Positive affect and resilience: Exploring the role of self-efficacy and self-regulation. A serial mediation model

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

 
 
Field Value
 
Title Positive affect and resilience: Exploring the role of self-efficacy and self-regulation. A serial mediation model
 
Creator Pillay, Daphne Nel, Petrus van Zyl, Ebben
 
Subject positive psychology, female leadership positive affect; self-efficacy; self-regulation; resilience; serial mediation
Description Orientation: Resilience has become an invaluable asset for female leaders in higher education given the numerous barriers they have to overcome. Despite this, leadership development programmes tend to overlook the importance of resilience enhancing factors when offering support interventions for female leaders.Research purpose: This study explores the role of psychological resources such as positive affect, self-efficacy and self-regulation and the processes between them that explain resilience.Motivation for the study: Understanding how psychological resources can work independently and through each other to influence resilience, can prove beneficial for higher education institutions. This information can be used to design female leadership support programmes that enhance the appropriate psychological resources, which may assist with increasing resilience.Research approach/design and method: This study employed a cross-sectional survey design with a non-probability sample of female leaders (n = 255) across multiple higher education institutions in South Africa. Mplus was used to determine the goodness-of-fit associated with the different constructs. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 27 and PROCESS macro by Hayes were used to conduct a series of statistical tests, including serial mediation analysis.Main findings: Although the relationship between positive affect and resilience was mediated by self-efficacy and self-regulation (individually and in serial), positive affect had a positive association with resilience independent of the three indirect effects.Practical/managerial implications: Higher education institutions can strengthen the resilience of female leaders through interventions that utilise positive affect, self-efficacy and self-regulation.Contribution/value-addition: This study contributes towards research on the role of psychological resources in the context of female leadership and aims to explain the processes that may influence resilience.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2022-01-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Survey
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajip.v48i0.1913
 
Source SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 48 (2022); 12 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South Africa current females
Rights Copyright (c) 2022 Daphne Pillay, Petrus Nel, Ebben van Zyl https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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