Impact of Crop-Farmers and Herders’ Conflict on Public Primary School Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Apa Local Government Area, Benue State

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of crop-farmers and herders’ conflict on primary school teachers’ job satisfaction in Apa LGA, Benue State. Three (3) specific purposes guided the study, three (3) research questions were answered and three (3) null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The research design was ex-post facto. The population of the study comprised 729 primary school teachers from which a sample of 105 was drawn through multi-staged sampling procedure. The instrument for data collection was adapted Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaires (MJSQ) which was face validated by three experts. The internal consistency of the questionnaire items were established using the Cronbach Alpha reliability test with coefficient value of .826 obtained. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions. The t-test was used to test the null hypotheses 1 and 2, while 2-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the null hypotheses 3. The findings revealed that there was a significant influenceof crop farmers-herders’ conflict on primary school teachers’ job satisfaction. The implication of the findings is that primary school teachers’ job satisfaction in Apa LGA is poor. The researcher, therefore recommends that adequate security is to be provided to safe-guard life and property and to ensure smooth running of school activities. The researcher suggests that a replica of this study should consider other locations outside Apa LGA where this conflict has lasted for many years.