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The Genetic Control of Ring Width, Wood Density and Tracheid Length in the Juvenile Core of Pinus patula
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: R.D. Barnes --- Forest Research Centre, Zimbabwe J.S. Birks --- , United Kingdom G. Battle --- Forest Research Centre, Zimbabwe L.J. Mullin --- Forest Research Centre, ZimbabweControlled crosses were made between six Pinus patula Schiede & Deppe plus trees selected in plantations. Six full-sib families and two commercial checks were planted in randomised complete block thrice-replicated progeny tests at two sites in Zimbabwe. At 7,5 years,... -
The Gift of Growing Up in a Same-Gendered Family: A Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Carien Lubbe --- University of Pretoria,This article portrays the personal strengths of children growing up in same-gendered families from a positive psychological framework. One of the major challenges all children growing up in same-gendered families are faced with is the integration of their family experience... -
Finding Voice: The Photovoice Method of Data Collection in HIV and AIDS-Related Research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Suhana Jacobs --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Anne Harley --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,This study examined the efficacy of photovoice as a research technique to explore the lives of children and families living in the context of HIV and AIDS. Participants were volunteers at a Day Care and Support Centre (n=18), and members... -
Caring for a Relative with Schizophrenia: Understandings, Challenges and the Interface with Mental Health Professionals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stanley Molefi --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Leslie Swartz --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaThis study explored the experiences of families of people with schizophrenia, their understandings of schizophrenia as a mental disorder, their experience of living with a relative with schizophrenia, and their subsequent contact with mental health professionals. A convenience sample of... -
Perceptions of Violence and Crime as Aggression by Turkish—Islamic Families in Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Estelle August --- University of Johannesburg, Chris Myburgh --- University of Johannesburg, Marie Poggenpoel --- University of Johannesburg,This study explored perceptions of aggression of Turkish-Islamic families with adolescent children in a large South African city. Participants were from four Turkish families with adolescent children (father = 4, mothers = 4; children = 5). Data were collected via... -
Behavioural and Emotional Development in Children of Divorce
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lephodisa Stephen Molepo --- Tholene Sodi and Partners, Inc., South Africa Tholene Sodi --- University of Limpopo, South Africa Levison Maunganidze --- Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Pilot Mudhovozi --- University of Venda, South AfricaThis study reports on teacher perceptions of the impact of parental divorce on behaviour and emotional development in children of divorce. Participants were a purposive sampling of 80 primary school learners with parental divorce experience and a comparison group of... -
An Exploration of Families' Psychosocial Well-Being in a South African Context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Vicki Koen --- North-West University, South Africa Chrizanne van Eeden --- North-West University, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- North-West University, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to explore and describe aspects that contribute to the psychosocial well-being of families from diverse cultures in a South African context by analysing data obtained through narratives, drawings and interviews with families. Participant families... -
Children and youth at risk: adaptation and pilot study of the CHAMP (Amaqhawe) programme in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Arvin Bhana Inge Petersen Andy Mason Zoleka Mahintsho Carl Bell Mary McKayThis paper reports on the adaptation and pilot study of the CHAMP programme (Collaborative HIV/AIDS and Adolescent Mental Health Programme) in South Africa with specific reference to outcome effects among adults. CHAMP was originally developed in the United States and... -
Children as caregivers of older relatives living with HIV and AIDS in Nyang'oma division of western Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: CharlesO Olang'o --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Kenya IsaacK Nyamongo --- Gender and African Studies, Kenya ErickO Nyambedha --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, KenyaThere is growing debate about the situations of children who care for a relative with HIV-related illness, especially in developing countries with high HIV prevalence. In particular, there is inadequate information on the long-term consequences of children taking on this... -
Questioning the use-value of social relationships: care and support of youths affected by HIV in child-headed households in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Diana Van Dijk --- Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), The Netherlands Francien Van Driel --- Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), The NetherlandsThe opinion that the extended family can fulfil its supportive role in assisting child-headed households continues to exist. How these households encounter support, what this support entails, and how they experience this support is an under-researched subject. Most research literature... -
Junior-headed households as a possible strategy for coping with the growing orphan crisis in northern Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jan Kuhanen Riikka Shemeikka Veijo Notkola Margareth NghixulifwaThis paper reports research concerning junior-headed households among Oshiwambo speakers in north-central Namibia. Based on field interviews with randomly sampled junior heads of households and selected key informants, we outline some features common to the junior-headed households and the ways... -
Descriptive Set Theoretic Methods Applied to Strictly Singular and Strictly Cosingular Operators
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: George Androulakis Kevin BeanlandThe class of strictly singular operators originating from the dual of a separable Banach space is written as an increasing union of ω 1 subclasses which are defined using the Schreier sets. A question of J. Diestel, of whether a... -
Heritability of shoot die-back and root biomass in sixteen Pterocarpus angolensis (Fabaceae) half-sib families from Malawi, Namibia and Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: JP Mwitwa CRY Munthali G van WykThe experiment was conducted to ascertain narrow-sense heritability (h 2) and the family-within-provenance variation in shoot die-back, taproot length and root biomass of half-sib Pterocarpus angolensis families from Malawi, Namibia and Zambia. Provenances differed significantly in shoot die-back for both... -
Reconstructed Living Lab: supporting drug users and families through co-operative counselling using mobile phone technology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: MB Parker --- Faculty of Informatics and Design, South Africa J Wills --- School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom GB Wills --- School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, United KingdomBackground: There is a recognised problem with drug taking in South Africa. In socially deprived areas immediate help for drug users and their families is a problem. As part of their work in a community in tension, Impact Direct Ministries... -
The role of Ubuntu in families living with mental illness in the community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: C Engelbrecht --- School of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal, MI Kasiram --- School of Social Work and Community Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal,Background: Families living with mental illness are a vulnerable group in the community. In the African culture, it is accepted that families are embedded safely in a community. In accordance with the principles of Ubuntu, people with mental illness should... -
Black Adults’ Perceptions of Healthy Family Functioning
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cynthia Zwane --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Chris Venter --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Q. Michael Temane --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Shingairai Chigeza --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaThis study explores Black adults’ perceptions of factors that contribute to healthy family functioning. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 18 Black participants between the ages of 26 and 54. They responded to a question on their perceptions of healthy family... -
Contextual analysis of home environment factors influencing the acquisition of early reading skills in Zambian families
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tamara Chansa-Kabali --- Department of Psychology, Zambia Robert Serpell --- Department of Psychology, Zambia Heikki Lyytinen --- University of Jyväskylä, FinlandThis study examined the effect of home environment factors in the acquisition of early reading skills (orthographic awareness and decoding competence). To assess these factors, a sample of seventy-two (72) first grade learners (females = 55%; age range = 7–8 years) and their maternal... -
Agronomic performance of early segregating generations of rice under salt stress in Niger
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Oumarou Souleymane --- Institut National de la recherche Agronomique du Niger, culture irriguée, Niger Baboucarr Manneh --- Africa Rice Center, Senegal Eric Nartey --- University of Ghana, Ghana Kwadwo Ofori --- University of Ghana, Ghana Eric Danquah --- University of Ghana, GhanaSalinity is a major abiotic constraint that retrains rice production worldwide. The development and release of rice cultivars with improved performance in saline environments is essential to fight against this scourge. Hence this study was carried out to evaluate segregating... -
Half-sib family variation in shoot and root traits of seedlings of Pterocarpus angolensis (family: Fabaceae; syn. Papilionaceae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal • Authors: JP Mwitwa CRY Munthali G van WykPhenotypic and genetic variation in shoot and root traits occurs between half-sib families from Malawi. Heritability was high for shoot height and root collar diameter (h 2 ≤ 0.90) while that for shoot and root traits was low to moderate... -
Predictors of life satisfaction among multicultural African families in South Korea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Il-young Choi --- School of Management, South Korea Hyun-ju Choi --- Department of Cultural & Arts Management, South Korea Jeong-hee Lim --- Research Institute Multicultural Community, South Korea Seung-hye Jung --- School of Dance, South Korea Jae-kyeong Kim --- School of Management, South Korea Joon-ho Kim --- Department of Business Administration, South KoreaThe aim of this study was to predict perceived life satisfaction of multicultural African families living in South Korea in terms of their fluency in the Korean language, government support for education, and the experience of discrimination. A total of... -
Job security and workaholism among non-permanent workers: The moderating influences of corporate culture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joon-ho Kim --- Department of Business Administration, South Korea Seung-hye Jung --- School of Dance, South Korea Soo-yun Yang --- Department of Cultural Contents, South Korea Hyun-ju Choi --- Department of Cultural & Arts Management, South KoreaThe present study examined aspects of job security, leadership risk (corporate-centric management style, short-term performance-orientedness, and subordinate authoritarianism), emotional exhaustion, and workaholism among 1 009 casual foreign workers from multicultural families living in South Korea. The nationalities of the casual... -
Absent fathers: Psychological and socio-economic implications for black children and directions for future research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Simnikiwe Magqamfana --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Sandiso Bazana --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated fathers’ absence influences on the self-perceptions of South African young adults. Informants were five black university students (two females, three males; age range 20 to 28 years). They responded to semi-structured face-to-face interviews on self-perceptions from having... -
World War 1 and Colonialism in Kenya: Perspectives through Historiography and Literary Imaginaries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jairus Omuteche --- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, KenyaDuring World War I, what is today Kenya was part of the British East African Protectorate. Direct fighting took place within the region as the neighbouring Tanzania was a German colony. The cultural and economic repercussions of the war transformed... -
On bi-continuous cosine families
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Christian Budde --- University of the Free State, South AfricaIn this article, we introduce and investigate bi-continuous cosine families. Those are inspired by the theory of bi-continuous semigroups which had an impact in the area of evolution equations in the last decades. The idea here is again that we... -
Family quality of life of Ghanaian families raising people with intellectual disability
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Daniel Miezah --- University of Cape Coast, Ghana Emmanuel Eshun --- University of Cape Coast, Ghana Kenneth Owusu Ansah --- , GhanaThis study examined the family quality of life (FQOL) of people with intellectual disabilities (PWID). Participants were 176 Ghanaian parents of PWID (mothers = 71.6%). The mean age of the parents was 41.64 years (SD = 9.21 years). The parents... -
Effective descent morphisms of ordered families
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Maria Manuel Clementino --- University of Coimbra, CMUC, Portugal Rui Prezado --- University of Coimbra, CMUC, PortugalWe present a characterization of effective descent morphisms in the lax comma category Ord//X when X is a locally complete ordered set, as well as in the antisymmetric setting.