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Workplace Depression and Academic Staff Performance in Federal Higher Institutions in Rivers State, Nigeria

Fubara, Shepherd PhD, Tambari, Lebari Tuaneh PhD

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between workplace depression and academic staff performance in federal higher institutions in Rivers State, Nigeria. Precisely, the study examined the relationship between workplace depression and contextual performance, adaptive performance and task performance. The study adopted a cross-sectional research design and the population comprise a total of two thousand, eight hundred and seventy (2,870) academic staff drawn from the four federal higher institutions in the state. The probability sampling technique was adopted for the study which offers individuals equal opportunity to be selected. In progressing, the sample size for this study, the Taro Yamen’s formula (1973) was adopted to determine the sample size and Bowley formular (1964) was used to determine the administration of questionnaire to each institution. Three hundred and fifty-one (351) copies of questionnaire were distributed. However, three hundred and thirty-one (331) were returned and was used for the analysis. Data was collected through questionnaire and we used tables, percentages, Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficients with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS version 23) for data presentation, analysis and hypotheses testing. The results show that, there is a relationship between workplace depression and academic staff performance in federal higher institutions in Rivers State, Nigeria. This explains that, depression arising from workplace conditions has important implications for contextual, adaptive capacity and task performance of academic staff. The study, therefore, recommend that, University management should institutionalize and implement mental health interventions and stress management programmes aimed at mitigating workplace depression

Keywords

Workplace depressionpresenteeismcontextual performancetask performance and Adaptive performance

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