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Character Traits (tough Mindness And Aggression) And Stress As Predictors Of Alcohol Use Among Police Officers In Ibadan Metropolis
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1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
Five hypotheses were formulated to guide the study and they are stated as follows:
H01: There is no significant relationship between tough mindness and alcohol use among police officers in Ibadan Metropolis.
H02: There is no significant relationship between aggression and alcohol use among police officers in Ibadan Metropolis.
H03: There is no significant relationship between stress and alcohol use among police officers in Ibadan Metropolis.
H04:
Tough mindness, aggression and stress have no joint significant effect
on alcohol use among police officers in Ibadan Metropolis.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The
findings in this study will in no measure benefit Nigerian Police
force, parents, para-military, medical and legal practitioners,
governments at the three tiers (federal, state and local government),
and the policy maker. The researcher believe people in Oyo state will be
able to benefit immensely from this study because the research is meant
to know if tough mindness, aggressiveness and stress will determine
police officers to abuse drugs.
On the part of police forces and
military forces, they will be better exposed through the findings that
the excessive use of drugs by them will affect their personality and
family because the children learns while observing the behaviour of
their parents who are police officers. It is also known that, at this
stage they tend to experiment things probably as a means of coping with
the stress they encountered in which if they not corrected on time they
tend to abuse drugs.
Government, psychologist, medical and legal
practitioners will all benefit from this study in the sense that they
will be able to design interventions for police officers and this will
prohibit them from abusing drugs in the society they find themselves and
helping them to understands their importance in the society.
1.7 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
The
study is designed to determine the influence of effect of tough
mindness, aggressiveness and stress on alcohol use among Police officers
in Ibadan. And so, it is limited to Ibadan metropolis, Oyo state of
Nigeria.
The limitations encountered in course of the study are
Control
Limitation: Based on the directives of the project supervisor, the
study covered character traits and stress as predictors of alcohol use
among police officers only operating in Ibadan Metropolis.
Time
Limitation: The time allotted to conduct a study of this magnitude, is
relatively too small, given other academic commitments of the
researcher.
Data Limitation: Based on the nature of the topic that is
targeted at police officers, the respondents are often unyielding to
participate in the survey for the fear of exposing their personal habits
and norms to the researcher.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The
study is geared towards exploring some predicting variables of alcohol
use among police officers in Nigeria. Hence, the study investigates
whether – character traits (tough-mindness and aggression) as well as
stress are significant predictors of alcohol use among police officers
in Ibadan metropolis. 500 police officers, which comprises of 488 males
and 12 females completed the questionnaire pack of Eyesenck
Tough-mindness Scale, Buss and Perry Aggression Scale, Internat ... Continue reading---
