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Jing Wang¹, Ping Li^2,*
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 167-172, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065788 - 30 June 2025
Abstract The present study aimed to examine the association between kindergarten error management climate and creative teaching and the mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction. A sample of 561 Chinese kindergarten teachers (females = 98%, M_age = 34.32, SD = 1.25) completed self-reported questionnaires on their work error management atmosphere, basic psychological needs satisfaction, and innovative teaching. The results structural equation modelling path analysis showed that high kindergarten error management climate was associated with higher innovative teaching. Moreover, the need for competence, but not the need for relatedness accounted for kindergarten error management atmosphere related to More >

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Zhong Li¹, Xia Wang¹, Xixi Chu^2,*, Run Guo²
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 173-178, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065881 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This study explored the role of job crafting and job embeddedness in the relationship between employee strengths use and thriving at work. Participants were 260 nurses from Beijing, China (99.2% female, 54.6% aged 26–35 years, and 62% with a bachelor’s degree or above). Data were collected at two different time points, with a two-week interval between them. Regression analysis and path analysis were applied to test the hypotheses. Results showed that strengths use was associated with thriving at work. Job crafting partially mediated this relationship for higher thriving at work. Job embeddedness weakened the relationship More >

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Wenqi Lin¹, Chaowei Zhang^2,*, Jingyu Zhang^3,*
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 179-186, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065798 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This study explored how perceived social support (PSS) influences the sense of meaning in life (SML) among rural college students, considering positive coping styles (PCS) as a mediator and psychological resilience (PR) as a moderator. 1444 college students (females; 23.55% only child; M_age = 19.76 years, SD = 1.07; 76.66%) were recruited from Jilin province in China. The college students self-reported their perceived social support and positive coping styles, psychological resilience, and sense of meaning in life. The results indicated that higher perceived social support predicted higher college students’ sense of meaning in life. Perceived social… More >

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Adeline T. Kingsley^*, Zelda G. Knight
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 187-197, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065998 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This psychobiographical study on Bessie Head, a bi-racial writer from the South African apartheid period, explored early experiences that defined her identity, personality development and prominence in post-colonial African literature. For the case conceptual framing, we integrate Donald W. Winnicott’s object relations theory with intersectional feminism to explore her identity by the complex interactions between her psychological experiences and socio-political contexts. Our mixed-methodological approach that combines du Plessis’ (2017) structured framework and Knight’s (2019) Phenomenological-hermeneutic Life-narrative Analysis. The analysis revealed three central findings. First, Bessie’s identity development was shaped by early abandonment and racial liminality, More >

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Jian Zhu^*, Xin Wen
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 199-205, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065792 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This study explores the impact of playful work design on employee creativity through flow, as well as the moderating role of playful climate in this relationship. We collected data from 272 employees across various industries in China (47.2% from the service industry; 61.8% female; 63.6% aged 26–40 years). Participants completed measures of playful work design, flow, playful climate, and creativity. Through hierarchical regression and bootstrapping analyses, the results indicate that: (a) playful work design is positively associated with creativity; (b) flow mediates this relationship; and (c) playful climate strengthens the link between playful work design More >

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Chengcheng Sha, Lin Wang, Xiaolei Pan^*
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 207-214, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065761 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This study investigated the relationship between AI anxiety and deviant behavior, as well as the roles of emotional exhaustion and leader support in this context. The sample comprised 381 Chinese e-commerce employees (72.7% female, age range 21–36 years). The results of the Process model analysis indicate that AI anxiety significantly is associated with higher deviant behaviour. Emotional exhaustion partially mediates this relationship between AI anxiety and employee deviant behavior exacerbating deviant behaviour. Leader support moderates the AI anxiety effect on emotional exhaustion such that when leader support is low. AI anxiety is associated with higher More >

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Xu Tang^1,2, Fang Li^1,3,*, Biyun Wu⁴
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 215-221, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.067163 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This study explored the connection between childhood psychological maltreatment and online trolling, as well as the influence of moral disengagement and mindfulness in that relationship. A total of 984 college students (54% females, Mean age = 20.9 years, SD = 1.57 years) took part in the current research. The students responded to standardized measures of childhood psychological maltreatment, online trolling, moral disengagement, mindfulness. Results following the regression and the mediation analyses showed that childhood psychological maltreatment was associated with higher online trolling among college students. Moral disengagement played a mediating role in the link between More >

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Jiajian Wang^1,2,*, Mansor Bin Abu Talib², Biru Chang³, Jingwen Zhang²
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 223-230, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.068063 - 30 June 2025
Abstract Amidst the unique challenges faced by rural educators is their sense of decent work influenced by levels of social support, career self-efficacy, and marginalization. To investigate these relationships, we surveyed 435 rural school teachers (females = 69.32%, mean years teaching experience = 13.6, SD = 7.7 years). The Structural Equation Modeling results indicated that social support positively predicts teachers’ perceptions of decent work. Career self-efficacy mediated the relationship between social support and a higher sense of decent work, while marginalization mediated the relationship such that lower social support predicted lower perceptions of decent work. Career… More >

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Ronghua Wen¹, Lan Luo^2,*, Shiping Luo³, Tianlin Chen², Meng Fan¹
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 231-239, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065770 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This study investigated the relationship between social anxiety and problematic Internet use in college students, and how it is moderated by attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Participants were 1451 Chinese college students (female = 60.2%; mean age = 19.85 years, SD = 1.89 years). They completed the Interaction Anxiousness Scale, the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale-Short Form, and the Problematic Internet Use Scale. The results revealed that college students with higher social anxiety reported greater severity of problematic Internet use. Moreover, students with negative attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help also reported More >

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Lihua Zuo^1,2,#, Jian Mao^2,#,*
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 241-247, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065765 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This study examined how social desirability responses confound the relationship between gender and social media addiction. A total of 496 college student social media users (females = 310, 62.5%, mean age = 20.15, SD = 1.26) completed an online questionnaire on Social Media Addiction and Social Desirability. Mediation analysis revealed that females were at higher risk for social media addiction. On the other hand, the indirect effect of gender on social media addiction via social desirability is associated with lower social media addiction, which suggests that social desirability had a suppression effect on social media More >

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Jiahan Li¹, You Zhou², Jie Yang^2,*, Lei Yuan^2,*
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 249-256, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065790 - 30 June 2025
Abstract Subjective well-being is a key indicator of quality of life and a crucial factor for successful aging among older adults. However, few studies have explored the subjective well-being among older adults from the perspective of digital literacy. Therefore, this study explores the relationship between digital literacy and subjective well-being using data on 4270 older adults from the 2020 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) dataset. PROCESS mediation analysis results indicated digital literacy is associated with higher subjective well-being among the older adults. Digital literacy was associated with the frequency of physical exercise and consumption. Moreover, Digital More >

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Xin Liu^1,*, Zimeng Chen²
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 257-263, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065782 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This study examined how perceived human-computer interaction (HCI) is related to employees’ helping behaviors with role breadth self-efficacy and digital fluency. An online scenario experiment (study 1; female = 61.3%; mean age = 30.79 years; bachelor’s degree = 68.7%) and a questionnaire survey (study 2; male = 44.2%; younger than 30 years = 50.6%; bachelor’s degree = 61.5%) found that perceived HCI exerts a significant positive indirect effect on employee helping behavior through improved role breadth self-efficacy. This positive indirect effect is stronger when employee digital fluency is high. Findings are consistent with social cognitive More >

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Ruijun Song^*, Xichen Qin, Xiaomei Yang, Mei Wu, Jinyu Hong, Youping Cao, Yuting Ning
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 265-270, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065778 - 30 June 2025
Abstract The current study conducted the psychological capital profiles and the relation between profile memberships and learning burnout among undergraduates. Participants were 541 Chinese undergraduates ranging from 18 to 21 years old (48.2% male; Mean years = 19.54, SD = 1.09 years). Latent profile analysis revealed three categories of psychological capital profile consistent high psychological capital profile (50.5%), consistent low psychological capital profile (38.1%), and dominate loss-orientated psychological capital profile (11.4%). The undergraduates in consistent high profile reported high self-efficacy, resilience, hope, and optimism. Consistent low profile characterized by a little low (~0.50 SD below the M) self-efficacy, resilience, More >

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Yali Zhang¹, Hao Jiang¹, Yuewen Bian², Fuhai Zhang^1,*
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 271-275, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065774 - 30 June 2025
Abstract This study aimed to determine the reliability, validity and measurement invariance of scores from the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-8 in Chinese context. A total of 1114 Chinese adolescents were participants in three phases: N = 424 for the initial DERS-8 measure completion; N = 586 the DERS-8, General Anxiety Disorder Scale, Depression Scale and Emotion Regulation Scale completion, with an interval of one month. Then an additional 104 adolescents also completed DERS-8, General Anxiety Disorder Scale, Depression Scale and Emotion Regulation Scale. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the one-factor model of the More >

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Adane W. Jarsso^1,2, Elron S. Fouten¹, Megan M. Campbell^1,*
Journal of Psychology in Africa, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 277-285, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jpa.2025.065771 - 30 June 2025
Abstract Mental healthcare in Ethiopia is underutilized due to a lack of resources and skilled practitioners. Psychological counselling offers unique intervention possibilities because of its focus on a wide range of mental health and social justice issues. This literature review tracks the historical development of the profession of psychological counselling in Ethiopia to establish what has been achieved to date and the development challenges. Key achievements include recognition of the profession by the Ministry of Education, growing public awareness, and increasing capacity of practitioners skilled in psychological counselling. Challenges include limited contextually relevant training, poor representation More >

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