Quantitative Assessment of Thriving

Cohen, Lawrence H.; Cimbolic, Kathleen; Armeli, Stephen; Hettler, Tanya R.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1998.tb01221.x

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“…Even though various scholars (e.g., Cohen et al, 1998;Taku et al, 2008) found that the PTGI should be considered as a multi-dimensional measurement, in our sample we obtained through PCA a one-factor PTG model including 17 items. The assumption that personal growth is a unitary phenomenon is not new as shown in scholarly literature (Joseph et al, 2004;Sheikh & Marotta, 2005).…”

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Exploring Posttraumatic Growth in Sierra Leone Using Mixed Methods

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The Sierra Leonean population has faced severe collective traumata (e.g., civil war, Ebola). Although adversities have a devastating impact on people’s lives, there is strong evidence that the struggle with stressful life events can lead to positive changes, which is called posttraumatic growth (PTG). Across many cultures individuals experience PTG. However, the nature of PTG might be influenced by cultural factors. This study aimed to explore PTG in a Sierra Leonean sample using a convergent parallel mixed methods design. The quantitative study investigated the factor structure of the expanded Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI-X). The qualitative study identified emergent PTG themes. In sum, 360 adults reported on their worst experience and completed the PTGI-X; Additionally, 20 participants took part in in-depth interviews. The original factor structure of the PTGI-X did not apply to this Sierra Leonean sample. A one-factor model including 17 items was supported by confirmatory factor analysis. The qualitative findings revealed PTG dimensions that corresponded to the original ones, which were summarised into the domain “individual growth” (tranquillity and trust, achievement motivation, existential apperception, emphasis on values of life, benevolence). A new domain “collective growth”, which reflected societal changes, was found as well. That means, in addition to a personal positive transformation, a social transformation was revealed. The findings indicated that an individualistic measurement such as the PTGI-X falls short to examine growth dimensions in non-Western cultures. A broader definition of PTG might foster the integration of different cultural and collective elements that emerge in response to stressful events.

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Section: Quantitative Studymentioning

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“…First, the structural model's predictive power was assessed using the endogenous construct's coefficient of determination (R2 values) (Hair et al 2017;Henseler, Ringle, and Sinkovics 2009;Ringle, Da Silva, and Bido 2014). The R 2 values for safety attitude were 0.149, indicating a modest predictive potential, but the R 2 values for safety knowledge (0.232) and safety behaviour (0.361) were significant (Cohen et al 1998). On the other hand, the predictor constructs can be assessed by using the effect size of Cohen , f 2 (Glass and Cohen 2012).…”

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Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) in Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs: A Higher Order Two-Stage Approach of PLS-SEM

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2021

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.Most of the accident cases at work are caused by unsafe behaviour. Scholars have thus extensively researched factors of safe behavior.Safety leadership is stated as the most effective factor in safety behaviour. Besides, safety knowledge and safety attitudes are also found to influence safety behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of the relationship between safety leadership, safety knowledge, safety attitude, and safety behavior, which has been found to be limited or rare in previous research.A self-administered questionnaire was applied and was distributed randomly to 140 SME manufacturing workers and they were analysed using the structural equation modelling partial least squares (PLS-SEM). The results prove that safety leadership has a significant effect on safety knowledge, safety attitude, and safety behaviour, with safety knowledge and safety attitude mediating the safety leadership-safety behaviour relationship. Consequently, the results provide a more in-depth view of the relationship between safety leadership and safety knowledge-attitude-behaviour via adapting social-cognitive theory and social learning theory in solving safety issues in SME. This study also provides a starting point for researchers to better understand how effective safety leadership is provided by supervisors in terms of improving worker safety and safety knowledge-attitude-behaviour.

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“…The effect size (f 2 ) helps to assess if there is any significant effect from the omitted predictor construct on the value of R 2 for the endogenous construct. According to Cohen et al (1998)…”

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“…Existing studies show that adjustment needs short term or long-term process for adjustment it will sometimes cause psychological stress (Aycan, 1997). Several researches also shows that stressful in mental will causing poor adjustment and job dissatisfaction (Cohen, Cimbolic, Armeli, & Hettler 1998). In contrast, expatriates who are well-adjusted can lead to good mental health and life satisfaction with positive relationships with local people, compatibility with jobs, and a positive attitude toward new characteristics of jobs.…”

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