Psychosocial impacts of unemployment and coping strategies among youth in Nigeria

Galadima Gladstone Wayas (P86156)

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dc.contributor.advisor	Sivapalan Selvadurai, Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.author	Galadima Gladstone Wayas (P86156)
dc.date.accessioned	2023-10-13T08:11:43Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-10-13T08:11:43Z	-
dc.date.issued	2020-09-15
dc.identifier.other	ukmvital:122410
dc.identifier.uri	https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/497832	-
dc.description	Unemployment among youths as a global challenge prompted several research efforts and huge financial resources been committed for this lofty goal of solving and curbing this menace by many nations. Unemployment among youths in Nigeria is one of the disturbing problems that threaten the peace, security, and development of the nation.This is as result of its connection with social problems, criminal tendencies, and the well-being of the unemployed youths. The psychosocial impacts of unemployment through the investigation on the experiences of the unemployed youths is an understudied area. The objectives of the study are three-fold: firstly, to explore the psychosocial impacts of unemployment among youths in Nasarawa state, secondly, to explore psychosocial impacts resulting from financial difficulties of unemployed youths, and thirdly, to identify the types of coping strategies among unemployed youths. This study adopted a qualitative research method, using a phenomenological approach, while semi-structured interviews, were used as data collection techniques. A purposive sampling technique was adopted in the selection of the twenty-five (25) unemployed youths as the informants for the study, and data were analyzed through the usage of thematic analysis. The findings for the psychosocial impacts of unemployment include hardship, loss of self-esteem, feelings of hopelessness, frustration, criminal lifestyle, isolation, and negative effects of physical wellbeing. Whilst, the psychosocial impacts resulting from financial difficulties revealed youths are socially deprived of attending social gatherings, face serious psychological challenges for inability to provide necessities for family and others, to be creditworthy, for future development, and the negative perception of the local community. While various measures of coping strategies to alleviate themselves from the unemployment, indicated unemployed youths embarked on petty jobs and business, skills acquisition training, relied on relations, friends, government for assistance, and divine providence for intervention. The implication of the results is that it gives insight into the damaging consequences of unemployment on human lives and the society, and the possible ways out as a solution to unemployment in Nigeria and the world at large. Restructuring the Nigerian educational system to have more self-employed courses such as technical and vocational and business orientation be instilled in the mind of Nigerian youths might be a better way of curbing unemployment in Nigeria.,Ph.D.
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	UKM, Bangi
dc.relation	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan
dc.rights	UKM
dc.subject	Unemployment
dc.subject	Youth -- Nigeria
dc.subject	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations
dc.subject	Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
dc.title	Psychosocial impacts of unemployment and coping strategies among youth in Nigeria
dc.type	Theses
dc.format.pages	264
dc.identifier.barcode	004899(2020)
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan

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