ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION AND PRE-RETIREMENT ANXIETY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ZAMFARA STATE, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorDALHATU, Abdullahi
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-03T11:37:48Z
dc.date.available2019-05-03T11:37:48Z
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELLING, FACULTY OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER DEGREE IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGYen_US
dc.description.abstractThe study investigated the relationship between job satisfaction and anxiety among secondary school pre-retirement teachers in Zamfara State, Nigeria. The study employed correlational and triangular designs. The study was guided by four (4) research questions and four (4) hypotheses. The population of the study consists of five thousand nine hundred and thirty four (5,934) male and female secondary school teachers in Zamfara State. A sample size of 361 was randomly selected for the study. Job Satisfaction Scale and Anxiety Scale were the instruments for data collection. They were validated by experts in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, ABU Zaria. Means & standard deviation (SD), Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) and Independent sample t – test were used to test the hypotheses of the study. Findings revealed that Significant relationship exists between job satisfaction and anxiety among secondary school pre-retirement teachers in Zamfara State (r= .755 and p- value = .001), significant difference exists between job satisfaction of urban and rural secondary school pre-retirement teachers in Zamfara State in favour of rural teachers(t= 15.71;mean = 89.31 for rural teachers and mean = 66.94 for urban teachers, p-value =.010),significant difference exists between preretirement anxiety of rural and urban secondary school pre-retirement teachers in Zamfara State (t=14.83;mean = 69.77 for urban teachers and mean = 49.98 for rural teachersp = 0.007),finally, significant difference exists between job satisfaction of male and female secondary school pre-retirement teachers in Zamfara State (t =17.02;mean = 71.74 for male teachers and mean = 85.21 for female teachers, p = 0.000).On the basis of these findings, it is recommended that Government should restructure the salary scale of teachers in order to give them more job satisfaction and reduce anxiety among pre-retirement teachers. Government should enlighten teachers on various coping strategies to deal with anxiety and on how to save for retirement by organizing seminars and workshops to teachersen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11609
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectASSESSMENT,en_US
dc.subjectRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION,en_US
dc.subjectPRE-RETIREMENT ANXIETY,en_US
dc.subjectSECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS,en_US
dc.subjectZAMFARA STATE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAen_US
dc.titleASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION AND PRE-RETIREMENT ANXIETY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ZAMFARA STATE, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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