Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Psychology) by Title
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Testing the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behaviour (ipts) in the South African context.
(2016)In spite of suicidality being a global mental health care problem, there has been relatively little empirical advancement in the conceptualization of suicide in recent years. Joiner’s (2005) Interpersonal-Psychological ... -
The psychology of Satanic cult involvement : an archetypal object relations perspective.
(1997)The meaning of, and motives for, participation in satanic cult organisations was explored using a hermeneutic methodology based on psychoanalytic object relations theory. Fifteen self-professed ex-Satanists, ranging from ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Towards re-visioning the technical and vocational curriculum of a selected Zimbabwean juvenile correctional training centre: a program evaluation.
(2019)This study was designed to evaluate the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) curriculum offered at a selected juvenile offender correctional training centre in Zimbabwe by exploring the quality of the ... -
‘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 ... -
Traumatic re-enactment of childhood and adolescent trauma : a complex developmental trauma perspective in a non-clinical sample of South African school-going adolescents.
(2015)Exposure to interpersonal violence during childhood has been found to be associated with various form of traumatic re-enactment. In addition to subjective re-experiencing symptoms (e.g., flashbacks) various forms of ... -
Type A behavior pattern and dependency in the adjustment of post-myocardial infarction patients.
(1986)The World Health Organization (1969) has declared that heart disease is the largest plague that ever faced humanity. Myocardial Infarction (MD, in addition to causing more deaths than all other diseases of the heart ... -
Underdogs on top : troubling positions for boys and a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
(2017)Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) accounts for one of the largest number of health referrals amongst children. As a mental health diagnosis, it has undergone multiple conceptual revisions over the years, where ... -
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 ... -
Understanding variability in child development outcome in resource-constricted settings : the contribution of the home environment.
(2015)The main purpose of the present study was to establish the manner in which children’s home environments (proximal processes) and family household wealth (distal contexts) individually and collectively influence child ... -
The unsaid : an interpretative phenomenological analysis to understanding non-disclosure in clinical supervision from trainee and supervisor perspectives.
(2016)This dissertation explores trainee and supervisor experiences of non-disclosure in psychotherapy supervision utilizing three self-contained qualitative studies. Whilst the first and second phases of the research sought to ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Xenophobia, social change and social continuity: changing configurations of intergroup allegiance and division among farm workers and farmers in De Doorns, 2009-2013.
(2017)This thesis is about continuity and change in South African intergroup relations, especially group relations implicated in xenophobia, as new African migrants have arrived on a scene dominated by long-established, but also ...