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Tattooed narratives : a psychoanalytic perspective.
(2013)Literature suggests that people do not only acquire tattoos for explicit motivations such as fashion accessories or rebellion, but also because they express implicit meanings, needs and motives. The aim of this study ... -
Teacher expectations of parental involvement in learner education : perceptions of primary school teachers in Mpumalanga Province.
(2017)There is a need to improve communication between teachers and parents regarding their respective roles in assisting learners to perform well academically. When these roles are not communicated clearly between the two ... -
Teachers' perceptions of participative decision-making in a public high school in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2011)The present research explores teachers’ perceptions of participative decision-making (PDM) in a public high school in Durban, South Africa. PDM is also termed as participative management. This study attempts to investigate ... -
Teenage pregnancy : psychosocial and educational implications.
(1997)The present study explored the psychosocial and educational implications of teenage pregnancy for a group of school going mothers. A questionnaire was administered to 20 teenage mothers who are school going. These mothers ... -
Television advertising as a means of promoting an intercultural and interracial South Africa and nation building. A case study of the International Marketing Council's 'alive with possibility' campaign.
(2010)The study is concerned with how television advertising content in South Africa promotes diversity and nation building. It looks at whether advertising representations reflect the idea of a new South Africa. The basis of ... -
Television engagement with followers on Facebook: a case study of nation television during the 2016 elections in Uganda.
(2020)This study investigates how traditional media of television struggles to retain hegemony in the online public sphere, where other players such as ordinary citizens co-produce content- initially a preserve of traditional ... -
A television study on the influence of media ownership on news content in Uganda : a comparison of Wavah Broadcasting Services (WBS) and Nation Television (NTV).
(2018)The media play an important role of entertaining, educating and informing society (Herman and Chomsky, 1988:1). The education and information offered by the media consequently helps citizens to make informed decisions. ... -
Television, memory and identity : an analysis of South African Youth and fictional programmes.
(2001)This study synthesises three conceptual areas-identity, fictional television programmes and memory to examine what young people remember about their fictional television viewing and how it impacts their identity. Memory ... -
Termination of pregnancy : a decision dilemma amongst young woman at a district hospital.
(2012)The number of women accessing Termination of Pregnancy Services has increased in South Africa over the last 15 years. Lieberman and Davis (1992), hold that a woman’s right to choose is embedded in the principles of social ... -
Tertiary students' estimates of theirs and their relatives' multiple and overall intelligences : a cross-national study of Nigerian and South African students.
(2011)A sample of five hundred and three (503) University of KwaZulu-Natal students participated in this study, which investigated Black Nigerian and South African tertiary students' estimates of theirs and their relatives' ... -
Testing the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behaviour (ipts) in the South African context.
(2016)In spite of suicidality being a global mental health care problem, there has been relatively little empirical advancement in the conceptualization of suicide in recent years. Joiner’s (2005) Interpersonal-Psychological ... -
A textual analysis of abstinence, be faithful, condom-use materials for HIV prevention at University Campuses in KwaZulu-Natal, 2006-2009.
(2014)Prevention campaigns in print – advocating safer sex behaviour through Abstinence, Be faithful and Condom-use advocacy (ABC) based on various theories and models of behaviour change – inadvertently facilitate constructions ... -
The development of a process theory of suicidal behaviour.
(2002)This qualitative study attempted to develop a process theory of suicidal behaviour. The Arthur Inman diary, which documents the thoughts and feelings of a suicidal individual (Arthur Crew Inman) who eventually died by ... -
The friendships of young men.
(2011)This study on the friendships of young men aimed to explore how young men perceive and experience their friendships. It also sought to understand whether and how young men negotiate issues of care and support in their ... -
The politics of discourse and the discourse of politics : images of violence and reform on the South African Broadcasting Corporation's television news bulletins, July 1985-November 1986.
(1992)The thesis begins with an examination of the literature on television news, taking particular note of the arguments for and against the 'dominant ideology thesis'. It is the contention of the work that the notion of ... -
The psychology of Satanic cult involvement : an archetypal object relations perspective.
(1997)The meaning of, and motives for, participation in satanic cult organisations was explored using a hermeneutic methodology based on psychoanalytic object relations theory. Fifteen self-professed ex-Satanists, ranging from ... -
The state of suicidology in South Africa : a content analysis.
(2004)This study reviewed 166 articles related to suicidality in South Africa, published between 1952 and 2003. From these, a table of summarized information was created and then coded. Thereafter, a statistical content analysis ... -
A thematic analysis of entrepreneurial experiences in KwaZulu-Natal : a qualitative study.
(2016)The purpose of this study was to examine the opportunities and challenges experienced by entrepreneurs in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A review of the literature indicates that there are many challenges and barriers ... -
A thematic analysis of entrepreneurial experiences in KwaZulu-Natal: a qualitative study.
(2016)The purpose of this study was to examine the opportunities and challenges experienced by entrepreneurs in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A review of the literature indicates that there are many challenges and barriers ...