Happiness in Nigeria: A Socio-Cultural Analysis

Agbo, Aaron Adibe; Nzeadibe, Thaddeus Chidi; Ajaero, Chukwuedozie K.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7_20

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“…To understand the concept of workload which is inevitable in military organizational context, the facets of happiness needs to be looked at to comprehend the physiological, physical and psychological mechanisms (Billing & Drain, 2017). Agbo, Nzeadibe and Ajaero (2012) asserted that happiness in Nigeria is a therapeutic intervention against negative feelings, harsh socio-economic conditions, corruption, ethnocentrism and bigotry her citizens experience every day. Our study was triggered by several complaints from Nigerian military personnel which contradicted news from the media on workload, motivation, happiness, vocational identity, combat exposure, career adaptation and organizational commitment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Roles of Fear of Happiness and Fragility of Happiness in Nigerian Military Personnel Workload

Ujoatuonu¹,

Okafor²,

Kanu³

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In the light of conflicts and Boko Haram insurgency facing Nigeria as a county and the involvement of the military in the fight against terrorists, the study of workload and happiness need to be researched more to gain greater acceptance and become one of the global indices on which nations’ military are measured and ranked. Our study anchors on multiple resource and information processing theory to assess the roles of fear and fragility of happiness in workload among Nigerian military personnel. Two hundred and twenty (220) Nigerian soldiers, drawn from Nigerian Army and Nigerian Air Force participated in this study. Three instruments , namely, Workload Scale, Fear of Happiness Scale and Fragility of Happiness Scale, were used to collect data from the participants. Results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicated that fear of happiness was not significantly associated with work load. Fragility of happiness positively predicted work load, indicating that military personnel who had greater fragility of happiness reported greater workload. It was concluded that workplace interventions and programs to curtail fragility of happiness would be helpful in reducing the perceptions of excess workload among Nigerian military personnel.

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Roles of Fear of Happiness and Fragility of Happiness in Nigerian Military Personnel Workload

Ujoatuonu¹,

Okafor²,

Kanu³

et al. 2020

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“…Nigeria was the second most optimistic African country, which believed that the year 2019 will be better than 2018 (Gallup International Association, 2018). Cultural norms in Nigeria, which hope for positive outcomes in the worst of circumstances (Agbo, Nzeadibe, & Ajaero, 2012), are a possible explanation for the exceptional happiness that is mapped to their dream space. Thus, although negative themes abound in the awake space of Nigerian undergraduates, their dream space is dominated by positive themes.…”

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Recurrent dreams of Nigerian undergraduates.

Oluwole

2019

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Negative themes dominate the dream spaces of American, Japanese, Canadian, and Chinese undergraduates. Because negative emotions increase occurrence of negative dream themes, positive themes should dominate the dream space of Nigerians, who have a very high happiness index. Distribution and clustering of themes in dream space were studied among Nigerian undergraduates. Subjects were randomly selected from medical students, who lived in the same hall of residence. Recurrent dream themes in the study questionnaires of American, Canadian, and Chinese undergraduates were revised and categorized as (a) tasks (b) interactions (c) motion, and (d) phenomena. Recurrence of dream themes was graded from 0 to 5. Lifetime prevalence (99% confidence interval) was calculated, and gender differences were compared with the Mantel test. Principal component analysis and feature agglomerative clustering of dream recurrence vectors were performed. Geometric mean age (range) of 196 subjects, 120 men and 76 women, was 24 years (19 -38 years). Total 105 recurrent dream themes were experienced. Geometrical mean (50% interquartile range) of recurrent dreams per person was 33 (24 -55) for all subjects, but 34 (25-57) for men and 31 (24 -50) for women. Positive themes had the highest occurrence and recurrence. Hair dressing and sex themes were significantly different between men and women (p Ͻ .0001). Vectors of recurrent dreams formed concept clusters. Positive themes dominate the dream space of Nigerian undergraduates. Themes are not randomly distributed in dream space. Concepts of awake space are in continuity with dream space.

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“…As an alternative explanation, it has been forwarded that Nigerians may self-report feelings of happiness as a way to counter the negative effects of harsh conditions that the majority of the population frequently experience. Implications of this conclusion for further research on happiness and life satisfaction were suggested (Agbo & Nzeadibe & Ajaero, 2012).…”

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“…The three-quarter of self-rated happy people in Nigeria seems to be a paradox, regarding the harsh socio-economic conditions in which most of them live. It has been argued that they may compensate themselves with consolatory feelings of happiness to counteract the lingering negative effect of those conditions (Agbo & Nzeadibe & Ajaero, 2012). Insofar, these people may reflect the "return to laughter" which had been observed already by Laura Bohannan among the Tiv five decades before (s. above).…”

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Are Africans Happy? ‘Return to Laughter’ in Times of War, Famine and Misery

Kohnert

2022

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Happiness in Nigeria: A Socio-Cultural Analysis

Cited by 19 publications

References 42 publications

Roles of Fear of Happiness and Fragility of Happiness in Nigerian Military Personnel Workload

Roles of Fear of Happiness and Fragility of Happiness in Nigerian Military Personnel Workload

Recurrent dreams of Nigerian undergraduates.

Are Africans Happy? ‘Return to Laughter’ in Times of War, Famine and Misery

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