Browsing Masters Degrees (Psychology) by Title
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"Deaf ears and closed minds : do you hear the child's voice?" : exploring disclosures from the perspective of child rape victims.
(2008)Despite recent increases in public, media and research concern with the issue of child rape, not much is known about the disclosure of this phenomenon. This study focused on exploring disclosure from the perspective of ... -
Dealing with a positive HIV diagnosis : a qualitative study exploring the lives of five people living with HIV in a rural Eastern Cape setting.
(2016)Receiving an HIV diagnosis is a complex reality facing individuals. It alters life and its meaning for the infected individual, their family and the community. This study explored the experiences of five people infected ... -
Deficits of cognitive executive functions in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
(2001)Although a broad range of neuropsychological deficits have been reported to occur in patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS), few studies have examined the executive functions in this patient group. The ... -
"Detaching from food" : the relationship between disordered eating and styles of attachment within a multi-racial student sample.
(2004)A growing body of research has explored the prevalence of eating disorder pathology within the ethnically and culturally diverse South African context. The purpose of this study was to examine the presence and severity ... -
The development of a measure of racism for the post apartheid South African context.
(2011)Traditionally, the racial views of whites towards blacks have been studied in the context of old-fashioned styles of racism. This meant that, methodologically, attitude items were often direct and crude in content, reflecting ... -
The development of addition problem solving skills in grade one children : a microgenetic approach.
(2000)This thesis replicates and explores some of the recent findings by Robert Siegler regarding the development ofaddition skills in grade one children. Siegler states that children employ a number ofdifferent strategies to ... -
The development of communicative competence : the ontogenesis of joint co-ordinated interaction between mother and infant.
(1977)An analysis of mother-infant interaction during the preverbal period has revealed the importance of gaze in establishing the phatic channel and in the development of an intersubjectivity between them. Before the infant ... -
Discourses of love and money : exploring constructions of gender and romantic relationships.
(2013)This dissertation considers gender relations and intimacy in romantic relationships within the context of economic globalization and consumer culture. The aim was to explore how the economic structure of South African ... -
Discourses of violent crime in South Africa : constructing crime, criminals and victims.
(2010)Talk of violent crime in South Africa abounds, with criminal violence as a topic of discussion on many social platforms - from the President‟s State of the Nation address to conversations between people on the street. This ... -
Discursive constructions of gender-based violence and safe sex practices among female residence students at UKZN.
(2009)Gender-based violence and the risk of HIV infection are some of the social problems facing women in South Africa. The emergence of gender-based violence as a prominent challenge facing the University of KwaZulu-Natal ... -
The disobedient naïve psychologist : deviating from predicted attributions in a social context.
(2009)Classical attribution theorists developed models of causal attribution that reflected their belief that people were primarily interested in attribution accuracy. These models did not consider contextual factors such as ... -
Distinguishing between psychogenic and organically-based seizures : the search for critical psychological variables.
(2006)Differentiating between organic epilepsy and psychogenic pseudoseizures is a difficult task even for experienced practitioners . Both disorders present in a similar manner and at present there are no clinical signs that ... -
Do cumulative mild head injuries in rugby affect neuropsychological performance? : a comparative study between club rugby players and non-contact sport athletes.
(2008)Context: Concussion is a major sports medicine concern that is currently under scrutinisation worldwide. Well-publicised cases of careers ending due to multiple concussions, and the potential for permanent, disabling ... -
Do industrial/organisational psychology journal articles reflect a managerial bias within research and practice?
(2009)No abstract available. -
Donor insemination families : a qualitative exploration of being lesbian parents raising sperm donor children in South Africa.
(2010)This research aimed to explore the parenting experiences of lesbian women who chose to have children through artificial insemination. While this study aimed to explore the experience of being a lesbian parent in South ... -
Early maladaptive schemas : the relationship with anxiety patterns, and perceived parental rearing behaviours.
(2013)Since 2008 the prevalence rate of anxiety disorders has increased to 15,8%, thus putting them as the most prevalent class of psychiatric disorders in South Africa. This research firstly aimed to examine the relationship ... -
An ecological analysis of the stories of fourteen HIV infected and affected individuals.
(2015-04-23)No abstract available. -
Educational psychologists' experiences in the assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) leaners in KwaZulu Natal region.
(2013)Educational psychologists encounter great controversies with regard to the use of traditional clinical and psycho-educational assessment tools to evaluate individuals from diverse communities. In order to gain a meaningful ... -
Educational psychologists' perceptions of their role in the Pietermaritzburg area.
(2008)With vast changes occurring in the South African context since 1994, it is clear that the role of educational psychologists has also shifted. While changes have occurred, numerous difficulties still exist within the education ... -
The educators' perceptions and experiences of inclusive education in selected Pietermaritzburg schools.
(2008)After the first democratic elections in 1994 the South African government was faced with the enormous challenge of blending a sophisticated First World education system for the minority with an underdeveloped Third World ...
