JOB STRESS AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG LECTURERS OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOKOTO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The main thrust of the study was to investigate job stress and job satisfaction among lecturers in Sokoto state tertiary institutions by employing the correlation research design. From the five state owned tertiary institutions, two hundred and sixty five (265) lecturers were drawn by the simple random sampling technique from a total of 851. One of the instruments used to collect data for this study was an adapted Job stress Test (TRST); its construct and content validity were ascertained by experts in the field and also its reliability coefficient of 0.76 was realized by test re-test method. The other instrument was an adopted Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ 20) with an alpha coefficient of 0.95. With the use of Pearson product moment correlation the finding of hypothesis one revealed that there is significant relationship between job stress and job satisfaction. Also, with the use of t-test analysis, the findings of hypotheses two and three revealed that there is no significant difference in job stress of male and female lecturers as well as in their job satisfaction. A major recommendation offered was that both extrinsic and intrinsic motivations could be used in order to have the best outcome from the lecturers.