PREDICTIVE DETERMINANTS OF STRESS, ANXIETY AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN IMO STATE, NIGERIA
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Management Sciences and Education - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
The study investigated the predictive determinants of stress, anxiety and emotional intelligence on dissociative identity disorder among secondary school adolescents in Imo State. Three objectives, three research questions and corresponding null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level. The correlational research design was adopted. The population of the study comprised all the 3400 SSII students in the 314 public secondary schools in Imo State. A simple random sampling technique was used to draw the sample size of 1700 students using 50% of the population through balloting system. Two non-cognitive instruments designed by the researchers titled “Stress, Anxiety, and Emotional Intelligence Scale” (SAES) and “Dissociative Identity Disorder Scale” (DIDS) were used for data collection. The SAES and DIDS contained 30 and 10 items respectively.Face and content validities of the instruments were ensured by experts in Educational Psychology. Cronbach Alpha reliability estimate was used to establish the reliability coefficient of SAES and DIDS at 0.98 and 0.88. The linear regression was used to answer the research questions while t-test associated with linear regression was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was found out that stress and anxietycan significantly predict dissociative identity disorder among adolescents in secondary schools in Imo State. It was concluded that stress and anxiety mismanagement bring about dissociative identity disorder.
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R. O. Ekechukwu, F. E. Amaeze
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