Socio-Demographic Factors as Determinants of Risk Perception among Security Officers in Private Organisations in Ibadan, Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorJohnson, T. Oyeleke
dc.contributor.authorIsiaka, Monsurat
dc.contributor.authorDele, Ajibewa
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-11T13:37:58Z
dc.date.available2021-06-11T13:37:58Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe objective of the present paper was to find out the level of risk perception of the security personnel with respect to the different socio-demographic variables of gender, work experience, age marital status and educational qualification. Therefore, this study examined socio-demographic factors as determinants of perception of risk among security personnel in Ibadan. Nigeria. Cross-sectional research design was adopted. A total of 211 participants was surveyed and simple random sampling technique was used to sample respondents in this study. A structured questionnaire which focused on social demographic characteristics and risk perception scales was used to collect data from the respondents. Three hypotheses were tested at 0005 level using the t-test for independent samples and multiple regressionsanalysis. Results showed that risk perception of male respondents was significantly higher than the risk perception of their female counterparts t (200) = 3.552). Respondents who have just spent between 1-2 years in service scored significantly higher 011 perception of risk than participants who have spent 3 years and above among security personnel in Ibadan t (200) = 5.358). Age; marital status, educational qualification year of experience and rank jointly predicted perception of risks among security personnel with private 'security outfits in Ibadan, (R = .511; R2 =.261; F (5,196) = 11.467). Gender, age, marital status, educational qualification, years of experience and rank were important predictors of perception of risks among private security guards inIbadan.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/6100
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Arts and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries11;3
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectageen_US
dc.subjectmarital statusen_US
dc.subjecteducational qualificationen_US
dc.subjectyears of experienceen_US
dc.subjectrank and perception of risksen_US
dc.titleSocio-Demographic Factors as Determinants of Risk Perception among Security Officers in Private Organisations in Ibadan, Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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