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Item Work-family conflict and occupational stress as correlates of life satisfaction among staff of Oyo state civil service(Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, 2016-03) Okhakhume, A. S.There is limited research on civil servants and their experiences of work-family conflict and life satisfaction. The goals of the present study were to examine the relationship between work-family conflict (work-to-family conflict and family-to work conflict) and life satisfaction, the relationship between work-family conflict and domain-specific satisfactions (family satisfaction and work satisfaction), among a sample of civil servants. The study utilized ex-post facto design with the use of a structured questionnaire. Two hundred and eighty-four (284) employees of Oyo state civil service participated in the study, yielding a return rate of 94.7%. A total of134 (47.2%) males and 150 (52.8%) females participated in the study. Their ages ranged between 18 and 58 with mean age of 37.9 and standard deviation of 11.2. The instrument used was closed-ended questionnaire divided into five sections. This comprised demographic variables, work-family conflict, occupational stress and life satisfaction. Five hypotheses were tested. The result indicated a significant negative relationship between work-family conflict and life satisfaction (r--0.310, p<.01). Occupational stress also correlated negatively with life satisfaction (r--0.251, p<.01). The result of the regression analysis indicated that work-family conflict and occupational stress jointly predicted life satisfaction [F (2,281)-20.169; R2=0.126, p<0.001 ] accounting for 12.6% variance. Also, there was no gender difference in the experience of life satisfaction [t(282) = -0.093; p> 0.05]. Finally, age, sex, years of experience, level of education, religion and marital status did not predict life satisfaction among civil servants [F(6,277)-2.698; R2-0.095 p<0.01 ] accounting for about 9.5 variance. Based on the findings, conclusions were made, and it was recommended that different policies and strategies are needed for the people at different type of jobs and at different stages of their career. As one of the largest employer of any country, government should introduce appropriate policies in the area of work-family balanceItem HOUSE-OWNERSHIP, PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND THE MODERATING EFFECT OF NEIGHBOURHOOD ON LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG RESIDENTS IN IBADAN METROPOLIS, NIGERIA(2015-09) MAYUNGBO, O. A.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 satisfactionItem Personal features and well-being as predictors of meaning in life among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAS) in Nigeria(Edorium journal of psychology, 2016) Deko, A. O.; Asagba, R. B,; Agberotimi, S. F.; Wimberly, C.satisfaction and hopelessness as predictors of meaning in life among people living with HIV/ AIDS. Methods: Two hundred patients; 126 females and 74 males, aged between 17 and 70 years were used for the study. Their mean age was 38.9 years with a standard deviation of 10.2 years. Results: The findings revealed that self-esteem, life satisfaction and hopelessness significantly predicted meaning in life and they are important constructs in assessing meaning in the lives of PLWHAs. Conclusion: Therefore, it was recommended that meaning centered therapy programs should be put in place by health care givers and other stakeholders dealing with PLWHAs to increase patient’s meaning in life