Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Psychology) by Title
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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.
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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.
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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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ...