Papers by Adedeji Ogunleye
Kampala International University Interdisciplinary Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
In recent times, there has been calls for restructuring of the Nigeria nation by people of divers... more In recent times, there has been calls for restructuring of the Nigeria nation by people of diverse ethnic origins, especially the Igbos and the Yorubas in Southern Nigeria. Such calls have resulted in varying activities that may have caused Nigeria and Beninese governments to arrest Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (Igbo) and Chief Sunday Adeyemo (Yoruba) security agencies respectively. Until now, the Igbos, Yorubas, and Hausa/Fulanis (constituting the major ethnic groups in Nigeria) have lived together in peace. It is generally assumed that the calls for regional independence that now pervades the polity must have been ignited by perceived lopsidedness in authoritative resource allocation; among others. This study therefore set out to find out whether perceived discrimination could be a factor for the call for restructuring among ethnic Nigerians. A survey research was conducted with 197 (101 males and 96 females with a mean age of 34.02 years) residents of Akinmorin community in Oyo State, Nigeri...
Kampala International University Interdisciplinary Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
The study investigated employees’ resilience, hope and optimism as predictors of workplace civili... more The study investigated employees’ resilience, hope and optimism as predictors of workplace civility and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) among civil servants in Ekiti State, Nigeria; following the efforts of positive psychology to discover the importance of positivity to people and a renewed emphasis on the importance of positivity to organizational effectiveness and growth. A sample of 262 civil servants was selected for the study, using the multi-stage random sampling technique to select the Ministries, Departments and Agencies as well as the research participants. A questionnaire was used to collect data and was adopted from Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) developed by Smith et. al, Beck’s Hopelessness Scale developed by Beck, 10-items Life Orientation Test Revised (LOT-R) developed by Scheier and Carver, Civility Scale developed by Meterko et.al, and the 18 items Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale developed by Organ. Data were analyzed using the multiple regression ...
Predicting Ethical Decision Making in Nigeria: The Roles of Others’ Compassion and Social Dominance Orientation
South Asian Journal of social Studies and Economics, Apr 29, 2024
Emotional control, self-efficacy and social support as predictors of intimate relationship satisfaction among dating partners
IFE PsychologIA, Mar 1, 2018
Bangladesh Sociological …, 2008
This paper explores the personality profiles of the Nigerian politician as antithetic to the enth... more This paper explores the personality profiles of the Nigerian politician as antithetic to the enthronement of participatory democracy in Nigeria. It contends that the antidemocratic and corruptive behaviour of the Nigerian politician is hinged on a lack of sterling personality traits of these Nigerian politicians. The paper argues that although the behaviour impede on national growth and development; nonetheless, the behaviour are a result of entrenched poverty, political ignorance and political alienation of the civic public. The paper, thus, suggests political education, self-enfranchisement and friendly and virile political environment for the production, development and growth of Nigerian politicians with deep vision and sublime mission to turn around the political misfortunes of Nigeria. Whichever way politics is defined, it is recognized that there exist values which political practice may help man to configure and actualize. Lasswell (op cit) has discussed eight basic values all of which people will pursue. These are power, enlightenment, wealth, well-being (or health) skill, affection, rectitude (which involves both righteousness and justice) and deference. Deutsch (IbidL14) has captured the importance of these eight values to people when he opines that:
This study was carried out to determine the influence of religiosity and paranormal beliefs on th... more This study was carried out to determine the influence of religiosity and paranormal beliefs on the development of psychopathological symptoms among groups of people from two different ethnic origin. A survey research was adopted using a purposive sampling method to draw the sample from Igbo and Yoruba ethnic groups. The sample consisted of two hundred and four respondents with the age range of 14 and 65
The Roles of Psychologists in the Enhancement of Democratic Governance in Nigeria
This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between job challenge and the experience... more This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between job challenge and the experience of burnout among four groups of health workers in Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. One hundred and forty health workers were selected through purposive sampling from the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital. The sample consists of 16 pharmacists, 30 health assistants, 36 doctors and 58 nurses. Perceived Job challenge Measure and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were the instruments used for the study. Four hypotheses were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Results from this study revealed that there was a significant relationship between job challenge and burnout among health workers in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Also, positive stimulation, a component of job challenge had a positive relationship with burnout. Competence testing, another component of job challenge was found to be significantly related to dehumanisation and global burn...
Self Esteem and Achievement Motivation: Behavioral Traits for Entrepreneurship, Business and Economic Growth and …
Page 1. Rjopes Research Journal in Organizational Psychology & EducationalStudies 1(3) 145-14... more Page 1. Rjopes Research Journal in Organizational Psychology & EducationalStudies 1(3) 145-148 Rjopes © Emerging Academy Resources (2012) (ISSN: 2276-8475) www.emergingresource.org 145 SELF ESTEEM AND ...
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2017
In the wake of seemingly normalized criminality and its unabated wave in Nigeria and the need for... more In the wake of seemingly normalized criminality and its unabated wave in Nigeria and the need for concerted efforts to understand its pervasiveness, this paper examines the role of the Nigeria criminal justice system (CJS) in criminal behavior control. The effectiveness of the CJS was analyzed as an instrument of socialjustice and criminal behavior control. From the point of view of some social-psychological theories and concepts, the paper submitted that the lack of credibility on the part of the communicators,the Nigeria CJS (i. e. the police, lawyers, judges, and the prisons), in their administration of justice and the laws has been responsible for an avalanche of socialinjustice, lack of discipline and lawlessness in Nigeria and Nigerians. The Nigeria CJS, who constitutes the supposed custodians of the laws, is largely indicted, therefore as responsible for the ineffectiveness of the system in criminal behavior control.This paper therefore argues that once the image of theNigeria CJS is rebuilt, through positive behavioral change,for its actors to be accepted as legitimate and credible instruments in ensuring compliance with the law, it then becomes easy to control criminal behaviors among Nigerians as Nigeria CJS actors are significant models for social influence and behavioral change.
The study was carried out to investigate the influence of leadership styles and perceived organis... more The study was carried out to investigate the influence of leadership styles and perceived organisational politics on work engagement. The sample for the study consisted of 120 participants with a mean age of 36.59 years. Fifty-Eight (58) of the research participants were males while 62 were females. Participants were randomly selected from the population of civil servants at the Governor’s office in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria; using the multi-level random sampling technique. Six hypotheses were tested. Results revealed that perceived organizational politics has no significant influence on work engagement. However, perceived organizational politics influenced the dedication and vigour dimensions of work engagement. Both autocratic and democratic styles of leadership independently and jointly influenced work engagement; and there was no significant interaction effect of leadership styles and perceived organizational politics on work engagement. There was no significant main and interaction ef...
European Journal of Business and Management, 2014
This study assessed some behavioural traits that may predict entrepreneurial orientation among se... more This study assessed some behavioural traits that may predict entrepreneurial orientation among selected small scale entrepreneurs in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The research covered some districts in Ado Ekiti and Iworoko Ekiti. Two hundred and thirty eight small scale entrepreneurs were the participant in the study. One twenty eight of them were males while the remaining one hundred and ten were females. Four scales were used in the research. The New General Self Efficacy Scale developed by Chen, Gully and Eden (2001), Tolerance for Ambiguity Scale developed by Budner (1962), Entrepreneurial Orientation Scale by Kreiser, Marino and Weaver (2002) and the Achievement Motive Scale by Lang and Fries (2006). Five hypotheses were tested using Independent t-test. Results from this study revealed that self- efficacy, achievement motivation, age and sex (gender) does not significantly predict entrepreneurial orientation; however, insolubility, a sub scale of tolerance for ambiguity was found to s...
Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology
Journal of Culture, Society and Development, 2014
The study examined the effect of parental conflict and divorce/separation on children’s attitude ... more The study examined the effect of parental conflict and divorce/separation on children’s attitude towards marriage in Nigeria. Three hundred and six undergraduate students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria were randomly selected and used for the study. Participants’ age ranges between 19 and 27 years with a mean age of 22.03 years. Three hypotheses were tested and results of analysis of data showed that parental conflict and divorce significantly affects children’s attitude towards marriage [t (304) = 13.96, p <.05]. It was also revealed that there was a significant effect of sex on attitude of undergraduate students from divorced families towards marriage [t (124) = 7.95, p<.05]. Results also indicated that children who attributed parental conflict and divorce to inability of parents to give up personal freedom were significantly different on their attitude towards marriage from those who attributed parental conflict and divorce to a lack of m...
Males, females, parenting styles, and academic performance of secondary school students in Ekiti state Nigeria: an empirical investigation
Owing to the poor academic performances of students in Secondary Schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria,... more Owing to the poor academic performances of students in Secondary Schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria, the study examined gender differences and the influence of parenting styles on the academic performances of secondary school students in Ekiti State, Nigeria. A sample of 116 participants comprising of 62 males and 54 females with ages ranging from 13 to 16 years and a mean age of 15.2 years was drawn from among the students of Christ School, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. The 20 items Parental Care Scale developed by Baumrind (1971) to measure what children perceive as the styles or approaches that their parents dominantly use in taking care of them was administered on the students and it was found out that parenting style influences children’s academic performances, with authoritative parenting style being most influential [ t (113) = 20.95, p <.01]. No significant difference was found in the academic performances of males and females owing to differing parental styles. Findings were therefor...
Global Journal of Human-Social Science Research, 2012
The study examined the influence of leaders’ perceived power source on subordinate employees’... more The study examined the influence of leaders’ perceived power source on subordinate employees’ commitment and work attitude. One hundred and eighty-three (183) respondents completed a questionnaire comprising of the Power Source Scale, Organizational Commitment Scale and the Work Group Functioning Scale. The research participants were selected in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria metropolis through a multi level random sampling method. Responses from the survey research were analysed using the multiple regression analysis, the independent t test, and the Pearson correlation analysis. Results of the study showed that leaders’ perceived power source had a significant influence on employees’ commitment and work attitude. A positive relationship was also found to exist between leaders’ perceived power source and employees’ commitment, and between work attitude and employees commitment. No significant relationship existed, however, between leaders’ perceived power source and work attitude....
Corruption is an ‘evil’: a social vice that hampers national development. It is a global phen... more Corruption is an ‘evil’: a social vice that hampers national development. It is a global phenomenon that devastatingly affects developing economies. It is an act, internalized acts and, or, behavior by observing some significant persons around us who are otherwise referred to as our 'model'. Since corruption is a learned behaviour, this paper, thus, attempts to analyze it from a psychological perspective, using the relevant psychological theories for analysis. It is recommended that if we appreciate the relevance of Psychologists as professional human helpers and society builders, they would be handy in helping to reshape our orientations regarding value appreciation most especially in Nigeria, through their use of behavioural change interventions. Since corruption is a learned behavior, it can be unlearnt through some forms of situational and environmental manipulations. A model is presented to explain how behavior is influenced by both a person and his environment.
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Papers by Adedeji Ogunleye