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Browsing Psychology by Supervisor "Human, Lourens H."
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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, 2008-10-16)The focus for this research project was on the use of technology in bridging a perceived gap in sport psychology. This gap is present between the three main contexts in which sport psychology is practised, namely the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-07-10)This research project is a narrative study on the use of chess as a therapeutic medium in a substance abuse rehabilitation centre. Stabilis Treatment Centre served as the rehabilitation centre where the data was collected ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-12)The co-construction of helping services in the community of Ennerdale is a study that explores men’s reluctance to make use of helping and psychological services. Academic and informal literature informs us that men are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2004)Scuba diving has been around for years and has its origins in history many centuries ago. It has been widely explored and researched as a subject of scientific, medical, and recreational interest. More recently, with the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-02-10)This research is concerned with the construction of identity with regards to female children of alcoholics studying at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). Available literature on this topic suggests that the context of parental ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-12)The year 2002 saw the amendment of section 5(4) of the South African Schools Act no 84 of 1996. The amended Act now allows children of five years or younger to enter school. The entry of five year olds and younger into the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)The Different Faces of Bulimia is a research project that has represented a journey. It began with the question “How do females experience bulimia as part of their lives?” and moved through rooms where different ‘faces’, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-09-10)The study focuses on the experiences of female cyclists who participate in the cycling club at a tertiary institution in South Africa. By qualitatively exploring these experiences an attempt was made to understand how ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Purpose: The primary goal of this research study was to describe the experiences of South African spectators as it pertains to the 2010 FIFA World Cup (WC) South AfricaTM . As this study focused on spectators' experiences ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006)Climbing has been part of human nature since time immemorial, our ancestors used it to escape predators, to flee from flooding valleys, to gather food and to move to new territories. However it was not until the middle ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Involuntary childlessness presents an array of far reaching challenges for couples who reside in pronatalistic developing countries. Whilst the literature recognises the diverse difficulties that infertility can present, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The objective of this study was to explore how student-athletes experience their dual careers (academics and netball) within a tertiary education setting. This was achieved by investigating their experiences through an ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-09-27)This research project investigated how a professional athlete made sense of lying to federal investigators regarding her use of a prohibited substance. More specifically, it investigated how Marion Jones made sense of her ...
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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, 2008-10-16)No abstract available
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-01-30)Concerning child abuse, the political stance seems to be protecting the rights of children from abuse whereas statistics on child abuse illustrate that child abuse is an enormous problem in South Africa, as well as other ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This study explored the subjective interpretations of five adolescent athletes who experienced a sport-specific version of the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) approach. The MAC approach is an alternative sport ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) approach is a sport psychology programme aimed at performance development in athletes. This study set out to gain an understanding of how adolescent equestrian athletes experienced ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)For the past three decades performance development in sport has been steered by traditional Psychological Skills Training (PST) programmes. However, in the last decade, the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) approach ...
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