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This study investigated the effects of systematic desensitization on test anxiety of adult learners in Enugu State. The study adopted the pretest, posttest, non-randomized and non-equivalent control group quasi experimental design. The sample of the study comprised the 140 adult learners drawn from three adult learner centres in Agbani education zone through purposive sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was the Miller’s Test Anxiety Scale (TAS). The instrument yielded an alpha coefficient of 0.74 using current population. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) will be used to test the hypotheses. These differences in the pre-test results provided basis on which it could reasonably be assumed that both the treatment and control groups had an equivalent entry test anxiety at the commencement of the treatment. The overall result indicates that adult learners exposed to treatment using systematic desensitization had significant improvement on their test anxiety (Reduction) than those who were not exposed to treatment (control group). This is evidenced by the adult learners’ reduction in manifestation of test anxiety. In other words, the adult learners adopted more rational behaviour pattern after being exposed to the treatment (systematic desensitization). The overall result indicated that adult learners exposed to systematic desensitization had significant reduction in their test anxiety than those not exposed. Hence, there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test mean scores of adult learners due to systematic desensitization effect on test anxiety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background/Aim: This study aimed at finding out couple's socio-demographic variables as correlates of intimate partner violence in Enugu North Senatorial Zone, Enugu State, Nigeria. Method: In pursuance of the aforementioned aim, two research questions were posed and two hypotheses were postulated. Out of the population, 868 respondents were used as sample size. IPVQ was used as the instrument for data collection with a Cronbach Alpha coefficient value of 0.80. Person Product Moment correlation and regression statistics were used. Results: The results obtained indicated that the relationship between gender and intimate partner violence among couples is very low. Again, that gender does not significantly correlate with intimate partner violence among couples. It was also revealed that educational status does not significantly predict intimate partner violence among couples. Recommendation: Based on the findings of the study, the researchers recommended among others that organization confirming marriages such as families, religious groups, hospitals, courts among others should ensure that their clients pass through marital counselling with professional marriage counsellors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This survey research was conducted to examine the predictive power of some demographic factors over nurses' work stress and burnout. Participants were a convenience sample of 923 nurses who provided informed consent prior to completing the survey instruments. We used regression statistics to analyze the research data collected. The results suggest that gender, age, marital status, educational qualification, and work experience had very low predictive power over burnout and work stress among the nurses. These demographic variables accounted for very little or no variance in work stress and burnout respectively among the nurses. Further research could make use of interview schedule to investigate the demographic predictors of work stress and burnout among nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study was to examine the association between work irrational beliefs and each burnout dimension (physical fatigue, cognitive weariness and emotional exhaustion) by treating burnout as a construct that is multidimensional. This cross-sectional, correlational study was completed by a convenience sample of nine hundred and twenty-three Nigerian federal medical nurses. The study data were collected from participating nurses through a 15-item Nurses’ Work-related Irrational Beliefs Questionnaire (NWIBQ) and a 17-item Nurses’ Burnout Questionnaire (NBQ) with three subscales consisting of physical fatigue, cognitive weariness and emotional exhaustion. For analyses of data collected, bivariate correlation and linear regression analyses were conducted at .05 level of significance. The statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software, version 22. Results indicated that work irrational beliefs negatively correlated with physical fatigue (r=-.049, P=.136), cognitive weariness (r= -.025, P=.442) and emotional exhaustion (r=- .051, P=.123) among the nurses. The analyses also confirmed the extent of a direct association between work irrational beliefs and burnout symptoms among the nurses. Given the negative connection of work irrational beliefs with burnout among the nurses, the medical centres should ensure nurses benefit from psychological interventions to eliminate irrational beliefs and burnout issues linked to work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is evidence that teachers encounter more stress than people in other professions. Stressors in teaching include students’ misbehaviour, excess workload, and time pressure among others. Teachers in developing countries like Nigeria encounter additional stressors outside common job stressors. Stressors peculiar to teachers in developing countries include transportation issues, cultural challenges, and delays in payment of salary. High level of stress in teaching results to health problems, burnout, absenteeism, attrition, and students’ behavioural and academic underperformance. Stress management is necessary to reduce or escape stress consequences, and rational-emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) has been widely applied to stress management and behavioural issues across contexts. This review presents the finding of a study that clinically applied Rational-Emotive Health Education Intervention (REHEI) Programme, developed from the perspective of REBT principles for stress management in teachers. The finding shows that many teachers undergo a high level of job stress and REHEI significantly reduced stress and irrational beliefs causing stress among teachers. Implications for the study for policy and future studies were pointed out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examined team approach education counselling in secondary schools as an enzyme for national peace building. It pointed out that adolescents can do a lot when properly guided. Adolescents can help in promoting peace spirit and culture among themselves in the school and communities. National peace can be achieved by inoculating the adolescents against violence, teaching them skills to manage conflicts nonviolently, and by seeking and creating a desire to seek peaceful resolutions of conflicts. The need for Behavioural Inoculation, Behavioural First Aid and Behavioural Treatment in order to promote peaceful co-existence in the society was emphasized. Also, the enzymic nature and role of team approach peace education counselling for adolescents in secondary schools in Nigeria was discussed and challenges facing the programme were highlighted. Based on the challenges, suitable recommendations were made among which are: team approach, involving the home, peer group, mass media, churches/mosques, schools and significant others should be employed in peace education counseling tofacilitate National Peace Building.Tthe counsellor as the technical head of the team should serve as the strategist, consultant, trainer and coordinator. In addition, the government at all levels should train and redeploy qualified counsellors and peer facilitators to secondary schools to be conducting workshops on diversity and enhancing peace skills. Also, facilities, instructional materials for the programme such as computers should be put in place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Several studies have shown that there exists a correlation between violent video games play and aggressive behaviour. We studied a sample of Nigerian in-school adolescents in order to examine the moderating role of parental mediation in the correlation between violent video games play and in-school adolescents' aggressive behaviour. Method: The sample for this correlational survey consisted of six hundred and three schooling adolescents from one of the education zones in Anambra State, Nigeria. Data collection was done by employing self-rated questionnaires. Data analysis and interpretation were achieved through regression analysis. Results: Results revealed that parental mediation is a significant moderator of the relationship between exposure to violent video games and aggressive behaviour among in-school adolescents, R2 = .67, F(1, 602) = 900.28, β = .87, p < .001. Conclusion: Effective parental mediation practices may lessen the risk of aggressive behaviour associated with the playing of video games having violent contents. Parents should assume responsibility for influencing positively adolescents' video games play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This research aimed to investigate the relationship between exposure to violent media contents and aggressive behaviour among in-school adolescents. Method: The study adopted a correlational research design. The study respondents were 603 in-school adolescents. Selfreport questionnaires were used for data collection (Violent Media Contents Questionnaire and In-School Adolescents' Aggressive Behaviour Questionnaire). The data collected were interpreted using simple linear regression statistics. Results: The results indicated that there is a statistically significant relationship between exposure to violent media contents and aggressive behaviour among in-school adolescents, R2 =.67, F(1, 602) = 1232.849, β = .82, p < .001. Conclusion: Schooling adolescents should be given proper and adequate guidance on media content use to enable them to overcome the negative consequences of excessive exposure such as aggression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]