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Sex Differences in the Attribution of Shame And Guilt
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mark Brophy --- University of Johannesburg, Gert Kruger --- University of Johannesburg,This study examined how the sex of a participant could moderate the elicitation of shame and guilt. Four hundred ninety students (107 men and 383 women) between the age of 17 and 20 (M=18.66, SD=.80) volunteered to participate. Moderated multiple... -
The Psychometric Properties of an Emotional Intelligence Measure within Non-Professional Counsellors in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jeanine Kathleen Pires-Putter --- North-West University, Cara Sophia Jonker --- North-West University,This study examined the psychometric properties of the Emotional Intelligence Scale (SEIS) (Schutte et al., 1998) in a sample of non-professional counsellors in South Africa. The counsellors (N = 172) were employed within various counselling services, rehabilitation services, and trauma... -
An ethnographic study of tourist psychological states: Implications for festivities and events
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Prokopis Christou --- Hospitality and Tourism Department, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus Campus, Larnaca, CyprusThis is the first study that explores in such depth the emotional dimensions of visitors at numerous and various events held around the world, for almost ten years. Unexpected findings and new knowledge provide novel directions to the new millennium tourism stakeholders,... -
The salience of socially engaging and disengaging emotions among Black and White South Africans
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tselane Rose Kgantsi --- Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Johnny R. J. Fontaine --- Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Michael Temane --- Office of the Registrar, South AfricaThis study investigated the experience of disengaging and engaging emotions among Black and White South African university students. In total 351 Black and White students attending a large North Western province university in South Africa (45% Black students, 69% female... -
An ethnographic study of tourist psychological states: Implications for festivities and events
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Prokopis Christou --- Hospitality and Tourism Department, CyprusThis is the first study that explores in such depth the emotional dimensions of visitors at numerous and various events held around the world, for almost ten years. Unexpected findings and new knowledge provide novel directions to the new millennium... -
Episodic emotions of Tshivenda cultural community mothers towards their adolescent children’s pregnancies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Makondelele Radzilani-Makatu --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored Tshivenda mothers’ emotional reactions to the learning of unplanned pregnancies of their adolescent daughters. Ten purposively selected mothers with early parent adolescent children were informants (age range = 40 to 55 years). They responded to semi-structured face-to-face... -
Soul searching on the wings of my wheels: Motorcyclists’ happiness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stefan Kruger --- WorkWell Research Unit, South AfricaThis study aimed to investigate how personal characteristics of motorcyclists influenced their affect and sense of happiness with their motorcycles. Data on personal characteristics, motorcycle characteristics, feelings about owning a motorcycle, discreet emotions, and overall happiness were collected from 367... -
Gratitude, well-being and psychological distress among South African university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Henry D. Mason --- Directorate of Student Development and Support, South AfricaThis study investigated the associations between gratitude, measures of well-being, and indicators of psychological distress (depression and negative emotion) among South African university students. Data were collected from 198 first-year university students (female = 69.70%; mean age = 20.55 years,... -
What fires up my cooking? The choice for a sustainable cuisine: passion and self-transcendence in the restaurant business
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Margo PM Enthoven --- Centre for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands Aleid E Brouwer --- Academy of International Business Administration, The NetherlandsThe restaurant business is highly unsustainable and the sector contributes to a large extent to environmental pollution. However, some restaurateurs have chosen a more sustainable cuisine. As food sustainability is a contested issue, we have considered several descriptions of food... -
Emotional intelligence and psychological skills application among female field-hockey players
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nicola Tinkler --- , South Africa Julius Jooste --- , United Kingdom Ankebé Kruger --- , South AfricaEmotional intelligence is often associated with higher psychological functioning, leading to an increase in the awareness of psychological skills application in sports. We examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological skills application among a sample of senior-level South African... -
Co-producing knowledge and care in team-based fieldwork in the Covid-19 era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Comfort Asante --- , Zambia Sarah Burack --- , United States Mutale Chileshe --- , Zambia Jean Hunleth --- , United StatesIn this article, we examine how the pandemic has led us to a dispersed and technologically mediated form of team-based fieldwork framed by an ethics of care. Covid-19 has changed the proximity of research teams and, thus, affected how teams... -
Employee psychological well-being, transformational leadership and the future of hospitality jobs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Laurens Alexander Walbeek --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Georges El Hajal --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsEmployee psychological well-being is a central concern for hospitality establishments as it impacts talent retention. This empirical research explores the relationship between transformational leadership and employee psychological well-being. This relationship is tested through a mediation model where transformational leadership is... -
Hope and its relation to grit and subjective well-being among first-year South African university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Henry D. Mason --- Tshwane University of Technology, South AfricaThis 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;... -
Intergroup emotions and intergroup attitudes in post-apartheid South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Elirea Bornman --- University of South Africa, South Africa Johan C. Mynhardt --- University of South Africa, South Africa Dion van Zyl --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article investigates the relationships among intergroup emotions and intergroup attitudes among three South African ethno-linguistic groups. The sample included 1 658 respondents (350 Afrikaans-speaking white South Africans; 526 English-speaking white South Africans; and 782 black South African respondents). They... -
How do consumers react to big data-based personalised pricing? A cognition–affect–behaviour perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Huili Yan --- College of International Tourism and Public Administration, Hainan University, China Yuzhi Wei --- College of International Tourism and Public Administration, Hainan University, China Hao Xiong --- International Business School, Hainan University, China Luqing Wang --- College of International Tourism and Public Administration, Hainan University, ChinaWe explored how customers’ thoughts and feelings about big data-based personalised pricing (BDPP) impacts their reactions. We developed a conceptual model based on the cognition-affect-behaviour paradigm and tested it using data from 284 consumers in the tourism and hospitality industry... -
How does investor sentiment affect the Korean premium in the Bitcoin market?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Joon Chae --- Seoul National University, Republic of Korea Kyounghun Bae --- Hanyang University, Republic of Korea Hyoung-Goo Kang --- Hanyang University, Republic of Korea Bonha Koo --- Chungnam National University, Republic of KoreaWe examine how investor emotions and Bitcoin price influence each other using intraday data and textual analysis. We extract emotions from a popular online chatting window at one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Korea. To control for global factors,... -
Walk a mile in the customers’ shoes: The prospective role of wisdom and emotional intelligence in shaping customer-focused perspective-taking
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: David Amani --- University of Dodoma, TanzaniaThis study investigates the interplay of wisdom and emotional intelligence as antecedents of customer-focused perspective-taking in the hospitality industry. Grounded in the balance theory of wisdom, the study develops a research model hypothesising that wisdom, comprising cognitive, reflective and affective... -
Treat others just as you want to be treated: Capitalising on employees’ religiosity and emotional intelligence to nurture customer-focused perspective-taking
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: David Amani --- University of Dodoma, TanzaniaAlthough the contribution of customer-focused perspective-taking in enhancing service performance has been extensively acknowledged in the literature, there is limited evidence on its antecedents. This study, therefore, tested a hypothesised model examining the interplay between employees’ religiosity and emotional intelligence...