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Item Emotional intelligence, conflict resolution skills as correlates of marital stability among couples in Lagos State, Nigeria(2010-11) Animasahun, R. A.; Oladeni, O.O.This study was conducted to find out how emotional intelligence and conflict resolution skills predict marital stability among married couples. The sample for this study consists of two hundred and fifty (250) marriage couples (males and females) in Lagos. The research instrument used was a validated questionnaire to measure the independent and dependent variables of the study. Four (4) hypotheses were tested, at 0.05 level of significance using Pearson correlation analysis and i-test statistics. The findings revealed that emotional intelligence had significant relationship with marital stability (r = .537, P<.0.05). There is significant relationship between conflict resolution skills and marital stability (r = .562 P<0.05). There was no significant difference in the conflict resolution skills of married males and their female counterparts (t = 1.106, P>0.05). Based on these findings, government should spearhead organization of seminars for married couples. Potential couples and married couples should also be exposed to emotional intelligence and conflict resolution skills' trainingItem Emotional intelligence in the work place(2017-03) Animasahun, R. A.Every organizations in the world strive for enhanced productivity. To facilitate this, qualified professionals are recruited, trained and undergo retraining; adequate, relevant and modern technologies are utilized 'and close monitoring employed. However, many organizations have reported failure and inadequacies in their productivity and profit, possibly because many employees lack emotional intelligence skills, which could have helped them to navigate between their emotions and those of their employers and customers. This paper therefore focuses on the concept, rudiments, necessity, importance, components and application of emotional intelligence that could facilitate success in all human endeavours, especially at the workplaceItem Emotional intelligence and academic achievement: the moderating influence of age , intrinsic and extrinsic motivation(African educational research network, 2010-12) Ogundokun M.O.||Adeyemo D.A.The study examined the moderating influence of emotional intelligence, age and academic motivation on academic achievement of secondary school students. The study adopted a survey research design. The participants in the study were 1563 (male=826, female=737) secondary school students from Oyo state, Nigeria. Their age ranged between 12 years and 17 years with mean age 0f 15.96 years. Two valid and reliable instruments were used to assess emotional intelligence and academic motivation while achievement test on English Language and Mathematics were used as a measure of academic achievement. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s product moment correlation and hierarchical regression were used to analyse the data. The result revealed that the Emotional Intelligence, Age and Academic Motivation were potent predictors mildly associated to academic achievement. The study has implications for the curriculum developers to integrate emotional intelligence into the school curriculum of secondary school. That teachers, counseling and educational psychologists should encourage the development of a strong achievement motivation in the students through the provision of appropriate counseling intervention programmes and enabling environment. By so doing, the academic performance of the students could be improved barring all other teaching-learning obstacles.