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The main objective of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of subjective career success (SCS) in the relationship between proactive personality, social support (SS), and pre-retirement anxiety. Using a two-wave longitudinal design, 624 pre-retirees were sampled (M = 56.49 years; SD = 4.56); of these, 237 (37.98%) were males and 387 (62.02%) were females. Measurement model and mediation test were performed using the SmartPLS and IBM SPSS Amos software. The result indicated that proactive personality, SS, and SCS showed negative relationships with the dimensions of pre-retirement anxiety (financial preparedness, social obligation, and social alienation). Subjective career success mediated the relationship between proactive personality and pre-retirement anxiety.

This research purposely studied the influence of advertising appeals and consumer personality on telecoms consumption preferences, using MTN telecoms service as the product of study and 150 participants from Enugu metropolis and Agbani, Enugu state, Nigeria; age range of 16 to 35 years with a mean age of 23 years and standard deviation of 3. The research was empirically tested, using a two-way ANOVA (F-test) for the analysis, with the purpose of finding out if there will be an influence of advertising appeals and consumer personality on telecoms consumption preferences and if there will be any interaction effect. The findings are as follows; there was a significant influence of advertising appeals on telecoms consumption preferences; there was no significant influence of personality on telecoms consumption preferences, there was no significant influence of the interaction effect. Implication and limitations and recommendation were made for future research.

The study examined the influence of emotional intelligence and gender on job satisfaction among employees of Owerri Municipal and Oguta Local Government Councils, in Imo State, South East Nigeria. One hundred and sixty fulltime employees of the councils with ages ranging from 25 -52 years and a mean age of 37.5 were drawn through accidental sampling. Two standardized instruments were used in this study; the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire by Schutte et al. (1998) (1967). A cross-sectional survey design was adopted while a 2-Way Analysis of Variance on SPSS version 17 was used for data analysis. Results showed that emotional intelligence had a significant influence on job satisfaction, with high emotionally intelligent employees showing more satisfaction. The result however showed that gender had no significant influence on job satisfaction. Also, no interaction effect was found between the variables. The results were discussed in line with current studies on emotional intelligence, gender and job satisfaction.and the Minnesota Satisfaction Inventory by Weiss, Dawis, England and Lofquist

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