Social Factors as Predictors of Suicide Ideation Among Police Officers in Police Training Schools in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria: Educational Implications

Abstract

The study investigated social factors (perception of corruption and domestic pressure) as predictors of suicide ideation among Police Officers in Police Training Colleges in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria. Two research questions were raised and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. A sample size of 3,373 Police Officers in training in four Police Training Colleges in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria was randomly selected through simple random sampling technique. Multiple Prediction Design of Correlational Research Method was used for the investigation, while Linear Regression was used for the entire analyses and hypotheses testing. The result showed that there is a significant relationship between psychological factors (corruption and domestic pressure) and suicide ideation of Police Officers in Police Training Colleges; also the result showed that there is a very positive relationship between perception of corruption and domestic pressure as predictors of suicide ideation among Police Officers in Training Colleges in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria. The result also suggests that among other variables, corruption and domestic pressure are some of the predictive variables of suicide ideation. Recommendations were made.