AAMUSTED Knowledge Manager

Welcome to the AAMUSTED Knowledge Manager (Institutional Repository), an open access digital archive of scholarly intellectual and research outputs of AAMUSTED. The Knowledge Manager contains and preserves: Theses and Dissertations; Research Articles and Conference Papers; Rare and Special Materials and many other Digital Assets of the University.

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    COLLECTION MANAGEMENT POLICY
    (2024) AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA UNIVERSITY OF SKILLS TRAINING AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT
    The Collection Management Policy of Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED) Library provides a structured framework for the development and management of the University Library collections. The policy outlines responsibilities, key principles, and guidelines for book selection, acquisition, forms of acquisition, replacements, evaluation, and de-selection/weeding of library materials. It is designed to support the academic programmes of the University by developing a curriculum based collection, considering faculty recommendations, professional literature reviews, and economic factors. The policy also addresses the inclusion of electronic resources, censorship concerns, and maintenance of the collection's quality and relevance, while aligning with environmental sustainability.
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    INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY POLICY
    (2024) AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA UNIVERSITY OF SKILLS TRAINING AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT
    The AAMUSTED Institutional Repository Policy establishes a structured framework for the collection, preservation, and dissemination of the university's intellectual outputs. Reflecting our commitment to the Open Access Movement, it aims to address challenges related to the accessibility and preservation of digital and print materials. The policy outlines clear guidelines for the ownership, management, submission, and preservation of materials within the AAMUSTED Knowledge Manager, ensuring that the scholarly works of staff and students are globally visible and easily retrievable. This policy serves as a vital tool for enhancing academic integrity, facilitating research, and extending the reach of our university's contributions to the global knowledge community.
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    Plagiarism Policy
    (2024) Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development
    The AAMUSTED Plagiarism Policy delineates a comprehensive framework aimed at fostering academic integrity by preventing, identifying, and addressing plagiarism. The policy defines plagiarism as the unauthorized or unacknowledged appropriation of another's work or ideas. It categorizes plagiarism into intentional and unintentional, underlining the institution's commitment to educating its community on distinguishing between the two. Key components include detection methods, roles and responsibilities of faculty and students, and a tiered approach to consequences reflecting the severity of the infraction. This policy is integral to maintaining the sanctity of academic work and the credibility of the University's credentials.
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    The Social Intentionality of Battered Women’s Agency in Ghana
    (Psychology and Developing Societies, 2018) Baffour Adjei, Stephen
    There is a growing body of research which suggests that victims of intimate partner violence (IPV; mostly women) continue to remain in abusive relationships. Many of the Western psychological theorisations focus on battered women’s personal dispositions and/or the self-creating (individualistic) view of agency to explain why victims remain in violent relationships. These studies seem to suggest that staying in a violent relationship is a personal decision that victims make in free will, and that victims who continue to stay fail to act on their own behalf. Drawing upon the Ghanaian communal conceptualisation of personhood and the social norms of marriage and divorce, this study questions the individu alistic theorisations of battered women’s decisions to stay in or leave abusive relationships. The article argues that battered women’s agency in negotiating the stay/leave decisions in abusive relationships does not only originate in an independent autonomous self, nor constituted by a person’s internal motives, but also, and even primarily, it is culturally grounded and dependent on social relations for its realisation. The article concludes that the agency of abused women in Ghana has a social inten tionality, in the sense that battered women’s intentional behaviour in marital relationships is both constituted by self and constrained by their relational embeddedness
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    Socio-economic and technological aspects of mental health of older persons: the role of strong and weak ties in Ghana
    (ARTICLE, 2022-01-27) Adusei Amoah, Padmore; Osei-Tutu, Annabella; Baffour Adjei, Stephen
    Research indicates that social capital can influence the extent to which socio-economic status (SES) and information and communications technology (ICT) affect mental health. This study uses empirical data to examine the veracity of this claim by examining the effect of SES and ICT use on the mental health of older persons in Ghana, as well as the mod erating role of bonding (i.e. strong ties) and bridging (i.e. weak ties) social capital in these associations. Data were drawn from 409 older persons from four regions in Ghana as part of a broader cross-sectional survey. Ordinal logistic regression analyses showed that SES and ICT use had positive associations with mental health after adjusting for other socio-demographic factors. Bridging social capital modified the association between SES and mental health positively. Bonding social capital also moderated the relations between ICT use on mental health positively. We argue that the prevalent nature of resources embedded in strong ties and the diversity of support that emerge from weak ties account for the difference in their influence observed in this study. Thus, while advances in socio economic and technological conditions can enhance older persons’ mental health, equal attention must be paid to the characteristics of their strong and weak ties as they possess the resources to make socio-technological policies even more meaningful.