Author(s)

Inioluwa Racheal Ogungbemi^1*, Samson Remi Ajiboye², Ayodele Bamidele Ogungbemi³ 

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Counsellor Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

²Department of Social Sciences, School of Liberal Studies, Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos Nigeria.

³Department of Economics, College of Social and Management Sciences, Tai Solarin University of Education, Nigeria.

Corresponding Author

Inioluwa Racheal Ogungbemi

ABSTRACT

An empirical study on attitudes and social research disposition among academics (lecturers) in Nigeria was carried out to find out the impacts of attitudes on levels of disposition to social research among academics. The objectives of this study are to; analyze the impacts of flexible attitudes on academics; examine the impacts of inflexible attitudes on academics; and find out the level of impact differences among academics. Two hypothetical statements were made which are, (i) there will be a significant difference between the impacts of flexible attitudes and inflexible attitudes among academics, and (ii) academics with flexible attitudes will have a high level of disposition to social research. A survey design was used to carry out the study in which a sample was drawn from the population of the study through a simple random sampling technique. A total of 200 respondents were given a questionnaire of 30 items to elicit their responses. Four institutions of higher learning were involved: Lagos State University, Adeniran Ogunsanya University of Education, Yaba College of Technology, and the University of Lagos. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data from the respondents' findings the results of the data analysis show that respondents from Yabatech (X₃) and AQUE (X₂) and more homogenous than the respondents from LASY (X₁) and Unilag (X₄) who are heterogeneous. More respondents have inflexible attitudes than others who have flexible attitudes. In all only about 25% of the lecturers are disposed to social research meaning that the majority of the lecturers are not research-oriented. There are significant differences between the impacts of flexible and inflexible attitudes among academics. The staff of Yaba College of Technology are more disposed to social research than their colleagues from other institutions. Consideration of participant size and the number of institutions will be of high value for research on dispensation to social research and the impacts of attitudes.

KEYWORDS

Flexible; Inflexible; Disposition; Comparative registry and research

CITE THIS PAPER

Inioluwa Racheal Ogungbemi, Samson Remi Ajiboye, Ayodele Bamidele Ogungbemi. Attitudes and social research disposition among academic in Nigeria. Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities Research.  2024, 2(9): 33-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/tsshr3087.

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