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Fabian O. Ugwu

Bio: Fabian O. Ugwu is an academic researcher from Benue State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Work engagement & Psychology. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 31 publications receiving 801 citations.

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TL;DR: Taking into account the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this study recommends that national governments develop targeted policy responses to Indigenous health, improving access to health services, and Indigenous data within national surveillance systems.

649 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between organizational trust, psychological empowerment, and employee engagement, and find that there was a moderating effect of empowerment on trust and engagement.
Abstract: Purpose – This study aims to investigate the relationship between organizational trust, psychological empowerment, and employee engagement. In addition, the study seeks to test the moderating role of psychological empowerment on the relationship between trust and engagement. Design/methodology/approach – Hierarchical regression analyses were carried out on a sample of 715 employees from seven commercial banks and four pharmaceutical companies in south-eastern Nigeria who participated in the survey. Findings – The results showed that organizational trust and psychological empowerment were predictors of work engagement. There was a moderating effect of empowerment on the relationship between trust and engagement. Research limitations/implications – The findings show that organizational trust and psychological empowerment that predict positive job behaviour in Western cultures are also critical in understanding Nigerian workers ' positive organizational behaviour such as work engagement. Practical implicatio...

177 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the link between perceived organizational frustration and work engagement and the moderating roles of sense of calling and psychological meaningfulness in this link and found that teachers with high sense of calls were more engaged with their work regardless of perceiving high organizational frustration than their counterparts with low ones.
Abstract: The study examined the link between perceived organizational frustration and work engagement and the moderating roles of sense of calling and psychological meaningfulness in this link. Primary and postprimary (high) school teachers (N = 207) from Southeast Nigeria were sampled for the study. Consistent with our propositions, perceived frustration was found to be negatively related to work engagement. Sense of calling and psychological meaningfulness were positively related to work engagement. The results of the moderated regression analyses showed that teachers with high sense of calling were found to be more engaged with their work regardless of perceiving high organizational frustration than their counterparts with low sense of calling. More so, teachers with high psychological meaningfulness were reported to be more engaged with their work despite experiencing high organizational frustration than their counterparts with low psychological meaningfulness. The results of the study suggest that enhancement...

38 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship among personality, social support and life satisfaction among 601 employees of the Nigerian Prisons Service in a southeastern state in Nigeria, and found that social support is positively related to life satisfaction.
Abstract: The study examined the relationship among personality, social support and life satisfaction among 601 employees of the Nigerian Prisons Service in a southeastern state in Nigeria. Data were collected using Life Satisfaction Index-Short Form, The Big Five Inventory, and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. The result of the multiple regression analyses showed that personality is a significant predictor of life satisfaction. Specifically, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism were found to predict life satisfaction. The results also showed that social support is positively related to life satisfaction. Friends support, significant others support, and family support were significant predictors of life satisfaction among the participants. The implications of these results to research and clinical practice were discussed.

35 citations

01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The relationship between academic burnout, self-efficacy and academic engagement among Nigeria university undergraduates (college students) was explored and it was revealed that academic burn out was negatively related with academic engagement.
Abstract: The level of students’ engagement in their academic activities has continued to attract the interest of researchers and education administrators. The need to understand the factors that inhibit or enhance students’ academic engagement is therefore necessary especially in developing countries where level of education is generally low. This study explored the relationship between academic burnout, self-efficacy and academic engagement among Nigeria university undergraduates (college students). Two hundred respondents were sampled from five departments of the faculty of social sciences in a state-owned university in North Central, Nigeria. The results of the regression analyses revealed that academic burnout was negatively related with academic engagement. Self-efficacy was positively related with academic engagement. Implications of the findings to learning in Nigerian university context were discussed.

27 citations


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01 Jan 2016
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14,604 citations

01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders derives primarily from clinical observations of patients with substance use disorders as mentioned in this paper, who discover that the specific actions or effects of each class of drugs relieve or change a range of painful affect states.
Abstract: The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders derives primarily from clinical observations of patients with substance use disorders. Individuals discover that the specific actions or effects of each class of drugs relieve or change a range of painful affect states. Self-medication factors occur in a context of self-regulation vulnerabilities--primarily difficulties in regulating affects, self-esteem, relationships, and self-care. Persons with substance use disorders suffer in the extreme with their feelings, either being overwhelmed with painful affects or seeming not to feel their emotions at all. Substances of abuse help such individuals to relieve painful affects or to experience or control emotions when they are absent or confusing. Diagnostic studies provide evidence that variously supports and fails to support a self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders. The cause-consequence controversy involving psychopathology and substance use/abuse is reviewed and critiqued. In contrast, clinical observations and empirical studies that focus on painful affects and subjective states of distress more consistently suggest that such states of suffering are important psychological determinants in using, becoming dependent upon, and relapsing to addictive substances. Subjective states of distress and suffering involved in motives to self-medicate with substances of abuse are considered with respect to nicotine dependence and to schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress disorder comorbid with a substance use disorder.

1,907 citations

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TL;DR: This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties such as E-modulus and compressive strength.

1,480 citations

01 Jan 2016
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955 citations

01 Sep 2008

793 citations