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  • Black middle managers' experience of affirmative action in a media company 
    Motileng, B.B. (Barnard Buti); Wagner, Claire; Cassimjee, Nafisa (OpenJournals Publishing, 2006)
    Affirmative action remains one of the most highly sensitive, emotive and hotly debated subjects in South Africa. It is nevertheless an important legislated strategy that needs to be thoroughly researched and constructively ...
  • Constructions of masculinity among a group of South African men living with HIV/AIDS : reflections on resistance and change 
    Lynch, Ingrid; Brouard, Pierre W.; Visser, M.J. (Maretha Johanna) (Taylor & Francis, 2010-01)
    Male sexuality in Africa is often associated with harmful sexual practices, which, in the context of HIV and AIDS, often positions men as central to the spread of the epidemic. Despite this focus on men’s practices, there ...
  • HIV/AIDS stigma in a South African community 
    Visser, M.J. (Maretha Johanna); Makin, J.D. (Jennifer Dianne); Vandormael, Alain Marc; Sikkema, Kathleen J.; Forsyth, Brian William Cameron (Taylor & Francis, 2009-02)
    HIV/AIDS-related stigma threatens to undermine interventions to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. To address stigma in a South African community, a thorough understanding of the nature of stigma in the specific cultural context ...
  • Temperament and character correlates of neuropsychological performance 
    Cassimjee, Nafisa; Murphy, Raegan (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2010-06)
    We investigate the association between temperament and character dimensions, on the one hand, and computerised neuropsychological test performance, on the other hand. Temperament and character dimensions were operationalised ...
  • Obstacles to the utilisation of psychological resources in a South African township community 
    Ruane, Ilse (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2010-06)
    Attitudes and beliefs regarding the utilisation of psychological resources were explored among a group of black Africans of 18 years and older. Both males and females participated in focus groups that were conducted at ...
  • The textbook as conversational partner 
    Bakker, Therese Maria (Terri); Eskell-Blokland, L.M. (Linda); Ruane, Ilse (Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2010)
    Undergraduate teaching in psychology relies heavily on textbooks. Once the text-book has been selected, lecturers tend to relax. Modern textbooks include ready-made slides and test banks. All the information the student ...
  • Reflections on the local and the global in psychology : innovation, liberation and testimonio 
    Bakker, Therese Maria (Terri) (Nova Southeastern University, 2009-06)
    This paper presents some reflections on the process of creating research, from the point of view of a psychologist working in an academic environment in a developing country which is undergoing social transformation. ...
  • Revisiting core issues in dynamic assessment 
    Murphy, Raegan; Maree, David J.F. (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2009-12)
    Dynamic assessment is currently poised at a juncture where theoretical and practical assessment resolutions are necessitated. Such issues concern theoretical approaches towards psycho-educational assessment. In order to ...
  • The use of existing measures to test the cognitive functioning of children within the South African context 
    Pretorius, Sulene; Hansen, Zibeth; Smit, Marteleze; Joubert, Theo; Mostert, Sonja Nicolene; Adinolfi, Enrico (Unisa Press, 2009)
    This article explores the various arguments pertaining to the debate surrounding the use of cognitive measures developed and standardised in other countries in the South African context. We argue for both sides of the ...
  • A systemic study of South African emigrants' experience of the Canadian environment 
    Rademeyer, Cornel; Wagner, Claire; Cassimjee, Nafisa (Society of South African Geographers, 2009)
    The aim of this study was to investigate the coupling between the immigrant and the new environment by focusing on South African emigrants in Canada’s experience of the environment. Thus far, acculturation and adaptation ...
  • The future of teaching research in the social sciences 
    Wagner, Claire (Unisa Press, 2009)
    Current literature on teaching research methodology in the social sciences highlights the changing nature of our world in terms of its complexity and diversity, and points to how this affects the way in which we search for ...
  • Constructing a South African hope measure 
    Maree, David J.F.; Maree, Marinda; Collins, Charmaine (Elliot & Fitzpatrick, 2008)
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  • The relationship between hope and goal achievement 
    Maree, David J.F.; Maree, Marinda; Collins, Charmaine (Elliot & Fitzpatrick, 2008)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • Change detection in a change blindness flicker paradigm 
    Cassimjee, Nafisa; Maree, David J.F. (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2004)
    This study explored trends in change detection within the change blindness (CB) flicker paradigm. A sample comprising 92 university students was tested for speed in change detection. A number of alternating photographic ...
  • Psychosocial factors affecting the adoption of technology in an institution of higher education 
    Van Niekerk, Kirstin; Maree, David J.F. (Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2004)
    This study investigated the psychological and social factors pertinent to the adoption of information and communication technology within a tertiary education institution. A conceptual model grouped the independent variables ...
  • Dimensions of change detection within the phenomenon of change blindness 
    Maree, David J.F.; Cassimjee, Nafisa; Gcabo, R.P.E. (Rebone Prella Ethel); Croucamp, Yolande; De Beer, Sarina; Maritz, Linda I.; Mtetwa, Charles A.; Neville, Patricia M.; Prinsloo, Alida P.; Scherman, Vanessa (Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages, 2003)
    The phenomenon of change blindness (CB) has recently been investigated from a number of perspectives. Basically it entails the limited ability to perceive gross changes in one’s visual environment. In a recent experiment, ...
  • Description of novelty, novelty of description : a dialectic analysis of a web-based course 
    Perold, Jan Johannes; Maree, David J.F. (Elsevier, 2003-11)
    This article proposes a theoretical framework for the identification and classification of the various processes that constitute Web-based education. The framework is based on the following premises: (1) Education may be ...
  • A qualitative investigation of South African cigarette smokers' perceptions of fear appeal messages in anti-smoking advertising 
    Lynch, Ingrid; De Bruin, Lauren M.; Cassimjee, Nafisa; Wagner, Claire (OpenJournals, 2009-06)
    Cigarette smoking continues to pose a global health risk, including in developing countries. Fear appeal messages have been widely employed in health communication to reduce cigarette smoking, but studies provide conflicting ...
  • South Africans in flux : exploring the mental health impact of migration on family life 
    Marchetti-Mercer, Maria Chiara (In House Publications, 2009-05)
    In the context of post-apartheid South Africa mental health professionals are increasingly faced with the complexities linked to people leaving the country, those left behind and those returning. In an attempt to illustrate ...
  • Understanding school violence : comments on Szabo and Potterton 
    Fast, Jonathan; Marchetti-Mercer, Maria Chiara (In House Publications, 2009-02)
    In two recent editorials published - in the African Journal of Psychiatry - on the high school samurai sword slaying in Krugersdorp last year, Szabo and Potterton made some clear-headed comments about the events that do ...