ABSTRACT

Abstract

Essence of Psychological Skills Training (PST) and fighting Terrorism: The purpose of the study was to investigate the psychological skills training assessment on combat efficiency among Nigerian Army Personnel deployed to combat terrorism. The subjects for the research were two hundred and forty (240) military personnel both male and female from the rank of private to Master warrant officer (MWO) selected through simple random sampling techniques from Garrison command and 81 battalion both under 2, Mechanized division of the Nigerian army. The research instrument was a self-structured questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.86. The descriptive statistics of frequency count and percentage was used for demographic data while inferential statistics of multiple regressions was employed to test the hypotheses at 0.05 significance level. The results of the research showed that, motivation, concentration and self-confidence were significant in the training and combat efficiency among Nigerian Army Personnel deployed to combat terrorism. It is therefore suggested that, the services of professionals in sport psychologist should be employed and co-opt in the training of military personnel to ensure these predominant challenges.

Keywords: Assessment; Efficiency; Psychological Skills Training; Military Personnel; Terrorism.