Browsing Research Articles (Psychology) by Title

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  • Students’ conceptions - and misconceptions - of social research 
    Kawulich, Barbara; Garner, Mark W.J.; Wagner, Claire (Lodz University, 2009-12)
    How knowledge of students’ conceptions of social research can influence the pedagogy of research methods is the focus of this article. This study explains how students’ conceptions of social research changed over the course ...
  • Subjective experience of depressed mood among medical students at the University of Pretoria 
    Van Niekerk, Linette; Viljoen, A.J.; Rischbieter, Paul; Scribante, L. (In House Publications, 2008-03)
    INTRODUCTION: Following the suicide of a 4th-year medical student, questions were raised as to whether medical students are more vulnerable to depression and suicide than their counterparts studying other courses at the ...
  • Substance abuse and psychological well-being of South African adolescents 
    Visser, M.J. (Maretha Johanna); Routledge, Leigh-Anne (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2007-08)
    This research aimed at identifying patterns of substance abuse among South African adolescents and exploring the relationship between psychological well-being and substance abuse. Psychological well-being was assessed with ...
  • Sugar daddies and blessers : a contextual study of transactional sexual interactions among young girls and older men 
    Hoss, Juliane M.; Eskell-Blokland, L.M. (Linda) (Wiley, 2018-09)
    This mixed method study aimed to gather a contextual understanding of the perspectives of young girls in South Africa with regard to transactional sexual interactions between older men and young girls. Two major narratives ...
  • Support group processes : perspectives from HIV-infected women in South Africa 
    Mundell, Jonathan Peter; Visser, M.J. (Maretha Johanna); Makin, J.D. (Jennifer Dianne); Forsyth, Brian William Cameron; Sikkema, Kathleen J. (Routledge, 2012)
    This study examined the experiences and perceived benefits of support group participation among HIV-infected women in South Africa. From a qualitative analysis of responses, key psychological processes through which support ...
  • A symbol of infinite (be)longing : psychosocial rhythms of inclusion and exclusion at South African universities 
    Liccardo, Sabrina (Higher Education South Africa, 2018)
    This article argues that the life histories of Black South African women scientists provide a telling story of psychosocial transformations because they experience the world as outliers; paradoxically positioned within an ...
  • A systematic exploratory review investigating the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation : implications for working memory training 
    Pape, Tarryn L.; Maree, David J.F. (Sage, 2023-12)
    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 ...
  • A systematic review of DNA methylation and preterm birth in African American women 
    De Mendoza, Veronica Barcelona; Wright, Michelle L.; Agaba, Comfort; Prescott, Laura; Desir, Alexandra; Crusto, Cindy A.; Sun, Yan V.; Taylor, Jacquelyn Y. (Sage, 2017-05)
    BACKGROUND : The causes of many cases of preterm birth (PTB) remain enigmatic. Increased understanding of how epigenetic factors are associated with health outcomes has resulted in studies examining DNA methylation (DNAm) ...
  • A systemic study of South African emigrants' experience of the Canadian environment 
    Rademeyer, Cornel; Wagner, Claire; Cassimjee, Nafisa (Society of South African Geographers, 2009)
    The aim of this study was to investigate the coupling between the immigrant and the new environment by focusing on South African emigrants in Canada’s experience of the environment. Thus far, acculturation and adaptation ...
  • Tax compliance and behavioural response in South Africa : an alternative investigation 
    Gcabo, R.P.E. (Rebone Prella Ethel); Robinson, Zurika; Robinson, Z. Clausen (Juta, 2007-09)
    Taxpayer behaviour has in South Africa moved to the forefront of the investigation of revenue collection with regular tax awareness campaigns being launched by the South African Revenue Service (SARS). Issues relating to ...
  • Taxi ‘sugar daddies’ and taxi queens : male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa 
    Potgieter, Cheryl; Strebel, Anna; Shefer, Tamara; Wagner, Claire (Routledge, 2012-11)
    Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships ...
  • Teaching research methodology : implications for psychology on the road ahead 
    Wagner, Claire; Maree, David J.F. (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2007-04)
    This article examines the ways in which academics who teach undergraduate research methodology courses conceptualise research and scholarship and the role these aspects play in the way they construct their courses. In-depth ...
  • Temperament and character correlates of neuropsychological performance 
    Cassimjee, Nafisa; Murphy, Raegan (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2010-06)
    We investigate the association between temperament and character dimensions, on the one hand, and computerised neuropsychological test performance, on the other hand. Temperament and character dimensions were operationalised ...
  • Terapeutiese gebruik van die scenotoets met verwysing tot selektiewe mutisme 
    Nieuwoudt, Adre; Wagner, Claire; Roos, Vera (Health SA, 2002)
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  • The textbook as conversational partner 
    Bakker, Therese Maria (Terri); Eskell-Blokland, L.M. (Linda); Ruane, Ilse (Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2010)
    Undergraduate teaching in psychology relies heavily on textbooks. Once the text-book has been selected, lecturers tend to relax. Modern textbooks include ready-made slides and test banks. All the information the student ...
  • A theoretical exposition of the concept “spontaneous healing in children” : a SHIPiC™ perspective 
    Strydom, Irene (Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2006)
    SHIP® (spontaneous healing intra-systemic process) (JOS 2002) as a psycho-therapeutic model has developed over many years during which the fascinating occurrence of spontaneous healing in clients was observed. In 2001 The ...
  • To tell or not to tell : South African women's disclosure of HIV status during pregnancy 
    Visser, M.J. (Maretha Johanna); Neufeld, Sharon A.; De Villiers, Annelize; Makin, J.D. (Jennifer Dianne); Forsyth, Brian William Cameron (Routledge, 2008-10)
    HIV-positive pregnant women often do not disclose their serostatus to their partners, family and friends, creating potential barriers to preventing sexual transmission to partners and mother-to-child transmission through ...
  • Treatment barriers among young adults living with a substance use disorder in Tshwane, South Africa 
    Nyashanu, Tichaenzana; Visser, Maretha J. (BMC, 2022-11-19)
    BACKGROUND : Despite increasing substance use globally, substance use treatment utilisation remains low. This study sought to explore and measure substance use treatment barriers among young adults in South Africa. METHODS ...
  • Trends, prevalence and factors associated with hypertension and diabetes among South African adults living with HIV, 2005– 2017 
    Chiwandire, Nicola; Zungu, Nompumelelo Precious; Mabaso, Musawenkosi; Chasela, Charles (BMC, 2021-03)
    BACKGROUND: Many people are now living longer with HIV due to access to antiretroviral treatment. In turn, there has been an increase in the burden of hypertension and diabetes. The paucity of data on the burden of ...
  • Trust and power as determinants of tax compliance across 44 nations 
    Batrancea, Larissa; Nichita, Anca; Olsen, Jerome; Kogler, Christoph; Kirchler, Erich; Hoelzl, Erik; Weiss, Avi; Torgler, Benno; Fooken, Jonas; Fuller, Joanne; Schaffner, Markus; Banuri, Sheheryar; Hassanein, Medhat; Alarcon-Garcia, Gloria; Aldemir, Ceyhan; Apostol, Oana; Weinberg, Diana Bank; Batrancea, Joan; Belianin, Alexis; Bello Gomez, Felipe de Jesus; Briguglio, Marie; Dermol, Valerij; Doyle, Elaine; Gcabo, Rebone; Gong, Binglin; Ennya, Sara; Essel-Anderson, Anthony; Frecknall-Hughes, Jane; Hasanain, Ali; Hizen, Yoichi; Huber, Odilo; Kaplanoglou, Georgia; Kudla, Janusz; Lemoine, Jeremy E.; Leurcharusmee, Supanika; Matthiasson, Thorolfur; Mehta, Sanjeev; Min, Sejin; Naufal, George; Niskanen, Mervi; Nordblom, Katarina; Ozturk, Engin Bagis; Pacheco, Luis; Pantya, Jozsef; Rapanos, Vassilis; Roland-Levy, Christine; Roux-Cesar, Ana Maria; Salamzadeh, Aidin; Savadori, Lucia; Scheibe, Vidar; Sharma, Manoj; Summers, Barbara; Suriya, Komsan; Tran, Quoc; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Visser, Martine; Xia, Chun; Yi, Sunghwan; Zukauskas, Sarunas (Elsevier, 2019-10)
    The slippery slope framework of tax compliance emphasizes the importance of trust in authorities as a substantial determinant of tax compliance alongside traditional enforcement tools like audits and fines. Using data from ...