Benue State University, Makurdi

Personality as correlates of self-as-entertainment capacity of cadets of Nigeria Police Academy Wudil- Kano

Valentine Ayo Mebu
(Department of Psychology, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria +2347062663826, uchoaondoaver@yahoo.com)

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the influence of personality on self-as-entertainment capacity of cadets of Nigerian Police Academy, Kano. The descriptive survey method was adopted for this study and research participants consisted of 160 cadets of the Nigeria police academy. The simple random sampling technique was used to select the research participants.The instruments for data collection were the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and Self-As-Entertainment Capacity Scale (SAECS). Four hypotheses were stated and tested using the independent t-test and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). The study revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean scores of self-asentertainmentcapacity between participants with high and low neuroticism and there was no significant mean difference in the scores of self-as-entertainmentbetween participants with low and high psychoticism. The study concluded that the personality dimensions of the cadet of the Nigeria police academy do not affect their self-as-entertainment capacity.

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