Abstract
The study investigated relationship between self-awareness, self-control and lecturers job performance in Colleges of Education in Benue and Kogi State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the
study.Correlation research design was used for the study. The population was 1542 lecturers in 6 public Colleges of Education in Benue and Kogi States, Nigeria, 595 Lecturers in Benue and 947 Lectures in Kogi States. A sample size of 306 lecturers using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table for determining sample. Multi-stage sampling technique was employed for the study, which included stratified, proportional and simple random sampling techniques. The data were collected through researchers-structured
questionnaire titled ‘self-awareness, self-control and lecturers job performance Questionnaire’ (SASCLJPQ). The structured questionnaire developed by the researchers was subjected to scrutiny by two experts from Guidance and Counselling and one from Test and Measurement, all in the Faculty of Education, Benue State University Makurdi. The reliability co-efficient of self-awareness was 0.77 and self-control was 0.67.Data were analyzed using Pearson Moment Product Correlation to answer the research questions and linear regression was used to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. Findings showed that self-awareness, self-control increases so also lecturers job performance increases in Colleges of Education in Benue and Kogi States.