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An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the volunteer crisis centre counsellor’s experience of working with victims of crime.
(2016)Objective: It has been argued that vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress (compassion fatigue), burnout and countertransference reactions represent normal responses in helpingindividuals who work with traumatised ... -
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, ... -
Perceived intelligence and pedagogy: how teachers’ perceptions influence teaching.
(2022)Mathematics has the lowest pass rate in comparison to the other Grade 12 subjects taught in South Africa. Most discussion related to students’ failure rates in the subject elicit discourse surrounding teaching approaches ... -
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 ... -
Green strategies for health care waste management in the healthcare facilities in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa: a stakeholder analysis.
(2022)Background: Around 5.2 million people die each year from healthcare waste-related diseases worldwide, including 4 million children, and the amount of waste generated by health facilities is increasing, which is a cause for ... -
Exploring the strategies used by educators to teach learners presenting with reading difficulties.
(2022)Growing concern is expressed in the literature regarding the rise in learners with reading difficulties (Bantwini & Diko, 2011; Manyike & Lemmer, 2010; & Wamala & Seruwagi, 2013). Many South African youth are failed by ... -
Exploring the redress of reading difficulties in South African schools.
(2022)The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (2016) results indicated that South Africa displayed a poor scholastic performance in terms of learners’ reading ability. These results may be viewed as a demonstration ... -
Uncovering symptoms of child abuse and sexual violence: a medico-legal and psychosocial perspective.
(2021)Child abuse is a pervasive problem in South Africa, with many cases neither disclosed nor reported. Identifying symptoms of sexual and physical abuse in children can be difficult. This study, therefore, sought to uncover ... -
University of KwaZulu-Natal students’ experiences of loss, grief and bereavement during Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
(2022)The current COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a great impact in the lives of many people. This is particularly because it has not only resulted in loss of lives, but it has also resulted in non-death losses that left ... -
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, ... -
A collaborative approach to support learners with mental health challenges in under-resourced schools: a secondary data analysis.
(2022)The burden of mental health problems is rising affecting both the functional and social lives of young and adult individuals. Given the high rates of student mental health difficulties worldwide and the escalation of ... -
Research participants’ views on sharing health-related data in South Africa.
(2022)Sharing of health-related data is increasingly recognised as a democratic imperative and a marker of responsible science. However, little is known about how research participants perceive data sharing. This study investigated ... -
Self-interest vs Group-interest: Rich and Poor group members exchange behaviour of experimental dollars under Individual Mobility and Group Mobility experimental conditions.
(2021)Background: Social Identity Theory (SIT) defines the factors that create social groups and the impact these social groups have on our behaviour in different social dilemmas. Therefore, depending on the situation and the ... -
Islam as a source of resilience among Muslim adults in South Africa.
(2022)The ways in which Islam in the South African Muslim context facilitates resilience has not been extensively interrogated. Therefore, the study focuses on Islam as a source of resilience among Muslim adults in South Africa. ... -
An exploration of black South African women’s negotiation of their racial and gender identities in predominantly white workspaces.
(2022)South Africa has continued to be divided along racial, gender, and class lines, even since the introduction of democracy. This has resulted in many black African women being marginalised and oppressed at work and in ... -
Off-campus study due [to] the Coronavirus pandemic and access to psychological services: challenges faced by the students from the School of Applied Human Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2023)This research study examined students’ off-campus study due to the Coronavirus pandemic and their access to psychological services. The aim was to explore the challenges faced by students from the School of Applied Human ... -
Challenging the binary: a photo-narrative exploring sexual fluidity and the sexuality–sex–gender continuum in adult women in South Africa.
(2021)This research explored sexual fluidity in attractions, associations and experiences relating to sexual orientation dimensions and sexual identity development in 5 sexually fluid, South African women between the ages 30–50 ... -
‘Auntie Stella: teenagers talk about sex, life and relationships’ : discursive constructions of gender and sexuality in the materials of a sexuality education programme.
(2020)Sexuality education in southern Africa has been relatively unsuccessful in engaging with young people in helpful ways. Gender inequalities have been highlighted as a significant contributor to poor adolescent sexual and ... -
A phenomenological study of the experiences of workers who are born with a light-skin complexion: a case of Mindset Design Company Durban branch, South Africa.
(2021)The major purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of the natural lightskinned employees who work at Mindset Design, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The specific objective was to determine the advantages ... -
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, ...
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