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

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.