Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2181927
H. Mason
This study investigated the relationship between hope (agency and pathways thinking), grit, and subjective well-being (life satisfaction and positive and negative emotions) among South African first-year university students (n = 210; mean age = 20.35 years, SD = 1.49 years; female = 55.71%). Data were collected using the Adult Hope Scale (AHS), Grit Scale (GS), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SwLS), and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE). Regression analyses indicated hope predicted higher grit, satisfaction with life, and positive emotions. Female students reported significantly higher agency and negativity scores, whereas males reported scores on the pathways dimension. Hope is essential in student development and support programmes and may buffer students experiencing academic-related challenges.
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This study aimed to investigate the association between self-esteem and cyberbullying via the mediating role of catharsis and moderating role of sex. The sample consisted of 665 Chinese adolescents (317 girls; mean age = 14.56 years, SD = 0.96 years), who voluntarily participated in this study. Participants completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Catharsis Scale, and the Cyberbullying Scale. Following a PROCESS regression analysis, results showed that lower self-esteem was associated with higher cyberbullying perpetration. Catharsis played a mediating role in the relationship between self-esteem and cyberbullying, specifically increasing the risk for perpetration. Boys were more likely to engage in cathartic behaviours associated with cyberbullying compared to girls. This study’s findings contribute to the improved understanding of the correlates of cyberbullying among adolescents from a collectivistic cultural setting.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2190223
Huai-Bin Jiang, Hanyu Liang, Bing Li, Anxie Tuo
The current study explored the mediating role of boredom and anxiety on the relationship between alexithymia and mobile phone addiction among Chinese college students. Participants (n = 354; female = 49.7%, mean age = 19.30 years, SD = 1.28 years) completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Boredom Proneness Scale-Short Form, the Symptom Check List 90, and the Mobile Phone Addiction Index. Regression analysis showed that higher alexithymia was a risk for mobile phone addiction (MPA). Boredom proneness and anxiety mediated the relationship between alexithymia and mobile phone addiction. There were no significant sex differences in the mediating pathways between alexithymia, boredom proneness, anxiety and MPA. The current findings are consistent with the compensatory internet use theory. College student support services should formulate student social engagement interventions to improve healthy mobile phone use and reducing the risk for MPA.
{"title":"Alexithymia and mobile phone addiction among college students: Mediation by boredom proneness and anxiety","authors":"Huai-Bin Jiang, Hanyu Liang, Bing Li, Anxie Tuo","doi":"10.1080/14330237.2023.2190223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2023.2190223","url":null,"abstract":"The current study explored the mediating role of boredom and anxiety on the relationship between alexithymia and mobile phone addiction among Chinese college students. Participants (n = 354; female = 49.7%, mean age = 19.30 years, SD = 1.28 years) completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Boredom Proneness Scale-Short Form, the Symptom Check List 90, and the Mobile Phone Addiction Index. Regression analysis showed that higher alexithymia was a risk for mobile phone addiction (MPA). Boredom proneness and anxiety mediated the relationship between alexithymia and mobile phone addiction. There were no significant sex differences in the mediating pathways between alexithymia, boredom proneness, anxiety and MPA. The current findings are consistent with the compensatory internet use theory. College student support services should formulate student social engagement interventions to improve healthy mobile phone use and reducing the risk for MPA.","PeriodicalId":46959,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology in Africa","volume":"33 1","pages":"132 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47084580","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 : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2190227
Ye-Zhuang Tian, Yungui Guo
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.
{"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":"33 1","pages":"138 - 143"},"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}
Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2190232
A. S. Van der Watt, A. Roos, E. Lesch, S. Seedat
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2190226
Nokwazi Sibiya, Velly Ndlovu, Marius W. Stander
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2182022
Quanwei Shen, Yuanyuan Wu, Xu Li, Jiamei Lu
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2190225
Eunice Njeri Mvungu
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
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2195700
Zhi Li, N. Chen
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2023.2182011
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
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.
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