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Item Influence of demographic variable on quality of life among women in Ibadan metropolis, Oyo State of Nigeria(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2016) Okhakhume, A.S.; Aroniyiaso, O. TThe issues of poor quality of life among Nigeria women results to inadequate participation of women in the development of the country, high rate of maternal death, increasing rate of mentally, physically challenge and high rate of financial handicap of Nigeria women, which have significant influence on the society at large attracted attention of this study. This study examined influence of demographic variable on quality of life among women in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria. The study utilized cross-sectional research design which involves the use of self-report questionnaire for data collection. A total number of 600 women participated in the study. Results outcomes shows that marital status had significant influence on quality of life at (F (4/595) = 13.324, P<0.05). The result also revealed that religion income and occupation had significant influence on quality of life of women in Ibadan metropolis (F (2/597) = 7.267, P<0.05. F (7/592) = 4.905, P<0.05 & F (3/596) = 3.190, P<0.05). It was concluded that marital status, religion, educational attainment, income and occupation of women living in Ibadan metropolis significantly influence their quality of life. Therefore, this study recommends that women should seek to acquire more knowledge through their educational status and government should create conducive workplace climate and improve financial assistance programme to built economic status of Nigeria womenItem Influence of social factors, self-esteem, introversion and extroversion on psychological well-being and quality of life among bankers in Ibadan, Osogbo and Akure(Nigerian Psychological Association. Abuja, 2014-09) Okhakhume, A. S.This study examined the influence of psychosocial factors, self esteem, introversion and extroversion on psychological well-being and quality of life among Fidelity bank employees. The study utilized ex-post facto design using random sampling technique to select bankers. Two hundred and forty-four (244) bankers participated in the study yielding a return rate of 94%. The instrument used was closed-ended questionnaire divided into five sections. This comprised of demographic variables, self-esteem, personality factor, quality of life and psychological well-being. Four hypotheses were tested. The result indicated that participants bankers with high self esteem significantly reported higher quality of life and psychological well-being than the those with low self esteem [t(242)=7.01, p<.001 & t(242)=8.32, p<.001J respectively. Also, extrovert bankers significantly reported higher quality of life and psychological well-being than the introvert [t(242)=5.86. p< 001 & t(242)=6.75, p<.001] respectively. The result of the regression analysis indicated that self esteem and introvers ion/extroversion had significant joint influence on quality of life [F(2,242)=18.54; R2=0.225 p<0.001] and psychological well-being [F(2,242)=24.55; R2=0.345 p<0.001]. Also, age, educational status, marital status and job status were significant joint predictors of quality of life F (4,238) = 14.446; R2 = 0.128; p<.001). Based on the findings of the result, it was concluded that selfesteem and personality factor were joint predictors of quality of life and psychological well-being. It was recommended that management of banks should take into consideration these effects and they should develop programs for workers in order to enhance self-esteem and deal with stressful life eventsItem Psychosocial variables influencing depression tendency and quality of life of stroke(2013) Okhakhume, A. S.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