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Theses and Dissertations (Psychology): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-11-09)The aim of this study is to investigate the resemblance between the developmental stages and developmental tasks of the seven chakras (Judith, 1996) and Erik Erikson’s developmental theory (Bee, 1996). The researcher aims ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects thousands of people in South Africa. Our knowledge regarding this phenomenon has expanded rapidly and the problematic psychological wellbeing of persons who have been injured through ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-11-12)Objective: To explore consumer attitudes towards generic medication. Methods: A quantitative method was used in this explorative study to assess consumer attitudes towards generic medication. A survey design was utilized. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)“The Perfect Body” is a dominant narrative in western culture which we are exposed to on a daily basis in the media and advertising. Individuals who have been physically traumatised may find difficulty in reclaiming their ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)Fatherhood has become an area of research that has attracted a considerable amount of media attention and interest within the social sciences in the twentieth century. Historically, the evolution of the concept fatherhood ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)Pistorius (1996) was the first individual to introduce research on serial murder in the South African context with her psychodynamic approach to the phenomenon. Since then, others have followed, namely Labuschagne (1998, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005)Although the focus of the study was the emotional abuse of women in close relationship, I argue that the patterns and processes in the abusive relationship, the positioning of both players show a close resemblance to abuse ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-11-05)In this study I qualitatively explore how women who choose not to have children account for this choice in the South African context. I consider the reasons for women to remain childfree and the changing discourses of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-10-30)This study qualitatively investigated older adults’ experience of Second Life from a descriptive phenomenological perspective. Second Life is a virtual world found on the Internet and is considered to be a cyber reality ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-10-30)Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-10-30)This research was based on the development of a Personal Growth Programme to address the emotional needs of ECD practitioners dealing with vulnerable children in previously disadvantaged communities, mostly in Gauteng. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-11-03)This research report presents the findings of an evaluation of a school-based substance abuse prevention programme presented as part of Project Awareness. The programme was presented as a one-day intervention for grade ten ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-10-26)The main aim of this study was to determine whether the locus of control construct could be used to predict academic success. The study differentiated between short-term academic success (successful completion of the first ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)In this research a novel adaptation of Luborsky’s Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) method was implemented within a phenomenological methodology. The Duquesne phenomenological research method (DPRM) provided the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-10-22)Numerous theories of motivation have been formulated over decades, but only in the last 25 years has the field of motivation research been dominated by powerful and more sophisticated theories organised around personal ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-10-24)The aim of this study was to determine the usefulness of the following instruments for the diagnosis of depression among Africans: The Beck Depression Inventory (2nd Edition) (BDI-II), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-10-19)The purpose of this study is to describe the subjective psychological experience of relapse in cocaine/crack and heroin users with the aim of identifying the significant cognitive, emotional and social themes involved in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-11-02)In this study, a model of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was developed, implemented and assessed. The aim of this model is to assist HIV-positive women in dealing with internalised and enacted stigma. Since much of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-10-30)Spiral dynamics as a theory offers an explanation of human values. The historical development of this theory with the original theoretician, Graves, not having written a seminal work, opens up possibilities of different ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-10-30)This study is a qualitative exploration of the gendered discourses of South African women in middle management. It explores the locations and perspectives from which middle management women speak, the institutions and ...
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