scholarly journals Adolescent perceptions of resiliencepromoting resources: the South African Pathways to Resilience Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelique C van Rensburg ◽  
Linda C Theron ◽  
Sebastiaan Rothmann
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Service Usage ◽  
Positive Adjustment ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Ecological Resources ◽  
Adolescent Perceptions ◽  
Mandatory Service

Resilience, or being well-adjusted despite facing adversity that predicts negative life outcomes, is a process that is scaffolded by resilience-enabling supports. How well resilience-enabling resources support positive adjustment depends, in part, on adolescents’ perceptions of the availability and usefulness of such resources. Currently, there is limited quantitative, generalisable evidence of the aforementioned. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to document how two groups of Sesotho-speaking adolescents perceived available social-ecological resources and how significantly varied perceptions related to these adolescents’ use of formal supports. The advisory panel to the Pathways to Resilience Study clustered participating adolescents into a resilient group ( n = 221) and vulnerable, or service-using, group ( n = 186). In comparison with the service-using adolescents, resilient adolescents reported significantly higher perceptions of physical and psychological caregiving. Analyses of variance revealed that higher perceptions of caregiving were associated with higher voluntary and lower mandatory service usage. We concluded that relationship-building was a crucial resilience mechanism and would, therefore, encourage psychologists to both prioritise and facilitate caregiving.

scholarly journals Building long-term marketing relationships: New perspectives on B2B financial services

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Theron ◽  
N. S. Terblanche ◽  
C. Boshoff
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Marketing Relationships ◽  
Distinct Individual ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The focus of this study was on the relevance of trust, satisfaction and commitment in maintaining a long-term relationship (intention to stay) with an exchange partner in a Business-to-Business (B2B) context in the financial services industry. The perceptions of 238 B2B clients of a leading South African provider of development capital were investigated. Since support could not be found for the existence of trust, commitment and satisfaction as distinct individual dimensions, this study provides empirical support for the amalgamation of some well-established individual dimensions into broader, more holistic dimensions as drivers of long-term relationship building.Contrary to expectations, B2B banking clients participating in this study appeared to regroup individual dimensions, in a heuristic fashion, to form new dimensions that influenced their attitude towards staying in a B2B relationship. As a result, building long-term marketing relationships seems to be a less complicated process than previously thought. Against this background, the primary contribution of the study is that it highlights the need for marketing practitioners to reconsider their current relationship-marketing strategies. As the findings of the study are inconsistent with conventional wisdom, they also challenge marketing academics to reconsider the theoretical foundations of relationship building in a B2B context.

Social Support and Social-ecological Resources as Mediators of Lifestyle Intervention Effects for Type 2 Diabetes

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Barrera ◽  
Deborah J. Toobert ◽  
Karyn L. Angell ◽  
Russell E. Glasgow ◽  
David P. MacKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Lifestyle Intervention ◽  
Intervention Effects ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Ecological Resources

Positive adjustment to first grade despite divorce: Lessons for school psychologists

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 490-509
Author(s):  
Carla Bezuidenhout ◽  
Linda Theron ◽  
Elzette Fritz
Keyword(s):  
School Psychologists ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
First Graders ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Positive Adjustment ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Formal School ◽  
Important Milestone

Positive adjustment to first grade is an important milestone in children’s lives. Yet, it is sometimes further complicated by additional challenges such as parental divorce. Drawing on a social ecological perspective we explored how the systems rooted in social ecologies enable children’s resilience when their parents are divorced so as to result in their coping well with adjusting to first grade. We used a single instrumental case study that involved visual methodologies to uncover lessons from the story of a first grader whose parents divorced but who continued to adjust well to first grade. Our findings suggest leverage points for school psychologists (SPs) who wish to champion the resilience of first graders who are adjusting to formal school as well as their parents’ divorce. SPs can intervene by supporting the first grader’s processes of agency and meaning making; by working systemically to engage systems of support; and by mobilizing systems with task-sharing.

The sustainable seafood movement viewed as a maturing social-ecological issue using a South African case-study

2018 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 178-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaco Barendse ◽  
Janine Basson ◽  
Samantha L. Petersen ◽  
Kerry J. Sink
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Sustainable Seafood

scholarly journals Social-Ecological measure of resilience: an adapted measure forPersian-speaking university students

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-219
Author(s):  
Mohammadali Amini-Tehrani ◽  
Mohammad Nasiri ◽  
Raheleh Sadeghi ◽  
Elahe-Sadat Hoseini ◽  
Tina Jalali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Divergent Validity ◽  
Phase 3 ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Ecological Resources ◽  
Resilience Process ◽  
The University

Background: There is no validated instrument for Persian-speaking students to apply the social ecological resilience theory (SERT), which emphasizes the ecological resources for developing resilience. The study aimed at developing the student social-ecological resilience measure(Student-SERM) in Iran’s context. Methods: Three separate samples of undergraduates participated in this mixed-methods research from the University of Tehran, Iran. Phase-1 qualitatively explored the resilience features in the university setting, to devise the university-specific subscale (USS). Phase-2piloted the construct validity and reliability of the Student-SERM in 242 undergraduates, who also completed Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). Phase-3, as a cross-validation study, investigated 487 undergraduates, who completed the refined Student-SERM, HospitalAnxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and three indices screening academic performance, loneliness, and suicide acceptability. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), Pearson’s correlation, and Cronbach’s alpha were performed. Results: Phase-1 yielded nine items for USS. In phase-2, EFA indicated the construct validity of the main 20-item measure (RMSEA=0.06 and SRMR=0.04) and the nine-item USS (RMSEA=0.07and SRMR =0.04), and the reliability and convergent/divergent validity were confirmed. In phase-3, EFA (RMSEA=0.07 and SRMR=0.04) and CFA (RMSEA=0.07, CFI=0.89, TLI=0.87,and SRMR=0.07) in two separate subsamples and CFA (RMSEA=0.06, CFI=0.92, TLI=0.90,and SRMR=0.06) in the total sample indicated the construct validity of the refined StudentSERM, including family, peer, culture, growth, and USS subscales. The reliability and convergent/divergent validity were also reconfirmed. Conclusion: The Student-SERM incorporates ecological resources, accounting for the students’resilience. Since the resilience process involves a return to healthy functioning after adversity, further research can examine the application of Student-SERM in high-risk student populations.

Social-ecological resources as mediators of two-year diet and physical activity outcomes in type 2 diabetes patients.

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (2, Suppl) ◽  
pp. S118-S125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Barrera ◽  
Lisa A. Strycker ◽  
David P. MacKinnon ◽  
Deborah J. Toobert
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Ecological Resources ◽  
Diet And Physical Activity ◽  
Diabetes Patients

A Social Ecological Modeled Explanation of the Resilience Processes of a Sample of Black Sesotho-Speaking Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 1211-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelique van Rensburg ◽  
Linda Theron ◽  
Sebastiaan Rothmann
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Complex Model ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Resilience Process

The primary aim of the study that this article reports was to model and test a social ecological explanation of resilience as explained by Ungar. Its secondary aim was to investigate resilience-promoting supports in school-going Black South African adolescents. School attendance was specified as a culturally appropriate, functional outcome of resilience. The Pathways to Resilience Research Project gathered data through the Pathways to Resilience Youth Measure. Seven hundred and thirty school-going adolescents (age 12–19 years, 388 female, 341 male, one unspecified) from Thabo Mofutsanyana District, in South Africa’s Free State province, participated in this cross-sectional study. Latent variable modeling was used to test measurement models of adolescents’ self-reported perceptions of social ecological contributions (resources and risks) to their resilience. A complex model based on a social ecological explanation of resilience fitted the data best. The structural model showed that the resilience process predicted 32% of the variance in school attendance. Social skills, cultural, and spiritual resources were most supportive of adolescents’ resilience. The results confirmed that the complex model explained resilience in Black South African adolescents as a person-context relational process and prompt principals, parents, teachers, and governmental departments to encourage school attendance.

scholarly journals Assessing the resilience of a real-world social-ecological system: lessons from a multidisciplinary evaluation of a South African pastoral system

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Linstädter ◽  
Arnim Kuhn ◽  
Christiane Naumann ◽  
Sebastian Rasch ◽  
Alexandra Sandhage-Hofmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Real World ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Pastoral System ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Categorizing South African SMEs according to customer relationship building practices

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 832-839
Author(s):  
L.E. Fourie
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
State Institution ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Medium Enterprises

It is becoming increasingly important for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to build relationships with their customers. Relationship building is supported by collecting up to date information on the customer, the service rendered and the satisfaction with the product. Recent previous literature on customer relationship management seem to focus on how technology can assist with relationship building but there is a gap in the knowledge as to how South African SMEs go about building relationships and collecting feedback from customers. Quantitative self-administered online survey was sent to small business owners that are registered with an official state institution for SME’s in South Africa. Based on the results SMEs can be categorised as average presumers, passive respectors ordo-it-all-right’ers based on how they build relationships and collect feedback from customers.

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