Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "Adams, Byron G."
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Assessing cultural intelligence, personality and identity amongst young white Afrikaans-speaking students: a preliminary study
Nel, Natasha; Nel, J. Alewyn; Adams, Byron G.; De Beer, Leon T. (AOSIS, 2015)Orientation: Cultural intelligence (CQ) is a relatively new construct to academia that has recently gained increasing attention. Its relevance in a multicultural context like South Africa is apparent since cultural ... -
The construct validation of the Relationship Harmony and Soft–Heartedness Scales of the South African Personality Inventory
Hill, Carin; French, Luan; Morton, Nadia; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Valchev, Velichko H.; Adams, Byron G.; De Bruin, Gideon P. (Sage Publications, 2013)This study forms part of the South African Personality Inventory project that aims to develop: (a) an indigenous theoretical model of personality; and (b) a unique personality measure that is in line with South African ... -
Developing and testing items for the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI)
Hill, Carin; Nel, Jan Alewyn; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Adams, Byron G.; De Bruin, Gideon P.; Meiring, Deon; Valchev, Velichko H. (AOSIS, 2013)Orientation: A multicultural country like South Africa needs fair cross-cultural psychometric instruments. Research purpose: This article reports on the process of identifying items for, and provides a quantitative evaluation ... -
Ethnic identity in emerging adults in Sub-Saharan Africa and the USA and its associations with psychological well-being
Adams, Byron G.; Abubakar, Amina; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R. (Wiley, 2016)Ethnic identity as a social dimension of identity is argued to be developmentally important for psychological well-being. However, the relationships between these constructs are mainly examined in Western contexts, amongst ... -
Identity in South Africa: examining self-descriptions across ethnic groups
Adams, Byron G.; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; De Bruin, Gideon P. (Elsevier, 2012)We examined identity indicators in free self-descriptions of African, Coloured, Indian, and White ethnic groups in South Africa. Based on trait theory, independence-interdependence, and individualism-collectivism, we ...