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A salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context : hybrid working during the pandemic
Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| author | Verster, Jeannie |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/134858 A salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context : hybrid working during the pandemic Verster, Jeannie Boonzaier, Michele Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Industrial Psychology. Health -- Psychological aspects Work environment -- Psychological aspects Sense of coherence Telecommuting -- Psychological aspects COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 -- Psychological aspects UCTD Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Verster, J. 2025. A salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context: hybrid working during the pandemic. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/879e2a99-be0e-4781-bfbe-2baf0612ad48 ENGLISH SUMMARY: The literature on coping and wellness is a rapidly growing and transforming arena. Over the last couple of decades, the field has seen a drastic shift in perspective, moving away from the disease-ease continuum, towards understanding health as a unipolar construct and that the mechanisms underlying mental health are significant. This thesis aims to contribute to this field by exploring sense of coherence as a psychological mechanism underlying positive spirals of behaviour that drive people toward the upper end of the health continuum, beyond coping toward flourishing. This exploratory study examines various conceptual models in a multiple regression environment. The exploratory models are designed to explore sense of coherence as a construct from an interactionist and situational perspective. This is an unconventional view of the sense of coherence construct and the objective of this study is to contribute to a broadened theoretical perspective of the construct that would inspire future research in this direction. The theoretical background which lead to this exploration of sense of coherence is given followed by conceptual model and hypotheses creation to evaluate the relationships among situational sense of coherence, work sense of coherence, proactive coping, and proactive personality in a sample of 54 South African employees in a hybrid-work setup.. The findings demonstrate that the hypothesised main effects between the constructs proactive personality, proactive coping, situational sense of coherence, and work sense of coherence are supported, but due to sample size and statistical power limitations, mediation and moderation effects were not supported. The study is limited to non-experimental, online survey research using instruments in the public domain. Ethical clearance to conduct the study was obtained from the Stellenbosch University Ethics Committee. Recommendations for future research include the development of a behavioural indicator scale for sense of coherence. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die literatuur, veral oor stres-hanteringsmeganismes en welstand, groei tans eksponensieel. Die veld getuig van ‘n drastiese verandering in perspektief, veral in die onlangse dekade, en spreek tot ’n wetenskaplike siening wat wegbeweeg van ’n siekte-gemak kontinuum na ’n begrip van gesondheid as ’n eenpolige konstruk, asook ’n beter begrip dat die meganismes onderliggend aan gesondheid geweldige wetenskaplike waarde in hulle eie reg het en meer intensiewe wetenskaplike ondersoek verg. Hierdie tesis poog om ’n bydrae te maak tot hierdie veld deur een van hierdie sogenaamde onderliggende stres-hanteringsmeganismes te ondersoek. Hiermee word daar ondersoek ingestel of proaktiewe stres-hanteringsgedrag in ‘n verdere meganisme onderverdeel kan word, naamlik sin van samehangendheid. Die studie poog, deur ‘n onkonvensionele siening van sin van samehangendheid te ondersoek, om die teoretesie verstaan van die begrip te bevorder asook om toekomstige navorsing van die konstruk te inspireer. Verskeie verkennende modelle is ontwikkel en ondersoek in ’n meervoudige regressie omgewing om die verhoudinge tussen proaktiewe persoonlikheid, proaktiewe streshantering, situasionele sin van samehangendheid en werk-sin van samehangendheid te bepaal. Die studie is onderneem in ’n steekproef van 54 Suid-Afrikaanse werknemers teen die kontekstuele agtergrond van hibriede-werk. Die bevindinge ondersteun die hipoteses aangaande die vernaamste effekte tussen die konstrukte proaktiewe persoonlikheid, proaktiewe streshantering, situasionele sin van samehangendheid en werk-sin van samehangendheid, maar bykomende effekte van situasionele sin van koherensie en werksin van koherensie op proaktiewe persoonlikheid en proaktiewe streshantering is nie ondersteun nie gegewe die steekproef grootte. Die studie is beperk tot ’n nie-eksperimentele, aanlyn opnamenavorsing wat instrumente in die openbare domein gebruik. Etiese klaring om die studie uit te voer is van die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Etiekkomitee verkry. Aanbevelings vir toekomstige navorsing sluit in die ontwikkeling van ’n gedragsaanwyserskaal vir sin van samehang. Masters 2026-01-13T06:59:25Z 2026-01-13T06:59:25Z 2025-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/134858 en Stellenbosch University xi, 87 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Health -- Psychological aspects Work environment -- Psychological aspects Sense of coherence Telecommuting -- Psychological aspects COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 -- Psychological aspects UCTD Verster, Jeannie A salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context : hybrid working during the pandemic |
| title | A salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context : hybrid working during the pandemic |
| title_full | A salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context : hybrid working during the pandemic |
| title_fullStr | A salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context : hybrid working during the pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | A salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context : hybrid working during the pandemic |
| title_short | A salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context : hybrid working during the pandemic |
| title_sort | salutogenic exploration of sense of coherence as a situational variable in the forms of work sense of coherence and situational sense of coherence in a stress context hybrid working during the pandemic |
| topic | Health -- Psychological aspects Work environment -- Psychological aspects Sense of coherence Telecommuting -- Psychological aspects COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 -- Psychological aspects UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/134858 |
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