Strike Actions in Federal Universities and Undergraduate Students’ Psycho-emotional Wellbeing in University of Benin, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the impact of the Academic Staff Union of Universities 
(ASUU) strike on the psycho-emotional well-being of undergraduate 
students in the University of Benin. The study adopted a survey research 
design. Multi-stage random sampling technique was employed to obtain the 
sample of 400 respondents from the students’ population of 4000 in the 
Faculty of Education. The instrument for data collection was titled ASUU 
strike and student psycho-emotional wellbeing questionnaire. The study 
revealed that ASUU strike had negative impact on the students’ psychoemotional well-being in general. Consequence on the findings, it was 
recommended that Government and ASUU should employ amicable means 
of resolving their differences for the sake of students’ psycho-emotional wellbeing. Besides, counselling centre/units within each University should create 
awareness and intervention programmes that would assist students to 
stabilize emotionally after protracted ASUU strike action.