIP AS DETERMINANTS OF PERCEIVED STRESS AMONG CIVIL SERVANTS IN OYO STATE *
    (Department of Business Administration, University of Ilorin, 2017-09) Popoola, O.A; Opayemi, A.S.; Oyeleke, J.S.; Fagbamila, Olumide David; Faworaja, O.R; Tejideen, T.O.
    Stress is a common experience of working class people and it has been the cause of diseases and death. Therefore, this study investigated self-efficacy and family relationship as determinants of perceived stress among civil servants in Oyo state. The study utilized cross-sectional survey design and made use of structured questionnaire to collect data from two hundred and fifty- five respondents among civil servants in government secretariat Ibadan. T-test for independent samples and multiple regression analysis was used at .05 level of significance and results indicated that self-efficacy predicted stress (t (225) =-8.648). Family relationship also significantly predicted perceived stress. t(255) =-11.756). Gender, educational qualification and job status jointly predicted perceived stress(R=.117, t=-2.611). There was significant main effect of self-efficacy on stress (F (1,223) =28.382), there was significant main effect on family relationship on stress (F (1,227) =23.272). Self-efficacy, family relationship, gender, educational qualification and job status were important factors in perceived stress among civil servants in Ibadan. The findings of this study implied that gender, age, marital status, educational qualification, job status and average income influences perceived stress. Also self-efficacy and family influence predicted stress respectively. Hence, Based on the best models in this study, it can be concluded that the relationship between self-efficacy and family influence is mediated by perceived stressed. Therefore, it is recommended that psycho-educational therapy should be an integral programme for them to help in reduction of stress.