TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heinecke-Müller, Michaela
A1  - Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia
A1  - Kariuki, Priscilla W.
A1  - Arasa, Josephine N.
T1  - Feeling capable in an Ubuntu way
N2  - 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.
KW  - control beliefs
KW  - emic-etic
KW  - Ubuntu
KW  - transcultural
KW  - personnel psychology
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://kola.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2320
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kola-23207
N1  - Erscheint zugleich:
Heinecke-Müller, Michaela, Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia, Kariuki, Priscilla W. and Arasa, Josephine N.. "Feeling capable in an Ubuntu way: Kenyan comprehensions of control beliefs compared with the German perspective" Open Psychology, vol. 4, no. 1, 2022, pp. 60-83. https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2022-0004
VL  - 2022
ER  -