Personal Values, Religiosity, and Personality Traits as Predictors of Attitude Towards Formal Employment Among Millennials in Nigeria: A Cross Sectional Overview of Four Institutions in Lagos and Ogun State
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2022-12
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Lead City University
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The overall purpose of this study was to investigate personal values, religiosity, and personality traits as predictors of Millennials’ Attitude towards formal employment in Lagos and Ogun state, Southwestern, Nigeria. The participants are 3rd and 4th wave Millennials in Nigeria, under a 50% high, and escalating unemployment milieu. The study employed seven theories, namely: Schwartz, basic values theory; Durkheim and Weber’s theory of religion; the big five theory of personality; Myers-Briggs type indicator, person-situation debate, functional attitude theory.
Quantitative research method, and cross-sectional, survey design was adopted for the study. The target population are Millennials, however, 3rd and 4th wave Millennials are study population. Purposive sampling technique was used to select participants. Structured, close ended questionnaire was used to gather data which were analyzed using inferential statistical tools.
The results showed that personal values, religiosity and personality traits were significant joint predictors of attitude of Millennials to formal employment. However, personal values and religiosity are the two most significant formal employment independent predictors (β = .38, t = 6.00, p < .05, and β = .42, t = 7.5, p < .05, respectively); but personality was not (β = .05, t = 1.00, p > .05).
The results suggest that majority of Millennials exhibited positive attitude towards formal employment. It therefore, implies that that they looked forward to being employed in an organized establishment that can absorb them immediately after graduation and on completion of their national service year.
Based on the findings from this study, it is recommended that all stake holders that deal with Millennials in Nigeria use empirical findings to learn more about them in order to harness the strength of the cohort.
Keywords: Millennials, Formal employment, Personal values, Personality traits, Religiosity. Word Count: 276
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Kate Turabian