Effectiveness of Retirement Adjustment Scale Among Retired Teachers from Southwestern Nigeria

Emily Oluseyi Adeyemo; Onijuni Olufemi Olatomide

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Effectiveness of Retirement Adjustment Scale Among Retired Teachers from Southwestern Nigeria

Emily Oluseyi Adeyemo, Onijuni Olufemi Olatomide

Published in Education Journal (Volume 10, Issue 4)

Received: 27 May 2021 Accepted: 10 June 2021 Published: 18 August 2021

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Retirement is seen as partial or complete disengagement from work activities with which individuals have been identified, due to personal or organizational factors, whether or not retirement benefits would accompany it. Being a significant phase of transition into human life, the phase offers unique opportunities for researchers to investigate adaptation and coping over the period, because it is reputed for considerable daily life changes that impacts retirees’ psychological health. The study explored the practical workability of measuring retirement adjustment intended for Retirement Adjustment Scale (RAS) among teachers who retired from primary and secondary schools in Ekiti and Osun States of the Southwestern Nigeria. It also investigated the effectiveness or otherwise of RAS among the respondents based on their demographics such as gender, educational attainment and institution of service before transition into retirement. The research design adopted was survey. The population comprised all retired teachers from primary and secondary schools in Ekiti and Osun States of Southwestern Nigeria. The sample size (n = 650) was selected through a multi-stage sampling, 650 copies of questionnaire were administered. The results revealed that the level of effectiveness of RAS in measuring the retirement adjustment of retiree was moderately high. There was no statistically significant effect on retirees’ sex (χ² = 1.376, p > 0.05) and type of family (χ² = 2.046, p > 0.05) whereas there was a significant effect on retirees’ educational attainment (χ² = 22.823, p < 0.05) and institution of service before retirement (χ² = 37.974, p < 0.05). There was no significant difference in the effectiveness of RAS in measuring the retirement adjustment of the retired teachers on the basis of sex (t = 1.593, p > 0.05). It could be concluded that RAS is effective in measuring the retirement adjustment of teacher-retirees from both primary and secondary schools on the most important variables of sex while variation may exist in the matter of their educational attainment and institution of service prior to retirement.

Published in	Education Journal (Volume 10, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.edu.20211004.17
Page(s)	160-165
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Retirement Adjustment, Scale, Effectiveness, Retiree

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Emily Oluseyi Adeyemo, Onijuni Olufemi Olatomide. (2021). Effectiveness of Retirement Adjustment Scale Among Retired Teachers from Southwestern Nigeria. Education Journal, 10(4), 160-165. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.edu.20211004.17

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Emily Oluseyi Adeyemo, Onijuni Olufemi Olatomide. Effectiveness of Retirement Adjustment Scale Among Retired Teachers from Southwestern Nigeria. Educ J. 2021;10(4):160-165. doi: 10.11648/j.edu.20211004.17

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Emily Oluseyi Adeyemo

Department of Educational Foundations and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Onijuni Olufemi Olatomide

Department of Educational Foundations and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

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Emily Oluseyi Adeyemo; Onijuni Olufemi Olatomide. Effectiveness of Retirement Adjustment Scale Among Retired Teachers from Southwestern Nigeria. Educ. J. 2021, 10(4), 160-165. doi: 10.11648/j.edu.20211004.17

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Emily Oluseyi Adeyemo, Onijuni Olufemi Olatomide. Effectiveness of Retirement Adjustment Scale Among Retired Teachers from Southwestern Nigeria. Educ J. 2021;10(4):160-165. doi: 10.11648/j.edu.20211004.17

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