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    INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AS PREDICTORS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING AMONG INMATES OF WAMBA CORRECTIONAL SERVICE CENTRE NASARAWA STATE NIGERIA.
    (Department of Psychology, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-07-05) Zamani, Andrew E.; Abubakar, Musa Tafida; Samson, Tita
    The study examines personality traits as predictors of psychological wellbeing among ninety-eight (98) prison inmates at Nigerian Correctional Service Centre, Wamba, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The participants responded to two sets of research instrument which are: The Big Five Personality Scale and Ryff's Psychological Wellbeing Scale.The survey research design was used to due to the far that the study seeks information about people's behaviour in their natural settings. One hypothesis was stated and tested. The study employed the used of simple statistical techniques such as Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis, for data analysis of the hypothesis tested in the study and the result also revealed that conscientiousness ((3= .188; t= 2.620, P < .01) and openness to experience ((3= .063; t= 4-414> P < -01) significantly predict general psychological wellbeing while extraversion ((3= .209; t= 1.740, P > .05), agreeableness ((3= .162; t= 1.617, P > .05) and neuroticism (P= .071; t= 1.826, P > .05) this revealed that, personality traits jointly and significantly influence inmates' psychological wellbeing (R= .761; F= 25.256, P < .01) and indicated a proportion of 57.9% variance on psychological wellbeing among prisoners. The study concluded that personality traits had significant influence on the psychological wellbeing of inmates in Wamba Correctional Centre. On the basis of the findings, it was recommended among others that, it is important that government should design modern prisons that will carter for the psychological wellbeing of the inmates. This will help the prisoners to explore their personalities and to serve their terms of imprisonment without any harm to their psychological wellbeing. Furthermore, all prison inmates diagnosed with distorted psychological wellbeing should be offer psychological help from psychological service units.
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    INFLUENCE OF WORK ENVIRONMENT ON LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG STAFF OF MAKURDI CORRECTIONAL CENTRE, BENUE STATE NIGERIA
    (Department of Psychology, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-08-01) Okoh, Stella Onyawoyi Okoh; Abubakar, Musa Tafida; Samson, Tita; Shuaibu, Umar Shitu
    This study investigated the influence of work environment on life satisfaction of Correctional Staff of Makurdi Correctional Centre, Benue State. A total of one hundred and ninety four (194) out of the population of two hundred and seventy three (273) correctional staff participated in the study. The study adopted the cross-sectional survey research design and purposive sampling technique was used to select the participants. The hypothesis, correctional work environment will significantly influence life satisfaction was formulated and tested using instruments, work Environment by Moos (1875) end the life satisfaction scale by Diener, et al (1985) were administered participants. Result revealed a statistically significant influence of correctional work environment on life satisfaction of officers greater determinant of life satisfaction of correctional officers. in light of this, the study recommends that Nigerian Correctional authorities should make work environment very friendly and conducive as well as introduce a three-shift system which will forestall stressful demand of work amongst officers to guarantee a general high level of life satisfaction.
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    SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CORRELATES OF PRISONERS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING IN WAMBA CORRECTIONAL SERVICE CENTRE NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA.
    (Department of Psychology, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2020-12-11) Samson, Tita; Abubakar, Musa Tafida; Zamani, Andrew E.
    The study investigated the influence of sociodemographic variables such as marital status and length of stay or duration of imprisonment on imnates psychological wellbeing in Wamba Correctional Services Centre, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The participants consisted of 98 male prison inmates (never married 32; Married 66) from the Correctional Service Centre, Wamba which is the area for this study. The 98 participants responded to the Ryff s psychological wellbeing scale. Institutional approval was obtained from the correctional institution authorities. Two hypotheses were proposed and tested by means of simple statistical techniques (t-test) using mean and standard deviation and one-way ANOVA for the data analysis. Result of the t-test showed a non-statistically significant difference between the single and married inmates within the correctional centre environment in term of psychological wellbeing. This implied that single inmates do not have a better psychological wellbeing when compared to married inmates. The result from the one-way ANOVA revealed a non-statistically significant difference between the psychological wellbeing of inmates serving long sentence and other inmates (short sentence and awaiting trial). Hence, the two hypotheses were rejected. The study concluded that prisoners’ psychological wellbeing has nothing to do with their socio-demographic variables. Based on the findings, the study recommended that correctional services centres should be more habitable and accommodating so that inmates can continue to have or develop a better psychological wellbeing while serving their terms of imprisonment.
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    SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF ADJUSTMENT OF PRISON INMATES IN CORRECTIONAL CENTRE, KEFFI, NASARAWA STATE
    (Department of Psychology, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2022-01-04) Abubakar, Musa Tafida; Okoro, Ene Nwachinemere; Samson, Tita
    This study examines the socio-demographic determinant of adjustment of prison inmates. Keffi Correctional Service Centre, Nasarawa State. The study adopted cross-sectional survey to elicit information from 125 inmates who were selected through the use of prison record; Participants consisted of 100 male and 25 females with age ranging from 18-65 years. With regards to the length of imprisonment, 47 on short term, 40 on long term and those on awaiting trial were 38 in number. The participants responded to the prisoner adjustment scale. د آ hypotheses were stated and tested. The study employed the use oft-test for independent sample and one-way Anova to analyze the data. The results showed that, there was no significant difference between male and female prison inmates in general (t (123) =1.61 P>.O5, social (t(123) = 1.59, P>.O5 and emotional adjustment (t(123) = 1.34, P>.O5 to the prison environment; and there was also no significant difference between short term, long term and awaiting tried inmates on prison adjustment (F (124) = 0.91, P>.O5) social (F (124) =2.05. P>.O5 and emotional adjustment (F( 124) = 0.25 P>.O5. In conclusion, this study reveals that, other variables other than the socio-demographic variables might account for adjustment of the inmates. Consequently, it was recommended, among others that, prison environment should be made more friendly and conducive for better adjustment of inmates.