IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH (IJSSMR )

E-ISSN 2545-5303
P-ISSN 2695-2203
VOL. 9 NO. 4 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/ijssmr.v9.no4.2023.pg34.44

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Influence of Personality, Job-Related Tension and Marital Status on Insomnia among South-Eastern States of Nigeria Universities’ Lecturers

Chikwendu, Chimezie Emmanuel

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Abstract

In a bid to ascertain factors responsible for insomnia, this study investigated influence of personality, job-related tension and marital status on insomnia. A total of two hundred and fiftyfive (255) participants comprising one hundred and forty-nine (149) males and one hundred and six (106) females between the ages of 33-67 years, with a mean age of 47.91 and standard deviation of 5.71 were sampled for the study. They were sampled using homogenous purposive sampling technique and accidental sampling technique from the population of south-eastern Nigeria states universities’ lecturers. Job-related Tension Scale (JTS) by Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, Snoek and Rosenthal (1964), Big Five Inventory (BFI) by John, Donahue and Kentle (1991), and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) by Bastein, Vallieres and Morin (2001) were used in this study. A cross sectional survey design was adopted, while Three-Way Analysis of Variance F-Test was applied as the statistical test to analyze the scores of the participants. The findings revealed that personality yielded a significant outcome of F (1, 248) = 134.12, p< .001 level of significance. The second hypothesis tested was also accepted and job-related tension yielded a significant outcome of F (1, 248) = 32.14, p< .001. The third hypothesis tested was also accepted and marital status yielded a significant outcome of F (1, 248) = 4.77, p< .03. The fourth hypothesis tested was also accepted and there was significant interaction effect for job-related tension and marital status F (2, 248) = 11.47, p< .001. Recommendations were made.

keywords:

Personality, Job-related tension, Marital status, Insomnia

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