Human Flourishing in Institutions
This programme aims to research the functioning of individuals, relations, and institutions (on a continuum varying from flourishing to languishing) and its antecedents, outcomes, and utility. Working from the capability approach and positive organisational scholarship, and considering the precariousness inherent in modern society, the research programme investigates the optimal functioning of individuals, relationships, and institutions. Flourishing refers to optimal functioning as indicated by positive emotions, a positive affect balance, satisfaction with life (and life domains), engagement, self-determination (and satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, competence. and relatedness), meaning and purpose, learning agility, positive relations, and social well-being. Languishing indicates the opposite of these types of functioning. The programme aims to develop and evaluate interventions to optimise capability, flourishing, and utility.
Recent publications
2024Social support and well-being of adolescent learners: a latent profile analysis.
Narainsamy, K., Rothmann, S., Hoffman, J.
South African Journal of Psychology2024Conceptualization and measurement of thriving at work.
Rothmann, S.
In C.L. Cooper & P. Brough & V.L. Anderson (Eds.), Elgar encyclopedia of occupational health psychology.2024Achievement goals as mediators of the links between self-esteem and depressive symptoms from mid-adolescence to early adulthood.
Gilbert, W., Eltanoukhi, R., Morin, A.J.S., & Salmela-Aro, K.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence2026Twenty-first-century universal competencies for financial accounting students.
Van den Berg, E., & Rothmann, S.
South African Journal of Economic and Management SciencesMembers
