Ike E Onyishi
Biographic Data
| ID | 98267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ike E Onyishi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ike E |
| FAMILY NAME | Onyishi |
| SIGNATURE | ONYISHI I E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0908-6413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers: The Relational Contingency of Everyday Behaviors in 90 Societies
Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data from more than 25,000 individuals across 90 societies, we test several hypotheses linking normative constraints on everyday behaviors (like arguing, laughing, cursing, kissi…
Relationship Between Self‐Reported Storytelling Ability and Reproductive Success Among Three Non‐Western Populations in Nigeria, Pakistan, and Papua
The association between storytelling ability and reproductive success appears context-dependent and may differ between egalitarian and hierarchical societies. Findings suggest that storytelling ability may be more strongly related to the likelihood of parenthood than to completed fertility in certain socioecological settings
Love Components in Free-Choice and Arranged Marriages Among Five Non-Western Populations From Africa, Amazonia, and Himalayas
Two main ways to enter a marriage are through free choice and through an arrangement between families, known as an arranged marriage. In this study, we compared differences in three dimensions of love (Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment) between spouses in love-based marriages and arranged marriages among five non-Western societies: Bhotiya from the Himalayas, Igbo from Nigeria, Kimeru from Kenya, Meru from Tanzania, and Tsimane’ from Bolivia. Whe…
The function of love: A signaling-to-alternatives account of the commitment device hypothesis
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
Love as a universal phenomenon: Data from nine non-Weird societies
Moderating role of life orientation in the relationship between time perspective, body size, self-esteem and life satisfaction
The moderating role of emotional intelligence on the association between adverse childhood experiences and conduct problems of adolescents
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
Ten Years of Boko Haram in Nigeria: The Dynamics and Counterinsurgency Challenges
This book provides a contemporary overview of Boko Haram's activities and the strategies authorities have used to combat the group.
Beyond Equality: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Young Straight Adults’ Expectations for Future Family Labor
Who Cares about Time? Investigating Personality and Self-regulation in the Relationship Between Religiosity and Punctuality in Nigerian Public Service Organizations
The study examined the relationship between religiosity and punctuality, and whether self-regulation mediates this relationship. The study also explored whether personality traits moderate the positive relationship between religiosity and self-regulation and between religiosity and punctuality. Using PROCESS model 4, among 734 federal university employees in the South-east Nigeria, the results of the study showed that religiosity related positive…
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incompetent and unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies and also examines the role of wealth‐based categorization in explaining this relationship. We found that people who perceived highe…
Covid-19 and Social Distancing: A Cross-Cultural Study of Interpersonal Distance Preferences and Touch Behaviors Before and During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the introduction of unprecedented safety measures, one of them being physical distancing recommendations. Here, we assessed whether the pandemic has led to long-term effects on two important physical distancing aspects, namely interpersonal distance preferences and interpersonal touch behaviors. We analyzed nearly 14,000 individual cases from two large, cross-cultural surveys – the first conducted 2 years prior to…
Ten Years of Boko Haram in Nigeria: The Dynamics and Counterinsurgency Challenges
Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic
The “African Time” Syndrome: Understanding Lateness among Nigerian Public Service Workers
Lateness to meeting or what has been commonly referred to as “African time” is increasingly becoming part of social life in most African countries. Although this phenomenon has crept into the work environment of most Nigerian public service organizations, it has attracted limited research attention. In the study, we explored the definition of lateness to meetings and appointments, and rating of frequency of lateness to meetings among 577 public s…
Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual…
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication
Considerable research has examined human mate preferences across cultures, finding universal sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and resources as well as sources of systematic cultural variation. Two competing perspectives—an evolutionary psychological perspective and a biosocial role perspective—offer alternative explanations for these findings. However, the original data on which each perspective relies are decades old, and the li…
Perceived leader integrity as a mediator between ethical leadership and ethical climate in a teaching context
The current study extends the social learning theory by identifying perceived leader integrity as a mechanism underlying the relationship between ethical leadership and ethical climate. The findings have some implications for personnel selection especially in relation to selection of ethical leaders
Solidarity and social behaviour: How did this help communities to manage Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic lockdowns, stay at home or work from home, many have argued that the westernised non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) do not provide remedial in low-income countries like Nigeria, where informal job seekers, street traders, informal labourers and artisans depend mainly on the informal economy. By applying social solidarity (SS) and community-based approach (CBA), the authors evaluate individual…
Distress tolerance moderates the relationship between anger experience and elevated blood pressure
Previous studies have linked anger to elevated blood pressure. However, the nature of the association between anger and elevated blood pressure is unclear. This study is aimed at investigating the moderating effect of distress tolerance on the relationship between anger experience and elevated blood pressure. A total of 310 patients drawn from a university teaching hospital in southeast Nigeria participated in this study. They comprised 156 men a…
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were ba…
Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation
Job apathy and work engagement: Moderating influence of perceived leader integrity and spiritual intelligence in a Nigerian mass transit company
This study explored the direct and interactive roles of job apathy, perceived leader integrity, and spiritual intelligence on work engagement among 206 Nigerian employees of a leading mass transit company (females = 33%; mean age = 35.81years, SD = 5.04; mean organisational tenure = 6.27 years, SD = 2.26). Results following moderated hierarchical multiple regression showed that work engagement was lower with job apathy and higher with perceived l…
Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of…
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were ba…
Solidarity and social behaviour: How did this help communities to manage Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic lockdowns, stay at home or work from home, many have argued that the westernised non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) do not provide remedial in low-income countries like Nigeria, where informal job seekers, street traders, informal labourers and artisans depend mainly on the informal economy. By applying social solidarity (SS) and community-based approach (CBA), the authors evaluate individual…
Beyond Equality: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Young Straight Adults’ Expectations for Future Family Labor
Stress Coping Strategies, Perceived Organizational Support and Marital Status as Predictors of Work-Life Balance among Nigerian Bank Employees
The function of love: A signaling-to-alternatives account of the commitment device hypothesis
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
Love as a universal phenomenon: Data from nine non-Weird societies
Moderating role of life orientation in the relationship between time perspective, body size, self-esteem and life satisfaction
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
Covid-19 and Social Distancing: A Cross-Cultural Study of Interpersonal Distance Preferences and Touch Behaviors Before and During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the introduction of unprecedented safety measures, one of them being physical distancing recommendations. Here, we assessed whether the pandemic has led to long-term effects on two important physical distancing aspects, namely interpersonal distance preferences and interpersonal touch behaviors. We analyzed nearly 14,000 individual cases from two large, cross-cultural surveys – the first conducted 2 years prior to…
The “African Time” Syndrome: Understanding Lateness among Nigerian Public Service Workers
Lateness to meeting or what has been commonly referred to as “African time” is increasingly becoming part of social life in most African countries. Although this phenomenon has crept into the work environment of most Nigerian public service organizations, it has attracted limited research attention. In the study, we explored the definition of lateness to meetings and appointments, and rating of frequency of lateness to meetings among 577 public s…
Montesquieu hypothesis and football: Players from hot countries are more expressive after scoring a goal
Analysis of sportsmen behavior enabled the authors to conduct simultaneous analysis of emotional expression of people from many distinct countries and cultures. In the study, participants from Nigeria and Poland watched all the goals scored in group matches of the 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cups and assessed the emotions players expressed after scoring each goal on three scales (happiness, anger, and excitement). Based on the assessment of the par…
Stress Coping Strategies, Perceived Organizational Support and Marital Status as Predictors of Work-Life Balance among Nigerian Bank Employees
Personality as a moderator between emotional exhaustion and workplace deviance among teachers
This study investigated the moderating role of personal factors of agreeableness and conscientiousness in the relationship between emotional exhaustion and workplace deviance. The sample comprised 200 teachers from nine schools in the south-eastern part of Nigeria (females = 85%; married = 85%; age range 20–59 years; organisational tenure = 8.04 years, SD = 7.44 years; senior staff = 55%). The teachers completed measures of self-reported agreeabl…
Is Election a Disadvantage? Nigerian Local Councils and Security Provision
Deepening democracy through local elections is a major aim of decentralisation. But do elections always work to strengthen the relationship between local politicians and citizens, or can they set elected officials up for failure? This article examines security provisioning by local governments in Nigeria, understanding that some local governments are elected, while others are appointed by state governors. Our hypothesis was that elected local cou…
Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of…
Job demands and psychological well-being: Moderating role of occupational self-efficacy and job social support among mid-career academics
The study investigated the moderating role of occupational self-efficacy and job social support on the relationship between job demands and psychological well-being among mid-career academics. Participants were 203 academics at three public Nigerian universities (female = 37.93%; mean years of service = 8.58 years, SD = 2.20). The academics completed measures of job demands, occupational self-efficacy, job social support, and psychological well-b…
Perceived Organizational Politics, Support and Workplace Incivility of Supervisor as Predictors of Turnover Intention
The study examined perceived organizational politics, support and work-place incivility of supervisor as predictors of employees’ intention to quit. The results of the regression analyses revealed that perceived organizational politics significantly predicted turnover intention (β = .41, p < .001). Per-ceived politics accounted for 46.8% of the variance in turnover intention, above and beyond the control variables. Perceived organizational suppor…
Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation
Job apathy and work engagement: Moderating influence of perceived leader integrity and spiritual intelligence in a Nigerian mass transit company
This study explored the direct and interactive roles of job apathy, perceived leader integrity, and spiritual intelligence on work engagement among 206 Nigerian employees of a leading mass transit company (females = 33%; mean age = 35.81years, SD = 5.04; mean organisational tenure = 6.27 years, SD = 2.26). Results following moderated hierarchical multiple regression showed that work engagement was lower with job apathy and higher with perceived l…
Pre-retirement anxiety: Development and validation of a measurement instrument in a Nigerian sample
Two studies were conducted to develop and provide evidence supporting the construct validity and internal consistency of scores from the Nigerian Pre-retirement Anxiety Scale (NPAS). The measure comprises three dimensions: financial preparedness, social obligation, and social alienation. In the first study, data collected from 424 civil servants supported the proposed dimensionality of scale scores and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha for t…
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication
Considerable research has examined human mate preferences across cultures, finding universal sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and resources as well as sources of systematic cultural variation. Two competing perspectives—an evolutionary psychological perspective and a biosocial role perspective—offer alternative explanations for these findings. However, the original data on which each perspective relies are decades old, and the li…
Perceived leader integrity as a mediator between ethical leadership and ethical climate in a teaching context
The current study extends the social learning theory by identifying perceived leader integrity as a mechanism underlying the relationship between ethical leadership and ethical climate. The findings have some implications for personnel selection especially in relation to selection of ethical leaders
Solidarity and social behaviour: How did this help communities to manage Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic lockdowns, stay at home or work from home, many have argued that the westernised non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) do not provide remedial in low-income countries like Nigeria, where informal job seekers, street traders, informal labourers and artisans depend mainly on the informal economy. By applying social solidarity (SS) and community-based approach (CBA), the authors evaluate individual…
Distress tolerance moderates the relationship between anger experience and elevated blood pressure
Previous studies have linked anger to elevated blood pressure. However, the nature of the association between anger and elevated blood pressure is unclear. This study is aimed at investigating the moderating effect of distress tolerance on the relationship between anger experience and elevated blood pressure. A total of 310 patients drawn from a university teaching hospital in southeast Nigeria participated in this study. They comprised 156 men a…
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were ba…
Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual…
Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic
The “African Time” Syndrome: Understanding Lateness among Nigerian Public Service Workers
Lateness to meeting or what has been commonly referred to as “African time” is increasingly becoming part of social life in most African countries. Although this phenomenon has crept into the work environment of most Nigerian public service organizations, it has attracted limited research attention. In the study, we explored the definition of lateness to meetings and appointments, and rating of frequency of lateness to meetings among 577 public s…
Ten Years of Boko Haram in Nigeria: The Dynamics and Counterinsurgency Challenges
This book provides a contemporary overview of Boko Haram's activities and the strategies authorities have used to combat the group.
Beyond Equality: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Young Straight Adults’ Expectations for Future Family Labor
Who Cares about Time? Investigating Personality and Self-regulation in the Relationship Between Religiosity and Punctuality in Nigerian Public Service Organizations
The study examined the relationship between religiosity and punctuality, and whether self-regulation mediates this relationship. The study also explored whether personality traits moderate the positive relationship between religiosity and self-regulation and between religiosity and punctuality. Using PROCESS model 4, among 734 federal university employees in the South-east Nigeria, the results of the study showed that religiosity related positive…
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incompetent and unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies and also examines the role of wealth‐based categorization in explaining this relationship. We found that people who perceived highe…
Covid-19 and Social Distancing: A Cross-Cultural Study of Interpersonal Distance Preferences and Touch Behaviors Before and During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the introduction of unprecedented safety measures, one of them being physical distancing recommendations. Here, we assessed whether the pandemic has led to long-term effects on two important physical distancing aspects, namely interpersonal distance preferences and interpersonal touch behaviors. We analyzed nearly 14,000 individual cases from two large, cross-cultural surveys – the first conducted 2 years prior to…
Ten Years of Boko Haram in Nigeria: The Dynamics and Counterinsurgency Challenges
The moderating role of emotional intelligence on the association between adverse childhood experiences and conduct problems of adolescents
Psychology (26 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works)