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- Chukwuorji, JohnBosco Chika, et al.
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Nigerian Teachers’ Affective Profiles and Workplace Behavior
- 2023
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Ingår i: The Affective Profiles Model - 20 Years of Research and Beyond. - Cham : Springer. ; , s. 245-267
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The teaching profession is considered as one of the most highly stressful professions. Indeed, teachers from many countries report high levels of stress and low levels of subjective well-being (e.g., low levels of positive affect and high levels of negative affect). In this context, a teachers’ affective profile might be an indication of their vulnerability for falling into counterproductive workplace behavior or their ability to let go of transgressions at work (i.e., forgiveness). Aim: We aimed to investigate the association between teachers’ affectivity (positive and negative affect) and workplace behavior. More specifically, we investigated if Nigerian teachers with different affective profiles use distinct strategies when influencing their superiors (Study 1) and if they differ in forgiveness at work and counterproductive workplace behavior (Study 2). Methods: In both studies, the teachers answered to the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule. In Study 1, 208 teachers from 8 secondary schools in the Nsukka urban area of Enugu state, Nigeria, answered to the Strategies of Upward Influence measure, which assesses three types of behaviors toward upward influence tactics at work: organizational beneficial, self-indulgent, and destructive behaviors. In Study 2, 319 rural public secondary school teachers from 8 schools under the Obollo-Afor Educational Zone of the Post-primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB) in Enugu state, Nigeria, answered to the Workplace Forgiveness Scale and the Counterproductive Work Behavior Checklist. We calculated the percentiles for participants’ positive and negative affect scores to categorize them as high and low in each affectivity dimension. By combining high/low positive affect and negative affect, we assigned each of the participants into one of the four affective profiles: self-fulfilling (high positive affect/low negative affect), high affective (high positive affect/high negative affect), low affective (low positive affect/low negative affect), and self-destructive (low positive affect/high negative affect). Besides common linear analyses, we also focused on matched comparisons or differences between profiles that are similar in one affective dimension and differ in the other. Results: In Study 1, we found that high negative affect was associated to individuals’ tendency to destructive behavior at the workplace only when positive affect was also high (t = 2.19, df = 108, p < 0.05; Cohen’s d = 0.41). In Study 2, we found that both positive affect and negative affect were moderately associated to forgiveness at work and counterproductive work behavior. For high positive affect, the strongest relationship to forgiveness at work (t = 2.93, df = 150, p < 0.01; Cohen’s d = 0.48) and counterproductive work behavior (t = −4.09, df = 150, p < 0.001; Cohen’s d = 0.66) was when negative affect was also high. For high negative affect, the strongest relationship to forgiveness at work (t = −3.27, df = 150, p < 0.001; Cohen’s d = 0.53) and counterproductive work behavior (t = 5.18, df = 150, p < 0.001; Cohen’s d = 0.84) was when positive affect was low. Conclusions: High negative affect was associated to individuals’ tendency to, for example, spread rumors about someone to advance at work and other malevolent tendencies, only when positive affect was also high. On the other hand, independently of individuals’ experience of high or low levels of negative affect, high levels of positive affect led to greater forgiveness toward offenders at work and to less counterproductive behavior. Likewise, independently of individuals’ experience of high or low levels of positive affect, high levels of negative affect led to less forgiveness toward offenders at work and to more counterproductive behavior. Hence, subjective well-being interventions among teachers might help to create a better work climate for them, their colleagues, and their students.
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- Eisenbeck, Nikolett, et al.
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An international study on psychological coping during COVID-19 : Towards a meaning-centered coping style
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. - : Elsevier. - 1697-2600 .- 2174-0852. ; 22:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background/Objective: This study examined the role of different psychological coping mechanisms in mental and physical health during the initial phases of the COVID-19 crisis with an emphasis on meaning-centered coping.Method: A total of 11,227 people from 30 countries across all continents participated in the study and completed measures of psychological distress (depression, stress, and anxiety), loneliness, well-being, and physical health, together with measures of problem-focused and emotion-focused coping, and a measure called the Meaning-centered Coping Scale (MCCS) that was developed in the present study. Validation analyses of the MCCS were performed in all countries, and data were assessed by multilevel modeling (MLM).Results: The MCCS showed a robust one-factor structure in 30 countries with good test-retest, concurrent and divergent validity results. MLM analyses showed mixed results regarding emotion and problem-focused coping strategies. However, the MCCS was the strongest positive predictor of physical and mental health among all coping strategies, independently of demographic characteristics and country-level variables.Conclusions: The findings suggest that the MCCS is a valid measure to assess meaning-centered coping. The results also call for policies promoting effective coping to mitigate collective suffering during the pandemic.
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- Ogunbode, Charles, et al.
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Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action : Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Psychology. - : Academic Press. - 0272-4944 .- 1522-9610. ; 84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explored the correlates of climate anxiety in a diverse range of national contexts. We analysed cross-sectional data gathered in 32 countries (N = 12,246). Our results show that climate anxiety is positively related to rate of exposure to information about climate change impacts, the amount of attention people pay to climate change information, and perceived descriptive norms about emotional responding to climate change. Climate anxiety was also positively linked to pro-environmental behaviours and inversely related to mental wellbeing. Notably, climate anxiety had a significant inverse association with mental wellbeing in 31 out of 32 countries, and with pro-environmental behaviour in 24 countries, it only predicted environmental activism in 12 countries. Our findings highlight contextual boundaries to engagement in environmental action as an antidote to climate anxiety, and the broad international significance of negative climate-related emotions as a plausible threat to wellbeing.
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