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The validity of a test battery used in the selection of apprentice electricians.
(1999)The purpose of this study is to assess the suitability of a psychometric test battery that is used by a large service department of the Durban City Council in the selection of apprentice electricians. The essence of the ... -
The value of ongoing peer support group participation for supporting tertiary level student mothers in South Africa.
(2019)Abstract available in PDF file. -
Values and achievement motivation as barriers to upward mobility of women.
(1995)The aim of the present study was to compare the values and achievement motivation of managerial and non-managerial female employees within the banking industry in South Africa.This research investigation was primarily aimed ... -
Violence in schools : a correlational study into the relationship between an Afrocentric orientation and attitudes towards violence among African secondary school learners in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2011)This correlation study investigated the relationship between Africentric values (Collective work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics and Self determination) as measured by the Children’s Africentric Value Scale (CAVS) ... -
Violence, care and justice : investigating the association between exposure to violence and moral development in Black South African students.
(2009)Two moral orientations in men and women‟s reasoning about moral dilemmas have dominated the literature: an orientation to rights, fairness, and justice and another based on care, compassion and concern for others. It is ... -
Voluntariness of consent to HIV clinical research : a conceptual and empirical study.
(2015)While obtaining voluntary informed consent for research participation is an ethical imperative, there appears to be little consensus regarding what constitutes a voluntary consent decision. As a result, considerable ... -
Voluntary care workers' perceptions of the effectiveness of their training to provide psychosocial care and support to children affected and infected by HIV/AIDs.
(2006)The AIDS epidemic has a severe impact on South Africa's population. One of the most disastrous consequences is the thousands of children affected and infected by HIV / AIDS. Various non-government organizations (NGO) ... -
Voluntary medical male circumcision and condoms for HIV prevention among school youth: marginal voices for a coherent sexual and reproductive school health policy in Zimbabwe.
(2018)Background: Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is a component of HIV prevention. It is important to the HIV prevention agenda in priority settings; characterised by hyper endemic and generalised epidemics coupled ... -
"We are not fully humans, we are half-humans” : the study of how Nhlalakahle informal residents construct their own-group infrahumanization.
(2016)Informal settlements are sites of oppression where residents yearn for social, political and economic change. Informal residents live under harsh conditions, deprived of basic resources including water, electricity, ... -
“We designed the job we love”: investigating job crafting behaviors and work stress amongst public and private school teachers in Durban, South Africa.
(2019)Education in South Africa is in a transitional phase. Economic deficiencies and inequality arising from apartheid have impacted significantly on the provision of education for learners and have consequently placed immense ... -
What motivates to medicate? : a qualitative study exploring the factors that influence a parent's decision to select psycho-stimulants as first-line treatment for their ADHD child.
(2012)This research seeks to explore and identify the factors that influence a parent’s decision to initiate psycho-stimulant treatment for their ADHD child. It is the intention of this research to gain insight into how parents ... -
When the chips are down : attribution in the context of computer failure and repair.
(2004)Cognitive attribution theories provide convincing and empirically robust models of attribution. However, critiques include the scarcity of empirical research in naturalistic settings and the failure of cognitive attribution ... -
Where the streets have no names : factors predicting the provision of counselling and social work services for child rape survivors in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2009)Despite high prevalence rates for rape in South Africa, little focus has been placed on the rape of children, and even less on the secondary victimization of child rape survivors. Such secondary victimization may manifest ... -
A within-subjects repeated measures comparative study of the effect of two data collection methods on disclosure rates of sensitive behaviours in a tertiary student sample.
(2017)Researchers primarily rely on self-report data collection methods to question participants about their behaviours, emotions, attitudes, and beliefs. The challenge of eliciting truthful answers is often affected by the ... -
A within-subjects repeated measures comparative study of the effect of two data collection methods on disclosure rates of sensitive behaviours in a tertiary student sample.
(2018)Researchers primarily rely on self-report data collection methods to question participants about their behaviours, emotions, attitudes, and beliefs. The challenge of eliciting truthful answers is often affected by the ... -
Witness to everything: representations of precarity in selected works of four South African poets.
(2019)This dissertation identifies and analyses representations of precarity in selected poems of Mxolisi Nyezwa, Seitlhamo Motsapi, Angifi Dladla and Ike Mboneni Muila, revealing how precarity is conveyed through their innovative ... -
Witnesses to the bullying scene : a narrative analysis of pre-adolescent bystanders.
Bullying at school is commonplace in South Africa and appears to be on the increase (Burton, 2007). De Wet (2006) regards this phenomenon as one of the most underestimated problems in South African schools today. Not only ... -
Women in senior management positions : an exploration of how they balance their roles.
(2009)The research explored how women from the University of KwaZulu-Natal balanced both their personal and professional roles in order to advance into senior management positions. The study used a qualitative research methodology ...