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Empathy and Self-Awareness as Correlates of Employees’ Behavioural and Cognitive Work Attitudes in Federal Tertiary Institutions in South-East Nigeria Authors

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  • Angela Chidinma Onuoha

    (Benjamin Uwajumogu (State) College of Education, Ihitte Uboma, Imo State, Nigeria)

  • F. E. Eboh

    (Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, Abia State University, Uturu, Abia State, Nigeria)

  • C. O. Aguguo

    (Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, Abia State University, Uturu, Abia State, Nigeria)

  • M. M. Ofondu

    (Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, Abia State University, Uturu, Abia State, Nigeria)

Abstract

The relationships between empathy and employees behavioural attitude to work, and between self- awareness and employees cognitive attitude to work, were investigated in selected federal tertiary institutions in South-East Nigeria. A quantitative cross-sectional survey design was used for the study based on the social intelligence competency and employees attitude framework. There were 4,903 academic and senior non-academic staff, of which 369 respondents were sampled using proportional sampling methods. 290 sets of questionnaire were returned, representing a 78.6% response rate after discarding unanswered and wrongly answered ones. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection, and descriptive statistics, along with Spearman's correlation, were used to analyze the data at a 0.05 significance level. The respondents gave high scores for empathy (M = 3.99), self-awareness (M = 4.03), behavioural attitude (M = 4.02), and cognitive attitude (M = 4.04). Empathy showed a strong, positive relationship with behavioural attitude, and the correlation was statistically significant (ρ = 0.937, p

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  • Angela Chidinma Onuoha & F. E. Eboh & C. O. Aguguo & M. M. Ofondu, 2026. "Empathy and Self-Awareness as Correlates of Employees’ Behavioural and Cognitive Work Attitudes in Federal Tertiary Institutions in South-East Nigeria Authors," Post-Print hal-05718396, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05718396
    DOI: 10.59324/ejmeb.2026.3(4).14
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