Di Napoli, Immacolata; Procentese, Fortuna; Visser, Maretha J.(University of Salento, 2024)
Gender-based violence is a major health, social, and human rights issue in the global context. It knows no social or economic boundaries and has devastating effects mostly on women and girls of all socio-economic backgrounds ...
Visser, Maretha J.; Ndhlovu, Sasekile(University of Salento, 2024)
Programmes designed to empower women in an attempt to eradicate violence against them address only one side of the coin. To promote respectful gender relationships, it is also necessary to change the destructive perceptions ...
In this study, I explored how haptic modes of sense, contact, and practice affectively shape, become shaped with/in, the erotic experiences of gay fist-fuckers’ fist-play. Unstructured individual interviews were conducted ...
A number of underutilized concepts in Lacan’s “Function and Field of Language and Speech in Psychoanalysis” are examined with an eye to rendering them accessible and practicable to analysts from outside the Lacanian ...
Scharbert, Julian; Reiter, Thomas; Sakel, Sophia; Ter Horst, Julian; Geukes, Katharina; Gosling, Samuel D.; Harari, Gabriella; Kroencke, Lara; Matz, Sandra; Schoedel, Ramona; Shani, Maor; Stachl, Clemens; Talaifar, Sanaz; Aguilar, Natalia M.A.; Amante, Dayana; Aquino, Sibele D.; Bastias, Franco; Biesanz, Jeremy C.; Bornamanesh, Alireza; Bracegirdle, Chloe; Campos, Luis A.M.; Ceballos, Maria C.; Chauvin, Bruno; Choychod, Sopa; Coetzee, Nicoleen; Costin, Vlad; Machado, Gustavo d. S.; Dorfman, Anna; Dos Santos, Monika; El-Haddad, Rita W.; Fajkowska, Małgorzata; Gnisci, Augusto; Hadjisolomou, Stavros; Hale III, William W.; Katzir, Maayan; Khechuashvili, Lili; Kheirabadi, Gholamreza; Kirchner-Hausler, Alexander; Kose, Aslı Goncu; Kotzur, Patrick Ferdinand; Kritzler, Sarah; Lu, Jackson G.; Martskvishvili, Khatuna; Mottola, Francesca; Obschonka, Martin; Paolini, Stefania; Perugini, Marco; Rohmer, Odile; Saeedian, Yasser; Sarayuthpitak, Jintana; Sczesny, Sabine; Sergi, Ida; Skimina, Ewa; Talhelm, Thomas; Tangdhanakanond, Kamonwan; Tokat, Tuluce; Torres, Ana R.R.; Torres, Claudio V.; Van Assche, Jasper; Wolvaardt, George G.; Yalçın, Aslı; Buhner, Markus; Van Zalk, Maarten; Back, Mitja D.(Wiley, 2023-10)
We present a global experience-sampling method (ESM)
study aimed at describing, predicting, and understanding
individual differences in well-being during times of crisis
such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This international ...
A group of rock climbers were classified into two categories, deliberate or precautionary risk-takers, using the Risk-Taking Inventory (RTI). The aim of the study was to determine if these categories played a role in ...
Semmelink, David Sanele; Maree, David J.F.(AOSIS, 2023-02)
The reliability and validity of the six traits comprising the High Potential Trait Indicator (HPTi) were evaluated using Rasch analysis. Focus was designated to the unidimensionality and local independence of each subscale; ...
Working memory training (WM-T), as an intervention strategy to improve emotion regulation (ER), has become popular in cognitive psychology. However, it poses many different challenges for researchers, and far-transfer ...
This paper has two objectives. It aims, firstly, to provide an overview of the explanatory dilemmas that J.M. Coetzee highlights in his acclaimed essay “The mind of apartheid” in respect of existing theories of apartheid ...
This study conducted a Systematic Literature Review to investigate the available knowledge that explores fluid intelligence using Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices in contexts where the quality of education may influence ...
Maseko, Sasabona Annah Millicent(University of Pretoria, 2023-03)
Places of work demand a great deal from individuals, and as such, are often associated with pressures which reduce their well-being. Teachers, particularly those teaching in rural schools, are not spared such challenges. ...
Losing a child to suicide is a traumatic experience that any mother can go through. It is considered the worst stressor that may create significant changes in the mother’s life. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to ...
The HI- virus continues to spread globally and remains an outcry in the international community and a burden disease in South Africa. The influence and presence of HIV activists in the community positively contributes to ...
Mokitle, Kgothatso(University of Pretoria, 2023-07)
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a general term used to capture violence that is directed at an individual based on their biological sex, gender identity, or adherence to socially constructed norms of masculinity or femininity, ...
The available literature indicates a need for research on the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, and culture in South Africa. This study attempted to fill the gap in the existing literature by exploring Xhosa men’s ...
Stress is an ever-increasing feature of daily life. Particularly, repeated exposures to acute stress can result in multiple poor psychophysiological outcomes. These multiple poor outcomes can be operationalised as chronic ...
Bezuidenhout, Monique(University of Pretoria, 2022-11)
Research indicates that weight loss surgery (WLS) is the most effective and cost-effective treatment for obesity and weight-related comorbidities. However, twenty percent of individuals who have undergone WLS are not deemed ...
Saunders, Marilyn Cathleen(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Society has become cynical about the institution of marriage because so many marriages end in failure. Recent statistics compiled in South Africa indicate a decline in registered marriages and an increase in divorce cases ...
Background : African American women (AAW) have a high risk of both cardiometabolic (CM) illness and depressive symptoms. Depressive
symptoms co-occur in individuals with CM illness at higher rates than the general population, ...
Yeatman, Joshua Gregory(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Despite the clinical and academic prominence of Attachment Theory, there is scant research aiming to explore its value for infants on the spectrum of Developmental Delays and their caregivers. In low resource settings such ...