Doctoral Degrees (Psychology)
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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 ... -
Discourses of Black women professors in two South African universities.
(2020)Under the policy of apartheid, racial categorisation deeply moulded South African society and ensued in widespread inequalities. These inequalities inevitably extended to higher education institutions, with White people ... -
The use of mindfulness breath meditation with University of KwaZulu Natal students as a tool in reducing Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms and enhancing positive emotions.
(2017)This study explored the management of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms experienced by ADHD students at University of KwaZulu-Natal and examined the use of Mindfulness Breath Meditation as a ... -
Customer service challenges in a South African casino : a participatory intervention.
(2019)Background: In an era of global competition, customer service (CS) remains a key differentiating factor for organisations to gain a competitive advantage. Due to heighted emotions experienced by customers when winning and ... -
A review of secondary schools as supportive environments for HIV prevention and sexuality education amongst secondary school learners in Durban and surrounding areas, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2017)Background: The study investigated whether the current provision of sexuality education made available through the Life Orientation Curriculum (LO) in South African secondary schools is supported by their school environments. ... -
‘The township’ and ‘the gated community’ : a psychosocial exploration of home and the (a)symmetries of belonging.
(2019)What does it mean to be ‘at home’ in an uneven world? How is belonging performed in bodily, spatial, discursive and affective ways that materialise in physical boundaries of demarcation? This research sought to explore ... -
Towards an Afrocentric paradigm for understanding student success in the college of Humanities at a University in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2017)Previous studies on the problem of poor students’ throughput in higher education in South Africa had tended to work within the paradigm of understanding in which research and the outcome of research are portrayed as objective ... -
Grade four teachers’ language attitudes and lived teaching experiences in KwaZulu-Natal schools, South Africa.
(2018)The language of learning and teaching (LoLT) in South African primary schools poses a threat to quality teaching and learning, more importantly, access to the curriculum knowledge by African learners, particularly at Grade ... -
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 ... -
Exploring challenges to safe sex for men in long-term relationships living in KwaZulu-Natal who have sex with both men and women.
(2020)Numerous research studies continue to show that HIV/AIDS is still a burden in South Africa. Although in recent years there have been breakthroughs in biomedical research, leading to the development and improvement of HIV ... -
An exploration of resilience to poverty among the UKZN students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
(2019)This study explored the experiences of students who grew up facing poverty but through resilience achieved academic success. The purpose of this study was to obtain an in-depth understanding of students’ perceptions of ... -
The Performance Management and Development System and its unintended influence on quality of care in re-engineered primary health care health facilities.
(2019)Introduction The concept of performance management (PM) is fairly new within the South African healthcare system. It was introduced into the public sector in 2001 as a tool to assist, measure, develop and monitor the ... -
Development and stakeholder's validation of prisoners programme in Nigeria.
(2020)The purpose of this study was to identify some indices of stakeholders’ awareness and readiness for prisoner reintegration, develop and validate the curricular content of proposed prisoner reintegration programme, determine ... -
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 ... -
Health-related quality of life among women living with breast cancer in Ghana.
(2018)Background: Health-related quality of life has become an important determinant of the effectiveness of medical treatments among persons living with chronic illnesses including breast cancer. Living with breast cancer is ... -
The construction of masculinity amongst sex offenders in Limpopo province.
(2019)The construction of masculinity is vital in understanding the development of men since it has an influence on how a man perceives himself and on his behaviour. The high rape statistics have recently prompted an examination ... -
‘Being romantic’, agency and the (re)production and (re)negotiation of traditional gender roles.
(2018)Romance is a ubiquitous, Western cultural context which is constructed as an important tool for relationship success. However, research by gender scholars on romance as a site for gender enactment has been limited. Therefore, ... -
Toward a conceptual model of ‘the act’; an exercise in theory generation in the problematic space of school-based HIV prevention through behaviour change intervention.
(2018)Health outcomes, whether due to infectious disease vectors or so-called diseases of lifestyle, appear to be the consequence of human behaviour. Simple behaviours such as wearing a condom, eating a balanced diet, or regular ... -
Stress-induced hypomania in healthy participants : the allostatic “manic-defence hypothesis”.
(2017)This thesis analyses the structure, conditions, promises, and results of Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGATs)3, demonstrating that established environmental triggers for hypomania/mania are core features of the LGAT ...
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