Validation of three Setswana measures for psychological wellbeing

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

 
 
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Title Validation of three Setswana measures for psychological wellbeing
 
Creator Wissing, Marié Philipina Thekiso, Sammy M. Stapelberg, Ronel van Quickelberge, Leanda Choabi, Pinky Moroeng, Christine Nienaber, Alida Temane, Q. Michael Vorster, Hester H.
 
Subject positive psychology; assessment; psychometrics psychometric properties; Setswana; sense of coherence; satisfaction with life; affectometer
Description Orientation: From the perspective of positive psychology, it is important to evaluate people’s strengths. There is, however, a lack of validated measures for these purposes in many of the South African official languages. As language is a medium for cultural meanings, measures of mental health should be validated in the mother tongue of the people involved.Research purpose: The aim of this study was therefore to explore the psychometric properties of Setswana versions of three measures of psychological wellbeing, namely the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC) (the 29-item version) (Antonovsky, 1987), Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) (Diener, Emmons, Larson Griffen, 1985) and Affectometer 2 (AFM) (Kammann Flett, 1983).Research design, approach and method: A cross-sectional survey design was implemented for this study. Questionnaires were translated, back-translated and evaluated in a research-committee approach. A stratified sample of 738 Setswana-speaking participants completed the questionnaires in randomly selected sites of the North West province of South Africa as part of the multi-disciplinary Transition and Health during Urbanisation of South Africans project. Reliability indices, means, standard deviations, ranges of scores, patterns of correlations and factor structures were established for all the scales.Main findings: The present Setswana SWLS and AFM are reliable and valid for use in this group, as is, to some extent, the SOC. The factor structures of the three scales were also consistent with the latent factor structures of the original scales.Practical implications: These validated measures are instruments for use in the clinical, community and work contexts of Setswana-speaking people.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor National Research Foundation, the Medical Research Council, and the Potchefstroom University for CHE / now North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus
Date 2010-12-06
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — quantitative study conducted in a cross-sectional field survey design.
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Identifier 10.4102/sajip.v36i2.860
 
Source SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 36, No 2 (2010); 8 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage North West Province South Africa 2000 N=738 Setswana-speaking Africans; Gender (males n = 313, females n = 424), age (15 – 70)
Rights Copyright (c) 2010 Marié Philipina Wissing, Sammy M. Thekiso, Ronel Stapelberg, Leanda van Quickelberge, Pinky Choabi, Christine Moroeng, Alida Nienaber, Q. Michael Temane, Hester H. Vorster https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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