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Feeling capable in an Ubuntu way: Kenyan comprehensions of competence- and control beliefs compared with the German perspective

Open Psychology. Bd. 4. De Gruyter 2022 S. 60 - 83

Erscheinungsjahr: 2022

ISBN/ISSN: 2543-8883

Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Sprache: Englisch

Doi/URN: https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2022-0004

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In Western personnel psychology, control beliefs are a valued predictor for work-related outcomes. Yet, little is known about the culture-specific functioning of control in East Africa. Kenya, as an Ubuntu culture, is examined regarding control beliefs and contrasted with a German sample considered to represent an individualistic or Western culture. Responses to N=143 quantitative personality tests were attended with qualitative interviews on control beliefs (self-concept of...In Western personnel psychology, control beliefs are a valued predictor for work-related outcomes. Yet, little is known about the culture-specific functioning of control in East Africa. Kenya, as an Ubuntu culture, is examined regarding control beliefs and contrasted with a German sample considered to represent an individualistic or Western culture. Responses to N=143 quantitative personality tests were attended with qualitative interviews on control beliefs (self-concept of ability, internality, powerful others, and chance). Content validity and factor structure of control beliefs were analyzed, followed by a Procrustean target rotation. Linear regression analyses were conducted to assess the predictability of job performance, achievement motivation, and well-being. Item comprehension, as well as factor structure of the four control aspects, differ between the two samples. In particular, the ‘powerful others’ control aspect diverges the most between the cultures. Linear regression analyses showed comparable, but not fully congruent predictability. Results indicate that an uncritical transfer of the control beliefs measure from one culture to another is inappropriate. Results fit in the picture of African Ubuntu philosophy, emphasizing social-relational aspects shaping control beliefs. More emic-etic based research is demanded concerning intra- and intercultural variability of control beliefs to depict a transcultural applicable and invariant model.» weiterlesen» einklappen

  • competence- and control beliefs
  • core self-efficacy
  • Ubuntu
  • personalitiy
  • transcultural
  • locus of control
  • personnel psychology

Autoren


Kariuki , Priscilla W. (Autor)
Arasa , Josephine N. (Autor)

Klassifikation


DDC Sachgruppe:
Psychologie

Verknüpfte Personen


Claudia Quaiser-Pohl

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