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Beyond agreeableness: social–relational personality concepts from an indigenous and cross-cultural perspective
Valchev, Velichko H.; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Meiring, Deon; Nel, J. Alewyn; Hill, Carin; Laher, Sumaya; Adams, Byron G. (Elsevier, 2014)The links of social–relational concepts (SRC) of personality identified in South Africa with the Five Factor Model (FFM), Interpersonal Relatedness (IR), social desirability, and prosocialness were examined. In Study 1 (N ... -
Burnout and work engagement of academics in higher education institutions: effects of dispositional optimism
Barkhuizen, Nicolene; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R. (Wiley, 2014)The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among dispositional optimism, job demands and resources, burnout, work engagement, ill health and organizational commitment of South African academic staff in ... -
Consequences of Turkish return migration from Western Europe
Kunuroglu, Filiz; Yagmur, Kutlay; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Kroon, Sjaak (Elsevier, 2015)We studied the consequences of Turkish return migration in the reconstruction of ‘migrant’identities into ‘almanci’ identities (literally: German-like; a pejorative term denoting Turk-ish returnees with a German-like ... -
Examining psychometric properties, measurement invariance, and construct validity of a short version of the Test to Measure Intercultural competence (TMIC–S) in Germany and Brazil
Schnabel, Deborah B.L.; Kelava, Augustin; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Seifert, Lena (Elsevier, 2015)The goal of this study was to develop and validate a short version (TMIC-S) of the Test to Measure Intercultural Competence (TMIC; Schnabel, Kelava, Seifert, & Kuhlbrodt, 2015). TMIC-S measures six malleable abilities that ... -
Family-related antecedents of early adolescent immigrants' psychological and sociocultural school adjustment in Germany
Schachner, Maja K.; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Noack, Peter (Sage, 2014)Immigrant students in many European countries have lower educational attainments than their mainstream classmates. The present study investigated family-related conditions for early adolescents’ acculturation orientations ... -
Heritage identity and maintenance enhance well-being of Turkish-Bulgarian and Turkish-German adolescents
Dimitrova, Radosveta; Aydinli, Arzu; Chasiotis, Athanasios; Bender, Michael; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R. (Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2015)This study compares Turkish minority youth in Bulgaria and Germany by examining differences in ethnic identity (heritage and mainstream), acculturation (host culture adoption and heritage culture maintenance), and their ... -
Identity in descriptions of others across ethnic groups in South Africa
Adams, Byron G.; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; De Bruin, Gideon P.; Torres, Cynthia Bueno (Sage, 2014)We examined the structure of identity implied in descriptions of others in four South African ethnic groups (Black, Coloured, Indian, and White). We tested the validity of an identity model with attributes, relational ... -
The performance of children prenatally exposed to HIV on the A-Not-B task in Kilifi, Kenya: a preliminary study
Abubakar, Amina; Holding, Penny; Van Baar, Anneloes; Newton, Charles R.J.C.; Van de Vijver, Fons. J.R.; Espy, Kimberly Andrews (MDPI, 2013)The aim of the study was to investigate early executive functioning in young children from 6–35 months of age. The study involved 319 randomly selected children from the community, 17 HIV exposed but uninfected children ... -
Personality and well-being in Black and White South African emerging adults
Nel, Jan Alewyn; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Adams, Byron G.; Laher, Sumaya; Louw, Johann (Termedia Publishing, 2017)Background: In the last ten years, the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI) has been developed as an indigenous measurement of personality for the multi-cultural environment of South Africa. The aim of the SAPI ... -
Relationship standards and satisfaction in Chinese, Western and intercultural Chinese-Western couples in Australia
Hiew, Danika N.; Halford, W. Kim; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Liu, Shuang (Sage Publications, 2015)This study compared the endorsement of Chinese and Western relationship standards by Chinese, Western, and intercultural Chinese–Western couples. All couples were living in Australia. Couples’ relationship standards ... -
The road to reading for South African learners: the role of orthographic depth
Malda, Maike; Nel, Carisma; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R. (Elsevier, 2014)The study examined profiles of reading skills and cognitive skills for South African children from schools that differed in opacity of medium of instruction. The sample included 122 third graders instructed in Afrikaans ... -
Self-presentation styles in self-reports: linking the general factors of response styles, personality traits, and values in a longitudinal study
He, Jia; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R. (Elsevier, 2015)We investigated how response styles, personality traits, and values can be taken as manifestations of self-presentation styles in self-reports, and how self-presentation affects other self-report measures over time. Data ...