EMOTIONAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND COPING STRATEGIES OF ACADEMIC STAFF IN UNIVERSITIES IN ENUGU STATE
Table Of Contents
Contents Page
Title Page i
Approval Page ii
Certification Page iii
Dedication iv
Acknowledgements v
List of Tables vii
Abstract x
Table of Contents ix
Chapter ONE
: Introduction 1
Background to the Study 1
Statement of the Problem 10
Purpose of the Study 11
Research Questions 11
Hypotheses 13
Significance of the Study 13
Scope of the Study 14
Chapter TWO
: Review of Related Literature 16
Conceptual Framework 16
- Emotional health problems
- Varieties of emotional health problems
- Sources of emotional health problems
- Predisposing factors to emotional health problems
- Coping strategies for emotional health problems
Theoretical Framework 58
- James-Lange theory of emotion
- Job demand resource model
Related Studies on Emotional Health Problems 62
Chapter THREE
: Methods
Research Design 70
Area of the Study 70
Population for the Study 71
Sample and Sampling Technique 72
Instrument for Data Collection 73
Validity of the instrument 73
Reliability of the instrument 74
Method of Data Collection 74
Method of Data Analysis 75
Chapter FOUR
: Results and Discussion 76
Results 76
Summary of Major Findings 104
Discussion 106
Chapter FIVE
: Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations 114
Summary 114
Conclusions 117
Implication of the Study 120
Recommendations 121
Limitation of the Study 122
Suggestion for further Studies 122
References 123
Appendices 150
Appendix A 150
Appendix B 161
Appendix C 162
Appendix D 170
Appendix E 171
Appendix F 176
Appendix G. 177
Thesis Abstract
ABSTRACT
Determining the level of emotional health problems and extent of use of coping strategies among academic staff in universities in Enugu State was the purpose of this study. To achieve this purpose, the descriptive research designwas adopted. The population for the study consisted of 2256 full-time academic staff from five universities (one federal, one state and three private universities) in Enugu State. A sample of 669 academic staff participated in the study, and was selected by proportionate stratified random sampling and simple random sampling techniques. The instrument used for data collection was the emotional health problems and coping strategies (EMHEPACOS) questionnaire. It has four sections. Section A elicited information on personal data of the subjects, while section B consisted of five self tests adapted from literature that elicited information on levels of five specific dimensions of EHPs. To establish levels of EHPs, results of the tests were used and interpreted using four scales of No/Minimal, Low, Moderate and Severe. Section C sought information on extent of prevalence of sources of EHPs, whereas Section D dwelt on extent of use of coping strategies for EHPs. A fivepoint scale response options of Very Low, Low, Moderate, High and Very High extent were used to weight the respondents’ responses in sections C and D and also to interpret the results. The face validation of the instrument was established through the judgment of five experts drawn from various departments of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The Spearman Brown Rank Order was used to establish dichotomously scored items of the instrument, while internal consistency of the polychotomously scored items was computed using Cronbatch Alpha technique. Both methods yielded reliability co-efficient values of .87 and .89. Data collected were analyzed using the SPSS version 17 for MS WINDOWS. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages, mean, standard deviations and mean totals were used for analysis of descriptive data, while One-way analysis of variance and Dunnett’s post hoc tests were used to test the hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed that there were moderate levels of four out of five dimensions of the emotional health problems studied among majority of the academic staff. The findings also indicated that specifically majority of the items on sources and coping strategies for emotional health problems occurred to high or moderate extent respectively among academic staff, albeit, very few occur to low or very low extent. The findings among other things equally revealed that while level of emotional health problems among academic staff was influenced by gender; extent of use of coping strategies is independent of the academic staff gender. Finally, based on the above findings this study recommended among other things that in view of the fact that health education is the mother discipline of public health education and a panacea to emotional health problem at least a recommended regular health education on emotional health sustainability should be made compulsory for every academic staff in Nigeria.
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