Browsing Research Articles (Psychology) by Type "Peer reviewed journal article"
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A descriptive study of the modus operandi of serial rapists in South Africa.
(Acta Criminologica, 2010)This article reflects research of which the aim is to increase our collective knowledge of the modus operandi of serial rapists in South Africa in an attempt to contribute to the prevention and prosecution of perpetrators. ... -
Disruptive or merely alternative? A case study of a South African gay church.
(Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa., 2011)The main aim of this article is to engage with how a South African church through its discursive practices, continues to live out the conviction set out in Germond and de Gruchy's 1997 book "Aliens in the Household of ... -
"Don't touch me on my psychology and religion!" : feminist backlash in a wearable cloak and different voice.
(Agenda., 2010)In this article it is argued that feminist successes in South Africa are being ‘overshadowed’ by movements which are essentially anti-feminist and brazenly patriarchal, but which go unchallenged because these movements are ... -
Liberated through submission? The Worthy Woman's Conference as a case study of Formenism.
(Indiana University Press, 2010)In this article, Nadar and Potgieter use the Worthy Women’s Conference as a case study, describing and analyzing how this movement creates and maintains what they call the formenist position. Formenism, like masculinism, ... -
Psychosocial influences on substance abuse in a sample of South African youth: a qualitative analysis.
(2012)This study investigated the lived experience of substance abusers in the South African context. Participants were 10 individuals attending a drug treatment centre in Durban, South Africa. Data were collected using open-ended ... -
The role of language and gender in the naming and framing of HIV/AIDS in the South African context.
(Taylor and Francis, 2006)Language is at the core of the network of resources that we draw on in describing the world and relating to others, and as such HIV/AIDS cannot be separated from the ways in which we think about it, talk about it, and act ...