PsychologIA
Ife PsychologIA is an international journal published twice yearly, in March and September, by the Ife Centre for Psychological Studies and Services.
Since 1993, the journal has provided a forum for psychological research and behavioural scholarship from Africa and the wider international community.
Its award-winning Volume 9, Number 3 (2001), presented the Nigerian Dream Model at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
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Open this journal in the full catalogueCivic competence, democratic values and personality traits of senior secondary school students in Oyo State, Nigeria
Volume 34 / Issue 1 / pp. 59-70 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v34i1.6
The study identified the level of civic competence via civic participation, civic knowledge, and civic values. It further investigated the extent to which democratic values such as equality, freedom and respect for rule of law, are exhibited and finally determined the most dominant personality traits (conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness) among...
Read on publisher (opens in a new tab)Moderating effects of implicit emotional belief on the relationship between emotional regulation and symptoms of depression and anxiety
Volume 33 / Issue 2 / pp. 24-35 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v33i2.3
Background: Mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression are prevalent and represent significant public health concerns globally and the interplay of individual dispositional factors in shaping these symptoms is one of the knowledge gaps for further explorations. This study investigated how implicit emotional beliefs shape the effects of emotion re...
Read on publisher (opens in a new tab)Personality traits and music preference as predictors of mental well-being among patients with chronic illness in Ibadan
Volume 33 / Issue 2 / pp. 36-45 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v33i2.4
This study examined personality traits and music preferences on the mental well-being of chronic illness patients in Ibadan. Using a cross-sectional design, 112 patients at University College Hospital were purposively selected. The sample had a mean age of 49 years, with 54.5% females, 45.5% males and diagnoses including diabetes (31.3%) High Blood Pressure ...
Read on publisher (opens in a new tab)Re-membering Nigeria: Nietzsche, Foucault, Ngũgĩ, and the psychological afterlife of colonialism
Volume 33 / Issue 2 / pp. 65-77 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v33i2.7
Nigeria’s contemporary political instability, intercommunal violence, and institutional fragility are commonly explained through governance failure, corruption, or underdevelopment. This article argues that such explanations remain incomplete because they overlook the historical and psychological processes through which Nigerian subjectivities, institutions,...
Read on publisher (opens in a new tab)Emotional awareness, self-esteem and senior secondary school students' academic achievement in English language in Osun state, Nigeria
Volume 34 / Issue 1 / pp. 97-104 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v34i1.9
The study examined the significant relationship between emotional awareness and academic achievement of senior secondary school students in English Language in Osun State. It also determined the significant relationship between self-esteem and academic achievement of senior secondary school students in English Language in Osun State. It finally established t...
Read on publisher (opens in a new tab)Correlation between digital technology and marital stability among married public secondary school teachers in Benue and Nasarawa states, Nigeria
Volume 34 / Issue 1 / pp. 91-96 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v34i1.8
This study examined the correlation between digital technology use and marital stability among married public secondary school teachers in Benue and Nasarawa States, Nigeria, focusing on financial stability and fidelity. Using a correlational survey design, data were collected from 379 teachers selected through multi-stage and stratified random sampling. Two...
Read on publisher (opens in a new tab)Police strategic intervention and mitigation of intimate partner violence in selected Local Government Areas of Lagos State, Nigeria
Volume 33 / Issue 2 / pp. 54-64 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v33i2.6
Violence within intimate relationships until the 20th century was viewed as a private affair until it gained recognition a social and public health problem that has necessitated agencies' intervention within the Criminal Justice System (CJS) for preventive, control and adjudication of justice. The intervention of law enforcement however has led to the crimin...
Read on publisher (opens in a new tab)Precanonical symbolic rituals and the erotic archive: Mapping the roots of mythic selfhood through evocative autoethnography
Volume 33 / Issue 2 / pp. 46-53 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v33i2.5
Aim: This paper investigates how early embodied experiences of shame, hunger, and eros form precanonical symbolic rituals—the earliest architectures through which desire becomes meaning. The focus is to trace how such proto-symbolic formations underpin later therapeutic constructs within Sovereign Narrative Therapy, specifically Psyche-Myth Architecture (PMA...
Read on publisher (opens in a new tab)Public attitude and health consequences of plastic material use in Nigeria
Volume 33 / Issue 2 / pp. 15-23 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v33i2.2
Despite Nigeria's increasing reliance on plastic products, public awareness and policy responses to their significant health risks remain remarkably insufficient. This study examined public attitude and health consequences of plastic material use in Nigeria. A total of 391 participants whose ages ranged from 19 – 71, with the (Mean age of 45.65, SD=13.96), c...
Read on publisher (opens in a new tab)Social media usage and Emotional Intelligence: Implications for educational policy and student well-being in Nigeria
Volume 33 / Issue 2 / pp. 78-84 / DOI 10.4314/ifep.v33i2.8
This study examined the effect of social media usage intensity on Emotional Intelligence (EI) among undergraduate students in Nigeria. Guided by Goleman’s emotional intelligence framework, a cross-sectional survey design was employed involving 384 undergraduates drawn from four tertiary institutions in Abuja. Social media usage was measured using the Social ...
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