Academic student fraud in longitudinal research design

The authors emphasize the importance of studying academic fraud among students. This phenomenon takes on large-scale dimensions. The authors are convinced that the solution of the problem depends on the scientific knowledge of the psychological portrait of students. Within the framework of the personalist approach, the authors present a review of the scientific literature. The authors identified a problematic field of empirical research that would reveal the dynamics of students' subjective perceptions of a person who resorts to academic fraud. A sample of the study was formed, the author's questionnaire was presented. The results of a longitudinal study of the dynamics of subjective perceptions of cognitive characteristics, emotional manifestations, and behavioral patterns of a student's personality are presented for discussion. To complete the psychological portrait of the students, valid psychodiagnostic techniques were used in the study. The stages of the study are presented. The analysis of empirical data is based on the evidence-based methods of the statistical thesaurus. The findings of the study revealed the students’ ideas about the person resorting to plagiarism. In conclusion, the authors formulated step-by-step programs of psychological support for students to refuse to use various schemes of academic fraud.

LIVESTOCK TRENDS IN BALOCHISTAN: A WAY FORWARD

In order to achieved the object of the trends of livestock and their implication at province level this research was carried out. Quetta, Pishin and Kalat district of Balochistan were elected purposively. Longitudinal research design was used. 300 hundred respondents from three district were selected, 100 from each district chosen by using random sampling. Cronbach's Alpha program was.99 to .82. One Way ANOVA test was used based on p<0.05 level. Results reveals that most 47% of the respondents were fall into the 31 to 45 years’ age classes. Most 52% of the respondents did not gets education. Majority 90% of the respondents arranged married. Majority 78% of the respondents were preferred to lived paved household structures. Significant differences were found three out of four statements regarding livestock trends. Provincial government should be encouraging result-oriented and effective market-based production in order to improve the livestock farmers' economic condition. Credit policy and cohesive livestock methods should be implemented for sustainable livestock mechanism so as to upsurge the livestock farmer’s production.

Financial Aberrations of Rural Customers of Business Correspondents: Characteristics, Cases and Curative Strategies

Financial Inclusion through Business Correspondents is not free from financial aberrations. On the basis of some cases the paper investigated into the types and frequency of the financial aberrations, which are incident on customers .The magnitude of shocks as perceived by the BC customers due to the financial process aberrations and irregularities were gauged on a Likert scale and was found to be significantly high. As these shocks have a bearing on financial resilience, the research further attempted to investigate whether awareness of dealing with the system and thereby increasing financial resilience could be developed through financial literacy programs. A longitudinal research design was adopted and 17-18% of the male and female respondents from each district were exposed to a financial literacy programme in this context as devised by the researchers. It was found that the administration of the program on poor BC customers had a significant positive effect on their awareness and therefore on their build-up of financial resilience. Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 8, Issue-3: 401-407.

SPATIAL EXPLORATION OF BOKO HARAM ATTACKS AND IT’S ASSOCIATED INFLUENCE ON TOURISM BUSINESSES IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA

This study was on the spatial exploration of Boko Haram terrorist attacks and its influence on components of tourism businesses (hotels) in Northeastern Nigeria. Secondary data on location, nature, date, and number of fatalities from the Boko Haram attack were sourced from Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED). Data on the location of hotels were sourced from the field with the use of the Geographic Positioning System (GPS). A total of 558 hotels were selected in a one-stage cluster sampling technique. The study adopts a longitudinal research design where centrographic analysis was carried out to describe the spatial distribution of events. Results of the study revealed that Boko Haram attacks were more coordinated rather than a random occurrence with most of the attacks concentrated in Borno State. Furthermore, Boko Haram did not directly target tourism businesses though some of the hotels fell within a 1.5km radius of the attacks. The study, therefore, recommends for an intense media promotion of the areas and States not majorly affected by the crisis, rebuilding of areas and States recovered from the group, provisions of more resilient security apparatus, and general development of social, educational, and economic infrastructures to help revamp not only the tourism sector of the area but its general socioeconomic activities.

MEASURING TERRORISM EFFECTS ON COMPONENTS OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM BUSINESSES IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA

This study was carried out to measure terrorism effects on components of tourism businesses (hotels) in northeastern Nigeria using Boko Haram as a case study. Secondary data on nature, date, and the number of fatalities from the Boko Haram attack was sourced from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED). Data on tourism businesses including hotel room occupancy rate, revenue profile, and employees’ profile was sourced from each state tourism development board. A total of 558 hotels were selected in a one-stage cluster sampling technique. The study adopts a longitudinal research design where inferential statistics was performed with the use of SPSS. Results revealed that Boko Haram attacks had significant effects on tourism businesses contributing to the decline in the number of hotel employees, revenue, and room occupancy rate of hotels in the region. The study, therefore, recommends intense media promotion of the areas and States not majorly affected by the crisis, rebuilding of areas and States recovered from the group, provisions of more resilient security apparatus, and general development of social, educational, and economic infrastructures to help revamp the socioeconomic life of the area.

Rethinking the Domestic Division of Labour: Exploring Change and Continuity in the Context of Redundancy

This article explores changes to the domestic division of labour and how these are negotiated, following both female and male redundancy among heterosexual dual-earning couples in the north of England. Using a qualitative, longitudinal research design, we engage with and extend relative resource bargaining theory to consider its different manifestations in the negotiation process, in relation to ‘silent bargaining’ and collaborative decision making over time availability and earnings. Despite espousing egalitarian attitudes, couples were found to ‘do’ gender to varying extents, with women typically taking on greater shares of the domestic division of labour even in cases of male redundancy. In the absence of explicit negotiation, a range of implicit strategies to resist changes in the domestic division of labour was evident in some cases, alongside more overtly conflictual tactics to both evoke, and resist, change. In the main, men were found to be more instrumental in their attempts to secure a preferred domestic division of labour than women.