Browsing Masters Degrees (Psychology) by Title
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Tattooed narratives : a psychoanalytic perspective.
(2013)Literature suggests that people do not only acquire tattoos for explicit motivations such as fashion accessories or rebellion, but also because they express implicit meanings, needs and motives. The aim of this study ... -
Teacher expectations of parental involvement in learner education : perceptions of primary school teachers in Mpumalanga Province.
(2017)There is a need to improve communication between teachers and parents regarding their respective roles in assisting learners to perform well academically. When these roles are not communicated clearly between the two ... -
Teachers' perceptions of participative decision-making in a public high school in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2011)The present research explores teachers’ perceptions of participative decision-making (PDM) in a public high school in Durban, South Africa. PDM is also termed as participative management. This study attempts to investigate ... -
Teenage pregnancy : psychosocial and educational implications.
(1997)The present study explored the psychosocial and educational implications of teenage pregnancy for a group of school going mothers. A questionnaire was administered to 20 teenage mothers who are school going. These mothers ... -
Tertiary students' estimates of theirs and their relatives' multiple and overall intelligences : a cross-national study of Nigerian and South African students.
(2011)A sample of five hundred and three (503) University of KwaZulu-Natal students participated in this study, which investigated Black Nigerian and South African tertiary students' estimates of theirs and their relatives' ... -
The development of a process theory of suicidal behaviour.
(2002)This qualitative study attempted to develop a process theory of suicidal behaviour. The Arthur Inman diary, which documents the thoughts and feelings of a suicidal individual (Arthur Crew Inman) who eventually died by ... -
The friendships of young men.
(2011)This study on the friendships of young men aimed to explore how young men perceive and experience their friendships. It also sought to understand whether and how young men negotiate issues of care and support in their ... -
The state of suicidology in South Africa : a content analysis.
(2004)This study reviewed 166 articles related to suicidality in South Africa, published between 1952 and 2003. From these, a table of summarized information was created and then coded. Thereafter, a statistical content analysis ... -
A thematic analysis of entrepreneurial experiences in KwaZulu-Natal : a qualitative study.
(2016)The purpose of this study was to examine the opportunities and challenges experienced by entrepreneurs in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A review of the literature indicates that there are many challenges and barriers ... -
A thematic analysis of entrepreneurial experiences in KwaZulu-Natal: a qualitative study.
(2016)The purpose of this study was to examine the opportunities and challenges experienced by entrepreneurs in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A review of the literature indicates that there are many challenges and barriers ... -
Therapist countertransference experiences of clients' violent crime narratives in the South African context.
(2012)AIM: This study endeavoured to explore and understand countertransference reactions that occur when the therapist is exposed to clients‘ stories of violent crime. The study focused on the therapist‘s experiential responses ... -
"They say Butch go catch him" : a study of imagined intergroup contact as constructed by informal settlers as abject partners in contact.
(2015)The imagined contact hypothesis has provided strong empirical evidence that positive mental simulations of intergroup encounters result in the same mediation benefits of direct intergroup contact (e.g. Turner, Crisp & ... -
Three Black mother’s experiences of postnatal depression.
(2018)This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of postnatal depression from the perspective of three Black African women living in South Africa. A large body of the present literature is from the Western perspective ... -
To see or not to see a sexually abused child in a picture.
(2004)This study investigated how social understandings influence, and often obscure, individual perception. As a replication ofLindblom's (2002) study conducted in Sweden, the aim of this project was to investigate how individuals, ... -
To what extent does published research on quality of work life reflect a managerialist ideology in both its' latent and manifest content?
(2010)Industrial Psychology (IP) has a major impact on millions of workers and thousands of organisations and is given increasing reign in deciding and influencing human affairs within the organisation, thereby playing an important ... -
Tolerance of ambiguity : a context-specific construct.
(2000)This thesis provides some evidence of variability in cognitive style, and refutes the notion of it being a stable, generalisable personality trait. The study is statistical in nature and uses the cognitive style construct ... -
Towards the cross-cultural validation of the eating disorders inventory : a pilot study.
(2004)Eating disorders were predominantly perceived to be a white, Western higher socioeconomic phenomenon. However, as Western cultural values have been embraced, eating disorders appear to have become prevalent across racial, ... -
Township families and social change : a pilot study.
(1989)On-going research into township family life in Natal has pointed to the need to develop a conceptualisation of the family that is appropriate to local historical and material conditions. In particular, such a conceptualisation ... -
Tracking the future : young women's worlds.
(2010)This research focuses on young black women’s identity construction in the context of democratic South Africa. It focuses on how they negotiate adolescence and young adulthood as black females in a country with a history ...