Globally there has been a rise in the population of incarcerated women over recent decades. Yet, despite this increase, female offenders only represent about 5% of the total incarcerated population. South Africa is no ...
The category of Registered Counsellors was created to provide psychological service at
primary level to previously disadvantaged communities, yet there is lack of public and
professional knowledge concerning this category. ...
This qualitative study explored the experiences of individuals living with a sibling diagnosed
with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how these individuals make meaning of this
experience. The data for this study was ...
SUMMARY
CONSTRUCTING AND VALIDATING A MEASURING INSTRUMENT FOR COPING WITH OCCUPATIONAL STRESS
by
Melissa du Plessis
Supervisor: Prof N. Martins
Department: Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Degree: Doctor of ...
The purpose of the study was to construct a psycho-social model for team cohesion at a financial institution. The financial institution had been in existence for 127 years, and had faced significant challenges throughout ...
Transformation of the higher education system has come under the spotlight recently. At the core of this debate are issues pertaining to access and throughput rates at universities. Although access has improved significantly, ...
South Africa has among the highest rates of physical and sexual violence against women in the world. Research indicates that understanding the causality of domestic violence is very complex and the measurement of risk ...
Expanding access to higher education has taken priority in South Africa. There is a focus on improving entry into learning
contexts and subsequent economic and social mobility opportunities by developing attributes in ...
Correctional officers work in a coercive environment and as such they are confronted with various challenges on a daily basis. Research found that the unique stressors that correctional officers experience result in stress ...
Although substantial attention has been given to doctoral students, the attention given to master’s students writing dissertations is limited. This article outlines a transactional model of stress that conceptualises ...
Previous work concerning the interface between racial and national identification within
multiracial states has suggested that dominant racial groups tend to express a firmer grip on ownership of and identification with ...
Silinda, Fortunate Tintswalo; Brubacher, Michael(Athabasca University Press, 2016)
Working on a postgraduate degree can be a stressful experience for students, including distance learning postgraduate students who are at the stage of writing their dissertation or thesis. In this mixed methods study, 748 ...
The issue of offenders’ re-integration has become an important topic to the Department of Correctional Services in South Africa due to high number of incarcerated individuals who need to return back into the society as law ...
The study undertook to explore the notion of stuckness within interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship dynamics. Stuckness has different presentations and can pertain to an individual’s’ inability to move beyond a ...
The aim of this study was to gain insight into the relationship between personality and cyberbullying victimisation using a sample of 107 adult participants. The participants were found using the social media site Facebook ...
Mubiana, Precious; Easterbrook, Cheryl(Unisa Centre for Applied Psychology, 2009)
The year, 1998, saw the reopening of the UNISA Centre
for Applied Psychology (UCAP) by Juan Nel, a man with a
vision, to create a ‘space’ where people and professionals
alike could be empowered. With this in mind, ...
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the potential mediating effect of TEI on the relationship between parenting style/dimension and first year students’ university adjustment in higher education institutions ...
Substance abuse is a significant challenge facing the World and in particular South Africa. In
this study, various Western and African traditional perspectives were considered to gain an
understanding of the substance ...
This thesis is not structured as a conventional empirical study (theoretical background, method, results, discussion), but instead consists of an iterative series of attempts at making sense of same-race prejudice – hopefully ...
Against the background of high prevalence of substance abuse in the globe generally and South Africa in particular, research has shown an association between substance abuse and other mental disorders or vice-versa. With ...