EFFECTIVENESS OF COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURIG AND SELF-MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES IN AMELIORATING PRE-RETIREMENT PHOBIA AMONG CIVIL SERVANTS IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA
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2019-03
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Journal of Science, Technology, Mathematics and Education
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The study examined effectiveness of cognitive restructuring and self-management techniques in ameliorating pre-retirement phobia among civil servants in Lagos State. The research was a quasi-experimental design. Population comprised civil servants in Lagos State in the six Education Districts, while the target population was civil servants in Education District 1 Agege selected through convenient sampling technique. Teaching and non-teaching staff (male and female) who were screened as having high pre-retirement phobia totaling one hundred and eighty were used as sample. They were grouped into three for experiment. Group 1 was treated with cognitive restructuring, group 2 with self-management technique. Group 3 (control) was just given a placebo. Three Null hypotheses were tested in the study. Two instruments, Self-assessment Retirement Checklist (SRC) and Pre-retirement Phobia Questionnaire (PPQ) were used for data collection. They were well validated and have reliability coefficient of 0.75 and 0.71 respectively. Analysis of data was done with t-test, ANOVA and ANCOVA at 0.05 level of significance. Hypothesis one was rejected while hypotheses two and three were retained. Result showed that cognitive restructuring and self-management techniques were effective to ameliorate pre-retirement phobia. It also revealed that gender and type of service did not make significant difference in retirement phobia (or in the effectiveness of the treatment). Recommendations were made that cognitive restructuring and self-management techniques should be used to give retirement counselling, both gender and all categories of Lagos State civil servants should be given retirement counselling without discrimination.
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effectiveness, cognitive restructuring, self-management, pre-retirement phobia