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Article Title: Demo-graphical and Psychological Factors as Correlates of Organisational and Career Commitment among Prison Officers in Southwest, Nigeria
by R.A.Animasahun and Oludemi, O.M.

Abstract:
In this study, we investigate whether demographical and certain psychological factors could serve as correlates of organisational and career commitment among prison officers in Southwest, Nigeria. Specifically, we investigate the claim that gender, age, educational qualification, job experience, job satisfaction, emotional intelligence, motivation and job stress are the real correlates of oraganisational and career commitment, especially among prison officers in Southwest, Nigeria. The significance of the study is to enable all stakeholders to know the real predictors of career and organisational commitments so as to improve the productivity of the prison officers in order to enhance the current efforts towards prison reforms in Nigeria. The investigation was carried out on a sample of 300 prison officers randomly selected from the six states in Southwest, Nigeria, 50 from each state. The results indicate that gender, qualification and emotional intelligence have negative correlations with organisational commitment, while age, job experience, job satisfaction, motivation and job stress are confirmed to be significant correlates of organisational commitment. There was no significant combined effect of the independent variables on organisational commitment. Also, job satisfaction, emotional intelligence, motivation, job stress and gender are potent correlates of career commitment among the prison officers. However, age and experience have negative correlations with career commitment. Attention of the government and Nigeria Prison Management was drawn to these findings for proper implementation.

Keywords: demographical factors, psychological factors, organisational commitment, career commitment, prison officers, south-west

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