Doctoral Degrees (Psychology)
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Exploring migration experiences and mental health among refugees and asylum-seekers in Durban, South Africa: guidelines for mental health promotion interventions.
(2020)Background: Refugees and asylum seekers flee war, state violence, persecution and economic hardships. They tend to be very poor, vulnerable and are often excluded from the health and socio-economic activities of the hosting ... -
Beyond belonging? White settler entitlement and the dynamics of nativeness, autochthony and nostalgia in South Africa.
(2022)White settlers continue to impose themselves as owners of contemporary settler colonies (Veracini, 1999; Moreton-Robinson, 2015). Their imposition not only translates into making settler colonies their permanent homelands, ... -
Older men’s experiences of masculine identities across the lifespan.
(2023)The primary focus of this research was to investigate how men have experienced their masculinity across their life journeys as men, as revealed in retrospective accounts of life transitions. The research especially sought ... -
A co-evolutionary approach to data-driven agent-based modelling: simulating the virtual interaction application experiments.
(2023)The dynamics of social interactions are barely captured by the traditional methods of research in social psychology, vis-à-vis, interviews, surveyed data and experiments. To capture the dynamics of social interactions, ... -
Psychological capital, individual antecedents and work related outcomes in the recruitment industry of South Africa.
(2014)Despite various studies by multifarious scholars on the management–union relationship, lesser attention has been focussed on the influence exacted by this relationship on Organisational Development (OD). This study, ... -
“At home” at the University of KwaZulu-Natal?: a study of experiences of exclusion amongst academic staff.
(2021)The study aimed to examine how academic staff feels excluded in the institution based on race and gender. The objectives were developed following the current scenario and existing studies conducted in this domain. Six ... -
The social construction of HIV risk and implications for HIV testing health practices amongst sexually active youth at a South African university.
(2021)The dominant discourses related to HIV and AIDS in South Africa still construct HIV as a huge threat, and position sexually active youth between the ages of 15-24 years as at risk of, and living with, HIV. While an effort ... -
Struggle songs and multidimensional black identities: a phenomenological study on the meaning of struggle songs for black university student activists in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2021)This study sought to explore the meaning that contemporary black student activists from universities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa hold towards the struggle songs that they sing. This study was undertaken to gain some ... -
Addiction and recovery from whoonga : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lifeworld of youth from INK townships "in recovery” = Ukubhenywa noku simama ekubhemeni iwunga : kuhlungwa ngokuhlolisisa nge-phenomenology ehumushayo umhlaba wezimpilo zentsha yasemalokishini ase-INK “esimamayo”.
(2020)In dealing with a rampant increase in addiction to whoonga or nyaope, a heroin variant drug that has taken hold amongst Black youth in South African townships, the employment of addiction treatment that includes harm ... -
Body image and antiretroviral therapy adherence among adolescents and young people living with HIV in Durban, South Africa.
(2021)Background: The benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treating HIV among adolescents and young people living HIV (AYPLHIV) may be undermined by non-adherence to ART. Several reasons for non-adherence to ART have ... -
Personality as a predictor of job stress among teachers' college lecturers in Zimbabwe.
(2021)This quantitative-dominant mixed methods sequential explanatory study sought to investigate how personality predicts job stress in a sample of Zimbabwean teachers’ college lecturers from an agrarian collectivistic culture. ... -
Defining and understanding organisational culture dimensions within the African context : a reconceptualisation of Schein's model.
(2020)This study was undertaken due to the limited research concerning organizational culture within Africa. The purpose of this study was to explore and recognise how African organisations define and understand the different ... -
An analysis of community based health approaches in the delivery of integrated sexual, reproductive health and HIV services for adolescents with disabilities in Siaya County, Kenya.
(2019)There is evidence of widening health disparities among vulnerable groups and inadequacies in the public health care system in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Kenya. In particular, adolescents with disabilities (AWDs) ... -
Donor-NGO accountability mechanisms and the implications for HIV and AIDS: perspective from NGOs on service effectiveness in South Africa.
(2019)The study investigates the nature and extent of HIV and AIDS donor accountability mechanisms to see whether they were diminishing NGOs' capacity to achieve positive outcomes for beneficiaries. In particular, it focuses ... -
An autoethnographic study of my experience with breast cancer.
(2020)My breast cancer experience facilitated the exploration of my intersectional identities within an autoethnographic framework. I contextually reflected on my personal and professional identities within the interactional ... -
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy in the treatment of sugars addiction (a derivative of heroin) : gaining control over cue reactivity and cravings.
(2021)Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) developed by Francine Shapiro is an integrative psychotherapeutic approach that has been described as one of the most well researched forms of psychological ... -
The prevalence and magnitude of cognitive dissonance in post-purchase evaluation.
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Addressing the treatment gap for perinatal depression within an integrated primary health care model: development and feasibility study in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District, North West Province.
(2020)Background: Perinatal depression (PND) is a common mental disorder (CMD) with onset either during pregnancy or in the postnatal period, with potentially harmful inter-generational impacts on families, and by extension on ... -
A postmodern, collaborative approach to therapy using a narrative lens with individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
(2020)Bipolar disorder affects nearly 60 million people worldwide. It is a debilitating mood disorder that severely impacts on the functioning of those diagnosed as well as their significant others. Psychotherapies such as ... -
Understanding the factors that contribute to happiness at work within the South African financial, retail and medical corporate sectors.
(2020)This study aims to explore the factors that contribute to happiness in financial, retail and medical institutions within South Africa. The study used a qualitative approach to gather and interpret data which resulted in a ...
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