Relationship between gender stereotype and students’ psychological wellbeing in the university of buea, south west region of Cameroon

The study was aimed at investigating the relationship between gender stereotype and students’ psychological wellbeing in the University of Buea. The study was guided by two research objectives which were to; find out how teachers attitude affects students’ psychological wellbeing and to determine how students’ self-esteem affects their psychological wellbeing. This study employed the convergent parallel design. The population of the study was made up of all the undergraduate students and lecturers teaching undergraduate from the University of Buea. The target population consisted 8254 undergraduate students from two selected faculties and a college, The accessible population was made up of 1222 level 200 students. The sample size was 260 students selected using simple randomly sampling technique and 9 lecturers were selected using purposive sampling technique. The data were collected using a questionnaire that was made up of close-ended items for students and an interview guide for lecturers. Data we reanalysed inferentially and thematically, For the inferential statistics, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to analysis the data while the qualitative data were analysis using thematic analysis.Findings showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between teacher attitude and students’ psychological wellbeing. The positive sign of the correlation value implies that the psychological wellbeing of student increases when their teacher’s attitudes toward them are positive, findings also showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between self-esteem and students’ psychological wellbeing. The positive sign of the correlation value implies that the students’ psychological wellbeing increases when their self-esteem is positive. Based on the above findings, it was recommended that; training should be organize on gender sensitive techniques through workshops for teachers to change their attitudes and behaviours toward all gender and government should develop and implement gender sensitive polices in all academic institutions.