Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences by Subject "Meaning"
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Exploring a group of South African psychologists’ well-being: competencies and contests
(Sage, 2018)The aim of this study was to establish the levels of well-being of South African psychologists by implementing a mixed method research design. Positive psychology was used as framework as psychosocial well-being is a core ... -
Important goals, meanings, and relationships in flourishing and languishing states: towards patterns of well-being
(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 ... -
Motivations for relationships as sources of meaning: Ghanaian and South African experiences
(Frontiers Media, 2020)Afrocentric paradigms reflect assumptions of the overarching importance of interconnectedness and social bonds in meaningful experiences. It is, however, not known if types of relatedness vary in importance as meaning ... -
Representations of hope, goals, and meaning from lay person’s perspectives in two African contexts
(Sage, 2018)In the rapidly expanding field of positive psychology, a core question is now what the relationships among various positive constructs are and how we can understand this in various contexts. We aimed to explore the possible ... -
Understanding well-being in the Ghanaian context: linkages between lay conceptions of well-being and measures of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being
(Springer, 2019)The aim of this study was to explore the measurement and conceptualisation of well-being within the Ghanaian socio-cultural setting. In addition to testing the structural validity of two commonly used well-being scales, ...