Browsing by Author "Asnake, Mulat"

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    Birth Order Personality and Academic Achievement Motivation Among Addis Ababa University
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-06) Tarekegn, Ambachew; Asnake, Mulat
    This study is attempted to examine the effects of birth order on academic achievement motivation and personality. There has been a great debate among researchers regarding this area of concern. It is also one of the least researched areas in Ethiopian context; hence, it gave inspiration for the researcher to investigate the effects of birth order on academic achievement motivation and personality of Addis Ababa University Social Science College Students. The specific objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of birth order on academic achievement motivation and personality, to examine whether a relationship exist between personality and academic achievement motivation and to investigate whether gender difference exist in academic achievement motivation .To conduct the study, Survey research design was employed on 160 participants (104 male and 56 female) students from Social Science College took part in the study. A self report questionnaire with items background information and adopted tests that help to measure academic achievement motivation and personality was used. The reliability of the academic achievement motivation and personality were 0.723 and 0.871 respectively. Kruskal Wallis test,Man- Whitney U test and Spearman rho were employed to analyze the data. Results shows that birth order did not have statistically significant effect both on academic achievement motivation and personality. But there is a statistically significant relationship between personality and academic achievement motivation. Eventually, the researcher concludes that birth order does not have a significant effect both on academic achievement motivation and personality. There are many factors which may influence academic achievement motivation and personality of individuals there for, further comprehensive study is recommended
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    Employee’s Attitude towards Women Leaders at the Ethiopia Federal Police Crime Investigations Bureau
    (AAU, 2021-08) Legesse, Abiy; Asnake, Mulat
    The purpose of this study was to assess the employee’s attitude towards women leaders at Ethiopia federal police crime investigations bureau. For this study quantitative research design were selected. The total numbers of participants were 300, of which 203 were males and 97 were females were selected through systematic random sampling method. The quantitative data were gathered through questionnaire. Accordingly, 300 questionnaires were distributed to employees and all were returned with 100% response rate. Collected data analyzed through (SPSS) version 20. The collected data were analyzed using frequencies, percentage, one-way ANOVA and linear Regression. The finding of the study indicates the participants have a negative attitude toward female leaders. Male respondents have a negative attitude than female. Civil servants have a positive attitude than military (police officers). On the other hand, intercept (P-value 0.000, CI (2.254; 3.548)), gender (P-value 0.002, CI (0.071; 0.307)) and education background of the respondents (P-value 0.052, CI (-0.119; 0.001)) were statistically significant at .5% of level of significance. Besides, One-way ANOVA results indicate that gender, age and position are statistically associated with attitude at 5% of level of significance. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher made suggestion for cultural dominance and recommendations that can be utilized as a further spotlight on how we might improve our society's present gender-related attitude in general
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    Masculine Gender Identity Construction Among Male Adolescents in A Wuramba Community
    (Addis Ababa University, 2005-06) Asnake, Mulat; Tefera, Belay (PhD)
    The expecled lasks, beliefs and behaviours of Awuramaba male adolescents as reflecting masculine construction was investigated. The study was done on male adolescents of Awuramaba community. In order to get comprehensive information about the masculine characteristics of these adolescents, data was gathered from various segments of the Awuramba population: male adolescents themselves, and their parents, siblings, peers and the elderly people in the community. In general eight focus group discussions, 24 individual interviews and two key informant interviews were conducted. As indicated by previous research results such as Co-nnell as cited in Belay (1999), although it varies from country to country, culture to culture, community to community and individual to individual, aggressive behavioural expressions, sho·wing sense of dominance, feelings of independence, female subordination" heterosexual prowess, assertiveness, etc. are the indicators of masculine behaviour in male adolescents of various cultures and communities. However, the present finding suggests that attributes of masculine identity construction among male adolescents of the Awuramba community are drawn from deep sense of human respect, loving work, supporting others, developing feelings of interdependence" developing gender equality and egalitarian belief and pursuing communol way of life.
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    Victimization and Mental Health Problems of Children and Adolescents in Gondar Town, North Western Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-04) Asnake, Mulat; Zewdie, Teka (PhD)
    Victimization and mental health problems of children and adolescents are major concerns of almost all societies worldwide. Previous studies have documented the magnitudes of the problems of victimizations and mental health problems in children and adolescents. However, in most cases those studies focused on few types of victimization and mental health problems. Accordingly, the major purpose of this study was to estimate prevalence of victimizations and mental health problems, identify factors that contribute to victimizations, and examine the association between victimization and mental health problems of children and adolescents in the elementary schools of Gondar town, North West Ethiopia. Analysis was made on a sample of 403 children and adolescents, randomly drawn from the target population using stratified sampling technique. Adapted measures of Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) and Achenbach Systems of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) were employed to gather data on victimization experiences and mental health problems respectively. Percentage was used to determine the prevalence of victimizations and mental health problems whereas series of logistic regression analyses were run to examine the contributions of independent victimizations for the various dimensions of mental health problems of the respondents. The major findings indicate that nearly 80 % of the respondents experienced victimizations. The odds of males experiencing victimization was found to be 2.41(95% CI=1.41-4.12) times more than females and the probability of the occurrence of any form of victimization was higher for those who came from low income families by 3.23 (95% CI =1.06-9.80) times than respondents from high income families. The proportion of overall mental health problems among the respondents was 14.4%. Child maltreatment was found to be significantly contributing to manifestations of the symptoms of overall mental health and internalizing problems with odds ratios of 2.6 (95% CI=1.16-4.39) and 2.52 (95% CI=1.42-4.49) respectively. Conventional crime was significantly linked with internalizing problems with OR=.2.95 (95% CI=1.37-6.34). Furthermore, poly-victimizations were significantly associated with any mental health,X 2 (1,N=403)=17.02, p<.001;internalizing, χ 2 (1,N=403)=17.46,p<.001; and externalizing problems, χ 2 (1,N=403)=11.36, p<.05.The study concludes that exposures to victimizations put children and adolescents at the risks of developing mental and behavioral health problems. Finally, psycho-legal service implications and issues that require further inquiry are identified