The literature reveals a vast gap in the functionality of South African families due to the absence of fathers. This study intended to identify adolescents’ perception of family resilience, which may help them to overcome ...

This study focuses in the students’ perception of self-regulation in learning as influenced by the teaching-learning-environment. The study was conducted at the University of Pretoria. The participants in the study were ...

Students in resource-scarce environments navigate through a multitude of barriers (Richter, 2007). The pathways that individuals travel through towards positive adaptation are far from fixed (Ungar, 2005a), but rather a ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate and understand ways in which the family, school, and community environments contribute to the academic resilience of township youth raised by their grandparents. The study further ...

Despite the increase in the number of non-traditional students, there seem to be limited research in the area of adult women learners, especially mothers, who engaged in studies in the South African context. This study ...

South African families in semi-urban townships experience more significant stress than other families. Family resilience refers to the factors or processes within families that support them to be resilient before, during ...

The focus of this study was to contribute knowledge on indigenous pathways to resilient decision-making process in youths from a rural stricken community in Limpopo, South Africa. The purpose included an investigation ...

The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study was to obtain insight into how Grade 9 learners (average age of 15 years) in a secondary rural school conceptualise school violence. The study was framed by a social ...

The purpose of this study is to gain insight into how parents from a low socio-economic environment perceive family resilience. The study aims to fill a current gap in family resilience literature using the perceptions of ...

This study contributes to existing, but limited research on institutional caregiving of vulnerable children. Institutional caregiving is an organized goal directed activity which occurs within a family-like system that ...