EXPLORING INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS ON WORKING PARENTS’ QUALITY OF LIFE IN IBADAN

Abstract

Parents' employment satisfaction, religion disposition and social support, enjoyed from friends and relations can have long-term consequences on quality of life. This study explored the influence of psychosocial factors on working parents’ quality of life in Ibadan. 117 working parents in Ibadan were purposively sampled. Ex-post facto research design was adopted. A validated scales measuring religiosity, social support and job satisfaction were used for data collection. Psychosocial factors jointly predicted about 87% variance in working parents’ quality of life [R=.93, R² = .87, F (3, 94) = 200.66; P <.01]. Both education [F (5, 99) = 0.772; P > .05] and job designation [F (3, 99) = 1.810; P > 0.5] accounted for 19.3% variance (R² = 0.193, P > .05). While age-group [F (1, 96) =4.096; p<.05] was significant on quality of life. Psychosocial factors in this study contributed positively to working parents’ quality of life in Ibadan.

KEY WORDS, Religiosity, Job Satisfaction, Social Support, Working Parents.