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  • Facial adiposity, attractiveness, and health : a review 
    De Jager, Stefan; Coetzee, Nicoleen; Coetzee, Vinet (BioMed Central, 2018-12-21)
    The relationship between facial cues and perceptions of health and attractiveness in others plays an influential role in our social interactions and mating behaviors. Several facial cues have historically been investigated ...
  • Factorial validity of the death obsession scale in African university students 
    Mashegoane, Solomon; Makhubela, Malose Silas (Taylor and Francis, 2016)
    In this study the factor structure of the Death Obsession Scale (DOS) was examined using confirmatory factor analysis. Data used consisted of DOS reports of 328 Black African students. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed ...
  • Factors influencing the choice to shop online : a psychological study in a South African context 
    De Swardt, Maray; Wagner, Claire (Unisa Press, 2008)
    As the Internet and opportunities for online shopping are growing at a very fast pace worldwide, investigating this phenomenon within a South African context is crucial considering that it is a relatively new trend in ...
  • Fanon via Lacan, or: decolonization by psychoanalytic means … ? 
    Hook, Derek (Routledge, 2020)
    Lacanian psychoanalysis is often considered antithetical to Frantz Fanon's decolonizing political project. This paper argues, by contrast, that by exploring hitherto under-explored aspects of the Fanon-Lacan relation we ...
  • Fanon/Lacan : sites of intersection 
    Hook, Derek (Edinburgh University Press, 2020-12)
    Three questions motivate this paper's investigation of various intersections between the work of Frantz Fanon and Jacques Lacan. First, what hitherto under-explored references to Lacan's work are to be found in Fanon's ...
  • Fisting intimacy : the sexual scripting of intimacy in gay men’s anal fisting 
    Martin, Jarred H. (Routledge, 2023)
    Anal fisting has often been caricatured as an aggressive, if not violent, mode of sexual and erotic practice between gay men, circumscribed by discourses of risk, danger, and even death. In this study, I explore how a ...
  • Fostering collective responsibility in prevention and ending gender-based violence issues 
    Di Napoli, Immacolata; Procentese, Fortuna; Visser, Maretha (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 ...
  • “From psychology in Africa to African psychology” : going nowhere slowly 
    Makhubela, Malose Silas (Psychology In Society, 2016)
    This provocation reimagines the dominant indigenisation discourse of psychology in South Africa, which conceives the process of “decolonizing” as equivalent to “Africanizing”. I argue that some African psychologists’ ...
  • 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 ...
  • Gender expression and mental health in Black South African men who have sex with men: further explorations of unexpected findings 
    Sandfort, T.G.M. (Theo); Bos, Henny; Reddy, Vasu (Springer, 2018-11)
    Unlike studies conducted in Western countries, two studies among Black South African men who have sex with men (MSM) found no support for the association between gender nonconformity and mental distress, even though ...
  • Gender nonconformity, discrimination, and mental health among Black South African men who have sex with men : a further exploration of unexpected findings 
    Sandfort, T.G.M. (Theo); Bos, Henny; Knox, Justin; Reddy, Vasu (Springer, 2016-04)
    Using data from a study about HIV risk among Black South African MSM, we aimed to ascertain whether unexpected findings about the relationship between gender nonconformity, discrimination, and mental health in this ...
  • Gender outlaws or a slow bending of norms? South African bisexual women’s treatment of gender binaries 
    Lynch, Ingrid; Maree, David J.F. (Sage, 2018-12)
    A monosexual configuration of sexuality assumes that sexual desire is directed at either men or women. Bisexuality resists a choice between oppositional categories and is often theorised as having a transgressive potential ...
  • A global experience-sampling method study of well-being during times of crisis : the CoCo project 
    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 ...
  • Guest editors’ introduction : special Issue on critical food studies in South Africa : feminist perspectives 
    Lewis, Desiree; Reddy, Vasu (Unisa Press, 2021)
    Currently, our social, cultural, and existential experiences are being very directly influenced by our relationships to food. The health, economic, social, and psychological consequences of pathogens originating in industrial ...
  • HIV and sexually transmitted infection knowledge among women who have sex with women in four Southern African countries 
    Paschen-Wolff, Margaret M.; Reddy, Vasu; Matebeni, Zethu; Southey-Swartz, Ian; Sandfort, T.G.M. (Theo) (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
    Women who have sex with women in Southern Africa, where HIV prevalence is high, are often presumed to have minimal risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV despite research documenting female-to-female ...
  • HIV/AIDS in South African schools : neuropsychological and psychoeducational implications 
    Cockcroft, Kate; Cassimjee, Nafisa (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
    In this article, we briefly describe the current epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among South African schoolchildren, as well as the neurocognitive, academic and psychosocial difficulties they experience. Cultural factors linked ...
  • HIV/AIDS prevention through peer education and support in secondary schools in South Africa 
    Visser, M.J. (Maretha Johanna) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2007-11)
    The implementation and evaluation of a peer education and support programme in secondary schools to prevent and reduce high-risk sexual behaviour amongst adolescents is discussed. The aims of the programme were to provide ...
  • 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 ...
  • I am grateful that I still live under one roof with my family : gratitude among South African university students 
    Du Plessis, Carolina F.; Guse, Tharina; Du Plessis, Graham A. (Sage, 2023-09)
    During the transition from school to university, students are faced with many challenges to their well-being. This is especially true in resource constrained societies like South Africa. While there is extensive research ...
  • Impact of a relationships development group on students' interpersonal communication and relationships 
    Du Plooy, Kobus (Unisa Press, 2015-02)
    Together with the increasing pace of modern society and technological improvements, it appears that students’ psychological needs, complaints and methods of communication have also changed. At the University of Pretoria ...