Browsing by Author "10174524 - Wissing, Maria Philipina"
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Clarifying the factor structure of the mental health continuum short form in three languages: a bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling approach
Schutte, Lusilda; Wissing, Marié P. (Sage, 2017)The Mental Health Continuum Short Form measures both the private and public aspects of overall positive mental health. This study explored the factor structure of English (n = 324), Afrikaans (n = 476), and Setswana (n = ... -
Consumer decision-making and psycho-social well-being as complementary perspectives: a narrative review
Le Roux, Neoline; Van der Merwe, Daleen; Wilders, Cilas; Wissing, Marié (SAAFECS, 2017)Globalisation contributes to an abundance of marketing, which stimulates unneeded and unplanned purchases. Research indicates that although consumers differ in terms of their purchasing styles and their consideration of ... -
Coping mechanisms, perception of health and cardiovascular dysfunction in Africans
Malan, Leoné; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Wissing, Maria Philipina; Vorster, Hester Hendrina; Steyn, Hendrik Stefanus; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Huisman, Hugo Willem (Elsevier, 2006)The purpose of this study was to compare active and passive coping strategies of Africans with perception of own health and cardiovascular data. The subjects included 236 apparently healthy Africans (men = 109; women = 127). ... -
Coping self-efficacy as mediator in the dynamics of psychological well-being in various contexts
Khumalo, Itumeleng Paul; Kruger, Annamarie; Nienaber, Alida Wilhelmina; Oosthuizen, Catharina Maria; Potgieter, Johannes Cornelis; Temane, Qambeshile Michael; Wissing, Maria Philipina (Elliott & Fitzpatrick, 2011)The aim of this study was to explore whether coping self-efficacy mediates between various distress related variables on the one hand (symptoms of stress and depression), and the degree of psycho-social well-being as ... -
Coping with urbanization: a cardiometabolic risk? The THUSA study
Malan, Leoné; Malan, Nicolaas T.; Wissing, Maria P.; Seedat, Yackoob K. (Elsevier, 2008)An assessment of specific coping styles in rural-urban Africans is done to evaluate its contribution as cardiometabolic risk factor. In total, 608 apparently healthy Africans were included in a cross-sectional comparative ... -
Correction to: Understanding well-being in the Ghanaian context: linkages between lay conceptions of well-being and measures of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being
Wilson-Fadiji, Angelina; Wissing, Marié P.; Meiring, Leana (Springer, 2020) -
The cost of coping: a cardio-neuro-metabolic risk for black South Africans?
Malan, Leoné; Malan, N.T.; Du Plessis, A.; Wissing, M.P.; Potgieter, J.C.; Seedat, Y.K. (Clinics Cardiv Publishing, 2010)Psychosocial stress is a contributing factor to cardiovascular disease. An important way of investigating the mechanisms underlying this association is acute psycho-physiological stress testing, involving measurement of ... -
Defensive coping, urbanization, and neuroendocrine function in Black Africans: the THUSA study
Malan, Leoné; Huisman, Hugo; Van Rooyen, Johannes; Schutte, Alta; Schutte, Rudolph; Potgieter, Johan; Wissing, Marié; Steyn, Faans; Malan, Nico (Wiley, 2012)Dissociation between b-adrenergic behavioral and physiological defensive active coping (AC) responses was associated with cardiometabolic risk in urban but not rural African males. Whether this is partly driven by underlying ... -
The design and evaluation of a hope enhancement programme for adults
Pretorius, Charl; Venter, Chris; Temane, Michael; Wissing, Marié (Taylor & Francis, 2008)The study evaluated the effectiveness of a hope enhancement programme for a group of adults and its impact on general psychological well-being. The intervention programme focused on participants' abilities to set feasible ... -
Development and initial validation of a general psychological well-being scale (GPWS) in an African context
Khumalo, Itumeleng Paul; Temane, Qambeshile Michael; Wissing, Marie Philipina (Elliot & Fitzpatrick, 2010) -
Die belewing van betekenisvolheid deur 'n groep Suid-Afrikaners
Coetzee, Helena Katherina; Temane, Qambeshile Michael; Wissing, Maria Philipina; Coetzee, Helena Katherina; Temane, Qambeshile Michael; Wissing, Maria Philipina (Pretoria : Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2010) -
Effects of a community-based multicomponent positive psychology intervention on mental health of rural adults in Ghana
Appiah, Richard; Wilson-Fadiji, Angelina; Schutte, Lusilda; Wissing, Marié P. (2020)Background There is growing evidence that positive psychology interventions (PPIs) enhance positive mental health and lead to a decrease in symptoms of psychopathology. This study examines the effectiveness of a 10‐week ... -
Emotional Intelligence, Work, and Psychological Outcomes in a Public Service Context
Wissing, Maria; Temane, Qambeshile; Williams, Shelley-ann; Wissing, Maria; Temane, Qambeshile; Williams, Shelley-Ann (Elliot & Fitzpatrick, 2009) -
The eudaimonic and hedonic components of happiness: qualitative and quantitative findings
Brdar, Ingrid; Wissing, Maria Philipina; Delle Fave, Antonella; Freire, Teresa; Vella-Brodrick, Dianne (Springer, 2011)This paper illustrates a new project developed by a cross-country team of researchers, with the aim of studying the hedonic and eudaimonic components of happiness through a mixed method approach combining both qualitative ... -
Evaluation of the mental health continuum-short form (MHC-SF) in Setswana-speaking South Africans
Kruger, Annamarie; Wissing, Marié; Potgieter, Johannes P.; Temane, Qambeshile; Van Rooy, Sinette O.; Keyes, Corey L.M. (Wiley, 2008)A continuous assessment and a categorical diagnosis of the presence of mental health, described as flourishing, and the absence of mental health, characterized as languishing, is applied to a random sample of 1050 ... -
Exploring the validity of the values-in-action inventory of strengths (VIA-IS) in an African context
Wissing, Maria; Khumalo, Itumeleng; Temane, Qambeshile (Elliott & Fitzpatrick, 2008) -
Gender, Spirituality and Psychological Well-Being
Wissing, Maria; Temane, Qambeshile; Wissing, Maria; Temane, Qambeshile (Elliott & Fitzpatrick, 2009)Purpose. This study examined the role that various dimensions of subjective spirituality played in the maintenance of psychological well-being specifically among the population of adults 85 years of age and older. This ... -
Guidelines with strategies for enhancement of resilience and psycho-social well-being in professional nurses
Koen, Magdalena Petronella; Koen, Vicki; Van Eeden, Chrizanne; Wissing, Maria Philipina (Taylor & Franmcis, 2011)There are currently no guidelines available for enhancement of resilience in professional nurses. This study aims to provide broad guidelines with specific strategies that may enhance resilience and psycho-social well-being ... -
Guidelines with strategies for enhancement of resilience and psycho-social will-being in professional nurses
Koen, Magdalena P.; Van Eeden, Chrizanne; Wissing, Marié P.; Koen, Vicki (Elliott & Fitzpatrick & NISC [© 2010 Elliot & Fitzpatrick], 2011)There are currently no guidelines available for enhancement of resilience in professional nurses. This study aims to provide broad guidelines with specific strategies that may enhance resilience and psycho-social well-being ... -
Important goals, meanings, and relationships in flourishing and languishing states: towards patterns of well-being
Wissing, Marié P.; Schutte, Lusilda; Liversage, Christelle; Entwisle, Brenda; Gericke, Marianne (Springer, 2019)Qualitative studies of lay people’s perspectives on facets of well-being are scarce, and it is not known how the perspectives of people with high and low levels of well-being dovetail or differ. This research explored the ...