PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT AND EMOTION REGULATION AS ANTECEDENT OF WORK ENGAGEMENT AMONG STAFF OF JOSEPH SARWUAN TARKA UNIVERSITY, MAKURDI

Chinelo Helen Ogwuche¹,  Peter Elijah¹, Zahemen Gerasha²

ABSTRACT

This study examined percieved organizational support and emotion regulation as antecedent of work engagement among staff of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi.Participants for the study consisted of 317staff of the institution. The participants age ranged from 26-40 years The instruments used for data collection were work engagement scale was developed by Utrecht (2003), Organizational Support Scale developed by Eisenberger, Huntington, Hutchinson and Sowa (1986) and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire developed by Gross and John (2003).Threehypotheses were tested using regression analysis. The result of hypothesis one indicated that there is no significant antecedent of perceived organizational support on work engagement among the staff of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi (f(1, 312)=.247.035; P<.05, R=.663 and R²=.440). The result of second hypothesis also indicated thatthere is no significant antecedent of emotion regulation on work engagement among the staff of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi (f(1, 312)=.778.878; P<.05, R=.815 and R²=.714). The result of the third hypothesis also indicated that there is no significant joint antecedent of perceived organization support and emotion regulation on work engagement among the staff of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi (f(2, 311)=391.125; P<.05, R=.846 and R²=.716).Based on the findings of this study, it was concluded that there both perceived organization support and emotion regulation has no antecedent on work engagement among staff of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi. Based on the findings, it is recommended that the university management in collaboration with the federal Government of Nigeria should make adequate provision for support to the staff of the institution to help heighten their level of work engagement. Also, the school counselors/psychotherapist should help work on the emotions of the staff of the university since this can also contribute to poor work engagement.

Keywords: Perceived Organizational Support, Emotion Regulation Antecedent and Work Engagement