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Page will reload when a filter is selected or excluded.- Adaptation to stroke may require complex long-term change in stroke patients’ lives. This study examined the psychosocial variables influencing depression tendency and quality of life among stroke patients. The independent variables are personality traits and demographic variables while the dependent variables are depression and quality of life. Data were collected on stroke patients using a cross-sectional design and standardized questionnaires. A total of 112 stroke survivors took part in the study in which 57 (50.9%) were males and 55 (49.1%) were females with a mean age of 50.63 and standard deviation of 8.657 with age ranging from 30 to 74 years. Four hypotheses were tested using the multiple regression analysis and t-test for independent measures. The first hypothesis shows that jointly, agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness to experience and neuroticism significantly predicted Quality of life among the stroke patients in the study. The result revealed that conscientiousness and extraversion independently predicts Quality of life of Stroke patients while agreeableness, openness to experience and neuroticism did not independently predict Quality of life. The second hypothesis predicted that agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness to experience and neuroticism significantly and jointly predicted depression among stroke patients. The result also demonstrated that there was independent influence of agreeableness, openness to experience and neuroticism on the level of depression in Stroke patients while conscientiousness and extraversion did not independently predict depression among stroke patients. The result shows that male stroke patients were more depressed than female stroke patients. However, female stroke patients have better quality of life than male stroke patients. The results were discussed exhaustively in relation to the existing literature and it was concluded that efforts should be made to consider personality factors such as agreeableness, openness to experience, neuroticism, conscientiousness and extraversion as a prerequisite in conducting rehabilitation programs among stroke patients this will go a long way to boost their recovery and increase their level of wellbeing. Rehabilitation programs for this group of people (stroke survivors) would be more effective if they are based upon a holistic approach 1 results 1
- Background and aims: Sending and receiving sexually suggestive or explicit images or texts (sexting) have been shown to be associated with health risk behaviors but liter-ature about this phenomenon is scarce in Nigeria. This study looked at the prevalence, predictors, and associated sexual risk behaviors of sexting among postsecondary school young persons in Ibadan, Nigeria. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire. Data were obtained for sociodemographic characteristics and sexual orientation, sexting behavior, personality assessment (using the International Personality Item Pool Big-Five factor markers), indicators for problematic phone use (using Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale), and sexual behavior. Chi square test and logistic regression were used for data analysis with p = 0.05. Results: Five hundred seventy-five participants were recruited, age range 14–24 years, and 46.0% were males. Twenty percent had sent sexts, while 33.2% had received sexts. Fifty-four percent had high scores in extraversion, 46.5% had moderate–severe prob-lematic phone use. Sixteen percent had ever had sex, and 40.0% of these had multiple sexual partners. Males were more likely than females to have sent sexts (OR = 2.67, 95% CI: 1.68–4.24). Having a high extraversion score (OR = 2.44, 95% CI: 1.35–4.41) and moderate–severe problematic phone use (OR = 5.56, 95% CI: 2.73–11.32) was predictive of sexting. Sending and receiving of sext were significantly associated with ever having sexual intercourse (OR = 4.01, 95% CI: 2.25–7.17 and OR = 2.96, 95% CI: 1.72–5.12, respectively). Conclusion: Sexting was prevalent among postsecondary school young persons in Ibadan and was associated with male sex and problematic phone use. Intervention targeted at the identified susceptible group of young people may reduce its associated problems in this study group. 1 results 1
- Big five personality 1 results 1
- Characteristics 1 results 1
- Corrupt practices 1 results 1
- Depression 1 results 1
- Fear 1 results 1
- House-ownership 1 results 1
- Life satisfaction 1 results 1
- Life satisfaction, identified as one of the important components of quality of life, is generally low in Nigeria. Most studies on life satisfaction have been focused on the effects of psychological factors to the neglect of the importance of house-ownership and neighbourhood effect. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of house-ownership, religious commitment, self-esteem, social support, personality factors and the moderating effect of neighbourhood on life satisfaction among residents in Ibadan metropolis. The Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory provided the framework for this study. Using a 5-way factorial design and a multistage sampling technique, five of the eleven Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the metropolis were purposively selected. Based on the list of enumeration areas for 2005 census, 10 enumeration areas each were selected from the LGAs with simple random technique. The number of houses on the selected enumeration areas were determined with enumeration area maps. Two hundred and twenty households each were selected from the LGAs using systematic technique making a total of 1,100 houses. The selected houses were marked and the household heads were sampled. A structured questionnaire focusing on socio-demographic profile, life satisfaction scale (r=0.74), religious commitment scale (r=0.72), the big 5 personality inventory (r=0.76), self-esteem scale (r=0.61) and a multi-dimensional scale of perceived social support (r=0.87) was administered to the participants. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and multiple regression at 0.05 level of significance. The participants’ age was 42.11+15.20 years. There were 56.2% females. Participants’ educational qualification was 9.9% no formal education, 23.7% primary education, 29.9% secondary education and 36.5 tertiary education. There were 89.5% Yoruba, 5.9% Igbo, 3.4% Hausa and 1.2% other ethnic groups. Participants’ marital status was 79.6% married, 1.7% separated, 0.27% divorced, 4.9% widowed and 13.5% nevermarried. There were 42.5% Christians, 56.6% Muslims and 0.9% traditional worshippers. Respondents’ house-ownership status was 31.9% house-owners and 68.1% renters. There were 18.0% participants from the low density areas, 54.1% from the high density areas and 27.9% from the medium density areas. House-ownership, neighbourhood effects, religious commitment and social support jointly predicted life satisfaction (R2=10.0; F=24.75). House-ownership interacted with openness to predict life satisfaction (F(1,928)=4.39). Neighbourhood significantly moderated the effect of house-ownership on life satisfaction (F(2,926)=2.94). There was a significant interaction effect of religious commitment and social support on life satisfaction (F(1,237)=4.15). Conscientiousness significantly interacted with agreeableness to predict life satisfaction (F(1,686)=4.15). There was an interaction effect of neuroticism and educational qualification on life satisfaction (F(3,658)=7.24) and there was a significant interaction effect of self-esteem on gender to predict life satisfaction (F(1,685)=5.40). House-ownership was not crucial but neighbourhood was essential in improving life satisfaction. Emphasis should be placed on neighbourhood effect in improving life satisfaction 1 results 1
- Neighbourhood effect 1 results 1
- Nigeria students 1 results 1
- Post-secondary schools 1 results 1
- Problematic phone use 1 results 1
- Psychosocial 1 results 1
- Psychosocial factors 1 results 1
- Psychosocial variables 1 results 1
- Quality of life 1 results 1
- Sexting 1 results 1
- Sexual risk behaviors 1 results 1
- Socio economics 1 results 1
- Stroke patients 1 results 1
- The goal of the study was to examine the influence of some psychosocial variables like personality factors (extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, conscientiousness and openness), gender (male and female) and age in predicting university maladjustment. The participants, (M-42 & F-92) were 134 students in the age range 16-30 years randomly selected from a private University in Nigeria. The Big Five Personality inventory (BFI) and University Maladjustment Scale (UMS) were used to collect data Multiple Regression Analysis, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and t-test statistics were used to analyze the data. The result showed that all the psychosocial variables jointly predicted 87% of the University maladjustment variance. The implications in terms of screening fresh intakes into universities and minimizing student unrest were discussed. 1 results 1
- The study investigated psycho-social analysis of fear of corrupt practices among students of Olabisi Onabanjo University. The study was a cross-sectional research which specifically adopted Ex-post facto design. Questionnaire format was utilized for data collection. The questionnaire included the Big-five personality inventory, fear of corrupt practices and personal data scales. Four (4) hypotheses were stated and tested using multiple regression analysis. The result showed that personality characteristics of extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness to experience and conscientiousness significantly and co-jointly predicted fear of corrupt practices {F(5,244) =4.48, P<.05,R2 =.08}. However, only personality traits of extroversion [a=-.17, t = 2.42, P<.05J and openness to experience [a=.23, t = 3.04, P<.05] had significant independent influence on fear of corrupt practices respectively. The results showed also that males and females were not significant different on fear of corrupt practices [t = -1.69, df= 248, P>.05J; student within the age group 18 - 30 years reported more fear of corrupt practices than students with the age group 31-45 years. The results showed further that students who had prior criminal victimization experience reported more fear of corrupt practices than student who had no prior criminal victimization [t = 2.94, df = 248, P<.01J; ordinary students were not significantly different on fear of corrupt practices, [t = -.056, df = 248, P>.05], Female and male who were political office holder were not significantly different on fear of corrupt practices [t = -1.15, df= 91, P>.05J. The study was concluded by establishing that some personality characteristic, specifically extraversion and openness to experience were found to have significant independent influence on fear of corrupt practices. Similarly, all the considered personality characteristics had significant co-joint influence on fear of corrupt practices. Age and prior victimization experience were found also to significantly influence fear of corrupt practices 1 results 1
- University 1 results 1
- Young people 1 results 1
- personality factors 1 results 1
- university maladjustment 1 results 1
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