Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Psychology) by Title
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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 ... -
Situated identity performance : understanding stereotype threat as a social identity phenomenon.
(2011)Stereotype threat or boost (STB) is a situational modifier of task performance that occurs when a group stereotype becomes relevant to the performance of a stereotype-relevant task. This dissertation aimed to re-imagine ... -
Skills shortages and challenges in the employment of foreign professionals in the selected KwaZulu-Natal higher education institutions.
(2016)This study examines the challenge of academic skills shortage in South Africa as represented in the selected institutions of higher learning in the KwaZulu-Natal province. Further to the shortage of academic skills, the ... -
Socio-cognitive differences between Moffitt's taxonomy of life-course persistent and adolescent-limited offenders.
(2006)The study's findings support the hypothesis that Moffitt's taxonomy of life-course and adolescent-limited delinquents applies in a Black, developing, semi rural population in South Africa, using a qualitative life-story ... -
Some aspects of visual signalling and social organization in the vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus).
(1982)This study uses data from three free-ranging and one caged troop to describe the visual signals identified in the South African subspecies of vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus) and to then compare them ... -
The standardisation of a battery of intelligence tests suitable for Indian primary school children in Durban.
(1956)No abstract available. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A study of certain correlates of introversion-extraversion among Indian high school and university students.
(1982)No abstract available. -
A study of systemic processes influencing educational change in a sample of isiZulu medium schools.
(2003)The Department of Education and Culture (DoEC) has since 1994, after the democratic elections in South Africa, introduced radical changes to the system of education. This systemic change has required a fundamental shift ... -
A study on the impact of the balanced scorecard as a performance management system on performance and motivation in the retail industry.
(2017)The retail industry is constantly changing due to changing customer expectations and profiles, as well as changes in the economy, technology, new products and innovation. These changes have created a need for new systems ... -
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 ...