Influence of Age Falsification on Adjustment of Teacher Retirees in Nsukka Education Zone, Enugu State.
ABSTRACT
The study examined the Influence of Age Falsification on Adjustment of Teacher Retirees in Nsukka Education Zone, Enugu State. Ex-post-facto research design was adopted for the study .A sample of 125 teacher retirees was randomly selected from 257 teacher retirees in Nsukka Education Zone.
The study was guided by four research questions and two hypotheses. Influence of Age Falsification on Adjustment of Teacher Retirees Questionnaire (IAFATRQ) was used for data collection.
To ensure the validity of the instrument, the instrument was subjected to face validation by three experts, two from the Department of Science Education and one from Educational Foundations. The reliability index of 0.89 was obtained.
The data generated from the study were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The result of the study showed that gender was not a significant factor on age falsification and psychological adjustment of teacher retirees.
The findings also showed that gender influences age falsification and social adjustment of male and female teacher retirees.
The findings further reveled that gender was not a significant factor on age falsification and economic adjustment of teacher retirees.
Based on the. findings, recommendations were made which included that government should pay the retirees their benefits immediately after retirement without stress, for this will encourage them not to have negative mind towards retirement.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page i
Approval Page ii
Certification iii
Dedication iv
Acknowledgments v
Table of Contents vi
List of Tables viii
Abstract ix
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1
Background of the Study 1
Statement of the Problem 5
Purpose of the Study 6
Significance of the Study 7
Scope of the Study 8
Research Questions 9
Hypotheses 10
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 11
Conceptual Framework 12
· Concept of Age Falsification 12
· Concept of Retirement 16
· Concept of Adjustment 22
· Concept of Gender 28
Theoretical Framework 30
Activity Theory 30
Continuity Theory 31
Disengagement Theory 31
Review of Empirical Studies 32
Study on Age Adjustment 32
Study on Retirement 33
Summary of Literature Review 34
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHOD 36
Design of the Study 36
Area of the Study 36
Population of the Study 37
Sample and Sampling Technique 37
Instrument for Data Collection 38
Validation of the Instrument 38
Reliability of the Instrument 39
Method of Data Collection 39
Method of Data Analysis 40
CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS 41
CHAPTER FIVE: DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND
SUMMARY OF THE STUDY 46
Discussion of Findings 46
Conclusion 48
Education Implications 49
Recommendations 50
Limitation of the Study 50
Suggestion for Further Studies 51
Summary of the Study 51
REFERENCES 54
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Retirement refers to the period of one’s life after the person has stopped work at a particular age. Stonier (2004) defined retirement as withdrawal from office or official position or to give up one’s business or occupation.
Olusakin (2001) defines retirement as a situation in which a person leaves a job he has been used to in order to face another stage in life whereby he now settles down to establish his own private business or job which he does at his own convenience.
In this context, retirement is a period of change in one’s life which could be enjoyable for some people and frustrating for others.
However, this is dependent on the way the person involved sees this situation. So, while some retirees acknowledge that retirement is reducing the number of work hours, from full time to part time, some others see it as working on a voluntary basis or ceasing from all work activities paid or unpaid. Retirement is of two major types.
These are voluntary and mandatory retirements. Voluntary retirement according to Omeje (2002), is a situation whereby the retiree feels like resting after some years in service while the mandatory retirement is the type stipulated by government policy for all civil servants with emphasis on age limit and years of service, whichever one any intending teacher retiree is involved, it needs proper preparation ahead of this change in life.
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