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    Psycho-Social Correlates of Tolerance for Disagreement among Road Traffic Officers on Nigerian Highways
    (2018-01) Malomo, B.; Oladipo, S.E.; Balogun; Sikiru, A.
    This study investigated age, gender, self-esteem and job locus of control as correlates of tolerance for disagreement among 458 randomly selected road traffic officers in Nigeria. Though disagreement between road traffic officers and road users occur on a daily basis, minimal research attention has been paid to it; hence the need for this study. Participants' age ranged between 20-35years (M=27.84; SD=1.98); married participants were 47 and never married were 411. Lowest academic qualification of participants was Ordinary National Diploma, while the highest was Master's degree. Validated scales were used for data collection and data collected were analysed with appropriate test statistics using version 21 of the SPSS statistical software. Results suggested significant positive correlations between self-esteem (r = 0.221, p<0.01), job locus of control (r = 0.141, p<0.01) and tolerance for disagreement. However, age and gender of participants did not show any significant influence on their tolerance for disagreement. These results suggest that identification of psycho-social variables among potential road traffic officers will aid relevant 1 agencies in introducing pre-intervention programs as a post screening measure for traffic officers.