Assessment of Pre-Retirement Anxiety on Job Performance among Academic Staff of Federal Colleges of Education in Nigeria

This paper assessed pre - retirement anxiety on job performance among academic staff in Federal Colleges of Education in Nigeria. Three (3) objectives and research questions each guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted in this study. The population of this study consists of all academic staff in Federal Colleges of Education in Nigeria. A sample size of two hundred and fourteen (214) academic staff was selected at random from a total of four hundred and eighty (480) respondents using multi-stage sampling technique. Academic staff questionnaire (ACSQ) was used as instrument for data collection in this study. Instrument was vetted and reliability co-efficient of 0.89 was obtained. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, mean and standard deviation respectively was used for data analysis. The findings of this study revealed that pre - retirement anxiety has strong effect on job performance of academic staff of Federal Colleges of Education in Nigeria. Also, the causes of anxiety prior to retirement of academic staff of Federal Colleges of Education in Nigeria are many only that fear of regular income as wages or allowances as well as inability to adjust to new social status in the society are evidently topping the list. The study recommended that staff due for retirement should be well guided and supported to accept their destiny in good fate but not as something that would make them to lack focus and thus produced poor results in what they are teaching. Finally, the government should strengthen and supervise the activities of various Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) in the Country to allay the fear of staff that their remittances while still working will continue to come regularly even in retirement. Keywords: Academic Staff (teachers), Effects, Job Performance, Pre - Retirement.