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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026

Psychological resource pathways to life satisfaction in South Africa and India: a cross-national pilot study with implications for employee resilience.

Anurag Shekhar, Musawenkosi Donia Saurombe

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Anurag ShekharDepartment of Industrial Psychology and People Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Musawenkosi Donia SaurombeDepartment of Industrial Psychology and People Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Introduction: Psychological resources are critical to employee well-being and are widely regarded as enabling resilient functioning in the face of uncertainty. Evidence from non-Western contexts, however, remains limited. This cross-national pilot study examined whether psychological resources, operationalized as a composite of mental well-being (WEMWBS), flourishing (Flourishing Scale), and work engagement (UWES-3), predicted life satisfaction (SWLS) directly and/or indirectly via perceived stress (PSS-4) among employees in South Africa and India. The findings are discussed in relation to their implications for employee resilience theory and resource-building practice. Methods: An explanatory-sequential mixed-methods design was used. The quantitative phase comprised South African pharmaceutical employees ( Results: Resources showed a strong, positive association with life satisfaction (pooled model: Discussion: The findings support resource-building interventions and motivate future testing of alternative mediators (e.g., meaningful work, positive affect, self-efficacy) through adequately powered longitudinal studies. The cross-country similarity suggests functional equivalence of mechanisms with culturally specific content.

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employee resilienceflourishingIndialife satisfactionperceived stressSouth Africawork engagement

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