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Development and Validation of the Xhosa Translations of the Beck Inventories: 2. Item Analysis, Internal Consistency and Factor Analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gary I. Steele --- Rhodes University, David J. A. Edwards --- Rhodes University,The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) were translated into Xhosa, a language widely spoken in South Africa to yield translated scales referred to as the XBDI-I (Xhosa BDI-II), the XBAI... -
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)—Dilemmas and Solutions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Martha Alida Jacoba Olivier --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Ana Maria Gomes --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Aletta Johanna Greyling --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University,We investigated the efficacy of the Coping Skills Programme to address dilemmas and solutions for parents of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Participants were purposively sampled parents of children diagnosed with ADHD in the Eastern Cape of... -
Cronbach's Alpha: Review of Limitations and Associated Recommendations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Aaron A. Agbo --- University of Nigeria,This paper discusses the limitations of Cronbach's alpha as a sole index of reliability, showing how Cronbach's alpha is analytically handicapped to capture important measurement errors and scale dimensionality, and how it is not invariant under variations of scale length,... -
On the Consistency of a Separator
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: J.P. Harper --- Department of Mathematics, South Africa C.H. Rohwer --- Department of Mathematics, South AfricaA smoother can be called a separator if it is idempotent and co-idempotent, with the motivation coming from a physical analogy. This is a rudementary consistency, and type of “linearity”, which has been found to occur in practice. All the... -
South African Statements of Accounting Practice as Part of a User-oriented Framework
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: J.A. Miller --- University of Natal-Durban,In this third and final article on a suggested Hierarchy of Objectives for Financial Reporting the author deals with Statements of Accounting Practice as the operational level thereof, implementing concepts and principles towards achieving the objectives defined. As a consequence... -
Male aggression and mating opportunity in a poeciliid fish
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Kit Magellan --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, U.S.A Horst Kaiser --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, U.S.AOne function of aggression in animals is to gain access to mates. Aggression may therefore be favoured by sexual selection, the strength of which can be assessed using repeatability of aggressive behaviour. Here, we tested the hypotheses that male swordtails,... -
Diel effects on bottom-trawl survey catch rates of shallow- and deep-water Cape hakes Merluccius capensis and M. paradoxus off Namibia, using solar zenith angle
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: P Kainge --- National Marine Information and Research Centre (NatMIRC), Namibia K Wieland --- Section for Monitoring and Data, Institute of Aquatic Resources, Denmark J Feekings --- Section for Ecosystem based Marine Management, DenmarkDiel patterns in survey trawl catches for the Cape hakes Merluccius capensis and M. paradoxus off Namibia were studied in order to examine the effect of diel bias on catchability, and its implication for survey abundance estimation and the consistency... -
HIV risk perception and consistency in condom use among adolescents and young adults in urban Cape Town, South Africa: a cumulative risk analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Evans Muchiri --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, South Africa Clifford Odimegwu --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, South Africa Nicole De Wet --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, South AfricaBackground: The relationship between HIV risk perception and consistency in the use of condoms is scarcely understood in the context of a high HIV prevalence among adolescents and young adults in urban South Africa. Methods: Using data from Cape Area... -
Use of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification in non-trauma surgical versus trauma patients: a survey of inter-observer consistency
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Shree Singaram --- Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, South Africa Sailuja Naidu --- Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, South AfricaBackground: The American Society of Anesthesiologists-Physical Status (ASA-PS) Classification is a grading system for classifying surgical patients based on their co-morbid background. Despite numerous benefits, its highly subjective nature has led to marked inconsistency when used. The purpose of this... -
Interpersonal sensitivity and social avoidance and distress in female college students: Mediating role of self-inconsistency and moderating role of self-consciousness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yanhong Luo --- , China Zhenrong Shi --- , China Bin Zhang --- , China Yu Peng --- , China Anqi Zhang --- , China Yixin Zeng --- , ChinaThis study aimed to explore the relationship between interpersonal sensitivity and college students’ social avoidance and distress. Our sample consisted of 544 Chinese female undergraduate college students selected through cluster sampling (mean age = 19.3 years, SD = 1.43 years)...