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Item Open Access Psychometric properties of an adapted work-family boundary management tactics scale(AOSIS, 2025) Delport, Marthinus𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Current workplace trends are characterised by the continuous integration of technology and the seamless traversal between work and home domains. This has complicated the work–life interface, resulting in boundary management challenges. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲: The purpose of this article was to validate the 12-item work–family boundary management tactics scale (WFBMT) within the South African context. 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆: Owing to the increased interest in boundary management behaviours, there is a critical need to validate measurement scales that can be used to operationalise such behaviours. Very few scales currently exist in this regard, with limited empirical evidence. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵/𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱: The study used a quantitative cross-sectional research design. A non-probability sample (N = 521) was drawn from five higher education institutions representing typical knowledge workers. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to investigate the psychometric properties of the scale. 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: The results demonstrated acceptable goodness-of-fit for the proposed factor structure. Adequate convergent and discriminant validity were achieved. A moderately dominant general factor emerged, although more than half (51.27%) of the explained common variance was attributed to the first-order factors. Scalar invariance was obtained between male and female respondents and between designated and non-designated group employees. 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹/𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: The WFBMT represents a reliable and valid measurement to operationalise boundary enactment behaviours in the South African context. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻/𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲-𝗮𝗱𝗱: As far as could be ascertained, the study provides the first empirical evidence of the validity and measurement invariance of the WFBMT scale on a South African sample.Item Open Access The role of emotional intelligence and work engagement on nurses’ resilience in public hospitals(AOSIS, 2022) Chikobvu, Pardon; Harunavamwe, MarthaOrientation: The ability to cope effectively with adversity has become vital for healthcare employees because of high job demands. Nurses are faced with workplace adversities that drain resilience resources; as such it is important to investigate factors that may conserve and build resilience resources. Positive states in the form of emotional intelligence and engagement have the potential to activate and conserve resources for coping and adaption amongst nurses. Research purpose: The study was designed to investigate empirically the predictive value of emotional intelligence and work engagement on nurses’ resilience. Motivation for the study: The study was motivated by the fact that negative experiences or adversities kindle loss of resources for coping and adaptive functioning. Promoting positive states has the potential to motivate the building of resources that improve coping and adaptation. Research approach, design and method: The study utilised a cross-sectional quantitative survey using self-administered questionnaires. The sample comprised 252 nurses from the Mangaung Metropole, South Africa. The SmartPLS programme was used to analyse the data. Main findings: Emotional intelligence and work engagement had a statistically significant effect on resilience. Of great significance was the strong direct link between emotional intelligence and resilience. Practical or managerial implication: The healthcare sector needs to invest training in emotional intelligence and work engagement programmes for nurses as a way to improve their resilience; a coping strategy for the highly demanding and stressful work environments. Contribution: These findings contribute valuable new knowledge that can be applied in promoting and enhancing resilience of nurses in public hospitals.Item Open Access The influence of emotional intelligence and resilience on work engagement amongst nurses in public hospitals(AOSIS, 2022) Chikobvu, Pardon; Harunavamwe, MarthaOrientation: It has become vital for hospitals to create supportive and conducive working environments. With the reported adverse working conditions in public hospitals, it would be prudent to consider the stimulating factors of work engagement. This research suggests that personal resources such as resilience and emotional intelligence may cushion individuals from being disengaged by enabling them to manage job demands. Research purpose: The study aimed to determine the extent to which a combination of positive aspects and resources of emotional intelligence and resilience may influence work engagement. Motivation for the study: The study was inspired by Demerouti and Bakker who in 2011 signalled that employees become susceptible to health impairments when job and personal resources are likely to be limited. Expanding employee personal resources may thus effectively influence work engagement. Research approach, design and method: The study employed a cross-sectional quantitative survey by means of self-administered questionnaires. The sample consisted of 252 nurses from the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa. Data were analysed using the SmartPLS programme. Main findings: Emotional intelligence influences work engagement through resilience. The strong direct pathway between emotional intelligence and work engagement was noteworthy. Practical/managerial implication: Managers may focus their attention on developing aspects of emotional intelligence and enhance resilience as a way of improving work engagement. Contribution/value-add: The findings add literature to the body of knowledge focusing on expanding personal resource as a way to enhance work engagement amongst nurses in public hospitals.Item Open Access The cultural identity of white Afrikaner women: a post- Jungian perspective(University of the Free State, 2010) Griessel, Loura; Kotzé, MartinaEnglish: A post-Jungian model of the development of the self (Hill 1992) is used to analyse how the female Afrikaner identity became embedded in the South African social and political contexts. It is argued with Jungian concepts that, because of their history and culture, Afrikaner women grew up amid a cultural identity that became entrenched in the static Masculine and a patrivalent culture pattern. Consequently, for most of the twentieth century, Afrikaner women as a group were prone to function as Father’s Daughters, with a strong constellation of the archetypal image of Amazon and its patterns of Martyr and Dutiful Daughter. Some implications for the development of the self in these women are then discussed.