IMPACTS OF RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY IN MANAGING PRE-RETIRMENT ANXIETY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN OYO STATE

Abstract

  Pre-retirement ianxiety iis ia icommon ipsychological iconcern iamong iteachers iapproaching iretirement iage. iThis istudy iexamined ithe impacts iof irational iemotive ibehaviour itherapy i(REBT)) iin imanaging ipre-retirement ianxiety iamong isecondary ischool iteachers iin iOyo iState. iThis istudy iwas ianchored ion ithe ipropositions iof idisengagement itheory. i A ipre-test-post-test icontrol igroup iquasi-experimental idesign iwith ia ifactorial imatrix iwas iadopted ifor ithe istudy. iThe ipopulation iconsisted iof iall isecondary ischool iteachers iin iOyo iState. iParticipants iwere irandomly iassigned iinto ione iexperimental igroups iand ione icontrol igroup: i(REBT iand iControl). iThe iinstruments iwere iused ito icollect idata: i iA istimulus iresponse iinstruments i(REBT iTraining iPackages) iand iresponse iinstruments i(Pre-Retirement iAnxiety iScale i(? i= i0.86). iTwo ihypotheses iwere itested iat ia isignificance ilevel iof i0.05. iData iwere ianalysed iusing iAnalysis iof iCovariance i(ANCOVA). i Findings irevealed isignificant imain ieffect iof itreatment ion ipre-retirement ianxiety iamong isecondary ischool iteachers i(F i( i2,70 i)= i7.416, iP i< i0.05, i?2 i= i0.186). iParticipants iexposed ito iREBT i( i= i58.638) ihad ithe ihighest ipre-retirement ianxiety imean iscore iand icontrol igroup i( i= i45.126). iGender ihad ia isignificant imain ieffect ion iretirement ianxiety iamong isecondary ischool iteachers i( iF i(1,70) i= i4.914, ip i< i0.05, i?2 i= i0.070), imale iparticipants idisplayed ihigher imean i( i= i55.25) iin ipre-retirement ianxiety ithan itheir i ifemale icounterparts i( i= i47.37). i  Ifindings revealed that iREBT ireduced ipre-retirement ianxiety. iTherefore, iit iis irecommended ifor icounsellors ito iadopt iREBT iin iassisting iteachers ito iovercome iretirement ianxiety.   Keywords: iPre-retirement, iAnxiety, iRational iEmotive iBehaviour iTherapy,Gender. i