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Browsing Research Articles (Psychology) by Title
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Mohamed, Ahmed Riaz; Sterkenburg, Paula; Van Rensburg, Esme; Schuengel, Carlo
(Wiley, 2023-01)
Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is an intervention targeted at
enhancing the socioemotional and regulatory functioning of at-risk infants.
However, to use the ABC for infants/toddlers with intellectual ...
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Arendse, Danille Elize
(AOSIS, 2021-03)
ORIENTATION: The empirically designed English Comprehension Test (ECT) is theorised to measure verbal reasoning and is currently undergoing validation. The test development produced two versions of the ECT, namely, ECT ...
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Thwala, Jabulani D.; Pillay, Indira
(Sage, 2023-03)
Depression is a significant mental health issue affecting university students, especially those in their first year of study. Unfortunately, much of the research has focused on students in the adolescent stage of development. ...
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Human, Lourens H.
(Psychological Society of South Africa, 2012)
Postgraduate counselling psychology training at the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa (SA), is
done according to the researcher-practitioner model. An important aspect that is addressed during the
unfolding of ...
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Palacios, Margarita; Hook, Derek
(Springer, 2020-12)
This special issue presents work of the multidisciplinary and international Affective Archives Research Group that was established in 2016. The aim of the group was to reflect upon the multiple intersections between the ...
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Reddy, Vasu; Sandfort, T.G.M. (Theo)
(Sage, 2021-02)
This article introduces the concept of African same-sex sexualities and gender diversity which refers to variation pertinent to gender expressions and identities, sexual expression and sexual orientation. The article ...
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Diteweg, Hilde; Van Oostwaard, Adinda; Tempelman, Hugo; Vermeer, Adri; Appels, Melanie; Van der Schaaf, Marieke F.; Maree, David J.F.
(2013-05-24)
In order to limit the expansion of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in South Africa, it is important
to develop targeted prevention strategies. The voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT)
programme appears to be effective ...
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Hedden, Sarra L.; Hulbert, Alicia; Cavanaugh, Courtenay E.; Parry, Charles D.; Moleko, Anne Gloria; Latimer, William W.
(Informa Healthcare, 2011-02)
INTRODUCTION: Transactional sex among black South African women has become a mode of
economic survival putting them at higher risk for HIV and other infectious disease. METHODS: In order to inform HIV interventions, drug ...
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Morison, Tracy; Mtshengu, Amanda; Sandfort, T.G.M. (Theo); Reddy, Vasu
(Psychology in Society, 2016)
Several qualitative researchers using discursive methodologies have noted how opposition to homosexuality has not necessarily diminished, despite the general expression of liberal tolerance in many settings. Instead, ...
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Marinda, Edmore; Zungu, Nompumelelo Precious; Chikovore, Jeremiah; Mthembu, Jacqueline; Magampa, Mmakotsedi; Mathentamo, Qaqambile; Nwosu, Chijioke O.; Maoba, Phomolo; Ramlagan, Shandir; Zuma, Khangelani; Moyo, Sizulu; Simbayi, Leickness C.
(Springer, 2022-05)
This paper assesses the levels of antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence and mental health distress among study participants in a national behavioural HIV-sero prevalence study South Africa. The study was a cross-sectional ...
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Ibrahim, Bridget Basile; Barcelona, Veronica; Condon, Eileen M.; Crusto, Cindy A.; Taylor, Jacquelyn Y.
(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2021-09)
BACKGROUND : Black/African American women in the United States are more likely to live in neighborhoods with higher social vulnerability than other racial/ethnic groups, even when adjusting for personal income. Social ...
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Li, Chengchen; Wang, Zeyuan; Hardy, Theresa; Huang, Yunfeng; Hui, Qin; Crusto, Cindy A.; Wright, Michelle L.; Taylor, Jacquelyn Y.; Sun, Yan V.
(International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019-09)
African American women are a ected by earlier onset of age-associated health deteriorations
and obesity disproportionally, but little is known about the mechanism linking body mass index
(BMI) and biological aging among ...
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Perez, Nicole Beaulieu; Vorderstrasse, Allison A.; Yu, Gary; Melkus, Gail D’Eramo; Wright, Fay; Ginsberg, Stephen D.; Crusto, Cindy A.; Sun, Yan V.; Taylor, Jacquelyn Y.
(Sage, 2022-06)
Background : African American women (AAW) have a high risk of both cardiometabolic (CM) illness and depressive symptoms. Depressive
symptoms co-occur in individuals with CM illness at higher rates than the general population, ...
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Barcelona, Veronica; Flowers, Ambre; Caceres, Billy A.; Crusto, Cindy A.; Taylor, Jacquelyn Y.
(Sage, 2023-03)
We investigated the associations between paternal co-residence and asthma, obesity, and blood pressure among children aged 3–5 years. Mother/child dyads (N = 250) self-identified as African American or Black. Mothers ...
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Du Preez, Mathilda; Wagner, Claire; Cassimjee, Nafisa
(Unisa Press, 2008)
The paucity of literature on the perceptions and attitudes of South Africans
on recycling, reusing, and reducing the number of resources used
suggests the need for an exploration of these environmental issues. The
current ...
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Bar-On, Reuven; Fiedeldey-Van Dijk, Carina
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-07-04)
In this article, we describe the ongoing validation and application of the Bar-On model
of human performance that is assessed with the Multifactor Measure of Performance
(MMP). (The Bar-On Multifactor Measure of Performance ...
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Jordaan, W.J.
(Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd, 2018-12)
Nou die dag ná kerk hoor ek iemand vra aan ’n bejaarde man wie se lewensmaat ’n paar maande tevore oorlede is: “Hoe gaan dit nou met jou?” En hy antwoord: “Goed - as ek my vriende sien.”
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Lopez, Belem G.; Vaid, Jyotsna; Rao, Chaitra
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017-09-25)
Previous work has shown that prior experience in language brokering (informal translation) may facilitate the processing of meaning within and across language boundaries. The present investigation examined the influence ...
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Motileng, B.B. (Barnard Buti); Wagner, Claire; Cassimjee, Nafisa
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2006)
Affirmative action remains one of the most highly sensitive, emotive and hotly debated subjects in South Africa. It
is nevertheless an important legislated strategy that needs to be thoroughly researched and constructively ...
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Liccardo, Sabrina; Bradbury, Jill
(Routledge, 2017-09)
Black women scientists are living in an important time in South Africa as the socio-political landscape is changing rapidly, effecting changes in many dimensions of identification, particularly ‘race’, gender and class. ...