SELF-EFFICACY, LOCUS OF CONTROL AND MARITAL STATUS AS PREDICTORS OF COUNSELLORS’ JOB SATISFACTION IN DELTA AND EDO STATES

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Faculty: Education
Department: Guidance And Counselling

CONTRIBUTORS:

Idigun O. Bright
Anyamene A. N.
Nwankwo C. A.

ABSTRACT:

The study sought to investigate self-efficacy, locus of control, and marital status as predictors of counsellors’ job satisfaction in Delta and Edo States, Nigeria. The study was guided by 16 research questions and 12 hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The research design was correlational predictive survey. The population of the study is 359 practising guidance counsellors in all public secondary schools in Edo and Delta states. Delta state has 217 counsellors and Edo state 142 counsellors. Since the population of 359 is small and manageable, the entire population was studied. Three instruments were used to collect data for this study. These are: General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE), Locus of Control (LOC) scale, and Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (JSQ). The researcher adopted the three instruments for the study. The researcher with the help of 11 research assistants, distributed the questionnaires to the respondents and collected completed copies from them. Out of the 359 copies of the questionnaires distributed only 343 (95.5 %) copies were retrieved from the respondents. For data analysis, research question 1-4 were answered using aggregate scores while simple regression analysis was used to answer research questions 5- 16. The null hypotheses were tested using simple and multiple regression analyses. Findings from the study revealed that, marital status, self-efficacy and locus of control jointly are significant predictors of job satisfaction of secondary school counsellors in Delta and Edo States. It was recommended that since self-efficacy, marital status and locus of control are jointly predictors of job satisfaction among secondary school counsellors, earnest efforts should be made by governments and counselling psychologists to enhance self-efficacy and locus of control of counsellors for the purpose of transforming education in Nigeria. This is because counsellors with high level of self-efficacy beliefs and internal locus of control are more likely to create and promote conditions and interpersonal networks that nourish and sustain work satisfaction.

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