Benjamin Amponsah
Biographic Data
| ID | 118483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Amponsah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Amponsah |
| SIGNATURE | AMPONSAH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana, Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2597-4229 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“After Cutting It, Things Have Never Remained the Same”: A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Amputees and Their Caregivers
INTRODUCTION: Physical and emotional loss from amputation and associated physical disability are associated with adverse physical and psychological experiences. However, little research, within the Ghanaian context, has focused on the impact of amputation on the well-being of amputees and their caregivers and the coping strategies they use to mitigate challenges experienced. Therefore, the present study explored the impact of amputation on the we…
‘We Become Tough and Strong … When We Are Able to Push Through’: Experiences of Children and Adolescents in Zongo Communities in Accra, Ghana
The Zongo communities have become epicentres for social vices such as drug use, sexual exploitation, violence and fraudulent activities. Despite these issues, little research has been done on the experiences of children and adolescents living in these communities. Therefore, this study explored the lived experiences of 10 children and adolescents in Zongo communities and how they cope with the challenges they experience. Findings from thematic an…
Effect of Early‐Life Lipid‐Based Nutrient Supplement and Home Environment on Autonomic Nervous System Regulation at 9–11 Years: A Follow‐Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Nutrition and the home environment contribute to the development of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). However, no study has examined the long-term effects of prenatal and postnatal small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) and home environment on ANS regulation. We investigated the effect of early-life SQ-LNS and home environment on ANS regulation at 9-11 years. Participants were children born to women who participated in a rando…
Experiences Following Amputation among Amputees and Their Caregivers: An Exploratory Study in a Developing Country
Amputation is necessitated following an accident or a medical condition often to save a patient's life. Despite the existence of the procedure and the rising number of amputees in the Ghanaian context, the emotional experiences of both amputees and their caregivers following amputation has been largely ignored. This qualitative exploratory study explored the emotional experiences of amputees and their caregivers following amputation. Using a semi…
Assessing psychosocial distress associated with homelessness in Ghana: A springboard for interventional policy design
This study investigated the causes of homelessness in Ghana and associated psychosocial distress. A sample of 86 homeless participants listed perceived causes of their homelessness and completed measures of psychosocial distress, and 97 non-homeless participants completed the same measures psychosocial distress. Causes of homelessness among the participants included poverty (30.1%), migration (10.4%), unemployment (2.2%), parental demise (2.2%), …
Dipo Rites of Passage and Psychological Well-being Among Krobo Adolescent Females in Ghana: A Preliminary Study
Dipo is a historical rites of passage among the Krobo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The goal of Dipo is to assist pubertal girls in transitioning into adulthood by shaping moral values and social responsibilities, learning home management skills, and preventing risky sexual behavior. Differences in psychological distress among girls who had and had not participated in Dipo were examined in the current study. The sample included 145 adolescent f…
Spirituality and subjective well-being of Ghanaian parents of children with special needs: The mediating role of resilience
The study explored the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between spirituality and subjective well-being of 107 Ghanaian biological parents raising children with special needs. Results from mediational analyses revealed that spirituality indirectly influenced life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect through resilience. Specifically, greater levels of spirituality predicted greater resilience, which successively led to …
Cyberbullying Victimization among High School and University Students in Ghana
This study sought to establish the extent of cyberbullying among students in Ghana, its consequences on the victims, and the characteristics of the victims. The study found that nearly all participants had experienced one form of cyberbullying before. Victims of cyberbullying were not very different from non-victims in psychological wellbeing. The effect of cyberbullying on psychological wellbeing was small, and no clear profile characterizing vi…
Being oneself through time: Bases of self-continuity across 55 cultures
Self-continuity – the sense that one’s past, present, and future are meaningfully connected – is considered a defining feature of personal identity. However, bases of self-continuity may depend on cultural beliefs about personhood. In multilevel analyses of data from 7287 adults from 55 cultural groups in 33 nations, we tested a new tripartite theoretical model of bases of self-continuity. As expected, perceptions of stability, sense of narrative…
Beyond the ‘east–west’ dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.
Markus and Kitayama's (1991) theory of independent and interdependent self-construals had a major influence on social, personality, and developmental psychology by highlighting the role of culture in psychological processes. However, research has relied excessively on contrasts between North American and East Asian samples, and commonly used self-report measures of independence and interdependence frequently fail to show predicted cultural differ…
Satisfaction with life and psychological symptoms among international students in Ghana and their correlates
Intended Self-Presentation Tactics in Job Interviews: A 10-Country Study
Intended self-presentation in job interviews was examined among university students in 10 countries ( N = 3,509). The aim was to assess cross-cultural differences in the endorsement of self-presentation tactics, and whether such differences could be explained by cultural values and socioeconomic variables. The Cultural Impression Management Scale-Applicant Scale (CIM-A) was used that measures assertiveness, individual excellence, accommodation, a…
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), sh…
Developing and Evaluating the Social Axioms Survey in Eleven Countries: Its Relationship With the Five-Factor Model of Personality
Based on a deductive, culturally decentered approach, new items were generated to improve the reliability of the original Social Axioms Survey, which measures individuals' general beliefs about the world. In Study 1, results from 11 countries support the original five-factor structure and achieve higher reliability for the axiom dimensions as measured by the new scale. Moreover, moderate but meaningful associations between axiom and Big-Five pers…
Values of Children among Sub-Saharan African Women: The Case of Ghanaian Women
This paper examines whether previously suggested reasons for having children: economic, social and psychological values of child can be identified among a group of sub-Sahara women, and the extent to which a spiritual value of child can be identified on the basis of African's belief in ancestors and its influence on their daily lives. Two groups of Ghanaian mothers—270 women (mean age = 42.14 years) with adolescent-aged child and 264 mothers (mea…
A Comparison of Sex Differences in Visual-Spatial Performance from Preadolescence to Adulthood in Ghana and Norway
This study examined sex-related differences in visual-spatial performance from a cross-cultural perspective by comparing cross-sectional data on four visual-spatial tests (measuring three spatial ability categories) on four different age groups (9, 12, 16 and adults) in Ghana and Norway. Reliable sex differences in favor of males were present in all age groups and their effect size magnitudes were practically constant over age in the two cultures…
Gender Differences in Spatial Abilities and Spatial Activity Among University Students in an Egalitarian Educational System
Sex Differences in Visual-Spatial Performance among Ghanaian and Norwegian Adults
Sex differences in spatial ability among adults in Western cultures are widely acknowledged, but few studies have assessed visual-spatial ability in non-Western subjects with tests that show the largest sex differences, and little is known whether effect sizes for different spatial ability categories are the same across cultures. This issue was addressed by using four visual spatial ability tests (water level, surface development, PMA space, and …
Developing and Evaluating the Social Axioms Survey in Eleven Countries: Its Relationship With the Five-Factor Model of Personality
Based on a deductive, culturally decentered approach, new items were generated to improve the reliability of the original Social Axioms Survey, which measures individuals' general beliefs about the world. In Study 1, results from 11 countries support the original five-factor structure and achieve higher reliability for the axiom dimensions as measured by the new scale. Moreover, moderate but meaningful associations between axiom and Big-Five pers…
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), sh…
Satisfaction with life and psychological symptoms among international students in Ghana and their correlates
Cyberbullying Victimization among High School and University Students in Ghana
This study sought to establish the extent of cyberbullying among students in Ghana, its consequences on the victims, and the characteristics of the victims. The study found that nearly all participants had experienced one form of cyberbullying before. Victims of cyberbullying were not very different from non-victims in psychological wellbeing. The effect of cyberbullying on psychological wellbeing was small, and no clear profile characterizing vi…
Sex Differences in Visual-Spatial Performance among Ghanaian and Norwegian Adults
Sex differences in spatial ability among adults in Western cultures are widely acknowledged, but few studies have assessed visual-spatial ability in non-Western subjects with tests that show the largest sex differences, and little is known whether effect sizes for different spatial ability categories are the same across cultures. This issue was addressed by using four visual spatial ability tests (water level, surface development, PMA space, and …
Assessing psychosocial distress associated with homelessness in Ghana: A springboard for interventional policy design
This study investigated the causes of homelessness in Ghana and associated psychosocial distress. A sample of 86 homeless participants listed perceived causes of their homelessness and completed measures of psychosocial distress, and 97 non-homeless participants completed the same measures psychosocial distress. Causes of homelessness among the participants included poverty (30.1%), migration (10.4%), unemployment (2.2%), parental demise (2.2%), …
Spirituality and subjective well-being of Ghanaian parents of children with special needs: The mediating role of resilience
The study explored the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between spirituality and subjective well-being of 107 Ghanaian biological parents raising children with special needs. Results from mediational analyses revealed that spirituality indirectly influenced life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect through resilience. Specifically, greater levels of spirituality predicted greater resilience, which successively led to …
Intended Self-Presentation Tactics in Job Interviews: A 10-Country Study
Intended self-presentation in job interviews was examined among university students in 10 countries ( N = 3,509). The aim was to assess cross-cultural differences in the endorsement of self-presentation tactics, and whether such differences could be explained by cultural values and socioeconomic variables. The Cultural Impression Management Scale-Applicant Scale (CIM-A) was used that measures assertiveness, individual excellence, accommodation, a…
Gender Differences in Spatial Abilities and Spatial Activity Among University Students in an Egalitarian Educational System
Sex Differences in Visual-Spatial Performance among Ghanaian and Norwegian Adults
Sex differences in spatial ability among adults in Western cultures are widely acknowledged, but few studies have assessed visual-spatial ability in non-Western subjects with tests that show the largest sex differences, and little is known whether effect sizes for different spatial ability categories are the same across cultures. This issue was addressed by using four visual spatial ability tests (water level, surface development, PMA space, and …
Gender Differences in Spatial Abilities and Spatial Activity Among University Students in an Egalitarian Educational System
A Comparison of Sex Differences in Visual-Spatial Performance from Preadolescence to Adulthood in Ghana and Norway
This study examined sex-related differences in visual-spatial performance from a cross-cultural perspective by comparing cross-sectional data on four visual-spatial tests (measuring three spatial ability categories) on four different age groups (9, 12, 16 and adults) in Ghana and Norway. Reliable sex differences in favor of males were present in all age groups and their effect size magnitudes were practically constant over age in the two cultures…
Values of Children among Sub-Saharan African Women: The Case of Ghanaian Women
This paper examines whether previously suggested reasons for having children: economic, social and psychological values of child can be identified among a group of sub-Sahara women, and the extent to which a spiritual value of child can be identified on the basis of African's belief in ancestors and its influence on their daily lives. Two groups of Ghanaian mothers—270 women (mean age = 42.14 years) with adolescent-aged child and 264 mothers (mea…
Developing and Evaluating the Social Axioms Survey in Eleven Countries: Its Relationship With the Five-Factor Model of Personality
Based on a deductive, culturally decentered approach, new items were generated to improve the reliability of the original Social Axioms Survey, which measures individuals' general beliefs about the world. In Study 1, results from 11 countries support the original five-factor structure and achieve higher reliability for the axiom dimensions as measured by the new scale. Moreover, moderate but meaningful associations between axiom and Big-Five pers…
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), sh…
Intended Self-Presentation Tactics in Job Interviews: A 10-Country Study
Intended self-presentation in job interviews was examined among university students in 10 countries ( N = 3,509). The aim was to assess cross-cultural differences in the endorsement of self-presentation tactics, and whether such differences could be explained by cultural values and socioeconomic variables. The Cultural Impression Management Scale-Applicant Scale (CIM-A) was used that measures assertiveness, individual excellence, accommodation, a…
Satisfaction with life and psychological symptoms among international students in Ghana and their correlates
Beyond the ‘east–west’ dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.
Markus and Kitayama's (1991) theory of independent and interdependent self-construals had a major influence on social, personality, and developmental psychology by highlighting the role of culture in psychological processes. However, research has relied excessively on contrasts between North American and East Asian samples, and commonly used self-report measures of independence and interdependence frequently fail to show predicted cultural differ…
Being oneself through time: Bases of self-continuity across 55 cultures
Self-continuity – the sense that one’s past, present, and future are meaningfully connected – is considered a defining feature of personal identity. However, bases of self-continuity may depend on cultural beliefs about personhood. In multilevel analyses of data from 7287 adults from 55 cultural groups in 33 nations, we tested a new tripartite theoretical model of bases of self-continuity. As expected, perceptions of stability, sense of narrative…
Cyberbullying Victimization among High School and University Students in Ghana
This study sought to establish the extent of cyberbullying among students in Ghana, its consequences on the victims, and the characteristics of the victims. The study found that nearly all participants had experienced one form of cyberbullying before. Victims of cyberbullying were not very different from non-victims in psychological wellbeing. The effect of cyberbullying on psychological wellbeing was small, and no clear profile characterizing vi…
Dipo Rites of Passage and Psychological Well-being Among Krobo Adolescent Females in Ghana: A Preliminary Study
Dipo is a historical rites of passage among the Krobo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The goal of Dipo is to assist pubertal girls in transitioning into adulthood by shaping moral values and social responsibilities, learning home management skills, and preventing risky sexual behavior. Differences in psychological distress among girls who had and had not participated in Dipo were examined in the current study. The sample included 145 adolescent f…
Spirituality and subjective well-being of Ghanaian parents of children with special needs: The mediating role of resilience
The study explored the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between spirituality and subjective well-being of 107 Ghanaian biological parents raising children with special needs. Results from mediational analyses revealed that spirituality indirectly influenced life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect through resilience. Specifically, greater levels of spirituality predicted greater resilience, which successively led to …
Assessing psychosocial distress associated with homelessness in Ghana: A springboard for interventional policy design
This study investigated the causes of homelessness in Ghana and associated psychosocial distress. A sample of 86 homeless participants listed perceived causes of their homelessness and completed measures of psychosocial distress, and 97 non-homeless participants completed the same measures psychosocial distress. Causes of homelessness among the participants included poverty (30.1%), migration (10.4%), unemployment (2.2%), parental demise (2.2%), …
Experiences Following Amputation among Amputees and Their Caregivers: An Exploratory Study in a Developing Country
Amputation is necessitated following an accident or a medical condition often to save a patient's life. Despite the existence of the procedure and the rising number of amputees in the Ghanaian context, the emotional experiences of both amputees and their caregivers following amputation has been largely ignored. This qualitative exploratory study explored the emotional experiences of amputees and their caregivers following amputation. Using a semi…
Effect of Early‐Life Lipid‐Based Nutrient Supplement and Home Environment on Autonomic Nervous System Regulation at 9–11 Years: A Follow‐Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Nutrition and the home environment contribute to the development of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). However, no study has examined the long-term effects of prenatal and postnatal small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) and home environment on ANS regulation. We investigated the effect of early-life SQ-LNS and home environment on ANS regulation at 9-11 years. Participants were children born to women who participated in a rando…
“After Cutting It, Things Have Never Remained the Same”: A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Amputees and Their Caregivers
INTRODUCTION: Physical and emotional loss from amputation and associated physical disability are associated with adverse physical and psychological experiences. However, little research, within the Ghanaian context, has focused on the impact of amputation on the well-being of amputees and their caregivers and the coping strategies they use to mitigate challenges experienced. Therefore, the present study explored the impact of amputation on the we…
‘We Become Tough and Strong … When We Are Able to Push Through’: Experiences of Children and Adolescents in Zongo Communities in Accra, Ghana
The Zongo communities have become epicentres for social vices such as drug use, sexual exploitation, violence and fraudulent activities. Despite these issues, little research has been done on the experiences of children and adolescents living in these communities. Therefore, this study explored the lived experiences of 10 children and adolescents in Zongo communities and how they cope with the challenges they experience. Findings from thematic an…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works)