Journal of Psychology in Africa最新文献

{"title":"How does organisational support improve job satisfaction? A moderated mediation analysis based on evidence from a global survey","authors":"Ye-Zhuang Tian, Yungui Guo","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2190227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2190227","url":null,"abstract":"We tested a moderated mediation model that examines the mediating role of personal accomplishment and the moderating role of work interest in the relationship between organisational support and job satisfaction among post-doctoral students/fellows. Our sample comprised 6 575 post-doctoral students/fellows from the 2020 Nature Survey. The result revealed that organisational support directly and positively related to job satisfaction, and indirectly related to job satisfaction via personal accomplishment. Work interest moderated the relationship between organisational support and personal accomplishment, and also moderated the mediating role of personal accomplishment in the relationship between organisational support and job satisfaction, associated with higher job satisfaction. The job demands-resources model may explain these findings in that job resources will generally produce positive psychological feelings, and ultimately raise job satisfaction. These findings deepen our understanding of the mechanisms for job satisfaction of early research career state employees considering organisation support and their personal factors.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43043277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors associated with breakup distress following a romantic relationship dissolution among emerging adult students","authors":"A. S. Van der Watt, A. Roos, E. Lesch, S. Seedat","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2190232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2190232","url":null,"abstract":"Romantic relationship dissolutions (RRDs) frequently occur among emerging adult students and can lead to significant distress. Little information is available regarding the factors associated with increased breakup distress among emerging adult students in low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to fill this gap in evidence. A purposive sample of emerging adult students (n = 886, female = 70.1%, black = 14.3%, mean age = 20.52 years, SD = 1.86 years) completed the Life Events Checklist (LEC), the Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaire (ACE), and the Breakup Distress Scale (BDS). Pearson’s correlations and analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were conducted to determine sociodemographic and life experience factors associated with BDS scores. Female sex, not being religious, being Catholic, identifying with a minority sexual orientation, and increased childhood adversity and lifetime trauma exposure were significantly associated with increased BDS scores. Current relationship status was not associated with BDS scores. Sociodemographic factors and adverse life events are important aspects to consider in the assessment of breakup distress. Student counselling services should provide targeted interventions among at-risk students following an RRD.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46815635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transition experiences of candidate attorneys in South African law firms","authors":"Nokwazi Sibiya, Velly Ndlovu, Marius W. Stander","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2190226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2190226","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the school-to-work transition experiences of new candidate attorneys within South African law firms. The participants included a purposive voluntary sample of 13 candidate attorneys (female = 76.9%, black = 69.2%, mean age = 24.7 years). They completed semi-structured in-depth interviews on the barriers and facilitators of their transition experiences in the working world as new employees leaving university. Thematic analysis of the data identified the following school-to-work transition barriers: (i) adapting to the world of work; (ii) misaligned, high and unrealistic expectations; (iii) organisational culture; and (iv) candidate attorneys’ experience. The candidate attorneys identified (v) positive organisational socialisation, and (vi) coping strategies as school-to-work facilitators. The findings indicate a need for work induction support programmes and workplace culture changes to mitigate the barriers candidate attorneys experience when entering the world of work.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47508405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"College students’ aesthetic affection and prosocial behaviour: The role of empathy","authors":"Quanwei Shen, Yuanyuan Wu, Xu Li, Jiamei Lu","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2182022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2182022","url":null,"abstract":"Two studies were conducted to explore the influence of college students’ aesthetic affection on prosocial behaviour and the role of empathy. In Study 1, 343 college students completed the Chinese College Students Aesthetic Affection Questionnaire (CCSAAQ), the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI-C), and the Measure of Prosocial Tendencies (PTM-C). The results showed that students with higher aesthetic affection and trait empathy also had higher prosocial behaviour. Trait empathy partially mediated the relationship between aesthetic affection and prosocial behaviour. More specifically, aesthetic affection can directly promote prosocial behaviour and can indirectly promote prosocial behaviour through trait empathy. In Study 2, 121 students completed a behavioural “Dictator Game” experiment (two factors between-subject design) with manipulation of aesthetic affection (high group/low group) and state empathy (induction group/control group) to investigate effects on helping behaviour. The results suggested that induction state empathy and high aesthetic affection can lead to more helping behaviour (donation amount) and that state empathy can promote the helping behaviour of college students with low aesthetic affection. Based these findings, we conclude that empathy plays an important role in strengthening the relationship between aesthetic affection and prosocial behaviour.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44032435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"African Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition","authors":"Eunice Njeri Mvungu","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2190225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2190225","url":null,"abstract":"Journal of Psychology in Africa is co-published by NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group) African Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition is a ground-breaking foundational text for the new field of African psychology by one of the field’s principal spokespersons . Augustine Nwoye has mapped the contours of this emerging field, assigning it a definition, and unravelling its scope and contents . In Chapter 1 of the book, Nwoye opines that the new field of African psychology in continental Africa has come into being to challenge and partner with Western psychology imported to Africa in the promotion of inclusive psychological knowledge in universities in Africa and the wider world . Therefore, Nwoye has finally written a timely and much-awaited eloquent and scholarly contribution to this emerging field of continental African psychology tailored to the interests and needs of university scholars and students in Africa and the global world . The book consists of four uneven parts, encompassing 19 chapters in all . Part I, made up of three chapters and running from page 3–90, presents the background to the entire book and foregrounds the need for the emergence of a tradition of inclusion in the study of psychology degree programs in African and global universities . Part II (encompassing pp . 91–296) consists of eight chapters and foregrounds the epistemological, methodological, and theoretical perspectives in African psychology . Explaining (in the book’s Preface), Nwoye states that “the principal goal of the Section is to illustrate some of the efforts that scholars of continental African psychology are making to unbind themselves from the restrictive ways of doing psychology as propagated in mainstream Western psychology” (p . x) . He notes that his fundamental objective in addressing the specific issues in Section 2 is to: provide a warrant and direction for considering continental African psychology as a legitimate and autonomous postcolonial field of psychology endowed with decolonized epistemologies and methodologies and its own cultural and critical orientation to psychological scholarship (p . x) . One aspect of Part III of the book, consisting of three chapters (covering pp . 297–370) and introduces the reader to the field of African therapeutics including the perspectives and approaches on which African psychological healing systems in continental Africa are grounded. The objective of Part IV, which comprises five chapters and runs from page 371–464, is to highlight the healing rituals and practices which the culture and the community in indigenous and rural Africa provide to the traumatised to enable them to transcend the challenges of their complicated everyday experience in contemporary Africa . I now give some brief and random descriptions of certain selected chapters of the book to illustrate the focus and the wide scope of this very illuminating and magisterial book . In this regard, I highlight the i","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47265164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Core self-evaluations and job embeddedness: Influences on career adaptability and work engagement in Nigerian public sector employees","authors":"Cornelius O. Okorie, F. Nwankwo, H. Iwuala, M. Agudiegwu, Samuel O. Nnadi, J. Nkwede, C. K. Nwachukwu, C. Arua, Kenneth Osuebi, E. Ejem, Emmanuel S. Chigbata","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2182011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2182011","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the mediation effect of job embeddedness and the moderating effect of core self-evaluation in the relationship between career adaptability and work engagement among a sample of 387 employees of 12 local government areas of Nigeria (female = 42.89%, male = 57.11%; with bachelor’s degrees = 35.66%, below bachelor’s degrees = 64.34%). Data were collected using standardised measures of job embeddedness, core self-evaluation, career adaptability, and work engagement at two-time points in two months. Following regression analyses, results indicated that career adaptability was higher with work engagement and job embeddedness. Core self-evaluation moderated the direct effect of career adaptability on employee work engagement and the indirect effect of career adaptability on employee work engagement via job embeddedness, thereby increasing work engagement. The findings suggest career adaptability as a critical resource for employee work engagement with job embeddedness and positive core self-evaluations.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49033480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Work engagement and job-related well-being: The moderation by public service work motivation","authors":"Zhi Li, N. Chen","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2195700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2195700","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the relationship between civil servants’ work engagement and job-related well-being, and how it is moderated by work motivation. Participant were 496 Chinese civil servants (female = 41.7%; mean age = 40.5 years, SD = 14.14 years, 93.3% were 26-55 years old; managers = 57.5%). The participants completed surveys on work engagement, job-related well-being, and work motivation. Following moderation analyses, results indicated that moderate work engagement is optimal for job-related well-being. Further, work motivation moderated the relationship between work engagement and job-related well-being, such that the relationship was weakened when work motivation was high. In addition, younger age and working at the administrative level were associated with lower job-related well-being. Findings are consistent with the conservation of resources theory in that excessive work engagement reduces job-related well-being, resulting in resource scarcity. High work motivation buffers the effect of work engagement on job-related well-being.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48457604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Self-efficacy and career resilience: The mediating role of professional identity and work passion in kindergarten teachers","authors":"Yanfang Zhou, ShuZhen Chen, Xiaojie Deng, Sihui Wang, Leishan Shi","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2207052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2207052","url":null,"abstract":"We aimed to examine the mediating role of kindergarten teachers’ professional identity and work passion in the relationship between self-efficacy and career resilience. A sample of 662 kindergarten teachers from 30 kindergartens in China completed online surveys (female = 99.2%; mean age = 29.38 years, SD = 2.78 years; mean tenure = 9.27 years, SD = 2.21 years). We collected data on their self-efficacy, professional identity, career resilience, and work passion using validated measures. Structural equation modelling and mediating effect estimation analyses indicated that teacher self-efficacy positively predicted career resilience. Both professional identity and work passion separately mediated the relationship between self-efficacy and career resilience. Furthermore, professional identity and work passion had a chain mediating effect on the relationship between self-efficacy and career resilience, strengthening this relationship. These findings are consistent with work well-being theory. Based on these findings, we propose a need for school systems to support teachers in their professional identity and work passion for greater work well-being.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43964267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"College students’ loneliness and problematic mobile phone use: Mediation by fear of missing out","authors":"Qishan Zheng, Sisi Liu, Jianhong Zheng, Maojin Gu, Wuming He","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2182033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2182033","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the relationship between loneliness and problematic mobile phone use among university students, as well as the mediating role of fear of missing out in that relationship. College undergraduates (n = 233; female = 51.1%; first-year students = 12.9%; mean age = 22.50 years, SD =1.70 years) from several Chinese provinces completed the University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale, The shortened Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale, and the Fear of Missing Out Scale. Statistical analysis confirmed the positive correlation among loneliness, problematic mobile phone use, and fear of missing out. Following multiple regression analysis, results showed that demographic variables including age, sex, and place of hometown did not predict problematic mobile phone use. These findings suggest that the fear of missing out has a significant influence on how college students manage their loneliness and problematic mobile phone use.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45782140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identity processing styles and personal growth initiative in college students: The mediating role of cultural tightness–looseness","authors":"Precious Lucille Moakamela, I. Khumalo","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2190224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2190224","url":null,"abstract":"Cultural norms and their regulation in society account for individual behaviour and related psychological processes. This study investigated if and how cultural norm regulation mediated the relationship between identity processing styles and intentional personal growth. A sample of 613 students (mean age = 19.72 years, SD = 1.67 years; female = 454, 74.1%) completed the Revised Identity Styles Inventory-5; the Personal Growth Initiative Scale-2; and the Cultural Tightness– Looseness Scale. To investigate the hypothesised mediation, we tested direct and indirect effects models in Mplus. Of the 14 possible direct effects between the two viable identity styles (informational and diffuse-avoidant) and four dimensions of personal growth initiative (readiness for change, planfulness, using resources, and intentional behaviour), 12 were significant. And of the 12 pathways, only three were mediated by cultural tightness, namely informational style to readiness for change, planfulness, and intentional behaviour. The findings demonstrate the value of strict cultural norm regulation in facilitating intentional personal growth in this group.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48781205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}