PERSONALITY TRAITS AND RELIGIOSITY AS PREDICTORS OF GENERAL HEALTH AMONG BLOOD DONORS IN IBADAN.

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dc.contributor.authorFaworaja, O.R
dc.contributor.authorOguntayo, R
dc.contributor.authorPopoola, A.O
dc.contributor.authorFagbamila, D.O
dc.contributor.authorOyeleke, J.T
dc.contributor.authorOpayemi, A.S
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-15T13:19:55Z
dc.date.available2019-11-15T13:19:55Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2536-6971
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3477
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Psychology, University of Ibadanen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAJPSSI;Vol.20 No.2 2017
dc.subjectPersonality Traitsen_US
dc.subjectReligiosityen_US
dc.subjectGeneral Healthen_US
dc.subjectBlood Donorsen_US
dc.titlePERSONALITY TRAITS AND RELIGIOSITY AS PREDICTORS OF GENERAL HEALTH AMONG BLOOD DONORS IN IBADAN.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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