PERSONALITY TRAITS AND RELIGIOSITY AS PREDICTORS OF GENERAL HEALTH AMONG BLOOD DONORS IN IBADAN.
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2017
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Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan
Abstract
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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Personality Traits, Religiosity, General Health, Blood Donors