Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2258005
Baoyan Yang, Xiaoyue Zhao, Mengmeng Zhu, Yiting Wang, Qiaoqiao Du
This study examines the relationship between self-perceived physical attractiveness and materialism, and the mediating role of subjective social class in that relationship. Participants were 375 Chinese college students (female = 79%; sophomore = 29%; mean age = 21.99; SD = 2.75) who completed a series of questionnaires. Following hierarchical regression analysis and bootstrap analysis, results indicated self-perceived physical attractiveness positively predicted subjective social class and materialism. Subjective social class played a mediating role between self-perceived physical attractiveness and materialism. When self-perceived physical attractiveness is low, accompanied by a decrease in subjective social class, the level of materialism will tend to increase significantly; when self-perceived physical attractiveness is high, accompanied by a rise in subjective social class, the level of materialism will decrease significantly. These findings are explained by China’s “face” culture through which beauty is a symbolic capital for maintaining self-identity reputation and status, consistent with the views of the social capital and the functional theory of materialism. Accordingly, equitable college student cultivation and development services should support college students for healthy physical aesthetic standards and materialism values regardless of self-perceived physical attractiveness or social class.
{"title":"Beauty and materiality: Subjective social class mediation of self-perceived physical attractiveness and materialism in Chinese college students","authors":"Baoyan Yang, Xiaoyue Zhao, Mengmeng Zhu, Yiting Wang, Qiaoqiao Du","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2258005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2258005","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the relationship between self-perceived physical attractiveness and materialism, and the mediating role of subjective social class in that relationship. Participants were 375 Chinese college students (female = 79%; sophomore = 29%; mean age = 21.99; SD = 2.75) who completed a series of questionnaires. Following hierarchical regression analysis and bootstrap analysis, results indicated self-perceived physical attractiveness positively predicted subjective social class and materialism. Subjective social class played a mediating role between self-perceived physical attractiveness and materialism. When self-perceived physical attractiveness is low, accompanied by a decrease in subjective social class, the level of materialism will tend to increase significantly; when self-perceived physical attractiveness is high, accompanied by a rise in subjective social class, the level of materialism will decrease significantly. These findings are explained by China’s “face” culture through which beauty is a symbolic capital for maintaining self-identity reputation and status, consistent with the views of the social capital and the functional theory of materialism. Accordingly, equitable college student cultivation and development services should support college students for healthy physical aesthetic standards and materialism values regardless of self-perceived physical attractiveness or social class.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134948873","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}
Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2258006
Cheryl D. Foxcroft
{"title":"Cross-Cultural Cognitive Test Norms: An Advanced Collation from Africa <i>Cross-Cultural Cognitive Test Norms: An Advanced Collation from Africa</i> , Ann Shuttleworth-Edwards and Sharon Truter, inter-Ed, 2023, ISBN 9780620982146 (hard cover), pp. 681","authors":"Cheryl D. Foxcroft","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2258006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2258006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134949351","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}
Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2264587
Nan Wang, Yuxiang Luan, Rui Ma
AbstractThe current study examined the relationship between servant leadership and employees’ work strain, as well as the mediating role of strengths use in that relationship. Participants were 179 Chinese employees (female = 49%; mean age = 27 years; mean tenure = 2.28 years). Two dimensions of work strain, namely, emotional exhaustion and workplace anxiety, were measured together with perceived servant leadership and strengths use. The results of the structural equation model showed that servant leadership is negatively linked to employees’ work strain, suggesting that employees have better workplace health under servant leadership. Strengths use has a negative link with emotional exhaustion, but not with workplace anxiety. Workers with emotional exhaustion would draw on their strengths less. Strengths use mediated the relationship between servant leadership and emotional exhaustion, lowering the risk of emotional exhaustion risk. Finally, no moderation effect has been found in this study. Findings suggest that servant leadership training would be of strategic advantage to organisations for energising their employees for greater productivity.Keywords: servant leadershipemotional exhaustionworkplace anxietystrengths usework strain
{"title":"Linking servant leadership to work strains: The mediating effect of strengths use","authors":"Nan Wang, Yuxiang Luan, Rui Ma","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2264587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2264587","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe current study examined the relationship between servant leadership and employees’ work strain, as well as the mediating role of strengths use in that relationship. Participants were 179 Chinese employees (female = 49%; mean age = 27 years; mean tenure = 2.28 years). Two dimensions of work strain, namely, emotional exhaustion and workplace anxiety, were measured together with perceived servant leadership and strengths use. The results of the structural equation model showed that servant leadership is negatively linked to employees’ work strain, suggesting that employees have better workplace health under servant leadership. Strengths use has a negative link with emotional exhaustion, but not with workplace anxiety. Workers with emotional exhaustion would draw on their strengths less. Strengths use mediated the relationship between servant leadership and emotional exhaustion, lowering the risk of emotional exhaustion risk. Finally, no moderation effect has been found in this study. Findings suggest that servant leadership training would be of strategic advantage to organisations for energising their employees for greater productivity.Keywords: servant leadershipemotional exhaustionworkplace anxietystrengths usework strain","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134949186","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}
Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2257076
Pei Jiang, Zhihui Zhang
This study aimed to explore the development of and change in perceived social support, self-esteem, and depression in college first-year students, as well as the relationships among them. A total of 509 Chinese college first-year students (females = 65.6%, mean age = 18.17 years, SD = 0.77 years) participated in a two-wave longitudinal study within a six-month period. The Perceived Social Support Scale, Self-Esteem Scale, and Self-Rating Depression Scale results at baseline and follow-up show that perceived social support had a unidirectional predictive effect on self-esteem and depression, and self-esteem had a unidirectional predictive effect on depression at Time 2. Perceived social support at Time 1 (T1) also significantly predicted self-esteem at Time 2 (T2), while T1 perceived social support and T1 self-esteem significantly predicted T2 depression. The mediation effect test shows that self-esteem plays a partial mediating role between perceived social support and depression of first-years. In conclusion, perceived social support can significantly predict self-esteem and both of these can predict depression in college first-years. Perceived social support can also alleviate their depression through the mediation of self-esteem. Findings are consistent with ecological systems theory and imply a need for student counselling services to provide sufficient support aimed at improving self-esteem and reducing depression.
{"title":"Self-esteem mediation of perceived social support and depression in university first-year students: A longitudinal study","authors":"Pei Jiang, Zhihui Zhang","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2257076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2257076","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to explore the development of and change in perceived social support, self-esteem, and depression in college first-year students, as well as the relationships among them. A total of 509 Chinese college first-year students (females = 65.6%, mean age = 18.17 years, SD = 0.77 years) participated in a two-wave longitudinal study within a six-month period. The Perceived Social Support Scale, Self-Esteem Scale, and Self-Rating Depression Scale results at baseline and follow-up show that perceived social support had a unidirectional predictive effect on self-esteem and depression, and self-esteem had a unidirectional predictive effect on depression at Time 2. Perceived social support at Time 1 (T1) also significantly predicted self-esteem at Time 2 (T2), while T1 perceived social support and T1 self-esteem significantly predicted T2 depression. The mediation effect test shows that self-esteem plays a partial mediating role between perceived social support and depression of first-years. In conclusion, perceived social support can significantly predict self-esteem and both of these can predict depression in college first-years. Perceived social support can also alleviate their depression through the mediation of self-esteem. Findings are consistent with ecological systems theory and imply a need for student counselling services to provide sufficient support aimed at improving self-esteem and reducing depression.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134948874","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}
Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2258008
Xingzhi Mao, Qi Li, Fangfang Shangguan, Jing Xiao
AbstractThis study examined between anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive (SD) adolescents with rumination and their personal predispositions. A total of 371 SD adolescents were enrolled in the study (females 55.26%, mean age = 16.34, SD = 0.96). The adolescents completed the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), Center for Epidemiological Survey-Depression Scale (CES-D), Ruminative Response Scale (RRS), Individualism-Collectivism Scale (ICS), and Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC). Results following univariate analysis, logistic regression (backward: Wald), and the area under the receiver operating characteristics (AUROC) revealed a pattern among individuals with subthreshold depression and high levels of rumination. The SD adolescents with a high level of rumination scored higher on vertical individualism, which values independence, autonomy, competitiveness, and a desire for high status. Additionally, they also exhibited higher athletic competence, a self-esteem dimension related to one’s perceived skill, ability, and confidence in physical activities and sports. The combination of vertical individualism and athletic competence differentiated SD adolescents from those without anxiety symptoms. Our results suggest high vertical individualism and high athletic competence likely contribute to anxiety symptoms in SD adolescents with a high level of rumination.Keywords: subthreshold depressionanxietyrumination response styleadolescencegender differencesrisk factors Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.AcknowledgementsThe authors are indebted to all participants to attend our study. This research was supported by the Key Project of Beijing Education Science Planning, Reevaluation and Cognitive Training to treat college students with Internet addiction (BEAA21046), and Beijing Digital Education Research (BDEC2023619098).
{"title":"Prevalence and psychological correlates of anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive adolescents with a high level of rumination response style","authors":"Xingzhi Mao, Qi Li, Fangfang Shangguan, Jing Xiao","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2258008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2258008","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis study examined between anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive (SD) adolescents with rumination and their personal predispositions. A total of 371 SD adolescents were enrolled in the study (females 55.26%, mean age = 16.34, SD = 0.96). The adolescents completed the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), Center for Epidemiological Survey-Depression Scale (CES-D), Ruminative Response Scale (RRS), Individualism-Collectivism Scale (ICS), and Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC). Results following univariate analysis, logistic regression (backward: Wald), and the area under the receiver operating characteristics (AUROC) revealed a pattern among individuals with subthreshold depression and high levels of rumination. The SD adolescents with a high level of rumination scored higher on vertical individualism, which values independence, autonomy, competitiveness, and a desire for high status. Additionally, they also exhibited higher athletic competence, a self-esteem dimension related to one’s perceived skill, ability, and confidence in physical activities and sports. The combination of vertical individualism and athletic competence differentiated SD adolescents from those without anxiety symptoms. Our results suggest high vertical individualism and high athletic competence likely contribute to anxiety symptoms in SD adolescents with a high level of rumination.Keywords: subthreshold depressionanxietyrumination response styleadolescencegender differencesrisk factors Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.AcknowledgementsThe authors are indebted to all participants to attend our study. This research was supported by the Key Project of Beijing Education Science Planning, Reevaluation and Cognitive Training to treat college students with Internet addiction (BEAA21046), and Beijing Digital Education Research (BDEC2023619098).","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134949350","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}
Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2233205
K. Mostert, Charlize Du Toit
This study aimed to examine first-year students’ proactive behaviour towards strengths use (PBSU) and deficit improvement (PBDI), their relationship with students’ social support and essential student outcomes (student burnout, student engagement, life satisfaction, satisfaction with studies, study–course fit and intention to drop out). A sample of first-year students (N = 776; 19–20 years = 67%; female = 62%; black = 58%) from a large South African university completed the Strengths Use and Deficit Correction (SUDCO) questionnaire; the Maslach Burnout Inventory–Student Survey (MBI–SS); as well as measures of present social support, engagement, satisfaction with life, person-study-course fit and intention to drop out. Structural equation modelling was used to test the relationships among the variables in the structural model using Mplus 8.6. Overall, this study’s findings show that PBSU and PBDI are significantly related, with the exception that support from parents did not predict deficit improvement and PBDI did not predict intention to drop out. The results further show that PBSU was much more strongly related to support from parents, cynicism, life satisfaction, satisfaction with studies, study-course fit and intention to drop out. In contrast, PBDI was much more strongly related to support from significant others, exhaustion and engagement. The results confirm that engaging in proactive behaviour towards strengths use and deficit improvement may result in positive student outcomes. The findings of this study suggest a need for university institutions to implement initiatives to promote social support programmes for students to leverage their strengths, creating learning environments conducive to student success.
{"title":"Strengths use and deficit improvement of first-year university students: A structural model for social support and student outcomes","authors":"K. Mostert, Charlize Du Toit","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2233205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2233205","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to examine first-year students’ proactive behaviour towards strengths use (PBSU) and deficit improvement (PBDI), their relationship with students’ social support and essential student outcomes (student burnout, student engagement, life satisfaction, satisfaction with studies, study–course fit and intention to drop out). A sample of first-year students (N = 776; 19–20 years = 67%; female = 62%; black = 58%) from a large South African university completed the Strengths Use and Deficit Correction (SUDCO) questionnaire; the Maslach Burnout Inventory–Student Survey (MBI–SS); as well as measures of present social support, engagement, satisfaction with life, person-study-course fit and intention to drop out. Structural equation modelling was used to test the relationships among the variables in the structural model using Mplus 8.6. Overall, this study’s findings show that PBSU and PBDI are significantly related, with the exception that support from parents did not predict deficit improvement and PBDI did not predict intention to drop out. The results further show that PBSU was much more strongly related to support from parents, cynicism, life satisfaction, satisfaction with studies, study-course fit and intention to drop out. In contrast, PBDI was much more strongly related to support from significant others, exhaustion and engagement. The results confirm that engaging in proactive behaviour towards strengths use and deficit improvement may result in positive student outcomes. The findings of this study suggest a need for university institutions to implement initiatives to promote social support programmes for students to leverage their strengths, creating learning environments conducive to student success.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45408645","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}
Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2219584
Yanmei Tang, H. Zhou, Shuangzhou Chen
This study explored the mediating role of resilience and the moderating role of social class on the relationship between loneliness and migrant children’s city identity. The participants were 479 Chinese migrant children (females = 52%, mean age = 10.07 years, SD = 0.43 years) from Jiangsu Province. They completed a series of questionnaires, including the Children’s Loneliness Scale, the Resilience Scale, the Migrant Children’s City Identity Questionnaire and the Socioeconomic Status Index. Results from the moderated mediation analysis showed that Chinese migrant children self-reporting higher loneliness had a lower city identity. Resilience mediates the relationship between loneliness and city identity. Social class negatively moderates the influence of resilience on city identity. Compared to those with higher social class, migrant children with lower social class were more resilient in constructing their city identity. These findings might be helpful to social welfare programmes to support immigrant children in their city identity for better integration and adaptation.
{"title":"How loneliness influences the city identity of Chinese migrant children: A moderated mediation model","authors":"Yanmei Tang, H. Zhou, Shuangzhou Chen","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2219584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2219584","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the mediating role of resilience and the moderating role of social class on the relationship between loneliness and migrant children’s city identity. The participants were 479 Chinese migrant children (females = 52%, mean age = 10.07 years, SD = 0.43 years) from Jiangsu Province. They completed a series of questionnaires, including the Children’s Loneliness Scale, the Resilience Scale, the Migrant Children’s City Identity Questionnaire and the Socioeconomic Status Index. Results from the moderated mediation analysis showed that Chinese migrant children self-reporting higher loneliness had a lower city identity. Resilience mediates the relationship between loneliness and city identity. Social class negatively moderates the influence of resilience on city identity. Compared to those with higher social class, migrant children with lower social class were more resilient in constructing their city identity. These findings might be helpful to social welfare programmes to support immigrant children in their city identity for better integration and adaptation.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49089392","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}
Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2219574
M. Coetzee, M. Moosa
Women form a critical component of the workforce of South Africa, yet the retention of women in leadership positions is problematic. This study examined the relationship between leadership opportunities and the retention of women at an open-distance education institution. A total of 311 of 2 732 female employees at a South African higher education participated in the study. The participating women responded to a survey on the leadership of their supervisors, leadership opportunities and retention. The data were analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The regression analysis results indicated leadership opportunities to predict job retention by age groupings, ethnicity, staff category and educational level. However, middle-aged women and black women were more inclined to perceive barriers to reaching leadership positions, despite capabilities and advancement opportunities. Advancement opportunities were the strongest predictor of job retention of women, followed by support and fulfilled unique needs. Findings suggest the importance of leadership opportunities to encourage women to remain with an organisation and pursue leadership positions.
{"title":"Liberate or obliterate: Women’s leadership in academia","authors":"M. Coetzee, M. Moosa","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2219574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2219574","url":null,"abstract":"Women form a critical component of the workforce of South Africa, yet the retention of women in leadership positions is problematic. This study examined the relationship between leadership opportunities and the retention of women at an open-distance education institution. A total of 311 of 2 732 female employees at a South African higher education participated in the study. The participating women responded to a survey on the leadership of their supervisors, leadership opportunities and retention. The data were analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The regression analysis results indicated leadership opportunities to predict job retention by age groupings, ethnicity, staff category and educational level. However, middle-aged women and black women were more inclined to perceive barriers to reaching leadership positions, despite capabilities and advancement opportunities. Advancement opportunities were the strongest predictor of job retention of women, followed by support and fulfilled unique needs. Findings suggest the importance of leadership opportunities to encourage women to remain with an organisation and pursue leadership positions.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44256293","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}
Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2240107
M. Coetzee, M. Ngope
This study explored the interplay between students’ career orientations and career guidance need in relation to their employability attributes of graduateness and personal employability qualities. Applying a cross-sectional design, 369 black South African students at a university of technology were sampled for the study. The students completed an adapted version of the Career Orientations Inventory and the Employer Employability Competency Expectations scale. Results following tests for significant mean differences and moderated regression analysis revealed that clarity on career orientation preferences is associated with a high need for career guidance. Career orientations predicted employability attributes more than the need for career guidance. Students with a high career orientation preference had significantly more positive perceptions of their graduateness and personal employability qualities than those with a low career orientation preference. Students with a low career orientation preference and weak desire for career guidance had a significantly weaker awareness of their employability attributes. Premised on the dispositional model of employability, the findings suggest the need for career guidance in employability learning and development to help students gain insight into their career orientation preferences and personal employability qualities.
{"title":"Influence of career orientations and career guidance need on students’ employability attributes","authors":"M. Coetzee, M. Ngope","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2240107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2240107","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the interplay between students’ career orientations and career guidance need in relation to their employability attributes of graduateness and personal employability qualities. Applying a cross-sectional design, 369 black South African students at a university of technology were sampled for the study. The students completed an adapted version of the Career Orientations Inventory and the Employer Employability Competency Expectations scale. Results following tests for significant mean differences and moderated regression analysis revealed that clarity on career orientation preferences is associated with a high need for career guidance. Career orientations predicted employability attributes more than the need for career guidance. Students with a high career orientation preference had significantly more positive perceptions of their graduateness and personal employability qualities than those with a low career orientation preference. Students with a low career orientation preference and weak desire for career guidance had a significantly weaker awareness of their employability attributes. Premised on the dispositional model of employability, the findings suggest the need for career guidance in employability learning and development to help students gain insight into their career orientation preferences and personal employability qualities.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43409399","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}
Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2219541
Janet Joubert, Melissa Jacobs, L. D. de Beer
The study investigated the role of work engagement in the relationships between job security, job embeddedness, and turnover intention within the South African mining sector. Mining employees who work on the surface (n = 203; males = 53%; females = 45%; White = 45%; Black = 38%; 52% with more than two years of service) completed measures of job security, job embeddedness, work engagement and turnover intention. The results of the structural equation modelling analysis revealed that work engagement played a mediating role in the relationship between job security, job embeddedness and turnover intention. Specifically, employees who reported higher levels of work engagement were more likely to feel secure in their jobs, become more embedded in their work and were less likely to leave. Post-hoc analysis demonstrated that gender and ethnicity did not explain statistically significant variance in the latent variables. These findings suggest that implementing human resource practices that promote work engagement and job embeddedness is crucial for enhancing job security and increasing employee retention within the organisation.
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