State/Trait Anxiety as a Predictor of Depression among Retired of Depression among Retired Civil Servants

Abstract

The study investigated state/trait anxiety as a predictor of depression among retired civil servants, Eighty (80) retired civil servants comprised 49 males and 31 females with a mean age of 70.34 and SD of 8.389 were selected using multi-stage (cluster, simple random: by balloting and purposive) sampling techniques as participants from pension department in local government secretariat Enugu State .depression Scale (SDS) and State/trait Anxiety Inventory were used for data collection, Correlational design was adopted while hierarchical multiple regression using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 25 software was used to analyse the data. Results above show that state Stβ= .109 and t= .915 and trait Stβ= .021 and t= .175 at p< .05 anxiety failed to predict depression. Hence, the government should come up with plans which will keep the retirees busy to avoid them slipping into depression as both state/trait were not a variance to it.