IOSR-JHSS   Volume-10 ~ Issue-1 ~ Mar-Apr-2013

Abstract: Though the concept of child rearing is as old as dawn of civilization, with time and advancement in technology and research these concepts are continuously in a state of flux with the result what was acceptable at a certain period of time may be regarded as out dated or irrelevant today and vice-versa, with this in view and to bring out the collective opinions of the professionals of different fields which are mainly involved in the growth and development of the child, the study was carried out by taking the interview of the experts. The descriptive analysis of the data and justification on the basis of collective opinions of experts of child rearing practices is given. The present study seeks to determine the practices followed by educated parents in rearing their children. It is observed that parents with high level of education tend to follow rigid rearing practices whereas parents with low level of education follow permissive rearing practices, only 46.67 per cent parents of all the groups were found to follow ideal rearing practices. It is found that education of parents plays a significant role in many aspects of child rearing practices.

Keywords – Education Level of Parents, Experts Opinion, Fuzzy Set, Rearing Practices, Socio-economic Status

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Abstract: This study was conducted in the University of Maiduguri. One of the Goals of the MDGs is to reduce HIV/STIs among the general population in the society. In this context it is important to understand why youth still engage in risky sexual behavior and the effects it has on them. The study focused on the effects and consequence of engaging in pre-marital sex among the youth of University of Maiduguri. The data were collected using multi methods — Survey, Focus Group Discussion and review of University security records. The stratified random technique was used to draw respondents from a sampling frame sourced from the University Information Management Unit. The sample size is 318 (286 for the survey and 32 focus group participants) The SSPS software was used in the analysis of the data. Findings revealed that pre-marital sex among the youth in the University has a number of effects and consequences on the youth. Some of the consequences include HIV/STIs, Regrets,

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Abstract: The aim of this study was to see how teachers' burnout is related to different aspects of, job satisfaction and demographic characteristics such as age and gender. The Maslach Burnout Inventory which was used to measure dimensions of teachers' burnout consisted of three subscales: emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment and depersonalisation. In addition, the Dixit Job Satisfaction Scale [DJSS], which was developed by Dr Meera Dixit, was used to measure the subjects' job satisfaction level. The purpose of the present research is to investigate the effect of demographic variables such as sex and age and location of the schools on job burnout and the relationship between job burnout and job satisfaction. In this study, job burnout is considered as dependent variable; and age , gender, location of school and ‟ job satisfaction" as independent variables. The results of this study show that firstly, the job burnout of teachers leads to the decrease of job satisfaction. Secondly, the demographic variables age and area of work place affect job burnout. But sex was not found to be a factor of job burnout. The negative consequences of job burnout are too costly for organizations. Therefore, to devise proper plans to decrease its consequences, this paper suggests some measures to control this phenomenon . The findings would be helpful for other researcher in policy discussions and efforts to improve teachers' quality of work life and performance.

Keywords: Job burnout, Job satisfaction, Emotional exhaustion, Personal accomplishment and Depersonalisation

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Abstract: This paper examines and ascertains how the contributions of Richard Cantillon have been relevant to the growth and development of the Nigerian economy. In doing this, the economic thoughts of Richard Cantillon were critically examined in order to see how these issues raised have been affecting the Nigerian economy. Political economy and descriptive approaches were used to x-ray the relevance of Richard Cantillon's contributions to Nigeria's development. His contributions among others include: the nature of wealth, social and economic organization of people, wages of labour, theory of values, population problems and the use of gold and silver, barter, prices, circulation of money, interest rates, foreign trade, foreign exchange and banking and credit. The findings of the study revealed that his contributions are of great relevance to economic development in general, but have not specifically contributed to the development of Nigerian economy. This is seen in the areas of low per capita income of most workers in Nigeria, negative attitude to work especially by those workers in public organizations, inevitable population problems, persistent increase in the general prices of goods and services, high lending rates by the financial institutions operating in the country, unfavourable terms of trade, incessant and diversion of public funds into luxurious consumption rather than investment in the real sectors of the economy, and without doubt Nigeria has no place in foreign trade. Based on the foregoing, it was concluded that all these ugly trends accounted for the reason why economic growth and development is not at sight in Nigeria. Thus, it was recommended that the monetary authorities should initiate sound monetary policies that would encourage investment in the real sectors of the economy; corruption, which is now widespread in the economy should be checked and curtailed, because it has adversely affected economic growth and development of the Nigerian economy. Also, these monetary policies should be complemented with effective fiscal policies in order to put the Nigerian economy back to path of economic growth and development.

Keywords: Economic Development, Foreign Trade, Money Supply, Monetary Policies, Fiscal Policies, Interest Rate, Exchange Rate, Wages of Labour

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