Chapter title: Student engagement, emotion regulation and sense of community as factors in burnout among students
Author: JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji, M.Sc.
Affiliation: Promotion of Health and Innovation Lab (PHI), Network for Wellbeing; University of Nigeria, Nigeria
Author: Chuka Mike Ifeagwazi, Ph.D.
Affiliation: University of Nigeria, Nigeria
Author: Steven Kator Iorfa, M.S.
Affiliation: University of Nigeria, Nigeria
Author: Nkechi A. Chukwuemeka, M.S.
Affiliation: University of Nigeria, Nigeria
Author: Kingsley Maduabuchi Agwaramgbo, B.A.
Affiliation: University of Nigeria, Nigeria
Author Biographies:
JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Nigeria. He holds a BSc in Psychology and MSc in Clinical Psychology. He was a Fulbright scholar/faculty affiliate at Cleveland State University, in 2019-2020 where he carried out the lab work for his Ph.D. thesis. He has reviewed over 200 manuscripts for reputable journals in positive psychology such as the Journal of Happiness Studies, the Journal of Positive Psychology, the Social Indicators Research, and the Journal of Wellbeing Assessment, among others. He has served as the editor of the Nigerian Journal of Psychological Research since 2015, and in 2020 was appointed Editor of Socioscope, a quarterly news magazine in the Faculty of the Social Sciences, at the University of Nigeria. He also received the 2017 Early Career Scholar Grant for the 12th African Regional Workshop of the International Society for Studies in Behavioural Development (ISSBD) at the University of Education in Winneba, Ghana. In April of 2018, he was an invited speaker for the first African Positive Psychology Conference (APPC 2018) at the University of Potchefstroom in South Africa.
Mr. Chukwuorji has written 67 published journal articles, four book chapters and two published conference proceedings. He is a member of several international professional associations, including the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the International Society for Studies in Behavioural Development (ISSBD), the International AIDS Society (IAS), the Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA), and the Psi Chi Honours Society, among others. His research interests include psychometric analyses, mental health, internal displacement, and implementation science.
Rev. Fr. Chuka Mike Ifeagwazi is a professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Nigeria. In 1998, he received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Nigeria and won the faculty postgraduate prize for the best graduating Ph.D. student in the Faculty of the Social Sciences. He is a member of several professional associations and learned societies such as the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the Nigerian Association of Clinical Psychologists, the Nigerian Psychological Association, the Strategic Institute for Natural Resources and Human Development, the Nigerian Psychological Association (FNPA), and the Society for Research and Academic Excellence (FSRAE).
Prof. Ifeagwazi has been an external examiner to many universities in Nigeria for undergraduate and postgraduate programs and has assessed nine candidates for promotion to professorial rank. He has held administrative positions at the University of Nigeria, including Acting Head of the Department of Psychology (2007 – 2009), Associate Dean of the School of Post-graduate Studies (2011-2014), Member of the Governing Council at the West African Theological Seminary, Editor-in-chief of the Nigerian Journal of Psychological Research (2007-2009), among others. He has authored 102 publications comprising one book, five book chapters, five published conference proceedings, and 91 journal articles. He delivered the 109th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Nigeria at Princess Alexandra Auditorium and Unity Hall in 2016.
Steven Kator IORFA is a Postgraduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nigeria. He holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Social Psychology. Steven Kator is a positive psychologist, researcher and data analyst pioneering research in the field of value for life. He has reviewed over 70 manuscripts for reputable journals published by Elsevier, Frontiers, Springer Nature, Sage, Peer J, and BMJ, and was appointed Guest Editor for a special issue of the Nigerian Journal of Psychological Research in 2020. He is a recipient of two United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime grants for the 13th Biennial Conference on Drugs, Alcohol and Society in Africa (2018) and the 4th Biennial Symposium on Drugs, Alcohol and Society in Africa (2019).
Steven Kator has written 30 published journal articles, one book, one book chapter, and one published conference proceedings, and has presented over 40 conference papers. He is a member of professional associations including the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the Nigerian Psychological Association (NPA), and the Nigerian Association of Social Psychologists (NASP), among others. His research has covered topics such as the value of life, psychological wellbeing, meaning in life, posttraumatic growth, prolonged grief, subjective vitality, depression, substance use, psychometrics, and general mental health, on special populations such as students, soldiers, internally displaced persons and the bereaved.
Nkechi Chukwuemeka is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Nigeria. She holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Clinical Psychology and is currently a Ph.D. student of Clinical Psychology at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Nigeria. She was formerly a therapist at Recovery Medical Service at the Centre for Psychological Medicine in Abuja, where she was the Hospital Psychologist and Coordinator for both Drug Abuse Prevention and Family Counseling programs, and organized workshops and seminars for the staff on work ethics, productivity, and good working relationships. She has also been a visiting clinician at National Hospital in Abuja and a Counsellor at Godfrey Okoye University in Enugu.
Nkechi has been frequently invited to speak about mental health by the Mandate Health Empowerment Initiative, and other organizations in Abuja. She has published several journal articles and book chapters and is a member of various international professional associations including the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the Nigeria Society for Psychotherapy (NSP), the Nigeria Association of Clinical Psychologists (NACP), and the African Network for Preventing and Protection of Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN). Her research interests cover such topics as substance use disorders, suicidal ideation, family dysfunction, emotional regulation, posttraumatic stress disorder, relationships, mental health, behavioural addictions such as internet addictions and drug addictions, cognitive behavioural therapy, reality therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and psychoeducation.
Kingsley M. Agwaramgbo is a graduate of psychology from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He completed his mandatory National Youth Service Corps program in February 2021.
