The Influence Of Locality On Relapse Among Schizophrenic Patients

This study examined the influence of locality on the relapse rate among schizophrenic patients in Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu. 120 participants made up of 60 males and 60 females were used. The 60 males comprised 30 highly educated and 30 less educated while the females were made up of 19 highly educated and 41 less educated. 52 participants were drawn from the rural residence while 68 were from the urban residence.  All the participants were treated at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu. The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) key, Fishzbein & Oplar (2004) was used to assess the rate of relapse among the schizophrenic patients. Factorial design was used. The data collected was analysed using the One-way Analyses of variance (ANOVA). The result show significant main influence of locality on relapse, F(1, 113)=41.340, P<0.001. These results were discussed with its implication to the health of the patient, the family and society at large. Suggestions and recommendation for further studies made

Parental monitoring and parenting styles as predictors of deviant behaviour among undergraduate students

The study investigated parental conflict and parenting style as predictors of undergraduate students, one hundred and fifty-six (156) undergraduate students with mean age of 19.16 and SD of 1.895 were drawn using multi-stage (cluster, simple random: by balloting and purposive) sampling techniques as participants from Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu. Deviant Behaviour Variety Scale (DBVS; Sanches et al., 2016), Baumrid (1971) Parental care scale and Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale (CPIC) (Grych, Seid, &Fincham, 1992) were used for data collection, a correlational design was adopted, while multiple hierarchical linear regression using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 27 software was used for data analysis. Finding shows that parental conflict (self-blame Stβ= -.009 and t= -.037, conflict properties Stβ= -.095 and t= -.394 and threat Stβ= .301 and t= 1.159 at p< .05) did not predict deviant behaviour among undergraduate student, Parenting style (authoritarian parenting Stβ= .425 and t= 1.861, permissiveness parenting Stβ= .019 and t= .100 and authoritative parenting Stβ= -.098 and t= -.433 at p < .05) did not predict deviant behaviour among undergraduate student. Hence, clinical psychologist and care givers should derive a means to handle the onset of deviant behaviou

Core self-evaluation and loneliness as predictors of internet addictions among undergraduate students

The study investigated core self-evaluation and loneliness as predictors of internet addiction among undergraduate students, two hundred and forty-seven (247) undergraduate students which comprised 139 females and 108 males with a mean age of 21.76 and SD of 5.07 were selected using multi-stage (cluster, simple random: by balloting and purposive) sampling techniques as participants from Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu. Young (1998a) internet addiction test (IAT), Judge et al., (2003) Core Self Evaluation Scale (CSES) and Russell, Peplau, and Ferguson, (1978) UCLA Loneliness Scale were used for the gathering of data, correlational design was adopted, while hierarchical multiple regression using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 25 was used for data analysis. Finding revealed that core self-evaluation did not predict internet addict at sig.= .836 which is higher than the threshold of at p< .05, loneliness also failed to predict internet addiction at sig. 556 which is higher than the value of at p< .05. The two independent variable shows no relationship with the dependent variable at r= .1(r= .079), both core self-evaluation and loneliness contributed 0% to the variation of internet addiction at r2= .006, both independent did not jointly predict internet addiction at sig. .752, which is higher than the threshold of at p< .05. Therefore, it is important to encourage students to develop a strong sense of core self-evaluation, as it can help them regulate their internet use and prevent addiction

The moderating role of resilience in the relationship between marital stress and depression

The study investigated the moderating role of resilience in the relationship between marital stress and depression among married teachers, with one hundred thirty-five (135) married teachers that comprises of 102 females and 33 males with an age mean of 32.20 and S.D 3.81 selected as participants using multi-stage (cluster, simple: balloting, and purposive) sampling techniques. Zung (1965) Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), Omoluabi (1994) marital stress Inventory (MSI) and Connor and Davidson (2003). Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) were used for data collection, a cross-sectional survey design was adopted, while a moderated hierarchical multiple regression was used for data analysis. The finding shows that marital stress St= .551*** and t= 7.608*** at p< .001 positively predicted depression, Resilience St= -.517*** and t= -6.962*** at p< .001 negatively predicted depression among school teachers and Resilience St= -.748***and t= -7.178*** at p< .001 negatively moderated the relationship between marital stress and depression. Hence, school management can consider hiring psychologists to work with teachers to improve their resilience or educate them on the importance of resilience in managing depression