Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Psychology) by Title
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Patterns of reduction of distress in clinical conditions using eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR).
(2009)patterns, severe personality patterns, depressive constructs, other clinical syndromes, severe clinical syndromes and dissociation following EMDR treatment. Thirty-two people, ranging from 23 to 65 years old, underwent ... -
Perceived organisational reputation in South Africa’s public sector : employees’ narrative accounts.
(2016)This study explored employees’ perceived organisational reputation at the City of Johannesburg. Perceived organisational reputation refers to how employees believe others outside the organisation view them because of their ... -
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 ... -
Personality types and resilience of crime scene investigators in KwaZulu-Natal, South African Police Service : a mixedmethod approach.
(2017)The research aim of this study was to investigate “Personality types and Resilience of Crime Scene Investigators in the South African Police Service, Kwazulu-Natal: A Mixed Method Approach. South African Police Service ... -
Positive psychological resources and stressors of nurses working in a National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot site.
(2017)Abstract available in PDF file. -
The production of context : using activity theory to understand behaviour change in response to HIV and AIDS.
(2009)This thesis explores the problem of sexual behaviour change in a country which has the largest number of people living with HIV in the world. Despite awareness of HIV, and knowledge of protective behaviours, many young ... -
The psychological strengths of Muslim woman as leaders in the workplace.
(2015)The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological strengths of Muslim women who serve as leaders in the workplace. Muslim women have increasingly entered the South African workplace, but are underrepresented ... -
Psychosocial rehabilitation for schizophrenia : developing a community-based approach to promote recovery in Dr Kenneth Kaunda district, South Africa.
(2015)Background: Schizophrenia, a chronic and severe mental illness, contributes significantly to the global burden of disease and disability. In addition to biomedical treatment, service users with schizophrenia require ... -
Questioning constructions of black identities in post-apartheid South Africa : cross-generational narratives.
(2012)No abstract available. -
The questioning process in the development of knowledge.
(2000)The aim of the present study is to investigate the role of questioning in the learning-teaching process, with particular reference to English second-language students studying the disciplines of the Human Sciences. The ... -
Reconstructing masculinities? : a social-psychological approach to participation and masculinities in the context of HIV.
(2015)Increasingly policy and programmatic responses to HIV and AIDS and intimate partner violence (IPV) are focusing on engaging and working with men and boys as a way to reduce HIV-risk and IPV through transforming gender ... -
The relationship between organisational culture, values and need systems.
(1998)The purpose of this study was to determine the Personal Values, Perceptions of Culture and Achievement Motivation levels of employees in an organisation. Employees were classified according to differences in job grade, ... -
The relationship between psychosocial factors and poor neurocognitive and socio-emotional development in children perinatally infected with HIV in South Africa.
(2015)Background: Survival among perinatally HIV infected children has increased over the last few years in South Africa, mainly due to the availability and accessibility of combination antiretroviral therapy (cARTs). These ... -
The relationship between quality of work life and organisational commitment of supervisors in the Durban-Pietermaritzburg metropolitan areas.
(1993)A sample of 304 supervisors was randomly drawn from the Durban-Pietermaritzburg metropolitan areas to investigate the relationship between quality of work life and organisational commitment. Organisational commitment and ... -
Relative neocortex size and its correlates in dolphins : comparisons with humans and implications for mental evolution.
(1998)The superior neocortex ratios in primates and their distinctive relationship with sociality among terrestrial mammals are well documented. However, there has been an absence of research into relative neocortex size, its ... -
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. ... -
Risk influences for smoking among the youth in Southern Nigeria.
(2013)Introduction: Tobacco smoking continues to raise serious concerns for health promotion practitioners and health bodies globally. It has been tagged the single largest cause of all premature deaths globally. Efforts at ... -
The schooling system and the reproduction of selves in the post-apartheid era in South Africa : a dialogic approach.
(2015)The mandate of the apartheid regime was to oppress the indigenous people of South Africa so that they would perpetually be subservient to white people. The education system was engineered to keep the binary of white ... -
Sexual practices and the cultural meanings of rural people in Zimbabwe in the era of the Human Immunodefiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic : a social constructionist perspective.
(2011)Notwithstanding a myriad of interventions put in place over three decades to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the incidence and prevalence are still unacceptably high in southern Africa. There is a need to broaden the HIV/AIDS ...