Analysis of Community Psycho-Social Insecurity and Health among Household Heads in Delta State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was meant to find solution to insecurity in Delta state by assessing community insecurity through household head perception of community security awareness, physical-psychological insecurity and psychological social community insecurity in Delta state. The method was a household survey method using 390 sampled household heads. The samples were obtained with the use of multi-stage sampling technique and simple ballot sampling through the Federal constituencies, Local Governments, towns, settlements, housing units and households. The questionnaire was made of 29 items. It was found reliable using conbach alpha with a coefficient of .84. A bench mark of 2.50 and above was used for the acceptance level while multiple regression analysis. It was found that participants perceived community security awareness physical-psychological insecurity and psychological-social insecurity as acceptable as community security issues that need to be addressed. When the three variables were subjected to regression analysis, all three variables has an f-value of 12.38 and significant at 0.05. A post have analysis revealed only community security was significant at 0.05 alpha. It was recommended that community should work with agencies that protect life and property in the state among others while culture/tradition that threaten individual in the community should be discarded.

Keywords: Community security, Household, Physical-pycho, psycho-social, health.