Abstract:
The study examined the Influence of Age Falsification on Adjustment of Teacher Retirees in Nsukka Education Zone, Enugu State. Ex-post-facto research design was adopted for the study .A sample of 125 teacher retirees was randomly selected from 257 teacher retirees in Nsukka Education Zone. The study was guided by four research questions and two hypotheses. Influence of Age Falsification on Adjustment of Teacher Retirees Questionnaire (IAFATRQ) was used for data collection. To ensure the validity of the instrument, the instrument was subjected to face validation by three experts, two from the Department of Science Education and one from Educational Foundations. The reliability index of 0.89 was obtained. The data generated from the study were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The result of the study showed that gender was not a significant factor on age falsification and psychological adjustment of teacher retirees. The findings also showed that gender influences age falsification and social adjustment of male and female teacher retirees. The findings further reveled that gender was not a significant factor on age falsification and economic adjustment of teacher retirees. Based on the. findings, recommendations were made which included that government should pay the retirees their benefits immediately after retirement without stress, for this will encourage them not to have negative mind towards retirement.
