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Validation of the Connor-Davidson resilience scale-10 in South Africa: Item response theory and classical test theory
(Dove Press, 2022)
During times of crisis, and in particular during the current COVID-19 pandemic, resistance resources, such as resilience, are
key to managing the negative impacts of the crisis. The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10 has ...
The health-sustaining, moderating, and mediating roles of sense of coherence in the relationship between fear of Covid-19 and burnout among South African teachers
(MDPI, 2022)
The current study focuses on the interrelationship between fear of COVID-19, sense of
coherence, and burnout. Participants (n = 355) were school teachers from across all provinces in
South Africa who completed the Fear ...
Perceived vulnerability to disease and the relationship with teacher satisfaction in South Africa during Covid-19: The serial role of burnout, role conflict, and ambiguity
(MDPI, 2022)
Teachers’ work roles and responsibilities have changed dramatically because of the
COVID-19 pandemic. These unprecedented changes have the potential to generate role stress and
burnout and reduce teachers’ job satisfaction. ...
The mediating role of teacher identification in the relationship between psychological distress and teacher satisfaction during Covid-19
(SAGE Publications, 2022)
The current study examines the potential mediating role of professional identification of school teachers in the relationship
between psychological distress and teaching satisfaction. Professional identification is the ...
Promoting well-being in the face of a pandemic: The role of sense of coherence and ego-resilience in the relationship between psychological distress and life satisfaction
(SAGE Publications, 2022)
COVID-19 has impacted negatively on the lives and academic activities of university students.
This has contributed to increasing levels of psychological distress among this population group.
Intrinsic and contextual ...
Facing your fear of Covid-19: Resilience as a protective factor against burnout in South African teachers
(Elsevier, 2022)
Frontline workers have been distinctively impacted by the rapid spread of the COVID-19
pandemic. Teachers, as frontline employees in the educational system, had to contend with
unprecedented changes to their work role, ...
Identity matters: Validation of the professional identifcation scale in a sample of teachers in South Africa during the Covid 19 pandemic
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022)
Professional identity has been linked to organizational outcomes such as job performance and commitment, as well as health and well-being indices such as burnout
and depression. Professional identity is a powerful mechanism ...
The cost of caring : secondary traumatic stress and burnout among lay trauma counsellors in the Western Cape Province
(South African journal of psychology, 2020)
The psychological and emotional risks associated with providing care to traumatized populations have been largely overlooked in the literature on non-professional trauma counselling in South Africa. Non-professional or lay ...
The beneficial effects of professional identity: The mediating role of teaching identification in the relationship between role stress and psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic
(MDPI, 2022)
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and students rapidly transitioned to
remote teaching and learning. In South Africa, this initial transition was followed by periods of
reopening and closing of schools ...
Trauma nation: Exposure to traumatic events among South African university students
(Journal of Community Psychology, 2020)
The current study investigated exposure to past trauma among South African students at a historically disadvantaged institution (HDI). The student population at HDI's are typically from low-income communities that were ...