Abstract
Abstract The study investigated lecturers’ psycho-social pre-retirement plans in public universities in Rivers State, Nigeria. Two (2) research questions were formulated and answered while two (2) hypotheses were tested at 0.05alpha level. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study consisted of all the 2330 lecturers in the three public universities in Rivers State. As at the time of this study, each of the universities has the following population breakdown respectively: University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) 1500, Rivers State University (RSU) 556, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUOE) 274 making a total of 2330 lecturers from the three (3) public universities in Rivers State. (Source: Registry Department of the various institutions 2017). A sample size of 932 was used. The sample size was drawn using simple random sampling technique from the three universities in Rivers State. The instrument for the study was titled “Lecturers Psycho-Social Pre-Retirement Plans Scale” (LPSPRPS). Simple percentage was used to answer the research questions while Chi-Square statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. It was found among others that 46% of the lecturers agree that they have financial plans while 54% disagree. It was recommended among others that Pre-Retirement Guidance and Counselling centres should be established in university communities where lecturers who have emotional problems can go and seek help from counsellors.
Highlights
The life of a lecturer on the job and after work depends on number of things; these include but are not limited to the pattern of lifestyle and social responsibilities, psychological reasoning and retirement responsibilities
The grand percentage of 69.5% showed that the lecturers agree that they have social pre-retirement plans while 26.6% have no social pre-retirement plans. Lecturers agreed that they have made up their minds to start retirement in good mood, have positive disposition towards retirement, have already developed emotional stability towards retirement, do not have any fear towards retirement, will be happy if they will get to retirement age not moved by retirement challenges faced by retired colleagues, encouraged when they remember that they will retire someday and that retirement is desired as civil servants
Hypothesis Two There is no significant difference between the perceptions of experienced and less experienced lecturers on social pre-retirement plans in the public universities in Rivers State, Nigeria
Summary
The life of a lecturer on the job and after work depends on number of things; these include but are not limited to the pattern of lifestyle and social responsibilities, psychological reasoning and retirement responsibilities. Some lecturers are not prone to making friends outside the university community while in employment find it difficult to adjust outside the university environment after retirement. Some of them prefer to stay indoors since they were unable to make friends outside the community of lecturers. Those who were able to socialize both in the university environment and beyond may develop better adjustment patterns than those who never thought of socializing with the people outside university environment
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