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EMOTIONAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND COPING STRATEGIES OF ACADEMIC STAFF IN UNIVERSITIES IN ENUGU STATE

 

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  •         TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents                                                                                                       PageTitle Page                                                                                                       iApproval Page                                                                                               iiCertification Page                                                                                           iiiDedication                                                                                                     ivAcknowledgements                                                                                       vList of Tables                                                                                                 viiAbstract                                                                                                         xTable of Contents                                                                                           ixCHAPTER ONE:                Introduction                                                   1           Background to the Study                                                                 1         Statement of the Problem                                                                               10Purpose of the Study                                                                                    11Research Questions                                                                                         11Hypotheses                                                                                                     13Significance of the Study                                                                               13Scope of the Study                                                                                         14CHAPTER TWO:           Review of Related Literature                             16Conceptual Framework                                                                                   16Emotional health problemsVarieties of emotional health problemsSources of emotional health problemsPredisposing factors to emotional health problemsCoping strategies for emotional health problemsTheoretical Framework                                                                                   58James-Lange theory of emotionJob demand resource modelRelated Studies on Emotional Health Problems                             62                                                                                                                   

Chapter THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

  •                                                                           MethodsResearch Design                                                                                              70Area of the Study                                                                                            70Population for the Study                                                                                71Sample and Sampling Technique                                                                    72Instrument for Data Collection                                                                        73            Validity of the instrument                                                                  73            Reliability of the instrument                                                              74Method of Data Collection                                                                              74Method of Data Analysis                                                                                75CHAPTER FOUR: Results and Discussion                                                 76Results                                                                                                           76Summary of Major Findings                                                                           104Discussion                                                                                                       106CHAPTER FIVE: Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations                   114Summary                                                                                                         114Conclusions                                                                                                     117Implication of the Study                                                                                 120Recommendations                                                                                         121Limitation of the Study                                                                                 122Suggestion 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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