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Psychological Breakdown on Adult Social Life in Bamenda II Municipality: Implications for Counselling

DOI: 10.18535/sshj.v9i11.2119· Pages: 9476-9488· Vol. 9, No. 11, (2025)· Published: November 30, 2025
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Abstract

The study was aimed at finding out the influence of psychological breakdown on adult social life in Bamenda II municipality. The specfic objectives were to find out how the loss of loved ones and loss of job affect adults' social life in Bamenda II municipality. The study anchored on Maslow's hierarchy of need theory, Erickson psychosocial theory and existential theory of vicktor Frankl and Rollo May. The cross sectional survey research design was employed to investigate the phenomenon under study. A questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The study area was carried out in Bamenda 11 Municipality. The population was made up of 281,974 adults from 55 quarters. The target population consisted of 100,015 adults from 10 quarters. The sample of this study was made up of was made up of 381 adults selected using selected using the purposive and snowball sampling techniques. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical tools with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science(SPSS). The findings showed that loss of loved ones (r = -0.401) and loss of job (r = -0.342) all had significantly negative influences on adult social life in Bamenda II municipality with r = -0.401 and -0.342 respectively. The negative signs of the correlation values implied that the adult social life is more likely to get worse when they keep losing loved one and losing jobs. The findings therefore concluded that psychological breakdown negatively affects the adult social life in Bamenda II Municipality. Based on the findings, recommendations were made that, adults should be given counselling on how to do self-rehabilitation and healing such as making more efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations and flashbacks about the psychological breakdown, actively trying to avoid places or people that remind them of the death of love one and keeping themselves too busy to have time to think about their past events

Keywords

Psychological BreakdownAdult Social LifeLoss of Loved OnesJob LossCounselling Interventions

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Anyangwe Oyang Mah
Department of Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, the University of Bamenda
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