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Exploring the Psychological Exteriority and Interiority of Men's Violence Against Women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ursula Lau --- University of South Africa, Garth Stevens --- University of the Witwatersrand,This study explored male perpetrators subjective experiences of violence against their intimate partners. Participants were a convenience sample of 12 men (11 ‘Black’ and 1 ‘White’, between 18 to 70 years of age) recruited from three organisations in Johannesburg, South... -
Exploring Young Black Persons' Narratives About the Apartheid Past
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cheryl Petersen --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Chris Venter --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Karel Botha --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaThis study examined intergeneration narratives about the apartheid past through the retelling of 14 young black South Africans aged 16 to 21 (males =6, females =8). A qualitative categorical-content data analysis underpinned by social constructionism, explored these secondary narrative segments... -
‘Bhuti’: Meaning and Masculinities in Xhosa Brothering
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lisa Saville Young --- Rhodes University, South Africa Catherine Jackson --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThe article explores the connections between context, masculinity and the fraternal relationship to understand brotherhood in Xhosa culture. The participant was a Xhosa man (32 years old, with tertiary level education). Data were collected using a semi-structured interview. The data... -
Racing risk, gendering responsibility: a qualitative study of how South African students talk about sexual risk and responsibility
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mary van der Riet --- Psychology, School of Applied Human Sciences, South Africa Tamaryn Jane Nicholson --- Psychology, School of Applied Human Sciences, South AfricaIndividuals’ perceptions of risk have implications for whether and how they engage with protective strategies. This study investigated how sexual risk, specifically HIV and pregnancy and responsibility for these risks were constructed in discussions across five groups of youth in... -
Life design counselling effects on the career adaptability of learners in a selective independent school setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- Faculty of Education, South Africa Claire Symington --- Faculty of Education, South AfricaThis collective case study applied life design counselling to augment the career adaptability of learners in a South African independent school setting. Five purposively selected learners attending Grade 11 (age range: 16–18) completed eight group-based life design counselling sessions. Data... -
Life design counselling effects on the career adaptability of learners in a selective independent school setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- Faculty of Education, South Africa Claire Symington --- Faculty of Education, South AfricaThis collective case study applied life design counselling to augment the career adaptability of learners in a South African independent school setting. Five purposively selected learners attending Grade 11 (age range: 16–18) completed eight group-based life design counselling sessions. Data... -
Introduction to Anthropology Southern Africa special issue on ‘Engaging Difference: Perspectives on belonging and exclusion in contemporary southern and East Africa’
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Heike Becker --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology,This special issue of Anthropology Southern Africa is the result of troubling questions of how to engage difference and belonging. Anthropologists in South Africa, like their colleagues elsewhere, today face the return of difference thinking. The articles in this special... -
Trauma event autobiographies: An exploratory multiple case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Corné Engelbrecht --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Maria Papaikonomou --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis multiple case study explored trauma event memories of three individuals to characterise underlying meanings important for their recovery. The three participants were women in the age range of 43 to 54 years old, who shared their own memories of...