TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Modeling journalists' coping strategies to occupational hazards in their coverage of protests against police brutality (ENDSARS protests) in Nigeria
JO  - International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics
A1  - Blessing, Chinweobo-Onuoha
A1  - Tunca, Elif Asude
A1  - Talabi, Felix Olajide
A1  - Boluwatife, Aiyesimoju Ayodeji
A1  - Oluwole, Adefemi Victor
A1  - Gever, Verlumun Celestine
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Although journalism practice exposes media workers to different levels of occupational hazards, research on the coping strategies is limited. This study made an effort to extend literature in this direction by providing a model that explains the coping strategies of Nigerian journalists who covered the 2020 ENDSARS protests in Nigeria. The researchers surveyed a total of 470 journalists who were sampled through a respondents-driven chain referral sampling technique. It was found that journalists who covered the protests faced occupational hazards such as physical attacks, disgrace, threats, trauma, anxiety as well as fear. The coping strategies were found to include: seeking social support, selective appearance, self-censorship as well as self-motivation. It was further found that perceived behavioural control significantly moderates the implementation of coping strategies. The researchers explored the implications of these results on theory, practice and scholarship.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1080-3548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2021.1999651
ID  - ref1
ER  -