Charity N. Onyishi

ORCID: 0000-0003-4047-7850
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Research Areas
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Psychological Treatments and Assessments
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
  • Education and Learning Interventions
  • Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
  • Disability Education and Employment
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Educational Practices and Challenges
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Health and Well-being Studies
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Music Therapy and Health
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior

University of Johannesburg
2019-2023

University of Nigeria
2015-2023

The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti
2021-2023

Akanu Ibiam, Federal Polytechnic Unwana
2021-2023

Significance This set of experiments shows that in 15 traditional small-scale societies there is an extraordinarily close correspondence between ( i ) the intensity shame felt if one exhibited specific acts or traits and ii magnitude devaluation expressed response to those by local audiences, even foreign audiences. Three important widely acknowledged sources cultural variation communities—geographic proximity, linguistic similarity, religious similarity—all failed account for strength...

10.1073/pnas.1805016115 article EN Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018-09-10

Significance It has been proposed that one key function of pride is to guide behavior in ways would increase others’ valuation the individual. To incline choice, system must compute for a potential action an anticipated intensity tracks magnitude approval or deference generate among local audiences. Data from industrial mass societies support this expectation. However, it presently not known whether those data reflect cultural evolutionary processes panhuman adaptation. Experiments conducted...

10.1073/pnas.1808418115 article EN Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018-08-01

The study determined the effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with music in reducing physics test anxiety among secondary school students as measured by generalized scale.Pre-test post-test randomized control trial experimental design was adopted this study. A total 83 senior including male (n = 46) and female 37) from sampled schools Enugu State, Nigeria, who met inclusion criteria constituted participants for demographic questionnaire a 48-item scale were used data collection...

10.1097/md.0000000000016406 article EN cc-by-nc Medicine 2020-04-01

Implementing differentiated instruction (DI) in inclusive classrooms presents many challenges that often limit the teachers’ ability to use strategy. Research tends indicate that, though DI is a viable approach meeting le individual learner’s needs mixed classrooms; it poorly implemented regular schools. This study sought investigate perspectives of primary school teachers on an classroom Enugu state, Nigeria. The adopted descriptive survey research design using sample 382 area. Data were...

10.5430/ijhe.v9n6p136 article EN International Journal of Higher Education 2020-09-18

Abstract Background/objective: Job burnout is a syndrome of reaction to chronic job-related stress which affects overall health, limits occupational efficacy, and personal accomplishments employees thereby thwarting organizational outcomes. Burnout symptoms are common among teachers children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect the academic progress children. This study investigated effectiveness Yoga-based cognitive behavioral therapy (Y-CBT) in reducing Lagos States, Nigeria....

10.1097/md.0000000000025801 article EN cc-by-nc Medicine 2021-06-04

Heightened stress tends to undermine both teachers' efficacy and students' outcomes. Managing job in teachers of children with special education needs is continually recommended due the increased demands for adapt curriculum content, learning materials environments learning. This study investigated blended Rational Emotive Occupational Health Coaching reducing occupational among Abia State, Nigeria.The current adopted a group-randomized waitlist control trial design pretest, post-test...

10.1016/j.invent.2021.100482 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Internet Interventions 2021-11-11

Background: Music therapy combined with cognitive restructuring could provide a mechanism to improve patients' sense of control over emotional distress. This study evaluates the effect music on distress in sample Nigerian couples. Methods: The participants for were 280 couples south-east Nigeria. Perceived inventory (PEDI) was used assess symptoms. Repeated measures analysis variance examine effects intervention. Mean rank also document level changes across groups. Effect sizes reported...

10.1097/md.0000000000011637 article EN cc-by-nc Medicine 2018-08-01

Abstract Background/Objective: Teaching has been found to be 1 of the most stressful occupations worldwide. Stress associated with teaching is more critical among teachers children special needs in general and those autism specifically, partly due heterogeneous nature disorders. The purpose this study was investigate effectiveness Rational Emotive Occupational Health Coaching (REOHC) minimizing job stress (CWA). Methods: A group-randomized waitlist control-trial design adopted. sample 87 CWA...

10.1097/md.0000000000021651 article EN cc-by-nc Medicine 2020-09-01

Education is among the sectors with devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic. Before pandemic, Nigerian education system has adopted purely, face-to-face approached to teaching and learning in primary secondary schools. Primary school learners were not allowed own any digital gadget such as phone or computer, neither they be seen With emergence lockdown condition closure, following both teachers helpless about how continue face This study investigated challenges posed by, impacts on Nigeria....

10.5281/zenodo.6809200 article EN cc-by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2021-06-30

Abstract Background: Living in Nigerian environment is enough stress. In our time, many students could not cope with the stress of school like ours and others are still suffering from different health problems attributed to Based on this, we investigated effect music therapy relaxation technique management among university southeastern Nigeria. Methods: Participants for study were 142 Southeastern Perceived scale (PSS) was used measure symptoms Statistical tool repeated measures analysis...

10.1097/md.0000000000015107 article EN cc-by-nc Medicine 2019-04-01

Background/Objectives: Neuro-developmental disorders impose a wide range of learning barriers on learners, increasing stress among their teachers. Evidence attests to the heightened teachers teaching children with such conditions. This study tested efficacy blended Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in reducing job neuro-developmental Abia State, Nigeria. Method: The current adopted group-randomized waitlist control trial design pretest, post-test, and follow-up assessments. Participants ( N...

10.1177/00368504211050278 article EN cc-by-nc Science Progress 2021-10-01

In Nigeria, the droughts in 1972 – 1975 and floods since 1988 marked incidence of climate change. This study evaluates linkages between drought-desertification causative climatic variables over time, consequent migration caused by variations socio-ecological conflicts Nigeria. Climate data was obtained from Nigeria Meteorological Agency analyzed with correlation regression models. The on National Emergency Management public media results analysis are; cumulative number temperature (0.974),...

10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s1p470 article EN cc-by Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 2015-03-01

Poor leadership self-efficacy and high organizational burnout are context-based cognitive conditions that sabotage outcomes across organizations. When school administrators who the leaders directors of affairs struggle with poor elevated levels their styles negatively affected far-reaching impacts on teachers, students, overall outputs. This randomized control trial sought to investigate effectiveness GROW-Model (GROW-M) Cognitive behavioral Coaching in raising minimizing symptoms a sample...

10.1177/15480518231171748 article EN Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 2023-05-29

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the introduction of unprecedented safety measures, one them being physical distancing recommendations. Here, we assessed whether long-term effects on two important aspects, namely interpersonal distance preferences and touch behaviors. We analyzed nearly 14,000 individual cases from large, cross-cultural surveys – first conducted 2 years prior second during a relatively stable period decreased infection rate in May-June 2021. Preferred distances increased by...

10.1177/10693971231174935 article EN Cross-Cultural Research 2023-11-21

Safety work behavior has continued to attract the interest of organizational researchers and practitioners especially in health sector. The goal study was investigate whether personality type A, accident optimism fatalism could predict non-compliance with safety behaviors among hospital nurses. One hundred fifty-nine nursing staff sampled from three government-owned hospitals a state southeast Nigeria, participated study. Data were collected through Type A Behavior Scale (TABS), Accident...

10.1080/10803548.2015.1085165 article EN International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics 2015-08-21
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