A survey of literature has revealed that there is a need for a reliability and validity study of the Personal Orientation Inventory in South Africa. The two major objectives of this research where therefore to determine firstly, the test-retest reliability of the Personal Orientation Inventory and secondly, to establish the construct validity, in other words, how well the Personal Orientation Inventory correlates with other measures purporting to measure similar traits. The total sample of 317 individuals used in this research, consisted of both male and female school leavers such as students and national servicemen, ranging in age from 17 to 22 years. The results of this introductory study regarding reliability and validity of the Personal Orientation Inventory in South Africa demonstrated clear support for similar research done overseas and showed to be compatible with the humanistic psychology movement's original concept of self-actualization. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial Psychology)

Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Die doel van hierdie studie was om die verwantskap tussen persoonlikheidstipes en 'n salutogeniese konstruk naamlik sin vir koherensie te ondersoek. Persoonlikheid is vanuit 'n behavioristiese sowel as humanistiese paradigma ondersoek en sin vir koherensie vanuit 'n salutogeniese paradigma. Die studie is uitgevoer onder middelvlak bestuurders in 'n finansiele instelling waarvan die totale populasie in 'n gegewe geografiese gebied betrek is. Twee meetinstrumente, naamlik die lewensorientasievraelys (OLQ) en die Myers-Briggs tipe indikator (MBTI) is gebruik op die populasie van 57 bestuurders. Pearson produkmoment-korrel asiekoeffisiente is bereken en 'n variansie-ontleding is gedoen. Die resultate van hierdie studie toon dat daar nie 'n beduidende verband is tussen persoonlikheidstipes en sin vir koherensie nie. Die aanname word gemaak dat 'n verwantskap tussen die twee konstrukte moontlik gevind kan word indien 'n meer geografies verspreide en heterogene proefgroep gebruik word waarin al die persoonlikheidstipes verteenwoordig is. / The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality types a11d a salutogenic construct, namely sense of coherence. Personality has been investigated from a behaviouristic as well as a humanistic paradigm and sense of coherence from a salutogenic paradigm. This study has been done on persons on middle management level in a financial institution of which the total population has been approached in a given geographical area. Two measuring instruments, namely the Orientation To Life Questionnaire (OLQ) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) have been used on the population of 57 managers. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient has been calculated and a variation analysis has been done. The results of this study show that there is no significant relation between personality types and sense of coherence. It is supposed that a relationship between the two constructs might be found if a more heterogenic and geographically spread experimental group is used in such a way that all the personality types are represented. / Psychology / M.A. (Bedryfsielkunde)

Text of thesis is focused on the development potential of students self-realization, using humanistic principles in the educational process. The work includes theoretical background of the issue, psychodidactic processed material, allowing the application of humanistic considerations in teaching process, and empirical research, verifying the real efficacy of theoretical knowledge and psychodidaktic processed material. In the introductory part, the theoretical concepts of self-actualization and humanistic psychology are defined, and also relationship between these concepts and explanations of the significance of these concepts in the educational process to support the holistic development of pupils and to help the student to use their capabilities and dispositions in life. Furthermore, in this part of the work, the possibility of transformation of elements of humanistic psychology, supporting the development of self-fulfillment in teaching, are discussed from a theoretical point of view. Individual chapters deal with the theoretical knowledge on the development of personality, philosophical conception of man in history, the emergence of humanistic psychology on the basis of philosophical orientations, context humanistic psychology and self-fulfillment and justification and utilization possibilities...

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L’apprendimento della leadership invoca un’attenzione pedagogica perché implica un insieme complesso di attività di formazione, sviluppo ed educazione del leader che necessitano di essere adeguatamente problematizzate, validate e integrate mediante le categorie pedagogiche dell’intenzionalità, della progettualità, della riflessività, della relazionalità e dell'esperienza personale. La curvatura umanistica delle recenti teorie della leadership e le analogie esistenti tra l’agire del leader e l’agire educativo pongono l’interrogativo su una possibile pedagogia della leadership e ispirano l’impiego delle arti nella formazione del leader. Formare la leadership si riduce spesso all’apprendimento strumentale di competenze comportamentali ritenute funzionali al ruolo, indipendentemente dal contesto organizzativo e dalle dimensioni personali del leader. Seppure comportamenti, capacità e tratti personali di leader efficaci possano essere facilmente identificati, gli individui non possono assimilarli senza cambiare disposizioni soggettive e visioni del mondo. La formazione arts-based facilita il leader nei processi di conoscenza e sviluppo delle dimensioni identitarie (fini, valori, credenze, emozioni, concetti di sé, intelligenze e sensibilità) che sottendono ai suoi comportamenti, integrandone efficacemente gli aspetti cognitivi, affettivi e motivazionali. Sebbene le arti possano contribuire in vario modo all’apprendimento della leadership, le questioni di pertinenza, validità ed affidabilità degli interventi arts-based richiedono un urgente processo di inquadramento epistemologico e metodologico. / Leadership learning requires a pedagogical care because it implies a set of complex instructional, developmental and educative activities, which need to be opportunely problematized, validated, integrated by pedagogical categories of personal intentionality, projectuality, reflexivity, relationality, and subjective experience. The humanistic curvature of recent leadership theories and existing analogies between leader’s action and educative action put a question mark over a possible pedagogy of leadership, inspiring the deployment of the arts in leader development process. Developing leadership often is reduced to the instrumental learning of behavioral competencies assumed to be functional to role interpretation and field-independent, prescinding from organizational context and leader’s personal characteristics. Though behaviours, skills and personal traits of effective leaders can be easily identified, they cannot be learned without changing individual dispositions and world vision. Arts-based learning facilitates leaders in the process of self-knowing and development of identity (ends, values, assumptions, emotions, self-concepts, intelligences, sensitivities) underlying their behaviours and helping them integrate cognitive, affective and motivational aspects. Even though arts can contribute differently to leadership learning, questions of pertinence, validity, and reliability affect arts-based interventions and demand an urgent process of epistemological and methodological frameworking.

La tesi mostra la presència d'un rerefons simbòlic (el de la figura imaginària de l'home còsmic) en el model contemporani d' “home autorealitzat" que ens ofereix la psicologia filosòfica d'Abraham Maslow (USA, 1908-1970). Òbviament, existeix una certa “descosmització” d'aquest home universal i creador en la psicologia de Maslow, podríem dir que existeix una certa tendència a la secularització i a la psicologització que amaga el profund arrelament de l'home autorealitzat en el món simbòlic que genera les diverses imatges d'home còsmic. Per això mostrem, sota l'entramat conceptual d'una terminologia psicosocial, la presència d'una xarxa d'esquemes, imatges i símbols iaomorfes de la genèrica figura simbòlica de l'home còsmic. Aquesta figuració ens ofereix una imatge molt optimista de l'home i del seu entorn, fent palès que el sentit suprem de la funció simbòlica és l'eufemisme actuant com a “principi-esperança”, l'horitzó-de-sentit, mític, ideal. La “personalitat creadora", de Maslow, s'analitza a la llum de les mateixes línies d'interpretació simbòlica que serveixen per a llegir d'altres figuracions que són precedents històrics del genèric "home còsmic”, mostrant així determinats isomorfismes estructurals. Què podem concloure després del trajecte que hem fet al llarg d'aquest estudi? En primer lloc, que les figuracions d'home còsmic triades com a mostra (Patañjali, Upanishads clàssics, A. Maslow) poden ser analitzades de manera central des d'una perspectiva simbòlica i a la llum de la que hem considerat la seva imatge metafòrica central. Alhora, que totes tres figuracions, tan inqüestionablement diferents i amb semàntiques filosòfiques tan diverses, poden ser llegides des d'un rerefons d'isomorfismes simbòlics que els confereix uns "mínims" comuns I la creença en una suposada naturalesa humana; l'anhel existencial -ràpidament simbolitzat- d'esdevenir una totalitat plena i harmoniosa; i la necessitat, per tal de refermar i aconseguir els dos punts esmentats, d'eufemitzar simbòlicament tot allò que hi ha a l'existència de dolor, limitació, particularitat, contingència. Aquest objectiu simbòlic de les figuracions de l'home còsmic (que no és únic però sí el que a nosaltres ens interessa) pot ésser analitzat, en la seva realització, des d'unes línies simbòliques que hem aportat i utilitzat posant de manifest la seva fertilitat interpretadora: la línia caiguda-exaltació (que és objecte d'eufemització, perquè representa la limitació i la diferència); la línia impuls natural-activitat conscient, que és el fonament de la interiorització com a connexió amb la pròpia natura humana o potencial i que genera el predomini de les imatges del descens i en general del règim nocturn de la imaginació simbòlica; i la línia interiorització-expansió que ens mostra tota la gamma simbòlica de "l'espai de les vivències". Alhora, l'orientació de l'expansió genera l'ús d'imatges i esquemes de la imaginació simbòlica pertanyents a la verticalitat, al caràcter solar i, en general, al règim diürn de la imaginació, confirmant-nos en què el món simbòlic tendeix a relacionar-ho tot en un únic cercle significatiu, i que en això resideix la seva riquesa i la seva limitació: tendeix a la síntesi final i a la visió de conjunt. En definitiva, al llarg del trajecte d'aquesta tesi hem vist com l'home còsmic, en tant que símbol humà per excel.lència, ens posa de manifest els següents punts: 1.- Una reflexió sobre l'àmbit simbòlic, les seves possibilitats, funcions i limitacions. 2.- Queda mostrat l'home còsmic com a projecció simbòlica del nostre anhel d'una totalitat que no som, però a la qual hi tendim. 3.- El simbolisme de l'home còsmic apunta a la transcendència, allò que no es pot nomenar ni "posar damunt la taula". 4.- En aquest món simbòlic es desenvolupa un espai imaginari, unitari i complet, on tot està relacionat i on és possible realitzar allò impossible (la utopia). 5.- Se'ns mostra un catàleg variat de maneres d'eufemitzar, posant de relleu la funció eufèmica com la funció per excel.lència de la imaginació simbòlica. 6.- En tant que horitzó utòpic de sentit, emmarca, impulsa i orienta projectes vitals, individuals o socials, d'autotransformació o/i de canvi social. 7.- Alhora, aquesta utopia és font de tota una diversitat de dissenys axiològics possibles (amb les seves implicacions filosòfiques). 8.- Ens posa de relleu que darrera els horitzons utòpics de sentit alena, no sols l'eufemisme pur, sinó també el "principi esperança". És a dir, si l'home és un "animal simbòlic" vol dir que mai no podrà/voldrà renunciar a l'esperança. 9.- La psicologia filosòfica d'Abraham Maslow és un testimoni contemporani d'aquesta tendència humana cap al valor totalitzador i els horitzons de sentit, així com cap a l'esperança i l'esforç envers la transformació o millora de l'home. Aquesta recerca de l'home autorealitzat, o universal i creatiu, conté i implica mixtificacions i paranys, però també, per què no?, esperances. / The thesis proves the presence of a symbolical background (that of the imaginary figure of the cosmic man) in the contemporary model of the "self-realized man” as shown in the psychological philosophy of Abraham Maslow {USA, 1908-1970).There is undeniably a certain "descosmiczation" of this “universal man” and creator in Maslow's psychology. We could date that there is a tendency towards secularizing and psychologizing that lies behind the symbolical world where the self-realized man is rooted, thus generating the various images of the cosmic man. We hence prove that under the conceptual framework of a psychological terminology, there lies the presence of an actual network of schemes, images and isotope symbols of the generic and symbolical figure of the cosmic man. This figure as such, casts a very optimistic picture of man and his environment, clearly showing that the ultimate meaning of the symbolical function is euphemism, acting as an "auspicious principle", the mythical and ideal perspective of meaningfulness. Maslow's "creative personality" is herein analysed by the light of the very lines of symbolical interpretation used to interpret other earlier figurations, forerunners of the generic "cosmic man”, thus showing certain structural isomorphisms.

A survey of literature has revealed that there is a need for a reliability and validity study of the Personal Orientation Inventory in South Africa. The two major objectives of this research where therefore to determine firstly, the test-retest reliability of the Personal Orientation Inventory and secondly, to establish the construct validity, in other words, how well the Personal Orientation Inventory correlates with other measures purporting to measure similar traits. The total sample of 317 individuals used in this research, consisted of both male and female school leavers such as students and national servicemen, ranging in age from 17 to 22 years. The results of this introductory study regarding reliability and validity of the Personal Orientation Inventory in South Africa demonstrated clear support for similar research done overseas and showed to be compatible with the humanistic psychology movement's original concept of self-actualization. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial Psychology)

Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Die doel van hierdie studie was om die verwantskap tussen persoonlikheidstipes en 'n salutogeniese konstruk naamlik sin vir koherensie te ondersoek. Persoonlikheid is vanuit 'n behavioristiese sowel as humanistiese paradigma ondersoek en sin vir koherensie vanuit 'n salutogeniese paradigma. Die studie is uitgevoer onder middelvlak bestuurders in 'n finansiele instelling waarvan die totale populasie in 'n gegewe geografiese gebied betrek is. Twee meetinstrumente, naamlik die lewensorientasievraelys (OLQ) en die Myers-Briggs tipe indikator (MBTI) is gebruik op die populasie van 57 bestuurders. Pearson produkmoment-korrel asiekoeffisiente is bereken en 'n variansie-ontleding is gedoen. Die resultate van hierdie studie toon dat daar nie 'n beduidende verband is tussen persoonlikheidstipes en sin vir koherensie nie. Die aanname word gemaak dat 'n verwantskap tussen die twee konstrukte moontlik gevind kan word indien 'n meer geografies verspreide en heterogene proefgroep gebruik word waarin al die persoonlikheidstipes verteenwoordig is. / The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality types a11d a salutogenic construct, namely sense of coherence. Personality has been investigated from a behaviouristic as well as a humanistic paradigm and sense of coherence from a salutogenic paradigm. This study has been done on persons on middle management level in a financial institution of which the total population has been approached in a given geographical area. Two measuring instruments, namely the Orientation To Life Questionnaire (OLQ) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) have been used on the population of 57 managers. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient has been calculated and a variation analysis has been done. The results of this study show that there is no significant relation between personality types and sense of coherence. It is supposed that a relationship between the two constructs might be found if a more heterogenic and geographically spread experimental group is used in such a way that all the personality types are represented. / Psychology / M.A. (Bedryfsielkunde)

The factors that hinder or help the development of emotionally competent behaviour in leaders appear to be varied and complex. The role of personality variables such as personality preferences and self-esteem in influencing the development and demonstration of emotional competent behaviour has not yet been well researched. The general aim of this research was to investigate whether a relationship exists between personality preferences, self-esteem and emotional competence, and to determine whether the variables personality preferences and self-esteem can predict the demonstration of emotional competence. Personality preferences were studied from the Analytical Psychology paradigm. Jung's Psychological Types and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator theory of Personality Types provided a theoretical understanding of individual differences in emotional response behaviour. Based on the Humanistic and Social Psychology paradigms, the construct self-esteem was explored from a multi-dimensional perspective with particular emphasis on individuals' self-evaluative views and feelings of self-worth, self-acceptance, sense of belonging and sense of psychological well-being within the particular socio-cultural domain in which these aspects manifest themselves. Emotional competence was studied from the paradigmatic perspectives of the Cognitive Social Learning theories. Emotional competence was viewed as the workplace application of emotional intelligence abilities, which are developable and can be learned. In this regard, emotional competence was described as the demonstration of self-efficacious behaviour in emotion-eliciting social transactions. Emotional competence implies a sense of psychological well-being (a positive inner state of being) and an ability to skillfully, creatively and confidently adapt in an uncertain, unstructured and changing socio-cultural environment. An empirical investigation was conducted to analyse the responses of a randomly selected sample of 107 South African leaders in the manufacturing industry to measures of these three constructs. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Culture-free Self-esteem Inventories for Adults (CFSEI-AD), and the 360° Emotional Competency Profiler (ECP) were administered. The MBTI extraverted-thinking and extraverted-intuitive personality preferences were associated with the CFSEI-AD social, general and total self-esteem scales. In terms of the ECP emotional competence self-evaluations, self-motivation was associated with the MBTI extraverted-judging, extraverted-thinking and extraverted-intuitive preferences, while interpersonal relations was associated with the extraverted-intuitive and extraverted-feeling preferences. The MBTI introverted-sensing, introverted-judging and introverted-thinking preferences were associated with the ECP emotional literacy scale, and the introverted-judging, introverted-sensing and introverted-thinking preferences were associated with interpersonal relations in terms of the emotional competence other evaluations. The MBTI introverted-thinking preference was associated with the ECP self-esteem/self-regard other evaluations and the CFSEI-AD personal self-esteem scale. The ECP total emotional competence scale was associated with the MBTI extraverted-intuitive preference (in terms of the self-evaluations) and the introverted-judging and introverted-thinking preferences in terms of total emotional competence other evaluations. The CFSEI-AD general, personal and total self-esteem scales were associated with the ECP change resilience, self-motivation, self-esteem/self-regard, interpersonal relations and total emotional competence scales. Furthermore, the findings suggest that the ECP emotional competence construct is closely related to the affective component of the CFSEI-AD self-esteem construct, particularly one's sense of psychological well-being which is related to feelings of self-worth. The empirical results confirmed the effect of self-esteem on the self-evaluations of raters exposed to multi-rater assessments such as the 360° Emotional Competency Profiler, namely that self-raters with very high self-esteem may tend to over-inflate their self-evaluations. The CFSEI-AD total self-esteem scale also appears to be a more reliable predictor of emotional competence than the MBTI personality preferences. The results contributed new knowledge about the relationship between individuals' self-esteem, personality preferences and emotional competence and added perspective on the interpretation of individuals' self-ratings, particularly with regard to 360° emotional competence assessments. Recommendations for Industrial and Organisational Psychology practices regarding leader development are formulated, as well as recommendations for future research in the field. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

The factors that hinder or help the development of emotionally competent behaviour in leaders appear to be varied and complex. The role of personality variables such as personality preferences and self-esteem in influencing the development and demonstration of emotional competent behaviour has not yet been well researched. The general aim of this research was to investigate whether a relationship exists between personality preferences, self-esteem and emotional competence, and to determine whether the variables personality preferences and self-esteem can predict the demonstration of emotional competence. Personality preferences were studied from the Analytical Psychology paradigm. Jung's Psychological Types and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator theory of Personality Types provided a theoretical understanding of individual differences in emotional response behaviour. Based on the Humanistic and Social Psychology paradigms, the construct self-esteem was explored from a multi-dimensional perspective with particular emphasis on individuals' self-evaluative views and feelings of self-worth, self-acceptance, sense of belonging and sense of psychological well-being within the particular socio-cultural domain in which these aspects manifest themselves. Emotional competence was studied from the paradigmatic perspectives of the Cognitive Social Learning theories. Emotional competence was viewed as the workplace application of emotional intelligence abilities, which are developable and can be learned. In this regard, emotional competence was described as the demonstration of self-efficacious behaviour in emotion-eliciting social transactions. Emotional competence implies a sense of psychological well-being (a positive inner state of being) and an ability to skillfully, creatively and confidently adapt in an uncertain, unstructured and changing socio-cultural environment. An empirical investigation was conducted to analyse the responses of a randomly selected sample of 107 South African leaders in the manufacturing industry to measures of these three constructs. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Culture-free Self-esteem Inventories for Adults (CFSEI-AD), and the 360° Emotional Competency Profiler (ECP) were administered. The MBTI extraverted-thinking and extraverted-intuitive personality preferences were associated with the CFSEI-AD social, general and total self-esteem scales. In terms of the ECP emotional competence self-evaluations, self-motivation was associated with the MBTI extraverted-judging, extraverted-thinking and extraverted-intuitive preferences, while interpersonal relations was associated with the extraverted-intuitive and extraverted-feeling preferences. The MBTI introverted-sensing, introverted-judging and introverted-thinking preferences were associated with the ECP emotional literacy scale, and the introverted-judging, introverted-sensing and introverted-thinking preferences were associated with interpersonal relations in terms of the emotional competence other evaluations. The MBTI introverted-thinking preference was associated with the ECP self-esteem/self-regard other evaluations and the CFSEI-AD personal self-esteem scale. The ECP total emotional competence scale was associated with the MBTI extraverted-intuitive preference (in terms of the self-evaluations) and the introverted-judging and introverted-thinking preferences in terms of total emotional competence other evaluations. The CFSEI-AD general, personal and total self-esteem scales were associated with the ECP change resilience, self-motivation, self-esteem/self-regard, interpersonal relations and total emotional competence scales. Furthermore, the findings suggest that the ECP emotional competence construct is closely related to the affective component of the CFSEI-AD self-esteem construct, particularly one's sense of psychological well-being which is related to feelings of self-worth. The empirical results confirmed the effect of self-esteem on the self-evaluations of raters exposed to multi-rater assessments such as the 360° Emotional Competency Profiler, namely that self-raters with very high self-esteem may tend to over-inflate their self-evaluations. The CFSEI-AD total self-esteem scale also appears to be a more reliable predictor of emotional competence than the MBTI personality preferences. The results contributed new knowledge about the relationship between individuals' self-esteem, personality preferences and emotional competence and added perspective on the interpretation of individuals' self-ratings, particularly with regard to 360° emotional competence assessments. Recommendations for Industrial and Organisational Psychology practices regarding leader development are formulated, as well as recommendations for future research in the field. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)