Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo- BSc ,, MSc, PhD (Psychology), Fnpa, Fimc, CMC, Ficp.
- Professor (Full) at Ekiti State University
Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo
- BSc ,, MSc, PhD (Psychology), Fnpa, Fimc, CMC, Ficp.
- Professor (Full) at Ekiti State University
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Introduction
Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo, a Professor of Psychology,
currently works in the Department of Psychology, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti. Sulaiman does research in Social, Organizational, and Health Psychology and on specific issues like morality, environment, democratic behaviour, justice system, intergroup relations and beliefs and attitudes. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of Nigeria Journal of Social Psychology (NJSP) and a co-editor of Touching Lives Through Psychology ( A Book of Readings). Their current project is 'Paranormal beliefs of adolescents sympathy and antipathy towards the elderly.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
September 2024 - September 2025
Position
- Visiting Professor
Description
- On sabbatical leave. I teach both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
December 2023 - present
Position
- Research Fellow
Description
- As an Honorary Research Fellow I am honoured with the position and I am to collaborate with researchers in the university in research programmes, seminars, symposiums and supervision of postgraduate students.
April 2008 - March 2009
University of Jos, Jos.
Position
- Reader On Sabbatical
Education
September 1998 - March 2004
University of Ado-Ekiti (now Ekiti State University)
Field of study
- Psychology
September 1985 - October 1986
September 1980 - June 1983
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An empirical investigation of moral reasoning of adult Nigerians using the philosophical-psychological paradigm of Boyce and Jensen and considering the influence of religion, personality and occupation. The personality dimensions investigated are extraversion, neuroticism, psychotisicim, and lie scale.Findings revealed signifi...
Abstract: The study investigated the influence of gender on moral reasoning in an adult population using the philosophical-psychological component paradigm of Boyce and Jensen. 354 women and 391 men drawn from five occupations responded to Moral Content Test (MCT). Statistical analysis of data using t-independent test revealed no significant differ...
Throughout the history of mankind, preference and preservation of one's kin or kind
has been evident, an up-close observation of this behaviour birthed such theories as kin
selection, social identity theory, realistic group conflict theory and reciprocal altruism.
The sense of ''weness'' and ''theyness'' has largely precipitated most devastating...
In the wake of unending interpersonal and group conflicts and the recurrent xenophobic attacks between groups in different parts of Nigeria, this paper explores the social-psychological perspectives to understanding group differences. The word multifaceted describes the social identities of Nigerians. Nigerians are people with multiple social ident...
An investigation of the influence of the seven dimensions of paranormal beliefs of adolescents in Ado-Ekiti on their attitudes towards the elderly was investigated. The findings that demonstrated the joint predictive power of the seven dimensions of paranormal beliefs, and the individual powers of superstition and witchcraft on attitudes towards th...
Objectives
The 12-item Self-Compassion Scale–Short Form (SCS–SF) is a widely used instrument for the assessment of self-compassion. To date, there have been few examinations of this instrument’s psychometric properties, particularly across nations and languages. Therefore, we used data from the Body Image in Nature Survey (BINS) to assess measureme...
Objectives: The 12-item Self-Compassion Scale–Short Form (SCS–SF) is a widely used instrument for the assessment of self-compassion. To date, there have been few examinations of this instrument’s psychometric properties, particularly across nations and languages. Therefore, we used data from the Body Image in Nature Survey (BINS) to assess measurem...
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset–with data collected between 2020 and 2022 –to assess measurement invariance of the SWLS across 65...
Collective action is a powerful tool for social change and is fundamental to women and girls’ empowerment on a societal level. Collective action towards gender equality could be understood as intentional and conscious civic behaviors focused on social transformation, questioning power relations, and promoting gender equality through collective effo...
Detachment from nature is contributing to the environmental crisis and reversing this trend requires detailed monitoring and targeted interventions to reconnect people to nature. Most tools measuring nature exposure and attachment were developed in high-income countries and little is known about their robustness across national and linguistic group...
This paper examines the phenomenon of xenophobia in Africa. The manifestation of xenophobia was explored within the tenets of the terror management theory which links existential concerns to the development of worldviews that help to make sense of life vagaries. We put forward that colonialism impacted the African worldview of collectivism and huma...
Detachment from nature is contributing to the environmental crisis and reversing this trend requires detailed monitoring and targeted interventions to reconnect people to nature. Most tools measuring nature exposure and attachment were developed in high-income countries and little is known about their robustness across national and linguistic group...
The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset – with data collected between 2020 and 2022 – to asse...
Social role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countries’ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary and self-construal theorists suggest that gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflec...
The Tobacyck’s Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (RPBS) was subjected to validation within
the Nigerian South-West. We assessed the fitness of the seven-factor model of the RPBS by
utilizing confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in study 1. However, the model could not be
replicated. Consequently, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed to...
Background:
Body image research deals a lot with awareness of the body as an entity. Studies that consider individual anatomical aspects and place them in an intercultural context are rarely present.
Methods:
For this purpose, general data, body perception and judgment of body images from 2163 (48% female and 52% male) participants from Germany,...
The study of prison behaviour, particularly adjustment after incarceration has evolved with the cause of time and has ultimately become a veritable source for understanding how prisoners employ personal adjustment characteristics in their respective socio-cultural, and demographic variables These behaviours define the social position of inmates and...
Structural equation modeling (SEM) in SPSS AMOS (28.0) was used in analyzing data while satisfying major assumptions. Indirect effects was calculated using 10,000 bootstrap samples with 95% bias-corrected confidence intervals Model fit was assessed using the comparative fit index (CFI), root mean-square of approximation (RMSEA), standardized root-m...
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Length of Sentence as Predictor of Self-Harm Urge Among Prison Inmates In South-West Nigeria; The Mediatory Role of Resilience
Agesin Bamikole Emmanuel, Ph.D, Ph.D Adebayo Sulaiman Ol...
Migrant presence is a social reality in most societies of today. Most of the research on migrant health comes from countries popular for migration. Thus, research on migrant health is less available in developing worlds. This study, therefore, investigated psychological distress among Liberian migrants in Nigeria with shame and social supports as c...
Social inequality or inequity is existent in every society. As such, most societies dedicate efforts to ensuring fairness and justice for all its members. The university environment constitutes a miniature society on its own and everyday broader realities of the larger society are equally applicable within the university. The attitude that students...
Precarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious manhood beliefs (the Precarious Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) that covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated ge...
This study reports the development and validation of a scale to
measure xenophobia. The authors were particularly interested in
the characterisation of this phenomenon in African nations. Two
studies were conducted to explore and confirm the factor
structure of the xenophobia scale and ascertain its validity and
reliability. In study I, exploratory...
Men sometimes withdraw support for gender equality movements when their higher gender status is threatened. Here, we expand the focus of this phenomenon by examining it cross‐culturally, to test if both individual‐ and country‐level variables predict men's collective action intentions to support gender equality. We tested a model in which men's zer...
The popular axiom “jail bars aren’t golden gates” expresses the notion that the prison is not a place of comfort and it is often associated with seclusion, dejection and despair. Psychological distress has been investigated over the present decade and is used to describe unpleasant feelings or emotions that impact individual level of functioning. O...
The phenomenon of outgroup favouritism and the instances promoting it like threat avoidance, intergroup identification. Ingroup love versus ingroup hate, the presence of renegade and social identity complexity were explored. Implications for managing interethnic conflict in a multicultural society was drawn
The chapter assessed the state of psychological research in light of its strict adherence to positivist philosophy and suggested ways by which psychological research and practice can be improved. Ways suggested include promotions of indigenous psychology, tests trasadaptation, employment of advanced psychphisiological told in research, doing more o...
In the wake of seemingly normalized criminality and its unabated wave in Nigeria and the need for concerted efforts to understand its pervasiveness, this paper examines the role of the Nigeria criminal justice system (CJS) in criminal behavior control. The effectiveness of the CJS was analyzed as an instrument of social justice and criminal behavio...
Physical health burdens have been shown to predict geriatric depression and anxiety, but there is
scarce knowledge about the mechanism by which these occur. This study examined the extent to
which self-rated health (SRH) mediated the associations between physical health burdens and anx-
iety/depression in a sample of 465 older adults between ages 6...
The study examined the efficacy of psychic education in treatment compliance among the schizophrenics using cross sectional survey, before and after design, and in- depth oral interview. Forty one participants (male = 25, female = 16) with age range of 18 and 55 years, mean age of 35.12 and standard deviation of 11.29 were drawn from both neuro-psy...
The paper reviewed variables that have been identified to influence interpersonal attraction in the literature over the years and investigated the importance of some of them in mate selection among university students. This is towards identifying the order of importance of these attraction variables and to determine how students differ on their per...
A speech presented to Nigerian Senate in support of the Bill for the Establishment of Nigeria Council for Psychologists and Other Related Matters
g i s t s. I s t r o n g l yb e l i e v e , MrP r e s i d e n t , t h a tt h ep a s s a g eo ft h eb i l l wi l l b r i n gs a n i t yt ot h ep r a c t i c eo fp s y c h o l o g ya n db r i n g s u c c o u r t oc o n s u me r so f p s y c h o l o g ywh oa r ed a i l ye x p o s e dt ot h ea c t i v i t i e so f q u a r k s a n dc h a r l a t a n sma...
An appraisal of status traditional wedding in Nigeria and the importance of the role of traditional wedding engagement consultant/compare in the execution of the procedure. Factors militating against the practice of traditional engagement consultancy as a profession were identified and suggestions offered towards making it a worthwhile business.
There is dearth in literature as far as the issue of occupational health is concerned especially outside the Western culture, like Nigeria as this study aimed at enlightening individual employee, organizations and the society at large about the significance of occupational health and its implications on the individual and the society. So, the study...
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stract:- In the wake of seemingly normalized criminality and its unabated wave in Nigeria and the need for
concerted efforts to understand its pervasiveness, this paper examines the role of the Nigeria criminal justice
system (CJS) in criminal behavior control. The effectiveness of the CJS was analyzed as an instrument of
socialjustice and crimi...
This study examined the role of computer self-efficacy and gender in computer-based test (CBT) anxiety among a sample of Nigerian undergraduates. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted. Using a purposive sampling technique, 241 undergraduates (110 males and 131 females) were selected from a public university in Ondo State, Nigeria. Their ages...
In the literature on entrepreneurship and those who make good entrepreneurs, empirical support is divided on whether personality profile of an entrepreneur should be established and whether such profile can hold its ground given that entrepreneurial abilities and aptitude as well as business success are both affected by environmental factors. Regar...
It is a collection of papers contributed by Nigerian foremost psychologists and social scientists drawn from across Nigeria, Britain and the United States in honour of Prof. Tunde Makanju's forty years of meritorious service at the University of Lagos.
Since the whole human population are products of the family, it may be deduced that a substantial proportion of the social-vices besieging the modern world emanate from maladaptive socialization process of the family domain. To achieve a capable and positive functioning socialization process, harmonious and healthy relationships must be ensured amo...
Abstract: This study examined occupation type and gender difference on job demand of three service occupation of Ondo state South-West, Nigeria. Four hundred and twenty eight (428) employees participated in the study, comprising 218 males and 209 females from both private and public organisations in Ondo state. The age range was between 20-57 years...
Sexuality is an important component of human life given its implication for sexual satisfaction, reproduction, egalitarianism and the continuity of the human race. The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the literature on cultural sex-role prescriptions for male control and female deference particularly in the Nigerian literature, and t...
Sexual behaviours of men and women for long have been dictated by sex-role prescription about how both sexes should or should not behave in sexual situations. Such sex-role prescription about appropriate sexual behaviours may also affect whether or not men and women practice safe-sex behaviours, hence, this study examined the influence of sex and g...
Handicap/Disability remains a debilitating condition for the disabled/ handicapped and the caregivers, as they have to live and manage the condition in their life time (handicapped/disabled). The condition that affects motor ability, communicating ability, vision, thoughts, cognition, understanding, self-care, social interactions, education, usage...
This study examined the influence of sex and gender-role on safe-sex behaviours. A total of 202 (male= 68, females= 134) participants whose ages range between 15 and 56 years were randomly selected from a federal university in Nigeria. The objective of this study was to determine if sex and gender-role would independently and jointly influence pers...
Within the literature on sexuality, men and women have been portrayed to be different in how they behave in sexual situations. It has been argued that these differences can be linked to how men and women are socialised and the gender-role they conform to. Societal expectations of men and women specify how sexual relations between the two sexes shou...
The study examined the influence of psychopathy and cultic disposition on attitudes toward violence among students of tertiary institutions in Ekiti State, Nigeria. One hundred and fifty six participants completed self- report instruments comprising of the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, Revised Attitudes toward Violence Scale and Dispositi...
This study was carried out to determine the influence of religiosity and paranormal beliefs on the development of psychopathological symptoms among groups of people from two different ethnic origin. A survey research was adopted using a purposive sampling method to draw the sample from Igbo and Yoruba ethnic groups. The sample consisted of two hund...
This study was conducted to investigate gender difference in the experience of burnout among four groups of health workers in Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti. One hundred and forty health workers were selected through purposive sampling from the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital comprising of 16 pharmacists, 30 health assistants, 36...
The present study examined perceived procedural justice and Trust in management lay-off decisions as predictors of employees' organizational commitment. The survey utilized the correlation design as the research design for this work. A total of 400 participants responded to the questionnaires. In all, 228 male (57%) and 172 females (43%) participat...
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine if there would be significant main and interaction influence of paranormal beliefs and culture on incidence of psychopathology among a non-psychotic population. A survey research was carried out using a purposive non-probability sampling method drawing the sample from two ethnic groups; Yoruba an...
ABSTRACT
This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between job challenge and the
experience of burnout among four groups of health workers in Ekiti State University
Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. One hundred and forty health workers were selected
through purposive sampling from the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital. Th...
Abstract - Corruption is an ‘evil’: a social vice that hampers national development. It is a global
phenomenon that devastatingly affects developing economies. It is an act, internalized acts and,
or, behavior by observing some significant persons around us who are otherwise referred to as
our 'model'. Since corruption is a learned behaviour, th...
This study investigated the role of age in life satisfaction judgements amongeducated adults in Ado – Ekiti. Employing a sample of 544 participants ofeducated adults in the age cohorts of 20 – 39 years (276), 40 – 59 years(179), and 60+ years (89), selected through a multi-stage sampling, andadministering on them Life Satisfaction Index Satisfactio...
This study examined the relationships between task identity, job autonomy and burnout of nurses in
Jos, Nigeria.. 79 nurses selected from three health institutions in Jos responded to Job Diagnostic
Survey and Maslach Burnout Inventory. Three hypotheses were tested using Pearson Product Moment
Correlation Statistics. Findings showed that task ident...
ABSTRACT
This study examined the influence that supervisory behaviour and job-induced stress might have on job satisfaction and turnover intention of police personnel in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Three hundred and fifty police personnel (200 males, & 150 females) drawn from the three senatorial districts of Ekiti State responded to Supervisory Behaviou...
This study examined task identity and job autonomy as correlates of burnout among doctors in Jos. It
made use of 57 participants that responded to, Job Diagnostic Survey and Maslach Burnout Inventory.
Three hypotheses were posited and were tested using Pearson's Correlation Statistics. The results
indicated that task identity had negative significa...
The present study investigates the frequency of occurrences of some twenty one cheating behaviours among Nigerian University students and the reasons offered by them for engaging in these untowards behaviours. Participants are one hundred and fifty undergraduates in 200 and 300 levels of the Social and Management Science Faculty of a Nigerian Unive...
This study examined the influence of gender and self-esteem on the organizational commitment of civil servants in Ekiti State. Two hundred civil servants drawn from five ministries in Ekiti State responded to a battery of instruments (Self-Esteem Scale, Index of Self-Esteem and Organizational Commitment Scale). Four hypotheses were tested in the st...
Abstract: This study, which was designed to find out the effect of gender, gender role orientation and attachment of
labels on the evaluation of class leaders, was carried out using 194 research participants drawn from among the
students of the University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. 116 were females and 78 were males with an average age of 20.23.
The in...
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The Predictive Influence of Extraversion and Neuroticism on Life Satisfaction Judgments of Adults in Ado -Ekiti, Nigeria
Sulaiman Olanrewaju ADEBAYO, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Faculty of the Social Sciences,
University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
e-mail: lanryadd@yahoo.com
sadebayo@unad.edu.ng
Olanrewaju Babatope AROGUNDADE,
Ph.D. College of Ed...
Abstract: This study investigated the single best significant predictor of life satisfaction of educated adults of
different ages categories, among some psychosocial variables: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, death anxiety and family relations. Employing a sample of 544 subjects of educated adults in age cohor...
The study examined how some job characteristics (job autonomy, task identity and profession) moderate the experience of burnout among health workers in Jos, Nigeria. One hundred and thirty six health workers (57 doctors and 79 nurses) drawn from two public hospitals (Jos University teaching Hospital and Plateau Specialist Hospital) and two missiona...
This study was designed to investigate the influence of burnout syndrome and some job factors among women in the human services. A total of 190 subjects (95 female nurses and 95 female teachers) were randomly selected for the study. They were drawn from the government hospitals and schools in Ondo and Ekiti states. A questionnaire comprising three...
Following the findings of previous studies demonstrating the importance of family cohesion on children when they become adult, this study attempts to find out the patterns of family cohesion in the families of undergraduates in Nigeria and how this pattern affects their own intimate relationships. One hundred and forty students (73 males and 67 fem...
Abstract: Attempt was made to investigate the relationship between achievement motivation (n-Ach) and academic cheating behavior. 150 undergraduates drawn from the 200 and 300 levels of the social and management science faculties of a Nigeria university were asked to respond to Cheating Behavior Questionnaire ( Newstead et al, 1996) and the adapted...
Abstract: The evaluations of successful male and female managers in terms of likability was examined from responses to 4 variations of the Schein descriptive index by 200 randomly selected students of University of Jos, Nigeria. Findings indicated that both the ratings of successful female managers, ratings of successful male managers, were similar...
This paper explores the personality profiles of the Nigerian politician as antithetic to the enthronement of participatory democracy in Nigeria. It contends that the antidemocratic and corruptive behaviour of the Nigerian politician is hinged on a lack of sterling personality traits of these Nigerian politicians. The paper argues that although the...
Abstract: Psychological Sense of Community (PSC) and its relationships with mental health indeces (Psychological well being -PWB- and psychological distress -PD-) were investigated in four neighborhoods in Lagos metropolis (FESTAC town, 104 Estate, Ikeja barrack and Abalti barrack). Finding revealed that the four neighbourhoods significantly differ...
Abstract: The study pointed out the bias in the literature on the relationship between personality and morality in favour of the social dimension. It also acknowledges the possible influence of biological dimension of personality on morality. Employing Eysenck`s theories of social attitudes and emotionality as the theoretical basis the study went f...
The main objective of writing this book is to create a reading text for teachers and students, a book written from a Nigerian perspective, for the teaching and learning of ethnic group relations in Nigeria. The didactic approach employed is to teach important social psychological concepts necessary for analysis of ethnic group relations in Nigeria...
Psychology as a science of behaviour cannot be aloof to the problems of the nation. This book is an humble attempt at addressing these problems that have become contending contemporary social issues in Nigeria. To achieve this goal attempt is mady to bring some of my papers that have previously appeared in learned peer-review journals over the year...
The study attempted to investigate the main and interaction effects of religion (Muslim CD Christian), religiosity (high versus low) and gendet(male versus female) on the nine ethical considerations posited by Boyce and Jensen (1978). One hundred and thirty-six subjects (68 Muslims and 68 Christians) responded to Moral Content Test (MCT) and Scale...
Using the phantom other technique the study investigated main and interaction effects of propinquity and attitude similarity on friendship and marital choice. Findings revealed significant main effects of propinquity on friendship and marital choice but no significant interaction effects on the two dependent variable.
One hundred and nineteen subjects drawn from among Christian students in year one (100 level) at Indoor State University, Ado-Ekiti responded to Moral Content Test (MCT), Scale of Religiosity and Religious Attitude Scale. On global moral ethics religiosity correlated positively with rule-orientation and negatively with hedonism. Also, religious att...
Moral Test on Pollution (MTP) was administered on 249 workers drawn from Lagos (140) and Ado-Ekiti (109). Out of which 137 were male and 112 were female. X2 and Student t test were used to analyse data and findings revealed that: (a) moral decisions and ethical considerations were significantly related to subjects'residence, (b) ethical considerati...
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Bestiality is becoming a common occurrence as a sexual orientation and sexual act. The social media has become replete with it's regular occurrence and the equivocal reactions it generates. Those who engage in the act as a form of sexual expression are becoming bolder in coming out of the closest. A recently trending video on the internet showed a young lady admitting her sexual dialance with a dog for a price of 1.7 million of Nigeria currency. This economic dimension that the lady has thrown into understanding bestiality has added to the existing pathological model of bestiality. The need to understand the psychological basis of the phenomenon is apposite.
It seems there is no standard requirement across the globe for training to become a psychologist. Requirements seem to vary from country to country. Identifying the variations and the logic behind them and streamlining training and requirements for practice seems an appropriate step towards globalizing the provision of psychological serviced.
