M P Wissing
Biographic Data
| ID | 135746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M P Wissing |
| GIVEN NAMES | M P |
| FAMILY NAME | Wissing |
| SIGNATURE | WISSING M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0445-6246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rasch and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Community Wellbeing Index: A Multicountry Validation Study
Community wellbeing assessment is of growing interest in governance and policy-making. This study investigated the validity and reliability of the Community Wellbeing Index (CWI), assessing community wellbeing from an individual’s perspective, across independent international datasets. The CWI was translated from the original Spanish into English and Setswana and was administered to participants from established research cohorts in Spain ( n = 1,…
Relational importance in early and middle adulthood age groups in South Africa
We explored the relational importance in early and middle adulthood in a South African setting. Informants were 52 participants (female = 58%, African language speaking = 31%, age range = 18–65; younger adults = 50%). Data on the types of important relationships and the reasons behind the importance for the different age groups were collected through semi-structured, open-ended questions. Thematic analysis indicated family, friends, and spiritual…
The Inspired Life Program: Development of a multicomponent positive psychology intervention for rural adults in Ghana
Although several theories and studies have explored human strengths and mental well-being at the global level, these insights are rarely tested and translated into practice in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aims to describe the development of a 10-session multicomponent positive psychology intervention, the Inspired Life Program (ILP), designed to promote mental health and reduce symptoms of depression and negative affect in rural adults in Ghana…
"Beyond the "Third Wave of Positive Psychology: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Research
The positive psychology (PP) landscape is changing, and its initial identity is being challenged. Moving beyond the "third wave of PP," two roads for future research and practice in well-being studies are discerned: The first is the state of the art PP trajectory that will (for the near future) continue as a scientific (sub)discipline in/next to psychology (because of its popular brand name). The second trajectory (main focus of this manuscript) …
Factor structure and measurement invariance of the Basic Psychological Needs Scale in three South African samples: A bifactor exploratory structural equation modelling approach
The Basic Psychological Needs Scale (BPNS) is still being used but validation studies that applied confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed that the scale has inadequate psychometric properties. CFA is based upon restrictive statistical assumptions that may result in biased parameter estimates. There are statistical developments that overcome these limitations. This study explored the factorial validity of the scale in three South African stud…
Validation of the Stress Overload Scale and Stress Overload Scale–Short Form among a Setswana-speaking community in South Africa
Although there has been extensive research on the phenomenon of stress, there is still a lack of assessment tools, especially in the South African context, that have strong theoretical underpinnings, tapping into both internal depletion of resources and the excessive external demands from the environment in the measurement of stress. The aim of this study was to validate the Setswana version of the original 30-item long form of the Stress Overloa…
Validation of the Basic Psychological Needs Scale in a South African student group
The aim of this study was to validate the English version of the Basic Psychological Needs Scale with subscales Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness in a South African student sample. The participants were a nonprobability sample of 322 students from a South African university. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the scale’s factorial validity. Neither a one-factor nor a three-factor model fitted the original 21-item scale. After pr…
Representations of Hope, Goals, and Meaning From Lay Person’s Perspectives in Two African Contexts
In the rapidly expanding field of positive psychology, a core question is now what the relationships among various positive constructs are and how we can understand this in various contexts. We aimed to explore the possible nomological network linking the constructs hope, goals, and meaning from a bottom-up Africentric perspective in two African contexts (Ghana and South Africa) among samples of 18 emerging adults between the ages of 18 and 25 ye…
Clarifying the Factor Structure of the Mental Health Continuum Short Form in Three Languages: A Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Approach
The Mental Health Continuum Short Form measures both the private and public aspects of overall positive mental health. This study explored the factor structure of English (n = 324), Afrikaans (n = 476), and Setswana (n = 258) versions of the scale among culturally diverse South African students. A bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling model displayed superior fit, with the overall scale but not the subscales attaining sufficient relia…
Lay Definitions of Happiness across Nations: The Primacy of Inner Harmony and Relational Connectedness
In well-being research the term happiness is often used as synonymous with life satisfaction. However, little is known about lay people's understanding of happiness. Building on the available literature, this study explored lay definitions of happiness across nations and cultural dimensions, analyzing their components and relationship with participants' demographic features. Participants were 2799 adults (age range = 30-60, 50% women) living in u…
Presence of meaning and search for meaning as mediators between spirituality and psychological well-being in a South African sample
Spirituality and meaning in life are important pathways to well-being. Research has conceptually and empirically linked spirituality, religiousness and meaning in life. The present study was concerned with investigating presence of meaning (MLQ-P) and search for meaning (MLQ-S) as mediators between spirituality (religious and existential well-being) and hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. A multi-cultural sample of 326 South African students compl…
Meaning and relational well-being: A reflection on the state of the art and a way forward
This paper provides a brief overview of facets of meaning and relational well-being highlighting the foci of current research on meaning, relationships as sources of meaning, contextual relevance and meta-theoretical assumptions. Lacunae in knowledge are indicated and a model proposed as framework for further research on meaning and relational well-being which was the focused topic of this special issue
Meaning and relational well-being in cross-cultural perspectives
There has been a strong growth in research on meaning in the past decade and many strands of research are culminating in the affirmation of the importance of meaning in life and relational well-bei
Meaning as perceived and experienced by an African student group
This qualitative study explored what a Batswana group of African students (N = 73) find most meaningful in their life and why those sources of meaning are important to them. Findings showed that, in line with previous Western studies, the most important source of meaning is relationships, and in particular family which provides support, but is also intrinsically valuable. Relatedness in this African group is also different from Western conceptual…
Validation of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire in a South African context
The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) in a South African sample. A multi-cultural group of undergraduate students (N = 326) completed the MLQ and other measures. Descriptive statistics, reliability, inter-item correlations, construct and convergent validity are reported. Internal consistency indices indicate satisfactory reliability for both the Presence of Meaning (MLQ-P) …
Psychological Well-Being Among Tanzanian University Students
This study explored the prevalence of levels of psychological well-being in a group of Tanzanian university students. A quantitative cross-sectional survey design was implemented for data-gathering. A convenience sample of 279 undergraduate students (19 to 40 years, mean age 29 years) from three church-related universities completed the Mental Health Continuum—Short Form (MHC-SF) as measure of levels of well-being. Descriptive statistics and reli…
Well-Being in the Batswana Cultural Context: Constructs and Measures
The study investigated wellbeing in a Setswana-speaking sample. Participants (n=459, males =141 females =318; 22% = aged between 30 and 40 years) completed the General Psychological Well-being Scale (GPWS: Khumalo, Temane & Wissing, 2010) and the Mental Health Continuum Short-Form (MHC-SF: Keyes, 2005b). Data were analyzed applying classical test theory (CTT), structural equation modelling (SEM; measurement model) and item response theory (IRT; R…
Guidelines with Strategies for Enhancement of Resilience and Psycho-Social Well-Being in Professional Nurses
There are currently no guidelines available for enhancement of resilience in professional nurses. This study aims to provide broad guidelines with specific strategies that may enhance resilience and psycho-social well-being in professional nurses. These guidelines are based findings from previous qualitative research on resilience in professional nurses in the public and private sector in South Africa. We used Kumpfer's (1999) theoretical model o…
Psychosocial Health of an African Group before Awareness of HIV Status: A Comparative Study
This study aimed to explore the psychosocial health profiles of people with and without HIV before they learned their infection status. A total of 1,025 participants (males = 386, females = 639, age range = between 32 and 87, infected = 153) completed questionnaires on psychosocial well-being and were tested for HIV. Participants who were infected with HIV had a lower sense of coherence and a lower capacity to succeed in joint community activitie…
Coping Self-Efficacy as Mediator in the Dynamics of Psychological Well-Being in Various Contexts
The aim of this study was to explore whether coping self-efficacy mediates between various distress related variables on the one hand (symptoms of stress and depression), and the degree of psycho-social well-being as measured on the upper end of the mental health continuum on the other hand. Participants were two multi-cultural student groups (n1 = 568; n2=1480) as well as two community samples of Setswana speaking adults (n3=477; n4=1275). Stude…
Socio-Demographic Variables, General Psychological Well-Being and the Mental Health Continuum in an African Context
The Eudaimonic and Hedonic Components of Happiness: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings
Psychosocial Well-being in a Group of South African Adolescents
The aim of this study was to explore the psychosocial well-being of a group of South African adolescents. Participants (N=665, ages 15–17 years; males = 214, females = 451) from three high schools completed questionnaires on psychosocial well-being. Structured interviews were also conducted with 24 participants selected from various levels of functioning as established quantitatively. Quantitative findings indicate that 60% of the adolescents had…
Self-efficacy, Work, and Psychological Outcomes in a Public Service Context
The study examined the prediction of psychological outcomes (conceptualized as psychological well-being and engagement) by general self-efficacy (GSE) and work context (conceptualized as job demands and job resources). The role of GSE as a moderator between work context and psychological outcomes was also examined in a cross-sectional survey of a sample of public sector employees (N = 459: males = 151, females = 273, and age ranging between 25 an…
Development and Initial Validation of a General Psychological Well-being Scale (GPWS) in an African Context
This study aimed to develop and validate the General Psychological Well-being Scale (GPWS) in an African sample, based on the empirical overlap between hedonic and eudaimonic facets of well-being as found in previous research. The quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted in three phases: secondary data analysis (n = 2005), pilot study (n = 296) and main study (n = 459). The pilot and main study included the GPWS as well as other psycholog…
The Eudaimonic and Hedonic Components of Happiness: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings
Empirical Clarification of the Nature of Psychological Well-Being
An analysis of the literature revealed that conceptualizations of the nature of psychological well-being are very diverse, and that it is still unclear what the nature and/or dimensions of psychological well-being are. Scales based on several models and constructs from diverse theoretical traditions were completed by a multicultural group of 550 participants. The validity of the scales for use in this particular group was determined. The manifest…
Gender Differences in Aspects of Psychological Well-Being
The aim of this study was to determine whether men and women differ with regard to aspects of psychological well-being. For the purposes of this study, a meta-analysis was performed on data from a trans-university project, involving a multicultural availability sample of 378. The participants each completed 13 scales that measure psychological well-being in affective, physical, cognitive, spiritual, self and social aspects. Statistically signific…
Socio-Demographic Variables, General Psychological Well-Being and the Mental Health Continuum in an African Context
The Role of Spirituality as a Mediator for Psychological Well-Being across Different Contexts
The purpose of this study was to determine whether spirituality mediates between context and psychological well-being. Context was defined in terms of differentials pertaining to race, socio-economic indices and infrastructural resources. An availability sample of 514 participants from Potchefstroom ( n = 384) and Mafikeng ( n = 130), North West Province, completed measurements on spirituality and psychological well-being. Regression analyses ind…
Biopsychosocial Determinants of Self-Management in Culturally Diverse South African Patients with Essential Hypertension
Associations between self-management and biopsychosocial variables in a group of Afrikaans- ( n= 102) and Sotho-speaking ( n= 94) patients with essential hypertension (EH) were investigated. Self-management in terms of predetermined criteria for medical and lifestyle prescriptions was achieved by only 30.6 per cent of the participants. Significant differences were found between self-managing and non self-managing participants regarding language a…
"Beyond the "Third Wave of Positive Psychology: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Research
The positive psychology (PP) landscape is changing, and its initial identity is being challenged. Moving beyond the "third wave of PP," two roads for future research and practice in well-being studies are discerned: The first is the state of the art PP trajectory that will (for the near future) continue as a scientific (sub)discipline in/next to psychology (because of its popular brand name). The second trajectory (main focus of this manuscript) …
Sport Participation, Psychological Well-Being, and Psychosocial Development in a Group of Young Black Adults
The purpose of this study was to determine whether young black adults who participate in sport differ in psychological well-being and psychosocial development from those who do not participate actively in sport. An availability sample of 293 students between 20 and 35 years old from three tertiary institutions in South Africa completed self-report measures of psychological well-being and psychosocial development. The reliability and validity of t…
The Role of Subjective Perception of Health in the Dynamics of Context and Psychological Well-Being
The purpose of this study was to establish the role played by subjective perceptions of physical health in the relationship between psychological well-being and two social contexts that are stratified by socio-economic differentials pertaining to race, socio-economic indices and infrastructural resources. An availability sample of 514 participants from Potchefstroom ( n = 384) and Mafikeng ( n = 130), North West Province, completed questionnaires…
Representations of Hope, Goals, and Meaning From Lay Person’s Perspectives in Two African Contexts
In the rapidly expanding field of positive psychology, a core question is now what the relationships among various positive constructs are and how we can understand this in various contexts. We aimed to explore the possible nomological network linking the constructs hope, goals, and meaning from a bottom-up Africentric perspective in two African contexts (Ghana and South Africa) among samples of 18 emerging adults between the ages of 18 and 25 ye…
Functional Hemispheric Asymmetry and Psychological Differentiation
A differentiation model is proposed in which a relationship between neuropsychological (perceptual) differentiation on the one hand, and psychological (personality) differentiation on the other hand is hypothesized. An empirical investigation of the basic hypothesis is reported. The fit of the global model to empirical data is evaluated with the aid of the RAMONA program for path analysis with latent variables. In the advanced model differentiati…
Rasch and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Community Wellbeing Index: A Multicountry Validation Study
Community wellbeing assessment is of growing interest in governance and policy-making. This study investigated the validity and reliability of the Community Wellbeing Index (CWI), assessing community wellbeing from an individual’s perspective, across independent international datasets. The CWI was translated from the original Spanish into English and Setswana and was administered to participants from established research cohorts in Spain ( n = 1,…
The Inspired Life Program: Development of a multicomponent positive psychology intervention for rural adults in Ghana
Although several theories and studies have explored human strengths and mental well-being at the global level, these insights are rarely tested and translated into practice in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aims to describe the development of a 10-session multicomponent positive psychology intervention, the Inspired Life Program (ILP), designed to promote mental health and reduce symptoms of depression and negative affect in rural adults in Ghana…
Validation of the Stress Overload Scale and Stress Overload Scale–Short Form among a Setswana-speaking community in South Africa
Although there has been extensive research on the phenomenon of stress, there is still a lack of assessment tools, especially in the South African context, that have strong theoretical underpinnings, tapping into both internal depletion of resources and the excessive external demands from the environment in the measurement of stress. The aim of this study was to validate the Setswana version of the original 30-item long form of the Stress Overloa…
Prevalence of Violence against Women: Distress, Coping and Psychological Well-Being. Surviving the Fire
The aims of this study were to establish the prevalence of violence in a sample of women in the North West Province of South Africa, and to determine whether a higher frequency of experiences of violence are associated with more distress and differences in coping strategies and levels of psychological well-being. A stratified, random population-based sample of 387 participants completed several questionnaires in a cross-sectional survey design wi…
The Psychosocial Implications of Mastectomy for Married Women and Their Spouses
Women's breasts have symbolic and psychological significance beyond their functional value, therefore mastectomy may have negative psychosocial consequences in the marital situation. This study explored the psychosocial experience of 28 white females (mean age 50 years), who had undergone mastectomy in comparison with a group of 19 women who had had benign breast tumors removed. The experience of the spouses of both groups were also explored. Dat…
Die digotiese stimuleringstegniek en funksionele hemisferiese asimmetrie: Evaluering van perseptuele, aandags- en geheuemodelle
Die laterale responsasimmetrie wat ná digotiese stimulering blyk, is op verskeie maniere verklaar. Dieselfde verklaringskonsepte as wat na aanleiding van bevindinge in die ouditiewe modaliteit geformuleer is, is sonder sistematiese en omvattende evaluering oorgeneem ter verklaring van soortgelyke asimmetrieë in die visuele, taktiele en motoriese modaliteite. In hierdie studie is die vyf mees algemene verklaringsmodelle geïdentifiseer, toetsbare a…
The Psychosocial Implications of Mastectomy for Married Women and Their Spouses
Women's breasts have symbolic and psychological significance beyond their functional value, therefore mastectomy may have negative psychosocial consequences in the marital situation. This study explored the psychosocial experience of 28 white females (mean age 50 years), who had undergone mastectomy in comparison with a group of 19 women who had had benign breast tumors removed. The experience of the spouses of both groups were also explored. Dat…
Expression of Aggression and Personality Functioning in Selected Groups of White Criminal Offenders
The purpose of the study was to investigate the role of aggression in the personality functioning of murderers by comparing them with assaulters, thieves and a group of non-offenders. It was hypothesized that (1) murderers from the New Zonderwater Prison differ from murderers in the other prisons with regard to the expression of aggression as measured by the Buss-Durkee Hostility Scale, and (2) thieves, assaulters, murderers, and non-offenders di…
Functional Hemispheric Asymmetry and Psychological Differentiation
A differentiation model is proposed in which a relationship between neuropsychological (perceptual) differentiation on the one hand, and psychological (personality) differentiation on the other hand is hypothesized. An empirical investigation of the basic hypothesis is reported. The fit of the global model to empirical data is evaluated with the aid of the RAMONA program for path analysis with latent variables. In the advanced model differentiati…
Functional Hemispheric Asymmetry and Impaired vs. Optimal Psychological Functioning: Evaluation of a Model
The aim of this study was to propose and evaluate a model in which differential relationships are hypothesized between the nature and degree of functional hemispheric asymmetry (FHA), or neuropsychological differentiation on the one hand, and optimal or healthy personality functioning (OPF) vs. impaired personality functioning (IPF), on the other. FHA is operationalized by means of indices of the degree of left-hemisphere specialization for proce…
Empirical Clarification of the Nature of Psychological Well-Being
An analysis of the literature revealed that conceptualizations of the nature of psychological well-being are very diverse, and that it is still unclear what the nature and/or dimensions of psychological well-being are. Scales based on several models and constructs from diverse theoretical traditions were completed by a multicultural group of 550 participants. The validity of the scales for use in this particular group was determined. The manifest…
Biopsychosocial Determinants of Self-Management in Culturally Diverse South African Patients with Essential Hypertension
Associations between self-management and biopsychosocial variables in a group of Afrikaans- ( n= 102) and Sotho-speaking ( n= 94) patients with essential hypertension (EH) were investigated. Self-management in terms of predetermined criteria for medical and lifestyle prescriptions was achieved by only 30.6 per cent of the participants. Significant differences were found between self-managing and non self-managing participants regarding language a…
Gender Differences in Aspects of Psychological Well-Being
The aim of this study was to determine whether men and women differ with regard to aspects of psychological well-being. For the purposes of this study, a meta-analysis was performed on data from a trans-university project, involving a multicultural availability sample of 378. The participants each completed 13 scales that measure psychological well-being in affective, physical, cognitive, spiritual, self and social aspects. Statistically signific…
The nutrition and health transition in the North West Province of South Africa: A review of the THUSA (Transition and Health during Urbanisation of South Africans) study
Objective To describe how urbanisation influences the nutrition and health transition in South Africa by using data from the THUSA (Transition and Health during Urbanisation of South Africans) study. Design The THUSA study was a cross-sectional, comparative, population-based survey. Setting The North West Province of South Africa. Subjects In total, 1854 apparently healthy volunteers, men and women aged 15 years and older, from 37 randomly select…
Prevalence of Violence against Women: Distress, Coping and Psychological Well-Being. Surviving the Fire
The aims of this study were to establish the prevalence of violence in a sample of women in the North West Province of South Africa, and to determine whether a higher frequency of experiences of violence are associated with more distress and differences in coping strategies and levels of psychological well-being. A stratified, random population-based sample of 387 participants completed several questionnaires in a cross-sectional survey design wi…
Predictors of South African male testosterone levels: The THUSA study
The process of urbanization occurring in many developing countries may have consequences for reproductive endocrine function. Here, we test predictions concerning variation in South African male testosterone levels among subgroups across an urbanization gradient representing differences in both geography and socioeconomic status. Subjects included 364 males aged between 20 and 82 comprising a cross‐sectional study conducted between 1996 and 1998.…
The Role of Spirituality as a Mediator for Psychological Well-Being across Different Contexts
The purpose of this study was to determine whether spirituality mediates between context and psychological well-being. Context was defined in terms of differentials pertaining to race, socio-economic indices and infrastructural resources. An availability sample of 514 participants from Potchefstroom ( n = 384) and Mafikeng ( n = 130), North West Province, completed measurements on spirituality and psychological well-being. Regression analyses ind…
The Role of Subjective Perception of Health in the Dynamics of Context and Psychological Well-Being
The purpose of this study was to establish the role played by subjective perceptions of physical health in the relationship between psychological well-being and two social contexts that are stratified by socio-economic differentials pertaining to race, socio-economic indices and infrastructural resources. An availability sample of 514 participants from Potchefstroom ( n = 384) and Mafikeng ( n = 130), North West Province, completed questionnaires…
Psychological Well-Being and the Metabolic Syndrome in African and Caucasian Women in South Africa
This study explored the association between comprehensive psychological well-being and the metabolic syndrome (MS), as well as whether women without MS markers differ significantly from women with MS (three or more markers) on specific facets of psychological well-being. African (N=102) and Caucasian (N=115) women completed self-report questionnaires on psychological well-being, and biological markers for MS were determined. Results indicated a s…
Sport Participation, Psychological Well-Being, and Psychosocial Development in a Group of Young Black Adults
The purpose of this study was to determine whether young black adults who participate in sport differ in psychological well-being and psychosocial development from those who do not participate actively in sport. An availability sample of 293 students between 20 and 35 years old from three tertiary institutions in South Africa completed self-report measures of psychological well-being and psychosocial development. The reliability and validity of t…
Evaluation of the mental health continuum–short form (MHC–SF) in setswana‐speaking South Africans
A continuous assessment and a categorical diagnosis of the presence of mental health, described as flourishing, and the absence of mental health, characterized as languishing, is applied to a random sample of 1050 Setswana‐speaking adults in the Northwest province of South Africa. Factor analysis revealed that the mental health continuum–short form (MHC–SF) replicated the three‐factor structure of emotional, psychological and social well‐being fo…
Validation of a Coping Scale in an African Context
The research aims were to compile and validate a multi-dimensional coping measure, taking African-centred coping behaviour into consideration. In a pilot study the Setswana-COPE (S-COPE) and the Africultural Coping Systems Inventory (ACSI) were administered to Setswana-speaking participants (N = 274). Selected items from these measures were combined into a single 35-item measure, the N-COPE, which was administered to another group of Setswana-spe…
The Design and Evaluation of a Hope Enhancement Programme for Adults
The study evaluated the effectiveness of a hope enhancement programme for a group of adults and its impact on general psychological well-being. The intervention programme focused on participants' abilities to set feasible goals, planning ways to reach those goals (pathways) and increase determination and motivation (agency) to reach these goals. The workshop-format programme, consisted of six two-hour sessions conducted over five days. A pre and …
Validation of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth (VIA-Youth) Among South African learners
This study investigated the reliability and validity of the Values in Action Inventory for Youth (VIA-Youth) of Park and Peterson (2006) in a total multi-cultural group of South African learners aged 13 to 17 years (N=1691: male = 703, female = 988). Descriptive statistics, reliability coefficients and correlations were calculated, and confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were performed. Acceptable reliability coefficients were obtained f…
Psychometric Properties of Various Scales Measuring Psychological Well-Being in a South African Context: The Fort 1 Project
The aim of this study was to do a first phase screening of psychometric properties of various scales measuring facets of psychological well-being so as to address further questions in the FORT 1 project (FORT 1 = Clarifying the nature of psychological strengths). All scales (except one) were developed in a Western context, and measure facets of cognitive, affective, conative, social, and spiritual psychological well-being. As it could not be assu…
Validation of a Community Collective Efficacy Scale in an African Context
The aim of this study was to validate a community collective efficacy scale in an African context. An abridged version of the Community Collective Efficacy Scale was validated in a cross-sectional survey design. Participants (N = 1050) from urban (n = 451) and rural (n = 599) areas completed the CCES and other measures of self-efficacy and psychological well-being. Results indicated a Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of 0.72 and satisfactor…
Exploring the Validity of the Values-In-Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) in an African Context
This study explored the validity of the Values-In-Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) in an African context. A convenience sample of 256 African students completed the VIA-IS in English. The majority of strengths subscales had good reliability coefficients and mean scores comparable to those reported in a Western context. Satisfactory criterion-related validity was established through correlations with other well-being indices. First and secon…
The Role of Personality Factors in the Dynamics of Context and Psychological Well-Being
The purpose of this study was to determine personality factors that mediate between context and psychological well-being. A convenience sample of 514 mutlicultural participants from Potchefstroom (n=384) and Mafikeng (n=130) comprising mainly of black and white students was drawn. The participants completed measures on extraversion and agreeableness and psychological well-being in a cross-sectional survey. Context was defined in terms of differen…
The Structure of Psychological Well-Being in Cultural Context: Towards a Hierarchical Model of Psychological Health
This study explored whether an overlap exists in the empirical manifestations of various constructs for psychological well-being. Secondary factor analyses were conducted on data obtained from four studies, comprising 2,024 participants from relatively individualist and collectivist cultural contexts. Questionnaires varied in data sets and measured facets of affective, cognitive, conative, spiritual, interpersonal and social well-being. Results s…
Emotional Intelligence, Work, and Psychological Outcomes in a Public Service Context
This study examines the role of emotional intelligence in the relationship between work context (conceptualised as job demands and job resources) and psychological outcomes (conceptualised as engagement and psychological well-being) in a sample of public sector employees (N=459). The Job Demands-Resources Scale (Rothmann et al., 2006), the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (Schaufeli et al., 2002), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener et al., 198…
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