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IntroductionRecently, researchers have increased their recognition on the need to understand employees' psychological contract. The recognition has been driven by various changes, namely: economic and political environments, workforce demographics and values of individuals (Lester and . In any case these contracts are breached; the psyche and the overall wellbeing of the employee might be grossly affected. The above assertion is in line with the thoughts of Robinson, Kraatz and Rousseau (1994), where he opined that psychological contract reflects an individual's belief or perception that some forms of promise or reciprocal obligations have been made between the two parties, namely, the employee and employer. That is to say that the psychological contract encompasses an individual's perception of how

The growth of crime rates are on the increase all over the world and Nigeria is not an exception. Crime the intentional illegal action committed by any person for which such a person can punish by law does not have a definite cause but rather combination of causes which may include: economic situation, social environment, personality traits, and family structures. This study investigates if socioeconomic wellbeing has a mediating effect on relationship between facial emotional recognition and the tendency to commit crime among hospital workers in Imo state. A total of 150 (75 males and 75 females) workers, were randomly selected to participate in this study. Three instruments were used in this study which includes: Criminal Behaviour Rating Scale (CBRS) developed by Animasahun (2011), Socio-economic wellbeing scale developed by Obi-Nwosu (2018) and Facial emotion scale developed by Paul Ekman.

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The study investigated socioeconomic and psychological wellbeing on somatic symptoms among public servants in Enugu. Civil servants are the front liners in carrying out government duties and for efficient and effective delegating of these duties; they may be exposed to somatic symptoms. Participants in this study were one hundred and sixty (160) public servants selected through convenient sampling technique in two primary schools: the Command Children School and the Police Children School, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital and Nigeria Civil Defense Corps, which are aged between 18 and 60 years. The participants were assessed with three instruments namely: the Ryff psychological wellbeing, interviewer rated multivariate assessment of socioeconomic-wellbeing and clinical symptom inventory; the results were analyzed using Pearson Product’s Moment correlation analysis at 0.05. The distribution of questionnaires lasted for two months. The study concluded that workers with inappropriate socioeconomic and psychological wellbeing could predispose somatic symptoms among workers.. The researcher therefore recommends that workers should be exposed to important life skills like ability self tolerance and stress inoculation exercise; apart from that, motivation of workers and payment of their benefits on time are advocated for public servants in Enugu Urban. Keywords: Socioeconomic, Psychological Wellbeing, Somatic Symptoms, Public Servants