Influence of Occupational Stress and Demographic Factors as Predictors of Mental Health of Federal Road Safety Corps Personnelin Benue State Sector Command
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This study Investigated Occupational Stress and Demographic Factors as predictors of Mental Health of Federal Road Safety Corps Personnel in Benue State Sector Command. The study employed a cross-sectional survey design. A total of 232 Personnel consisting of 169(72.8%) males and 63(27.2%) females with ages ranging from 20-58 years (Mean age-36.30, SD- 8.34) were used for the study. The Occupational Stress Index (OSI) and Mental Health Inventory (MHI) were used for data collection. Statistical Analysis involved the use of Multiple Linear Regression and Univariate Analysis. The study adopted Statistical package for the Social Science (SPSS) version twenty-three (23) for data Analysis. The findings of the study showed that there was significant negative influence of Occupational Stress on Mental Health of Federal Road Safety Corps Personnel in Benue State Sector Command [R=-.422, R2=.178, F(4,228)=13.541, p<.05]. The findings of the study also revealed that there was no significant sex different on Mental Health of Federal Road Safety Corps Personnel in Benue State Sector Command F (2, 230) =.105, p>.05). There was no significant Main and Interaction Effect of Sex and Cadre on Mental Health of Federal Road Safety Corps personnel in Benue State Sector Command F (5, 228) =.105, p>.05). It was therefore recommended that the management of Federal Road Safety Corps in Benue State Sector Command should initiate policies and measures to improve Mental Health of Federal Road Safety Corps Personnel in Benue State Sector Command. It was also recommended that the management of Federal Road Safety Corps should pay serious attention to strenuous working condition, role overload, role ambiguity and role conflict by improving the workingconditions and reducing the workload of Federal Road Safety Corps personnel to enhance their Mental Health.
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Occupational stress; Demographic Factors; Mental Health; Federal Road Safety Corps; Benue State Sector Command
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Zakariah, D., Ihaji, E. O., & Anhange, S. T. (2024). Influence of Occupational Stress and Demographic Factors as Predictors of Mental Health of Federal Road Safety Corps Personnelin Benue State Sector Command. African Multidisciplinary Journal of Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, 1(1), 316-347. https://doi.org/10.58578/amjsai.v1i1.3543
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Adebiyi, D..R. (2013). Occupational stress among academic staff of Ado-Ekiti State University, Nigeria. Ado-Ekiti European Scientific Journal 9,(4), 202-208.
Adeora, J., Udo, A; Matilda, C; Oduagwu, N. & Okorie, O. (2015). Determinants of student observant of library regulation in Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri Imo State, Nigeria.
Affum-Osei, E, Agyekum, B & Addo, Y.V.J. (2014). Occupational stress and job performance in small and medium scale enterprise. International Journal of Economics Commence and Management, 2(11), 1-3
Aghighi, A & Zamani, S. (2020). Investigating the relationship between job satisfaction with mental health of female public library staff . Studies in Library and Information Science 12 (4), Advance Online Publisher.
Ajayi, S (2018). Effect of stress on employees performance and job satisfaction. A case study of Nigeria banking industry. A study of Nigeria Banking Industry. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3160620.
Akintayo, D.I (2012). Occupational stress, psychological wellbeing and workers behaviourin manufacturing industries in South West Nigeria, Research Journal in Organizational Psychology and Educational Studies 1 (5), 289-294.
Akunne, L Nwadinobi, V Anulika,V.E & Juliana, A.(2021). Occupational stress as Mediator of Mental health State University Lecturer in South East, Nigeria
Ali, S.R.O., Nordin, N.C., Said, N.S.W., Manof, S.M. A., & Musa, W.M.W. (2017). Work related stress and job performance among secondary school teachers in Malaysia. Journal of Applied Environmental Biological Science, 7: 152-156
Andenuga, O.A. (2015). Impart of occupational stress on job satisfaction and mental health level of first bank employees. Implication for personnel psychologists. America Journal of Psychologist and Cognitive Science.
Backteman, E, Padyab, M &Brulin, C. (2013). Preval_ence of Burnout and associations with psychosocial work environment, Physical strain and stress of conscience among Sweden female and male police personnel. Police Practices and Research 14, 491-505.
Backteman, E.S. (2013). Burnout, Work stress of Conscience and copping among female and Male patrolling officers Doctoral thesis comprehensive survey other academic
Bano, B.; & Jha, R.K. (2012). Organizational role stress among public and private sector employees. Lahore Journal of Business, 23-36.
Baughman, P (2014). Shift work and health consequences in policing inViolanti. J.M (ed) dying for the job Police exposure and health Illionios Thomas Publishing
Beck, K., J.H (2013). Emotional Intelligence in every day life. Psychology press.
Beulah, V., Christiana, M. & Mahalakshmi (2013). Role stress and its impact on public and private sector managers in Chennai, 3, 2231-2463
Borrelli, L, Benevene, P, Fiorilli, C, Damelio, F &Pozzi, G. (2014). Working condition and mental health in Teachers. A Preminary Medicine 64, (7), 530.
Chinyere N..I. (2015). Job Stress and Psychological Well-being among Library employees. A Survey of Library Staff in Selected University Libraries in South West Nigeria. Open Library Journal Volume, 2
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Dina, T. (2016). The effect of stress on professional Library and Job performance in Nigeria University. Library Philosophy and Practice. International Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, India, pp, 151-16.
Ellias, A. (1962). Reason and emotion in psychotherapy. New York Stauart, 8, 20-26.
Ementa,C (2015). Secretaries perceived strategies for coping with occupational strategies in bank in Anambra State. African Research Review, 9 (3), 88
Fekadu, A., Hanlon, C., Medhin, G., AlenA., Selamu, M.W., Giorgist, T., Shibre, T., Terferra,S.Tegegn, T., Breuer, E, Patel, V., M Tomlinson, M.,Thornicroft, G., Prince, M., & Lund, C. (2016). Development of a scalable of mental health care plan for Rural district in Ethiopia. Britain Journal of Psychiatry
Ikonne, C.N. (2015). Job stress and psychological well-being among library employees. A survey of Library Staff in selected Universities Libraries in South West Nigeria Open Access Libraries Journal 2, 1-12
Jagdish and Strivastava (1996). Mental health Inventory. Third Hand of Psychology and Social instrument vol2 Concept publishing Company New Delhi.
Jane, E., V. & Marianna. E (2015). Long Working Hours and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke. A systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data.
Karasek, R. A. (1979)..Job demands, job decision latitude, and mental strain-implications for job redesign. Administrative Science Quarterly. 24 (2), 285–308.
Lasisi, A.K (2013).Path Analytical study of the effect of some Psycho-demographic factors on work stress and organizational commitment of Nigeria police Employees in South West Nigeria. Journal of Psychology. 82, 02-165.
Lazarus, R.S. (1966). Psychological stress and copping process. McGrew-Hill New York
Lazarus, RS & Folkman, S. (1984). Stress appraisal and copping springer publishing Company New York
Mangwami, G.B (2012). Suicide in the South Service. A study of contributory Factors and Recommendation. Unpublished Master’s degree dissertation
Mental Health. (2014). Are there Gender Differences in the Emotional Intelligence of resident physicians? Journal of Surgical Education.1, 33–40
Mohajan, H.K. (2012). The occupational stress and risk of it among the employees of Mainstream. Social Science, 2 (2), 17-34.
Nneemeka, A. (2019). Depression in work Place among low Cadre Civil Servants in AwkaAnambra State, Nigeria.
Palmer, O (2015). Relationship of physical Fitness Measure and occupational physical ability in Campus law enforcement officers employees, Barnala.
Saka, S.A. (2017). Do perceived social support and health perception facilities better psychological wellbeing among road Safety personnel in Nigeria? Journal of Applied Behavioural Science. 5, 545-557
Saka, S.A., Kama, O.S & Alabi, O.T (2018). Influence of perceived on psychological wellbeing of Federal Road Safety personnel in Nigeria. Journal of clinical and medical science, 2, 109
Selye, H. (1976). The Stress of Life. New York: McGraw-Hill
Senja, S.R (2011). Dangerous Fatigue condition. A study of police work law enforcement Administration 12 (3), 235-252.
Sharma, S (2016). Demographic Variables, effect, the stress level of india Soldier. Journal of business perspective.
Sharma, S, & Kaur, R (2013).The effect of demographic factors on occupational stress. A Study of insurance Sector Annual Journal, 4, 61-81.
Shindi J A. (2017). Research and Research Writing. Dove publishing house, Abuja-Ibadan,
Kaduna-Lagos. A guide to Conducting Research and Writing A Report on Such Research so Conducted for Projects, Dissertations and Theses in Humanities. Journal of Aging Health, 20, 273-289.
Srivastava, A.K. & Singh, A.P. (1981). Manual of occupational stress index: Manovagvanik Studies in Occupational Health Psychology. Work Stress, 28, 1 1-8 the Revised Attribution Questionnaire (r-AQ) to measure mental illness stigma in adolescents. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 20(1), 47-58.
Uzaina, G (2019).. Psychological Well-being and Quality Life among public and private employees. International Journal of Indian Psychology 7(2), 946-950.
Wainberg, M.L; Scorza, P., Shultz, J.M., Helpman, L., Mootz, J.J., Johnson, K.A., Neria, Y, Branford, Jean-Maric, E,Oquendo, M.A & Arbuckle, M,R. (2017).Challenges and opportunities in Global mental health. A research to practice perspective.
Wang, J; & Pattern, S.B (2001). Perceived work place stress and major depressive in the Canadian employed population, 20-49 years old. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 6, 283-289.s
Wang, Y, Rame, A wu, H, Liu, L, Yang, X, Wany, J & Wang,L (2015). Relationship between occupational stress and burnout among Chinese teachers. A cross Sectional Survey in Liloming China International Journal Archivess of occupational and environmental health, 88 (5), 589-597
WellNew, M & Dennis, A. (2019). Nigeria work place mental health survey. Creating a healthier society, Medical Clinic, Clinical facility.
World Health Organization Global status report on Road Safety (2015)
World Health Organization, 2004
World Health Organization, 2022
