Lawrence Ugwu

Renaissance University Ugbawka Enugu · Psychology

Background Resilience, a critical multi-faceted construct in psychological research, is often measured using Conner-Davison Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10 and CD-RISC-25). This reliability generalization (RG) meta-analysis delves into evaluate the level of reliability generalization estimate of both CD-RISC-10 and CD-RISC-25 in assessing resilience a...

The occupational environment of law enforcement officers, characterised by high-stress situations and critical societal roles, necessitates continuous monitoring of their mental health. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to explore the associations and impacts of burnout and PTSD among police officers, shedding light on how these conditi...

Practically, discrepancies in job satisfaction among workers in similar roles suggest that individual characteristics significantly impact how job crafting behaviors are implemented. The potential for job crafting to enhance satisfaction has yet to be fully explored, particularly in the context of Machiavellian traits as a moderating influence. Usi...

In a globalised world, understanding acculturation—the process by which individuals adapt to new cultural environments—is crucial, especially in multicultural societies. The East Asian Acculturation Measure (EAAM), rooted in Berry’s acculturation model, has been extensively used to assess acculturation strategies among East Asian populations in the...

Orientation: This study investigates retirement planning complexities among pre-retirees in Nigerian universities, focusing on parental guidance and individual financial strategies. Research purpose: The aim is to examine the impact of parental influence, retirement goal clarity and saving behaviour on retirement anxiety among Nigerian universit...

Orientation: This study investigates retirement planning complexities among pre-retirees in Nigerian universities, focusing on parental guidance and individual financial strategies. Research purpose: The aim is to examine the impact of parental influence, retirement goal clarity and saving behaviour on retirement anxiety among Nigerian university p...

Background The CAPS-5 is a reliable instrument for assessing PTSD symptoms, demonstrating strong consistency, validity, and reliability after a traumatic event. However, further research is warranted to explore the divergent validity of the CAPS-5 and its adaptation to diverse cultural contexts. Objective In this meta-analysis, we endeavoured to c...

Background The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) is widely used for detecting psychiatric disorders, but its reliability across different populations remains to be determined. Objective This meta-analysis aims to evaluate the reliability of GHQ-12 across varied cultural and demographic settings. Method This meta-analysis evaluates the reliabi...

This study delved into the complex effects of work schedules on the well-being of healthcare professionals, spotlighting Nigeria’s medical landscape. A diverse cohort of 387 participants, spanning doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and laboratory technicians or scientists, formed the research base, with the majority being women (67.7%), with a mean age...

Retirement is a pivotal life transition that often changes routines, identity, and objectives. With increasing life expectancies and evolving societal norms, examining the interplay between retirement anxiety and life satisfaction is vital. This study delves into this relationship, recognising the complexities of retirement. A systematic review and...

The aim to examine the link between diabetes distress and depression in individuals with diabetes, assess the mediating role of psychological resilience in this relationship, and analyses if these relationships differ between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The study utilized a cross-sectional design. A total of 181 (age 33-72 years, mean = 54.76 years...

The link between anxiety, depression, and cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in cancer patients is currently gaining attention, yet no research to date, have investigated the cognitive coping strategies moderating this link. This study evaluated the moderating role of cognitive emotion regulation (CER) in the association between anxiety, depression, and...

Although adolescence is a critical period marked by increased vulnerability to trauma, the mechanisms underlying how adolescents cope with such experiences remain underexplored. This study is anchored in Hobfoll's conservation of resources theory and Porges' polyvagal theory, which together suggest that emotional intelligence and distress disclosur...

The global workforce, post-COVID-19, grapples with challenges like burnout, high turnover , and pay disparities, intensifying the need for transparent pay communication. Leader-member exchange (LMX), a concept denoting the relationship quality between a leader and subordinate, plays a pivotal role in this scenario. This study delves into the modera...

Purpose This study investigated whether job resources (i.e. strengths use support, career self-management and person–job [PJ] fit) moderate the relationship between perceived involvement in a career accident (PICA) and work engagement. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a time-lagged design ( N = 398; 69% male), and data were collected...

Te global pandemic forced young adults and their parents to be together. Tis situation has equally exposed the weaknesses in the child-parent relationship. Tis study aimed to investigate the role of social intelligence in the relationship between parenting style and Internet addiction during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Seven hundred and seventy-f...

Background This study aims to provide researchers and practitioners with a more elaborate instrument to measure turnover intentions based on the planned behaviour theory model. The questionnaire assesses 5 distinct aspects of turnover intentions (i.e., subjective social status, organisational culture, personal orientation, expectations, and career...

Universal Health Coverage and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals have impacted global substance/drug reform policy through strict prohibition and criminalization in the 21st century. Thus, the Covid-19 lockdown and measures have raised concerns regarding the disproportionate impact on persons with substance use, abuse and addiction in South Afr...

We investigated the mediating influence of cancer-related stress (CRS) in social support health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among Nigerian cancer patients. Nigerian cancer patients (n = 316; female = 64.6%; mean age = 50.16 years, SD = 13 years) completed measures of perceived social support, CRS, and HRQoL. Structural model data analysis revea...

Purpose This study investigated employee cynicism and workplace ostracism as pathways through which perceived organizational politics (POPs) is related to counterproductive work behavior (CWB) targeted at individual coworkers (CWB-I) and the organization (CWB-O). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 794 university employees in Sout...

The psychological implication of retirement is underemphasised. This study examined the relationship between proactive personality, social comparison, and retirement anxiety among Nigerian civil servants. The study is a cross-sectional design, using proactive personality, social comparison orientation, and Nigerian pre-retirement anxiety scales. Fi...

The study examined dual-pathway (emotional exhaustion and intensive smartphone use in the evening for non-work purposes) through which high workload is related to work-life balance (WLB). The study equally tested whether family cohesion moderated these mediation effects among university academics from the Southeastern region of Nigeria. Results fro...

The study examined the relationship between religiosity and punctuality, and whether self-regulation mediates this relationship. The study also explored whether personality traits moderate the positive relationship between religiosity and self-regulation and between religiosity and punctuality. Using PROCESS model 4, among 734 federal university em...

Social media use has been linked to adverse health outcomes such as depression. To facilitate interventions, understanding the varied causes of depression is necessary. The authors developed a social media-induced depression tendency (SMIDT) scale for use with young people and aimed to validate it for young people in Nigeria. The study was conducte...

There is a global adoption of digital technology in every aspect of human endeavor. The surge in the use of digital devices is so high that different forms of e-learning platforms have emerged. Researchers globally are validating the concept of digital natives and how it influences lives. Our study was to validate the Digital Native Assessment Scal...

There is a global adoption of digital technology in every aspect of human endeavor. The surge in the use of digital devices is so high that diferent forms of e-learning platforms have emerged. Researchers globally are validating the concept of digital natives and how it infuences lives. Our study was to validate the Digital Native Assessment Scale...

Previous studies have examined the impact of occupational self-efficacy and work engagement, but studies investigating job crafting and boredom as mediators of the relationship between occupational self-efficacy and work engagement among traffic control officers are lacking. Therefore, the present study tested the indirect effects of job crafting a...

Lateness to meeting or what has been commonly referred to as “African time” is increasingly becoming part of social life in most African countries. Although this phenomenon has crept into the work environment of most Nigerian public service organizations, it has attracted limited research attention. In the study, we explored the definition of laten...

The growing population of new graduates and the increasing scarcity of employment opportunities have made entrepreneurship an unavoidable option for employment and self-sustenance. This study investigates the effect of the initiative in moderating the relationship between intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, and entrepreneurship intention through t...

This study aims to provide researchers and practitioners with a more elaborate instrument to measure turnover intentions based on the planned behaviour theory model. The questionnaire assesses 5 distinct aspects of turnover intentions (i.e., subjective social status, organisational culture, personal orientation, expectations, and career growth). We...

This study aimed to examine the relationship between employee perceptions of their organisational reputation and employee work engagement, and the role of transformational leadership style in that relationship. The study sample comprised 183 employees of Nigerian banks (female = 52.5%; managers = 9.8%; mean age = 41.85 years, SD = 6.47years). The e...

Deviant behaviour has become rampant among commercial bank workers in Nigeria. As such, this study aimed at exploring and understanding the role of perceived job insecurity, employment status and perceived organisational support as predictors of deviant behaviour among commercial bank workers. Purposive sampling technique was adopted because of the...

The study investigated organizational cynicism and organizational career growth as predictors of turnover intention among employees in Enugu state. Six hundred and twenty two participants comprising 354 males and 268 females between the ages of 18-60 years (M=33.75, SD =9.30) were drawn through multi-stage (cluster and purposive) sampling technique...

Purpose Despite the importance of knowledge sharing (KS), organizations find it difficult to motivate their employees to share their knowledge with co-workers. Based on a combination of the group value model and the socialization resources theory (SRT), this study is, therefore, an endeavor to contribute to the understanding of how organizations ca...

Lecturing in private universities in Nigeria is one of the most challenging jobs for early career scholars. Regrettably, there is a high rate of turnover once an opportunity for exit presents itself. Researchers have proposed a relationship between psychological contract breach and turnover intentions. This study attempted to evaluate the effect of...

Earlier studies on job insecurity tested job resources that may buffer the usual negative impact of job insecurity on job outcomes. The current study extends prior results by establishing that, given certain conditions, such as during an economic crisis that often gives rise to a dearth of employment opportunities and a precariousness of employm...

Lecturing in private universities in Nigeria is one of the most challenging jobs for early career scholars. Regrettably, there is a high rate of turnover once an opportunity for exit presents itself. Researchers have proposed a relationship between psychological contract breach and turnover intentions. This study attempted to evaluate the effect of...

Earlier studies on job insecurity tested job resources that may buffer the usual negative impact of job insecurity on job outcomes. The current study extends prior results by establishing that, given certain conditions, such as during an economic crisis that often gives rise to a dearth of employment opportunities and a precariousness of employment...

This study explored the relationship between self-esteem and internet addiction, and the indirect effect of shyness or self-doubt on internet addiction. We utilized two-wave design that consisted of 232 undergraduates from southeastern Nigeria with mean age of 20.89 years (SD =2.75). The participants responded to three instruments-a 20-item Interne...

Individuals with cancer experience significant levels of distress. Improving health-related quality of life of persons with cancer is a major focus in cancer treatment. This study investigated the mediating role of self-efficacy for coping with cancer in the relationship between mental adjustment to cancer and health-related quality of life among i...

This study explored the relationship between self-esteem and internet addiction, and the indirect effect of shyness or self-doubt on internet addiction. We utilized two-wave design that consisted of 232 undergraduates from southeastern Nigeria with mean age of 20.89 years (SD =2.75). The participants responded to three instruments-a 20-item Interne...

This study explored the relationship between self-esteem and internet addiction, and the indirect effect of shyness or self-doubt on internet addiction. We utilized two-wave design that consisted of 232 undergraduates from southeastern Nigeria with mean age of 20.89 years (SD =2.75). The participants responded to three instruments-a 20-item Interne...

Emotions arising from health-related trauma can be complex (as positive and negative feelings are possible) and can influence the way patients perceive themselves and the world. Health outcomes can also be affected by the valence of emotions. We hypothesised that post-traumatic growth is the mediating link between the valences of event centrality a...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of subjective career success (SCS) in the relationship between proactive personality, social support (SS), and pre-retirement anxiety. Using a two-wave longitudinal design, 624 pre-retirees were sampled (M = 56.49 years; SD = 4.56); of these, 237 (37.98%) were males and 387 (62.0...

Rising evidence indicates that surface acting is associated with energy expenditure which siphons resources needed to enhance well-being. We therefore examined the effects of surface acting, emotional exhaustion, and emotional intelligence on psychological well-being in a moderated mediation model. Based on a sample of 307 Nigerian prison officers...

Purpose In this paper, the impact of customer incivility on work engagement was investigated. The authors also explored whether supervisor positive gossip and workplace friendship prevalence moderated the impact of customer incivility on work engagement in the Nigerian context. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a time-lagged design to c...

Purpose Considering that leaders play an important role in influencing the work environment and experiences of subordinates as well as the fact that employees like to be respected, the purpose of the current study was to explore supportive supervisor relations as a mediator of the relationship between respectful leadership and intention to stay. D...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the quality of a subordinate's relationship with his or her direct supervisor influences the subordinate's psychological well-being and to examine the moderating role of person-supervisor (P-S) fit between these two variables. Design/methodology/approach The sample for this study consists of 418...

In combating the increasing number of challenges faced by the banking industries that range from disobedience to standard operations, connivance with fraudulent clients, and regular counterproductive behaviours, a measure of deviant behaviour in the banking sector is necessary. We validated a measure of deviant behaviour among Nigerian bankers (n =...

Deviant behaviour has become rampant among commercial bank workers in Nigeria. As such, this study aimed at exploring and understanding the role of perceived job insecurity, employment status and perceived organisational support as predictors of deviant behaviour among commercial bank workers. Purposive sampling technique was adopted because of the...

Academic dishonesty has been found to be on the increase globally, affecting the quality of education, ethics of professional practices and career outcome. Substantial literature exists on the role of religious commitment (RC) in reducing academic dishonesty (AD), but few or no studies have examined the pathways explaining this link. The present st...

We investigated mentoring as a moderator between competitive climate and employee creative work involvement. Participants were 270 academic staff of a Nigerian federal university (male = 155 [57.41%] and female = 115 [42.59%]). The participants were employed as Graduate Assistant = 15 (5.56%), Assistant Lecturer = 78 (28.89%), Lecturer II = 61 (22....

A B S T R A C T The inverse relationship between self-esteem and psychological distress among couple with involuntary childlessness had been documented. Yet the moderating role of coping strategies in this relationship have received little attention. This study investigated the moderating roles of coping strategies on the relationship between self-...

Two studies were conducted to develop and provide evidence supporting the construct validity and internal consistency of scores from the Nigerian Pre-retirement Anxiety Scale (NPAS). The measure comprises three dimensions: financial preparedness, social obligation, and social alienation. In the first study, data collected from 424 civil servants su...

This study examined the perception of insecurity on subjective well-being (SWB), as well as the moderating role of psychological resilience. Perception of insecurity was considered as both community, economic, political and personal insecurity domains. Two hundred and thirty-nine (239) student participants in two cities of North Nigeria (Kaduna) an...

Earlier studies have shown that locus of control is related to academic processes and outcomes. However, the nature of the relationship between locus of control, religious commitment, and academic engagement is unclear. This study examined the mediating role of religious commitment in linking locus of control with academic engagement, as well as th...

This research examined perceived insecurity, distress disclosure, and social support as determinants of posttraumatic growth among internally displaced persons in Plateau State. Using a cross-sectional design, a total of 427 (male = 181, female = 246) participants were selected from Barkin-Ladi and Riyom local government areas in Plateau State. The...

This study aimed to evaluate the latent structure of the Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ) and to estimate the reliability and validity of scores from the measure in a Nigerian adult population (N = 758; age range = 18 - 63 years; females = 52.24%). Respondents also completed the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ). The d...

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale to measure targets set for employees in organisations. The scale is named Organisational Target Index (OTI). Using a sample of 219 employees in Nigeria, internal consistency and factor structure of the 13-item OTI were determined. A sample size of 219 workers was drawn from commercial banks...

This study examined whether personality and some demographic variables would predict road rage assessed by the Driving Anger Scale (DAS). The sample comprised 328 Igbospeaking male commercial drivers in Nsukka, Nigeria. The drivers were incidentally selected from motor parks and some other designated parts of Nsukka town. The study employed a corre...