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Temperament Styles of Nigerian and U.S. Children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Thomas Oakland --- University of Florida, Andrew Mogaji --- University of Lagos, Jack Dempsey --- University of Florida,Temperament styles of 400 Nigerian children are described in reference to possible gender and age differences and compared with those of 3200 U.S. children in light of Jung's theory of temperament as modified by Myers and Briggs, one that highlights... -
Community Psychology: The Case of Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Therese Tchombe --- University of Buea, Cameroon Raul Kassea --- ENS University of Yaoundé, CameroonCommunity psychology in Cameroon is a budding discipline even its practice, given the scarcity of professionals with specialised training. However, this paper highlights public and private community-oriented projects that resonate with the principles of community psychology. The demands are high... -
Factors in Computer Self-Efficacy Among Nigerian College of Education Teachers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Philip Olu Jegede --- Obafemi Awolowo University,This study investigated factors that are associated with computer self-efficacy among teachers of Southwestern Colleges of Education in Nigeria. Two hundred and eighteen teachers (males =146; females=72; age =52.82, SD=16.38) randomly selected from four Colleges of Education responded to a... -
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... -
Social-Psychological Factors Associated with Bullying Behaviour among Secondary School Students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ojedokun A. Oluyinka --- Olabisi Onabanjo University,This study investigated the association between social-psychological factors (misconduct, impulsivity, school sense of belonging, intention to use non-violent strategies, beliefs supportive of violence) and bullying behaviour. A total of two-hundred and fifteen (n=215) secondary school students randomly selected from five... -
Photovoice as a Methodological Tool to Address HIV and AIDS and Gender Violence amongst Girls on the Street in Rwanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jean-Paul Umurungi --- National University of Rwanda, Claudia Mitchell --- McGill University, Myriam Gervais --- McGill University, Eliane Ubalijoro --- McGill University, Violet Kabarenzi --- Rwanda National Police,This study involved a particular group of children in Rwanda—girls who are living on the street and who miss out on education. Noting their relative absence from “the picture” in relation to accesses to services, the study explored how participatory... -
Gender-Based Domestic Violence against Children: Experiences of Girl-Children in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mary O. Esere --- University of Ilorin, Nigera Adeyemi I. Idowu --- University of Ilorin, Nigera Joshua A. Omotosho --- University of Ilorin, NigeraThis study investigated the dynamics of gender-based domestic violence against children in Nigeria. This qualitative study explored the experiences of 20 purposively selected girl-children (age range = 12 to 15 years) from two SOS Children's Village who have been victims... -
Gender, Spirituality and Psychological Well-Being
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cristel Vosloo --- North-West University, Marié P. Wissing --- North-West University, Q. Michael Temane --- North-West University,The aim of this study was to determine whether gender moderates the relationship between spirituality and psychological well-being. A secondary data analysis based on a cross sectional survey was implemented. A convenience sample of 508 participants (males = 143, females... -
Gender Identity Development and Career Decision-Making Process among High School Learners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Andile Alfred Mdikana --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Joseph Seabi --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Lara Rammutla --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaPrevious studies reveal an inconsistent picture of identity formation for both genders. This study investigated gender differences in identity formation (identity statuses) and career decision-making process among Black South African high school learners. A sample of 156 Grade 12 learners... -
Young Rural Males in South Africa Speak on Teenage Pregnancy: “It's Really Her Problem”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Reshma Sathiparsad --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,The aim of this study was to explore the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of school-going rural males in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on teenage pregnancy. Two methods of data collection were used, namely, a quantitative survey with a sample of 294... -
‘We Do Not Cook, We Only Assist Them’: Constructions of Hegemonic Masculinity Through Gendered Activity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kopano Ratele --- University of South Africa/Medical Research Council, Tamara Shefer --- University of the Western Cape, Anna Strebel --- Independent Researcher, Elron Fouten --- Rhodes University,This article discusses how the gendering of activity by boys coincides with, contests or recreates constructions of hegemonic masculinity in the context of South Africa. The study used a qualitative methodology including a series of three focus groups with 14–16... -
Young Men as Peer Counsellors: What's Under the Overcoat?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nick Davies --- University of the Witwatersrand, Gill Eagle --- University of the Witwatersrand,The aim of the study was to investigate masculine role identifications amongst male volunteer peer counsellors. Based on focus group interviews with young men (n=12) aged 16 to 18, the juxtapositioning of masculinity and the role of counsellor was explored... -
Perceptions of Staffriding in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Lethal Thrill of Speed or the Masculine Performance of a Painful Past?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Dimakatso Sedite --- University of South Africa, Brett Bowman --- University of the Witwatersrand, Lindsay Clowes --- University of the Western Cape,Staffriding, or train surfing, involves taking life threatening physical risks by moving around the outside of moving trains. In aiming to better understand this risky practice, this small scale qualitative study used three semi-structured interviews and three focus discussions to... -
Male Soldiers' Constructions of Masculinity, Sexuality and Sexual Violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nyameka Mankayi --- Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South AfricaThis article explores soldiers' constructions of masculinity, sexual practices and gender-based violence, in particular sexual violence towards women. Fourteen male soldiers in the South African National Defence Force between the ages of 23 and 33 years old participated. A discourse... -
Men in Uniforms: Masculinity, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Western Rwanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Bjarke Oxlund --- University of Copenhagen, Denmark Lise Rosendal Østergaard --- University of Copenhagen, Denmark Geoffrey Ngiruwonsanga Kayonde --- Adventist Development and Relief Agency, RwandaThe objective of this study was to provide an in-depth description and analysis of the lived experiences of men in uniforms in Western Rwanda with a view to the links between notions of masculinity, sexual practices and the spread of... -
Occupational Interests and Aspirations of Rural Black South African Children: Considerations for Theory, Research and Practice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mark Watson --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Mary McMahon --- The University of Queensland, Australia Paul Longe --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South AfricaThere has been limited international and South African research on the career development of rural and socioeconomically disadvantaged children. The present research provides baseline information on the career development of rural, low socioeconomic status, Black upper elementary school children (N... -
Teachers' Gender Stereotypes in South Africa: A Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tuntufye S. Mwamwenda --- Africa Institute of South Africa,The study investigated Teachers' gender stereotypes in the Eastern Province of South Africa. Participants were 65 Junior Secondary school teachers (females= 40 and males = 25) who assembled together at a seminar organized by the Department of Education. They completed... -
Online Support Service via Mobile Technology—a Pilot Study at a Higher Education Institution in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Birgit Schreiber --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Kjersti Aartun --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThis study describes the findings of a pilot study of an online support service via mobile technology using chat facilities at a Higher Education Institution in South Africa. The online support service, accessible via cell phone chat and computer chat... -
Gender Effects on Self-Regulation Among University Students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anke S. Cloete --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Karel F. H. Botha --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), J. Wilma Breytenbach --- Statistical Consultation Services, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus),The aim of this study was to explore the relation between self-regulation, psychopathology and gender amongst a group of South African university students (N=384). Self-regulation was measured with the Shortened Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SSRQ: Carey, Neal, & Collins, 2004), and psychopathology... -
Gender Differences in PTSD diagnostic Criteria and Suicidal Ideation in a South African Police Sample
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Renier Steyn --- University of South Africa,The study examined gender effects on PTSD symptoms to predict of suicidal ideation in a sample of South African police. A male (N = 161) and a female group (N = 56) of South African police officers were assessed by... -
Psychological Dimensions of Unemployment: A Gender Comparison Between Belgian and South African Unemployed
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yannick Griep --- KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Sebastiaan Rothmann --- North-West University, South Africa Wouter Vleugels --- KU Leuven, Belgium Hans De Witte --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study sought to compare South African and Belgian unemployed in their subjective experience of unemployment, committed towards employment and job search behaviour. We also considered gender differences regarding the psychological dimensions of unemployment between Belgium and South Africa. A... -
Dating and Identity Development Among IsiXhosa Speaking Adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Andile Mdikana --- University of South Africa, Nareadi Phasha --- University of South Africa, Sibusiso Ntshangase --- University of South Africa, Msongelwa Gumede --- University of South Africa,This study explored dating and identity development among IsiXhosa speaking adolescents in South Africa. The participants were 40 Grade 12 learners (females = 50%) aged between 17 and 24 years. Data were collected using identity status interviews and analyzed descriptively... -
HIV/AIDS, poverty and risky sexual behaviour in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Frederik le R BooysenThis paper employs data from the 1998 South African Demographic and Health Survey in exploring the nature of socio-economic inequalities in and determinants of risky sexual behaviour. Risky sexual behaviour was associated with poverty only in the case of multiple... -
Barriers to counselling support for HIV/AIDS patients in south-western Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: CharlesC Fonchingong TimothyO Mbuagbo JenniferT AbongThe potential synergy between counselling and HIV/AIDS prevention is gaining recognition in Cameroon as counselling sessions are more often organised at health centres. In order to evaluate the actual achievements of these efforts, a qualitative ethnographic survey (based on interviews... -
Silent survivors of sexual violence in conflict and the implications for HIV mitigation: experiences from Eritrea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Janet GruberThis paper considers the impacts of sexual violence perpetrated while the Eritrean town of Senafe was occupied by the Ethiopian military in 2000, during the second Ethiopia–Eritrea war. It discusses the aftermath for the survivors, all women and girls belonging... -
Modelling a traditional game as an agent in HIV/AIDS behaviour-change education and communication
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Charles Ogoye-NdegwaThe level of HIV/AIDS awareness among the Luo of western Kenya is at its highest yet the epidemic continues unabated. While HIV/AIDS is locally recognised as an emergent deadly condition, people seem unconcerned. Deaths related to HIV/AIDS are often euphemistically... -
Childcare in poor urban settlements in Swaziland in an era of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Lynne JonesThis paper explores the role of the family in caring for orphans and other children in poor urban communities having some of the highest levels of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the world. A range of family forms in Swaziland was found... -
HIV disclosure and other factors that impact on adherence to antiretroviral therapy: the case of Soweto, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: NokuthulaL Skhosana Helen Struthers GlendaE Gray JamesA McIntyreSome authors argue that there are no predictors of adherence to medication, while others proffer indicators of likely adherence. These contextual factors are wide-ranging and may be interdependent. There are few studies of adherence in resource-poor settings. Of these, many... -
Does conflict increase vulnerability to HIV infection? Issues for a research agenda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Janet GruberMuch action has been taken in the last ten years to prevent and mitigate HIV infection in times of conflict, yet two fundamental questions remain unanswered: Does conflict always and everywhere increase vulnerability to HIV infection, and are women and... -
Zambian male adolescents' perceptions about premarital sexual relationships
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elisabeth Dahlbäck Patrick Makelele C Bawa Yamba Staffan Bergström Anna-Berit Ransjö-ArvidsonThe role adolescent boys play in premarital sexual activities, gender power relations, and the reproductive health risks they are exposed to, has received little attention in research. This qualitative study has aimed to explore Zambian male adolescents' perceptions and expectations... -
The making of vulnerabilities: understanding the differentiated effects of HIV and AIDS among street traders in Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: May Chazan Alan WhitesideThe end of apartheid in South Africa has led to political-economic transition, the deregulation of cities, and increased population mobility, with growing numbers of people living and working in sub-standard and 'informal' urban conditions. These processes have created a fertile... -
HIV/AIDS: South African women at risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: L Walker --- , South Africa L Gilbert --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaA previous version of this paper was presented at the AIDS in Context Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 4–7 April 2001 -
AIDS, individual behaviour and the unexplained remaining variation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Alison Katz --- , SwitzerlandFrom the start of the AIDS pandemic, individual behaviour has been put forward, implicitly or explicitly, as the main explanatory concept for understanding the epidemiology of HIV infection and in particular for the rapid spread and high prevalence in sub-Saharan... -
‘Dear diary I saw an angel, she looked like heaven on earth’: Sex talk and sex education
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Rob Pattman --- Thomas Coram Research Unit, UK Fatuma Chege --- Department of Educational Foundations, KenyaIn this paper we highlight and address some of the problems involved in teaching HIV/AIDS education in southern and eastern Africa, and especially in generating open discussion among pupils about sex and sexuality. The paper draws on the findings of... -
The young, the rich, and the beautiful: Secrecy, suspicion and discourses of AIDS in the South African lowveld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jonathan James Stadler --- Reproductive Health Research Unit and Department of Anthropology, South AfricaThis article investigates emic accounts of the AIDS deaths that have occurred in a village in the Bushbuckridge district of the South African lowveld. I argue that whilst AIDS was publicly hidden and shrouded in secrecy, private gossip created moral... -
Courting success in HIV/AIDS prevention: the challenges of addressing aconcentrated epidemic in Senegal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: EllenE Foley --- , United States Rokhaya Nguer --- , SenegalThis article presents findings from a study of HIV/AIDS programmes for urban sex workers in Dakar, Senegal. The objective of the research was to assess HIV prevention and treatment efforts to date, and to identify challenges that must be overcome... -
The role of ‘pimping’ in the mediation of transactional sex at a university campus in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: TsitsiB Masvawure --- , South AfricaThe article focuses on a very specific form of transactional sex that exists at a university campus in Zimbabwe, which students refer to as ‘pimping.’ Drawing extensively on the specific experiences of a male student pimp, the article demonstrates that,... -
Gender vulnerabilities, spousal abuse and the incidence of HIV in Lesotho:a case for an integrative rights-based approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: 'Dejo Olowu --- , South AfricaThe article posits that imbalances in gender relations are influencing two distinctive yet connected crises for women in Lesotho: the HIV epidemic and spousal abuse. The overarching premise is that as spousal abuse is increasingly recognised and as HIV infections... -
Gendered perceptions of HIV risk among young women and men in a high-HIV-prevalence setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marisa Casale --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Michael Rogan --- School of Development Studies, South Africa Michaela Hynie --- Department of Psychology, Canada Sarah Flicker --- Department of Psychology, Canada Stephanie Nixon --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Clara Rubincam --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South AfricaIt has become evident that sexual health and HIV-risk behaviours cannot be addressed effectively without paying adequate attention to constructions of gender and sexuality. While the body of literature examining these themes is growing and becoming more nuanced, there is... -
‘The epidemic in this country has the face of a woman’1: Gender and HIV/AIDS in South Africa2
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Leah Gilbert --- Department of Sociology, South Africa Terry-Ann SelikowEpidemiological data clearly show that the highest levels of HIV prevalence occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Less visible, however, is the complex combination of forces that fuel HIV epidemics in this region — these have been dubbed 'the lethal cocktail.' It... -
Predictors of sexual behaviour among church-going youths in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross-denominational study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ann Neville Miller --- Nicholson School of Communication, United States Kyalo wa Ngula --- Nicholson School of Communication, United States George Musambira --- Nicholson School of Communication, United StatesWe surveyed church-going youths in Nairobi, Kenya, to investigate denominational differences in their sexual behaviour and to identify factors related to those differences. In comparison with youths attending mainline churches, the youths surveyed at Pentecostal/evangelical churches were less likely to... -
AIDS fatigue and university students’ talk about HIV risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Tamara Shefer --- Women's and Gender Studies, South Africa Anna Strebel --- Women's and Gender Studies, South Africa Joachim Jacobs --- HIV/AIDS Programme, South AfricaDrawing on a qualitative study that included 20 focus group discussions with male and female students at an urban-based university in South Africa, this article reports on perceptions, attitudes and reported behaviour with respect to HIV and AIDS and safer... -
Understanding the agency of home-based care volunteers: establishing identity and negotiating space in AIDS-home-based care in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Thirusha Naidu --- Department of Behavioural Medicine, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Yvonne Sliep --- School of Psychology, South AfricaIn traditional Zulu communities, caregiving is rooted in compassionate and hardworking personal identity precepts and the traditional identity expectations of women. Home-based-care volunteerism in the community represents the performance of this identity. Data from a series of interviews with 15... -
‘Trophy-hunting scripts’ among male university students in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nelson Muparamoto --- Department of Sociology, ZimbabweDrawing on a multi-method qualitative study, this article examines ‘trophy-hunting’ scripts among male university students in Zimbabwe. ‘Trophy hunting’ is a term I have adopted to refer to hegemonic masculinity rituals through which men gain social admiration for dating and... -
Neglected older women and men: Exploring age and gender as structural drivers of HIV among people aged over 60 in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Esther Richards --- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK Flavia Zalwango --- Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute (MRC/UVRI) Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Uganda Janet Seeley --- Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute (MRC/UVRI) Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Uganda Francien Scholten --- Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute (MRC/UVRI) Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Uganda Sally Theobald --- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UKThis study explored how women's and men's gendered experiences from childhood to old age have shaped their vulnerability in relation to HIV both in terms of their individual risk of HIV and their access to and experiences of HIV services... -
‘If the doctors see that they don't know how to cure the disease, they say it's AIDS’: How older women in rural South Africa make sense of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Enid Schatz --- Department of Health Sciences/Department of Women's & Gender Studies, 535 Clark Hall, Leah Gilbert --- Department of Sociology, South Africa Courtney McDonald --- Department of Psychology and Sociology, USASouth Africa, like other sub-Saharan African countries, is in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Older women, here defined as aged 60 years and older, while at lower risk of infection than those aged 20–50, are amongst those deeply ‘affected’... -
Support groups for HIV-positive people in South Africa: Who joins, who does not, and why?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Wenche Dageid --- Department of Psychology, NorwayPsychosocial health care for persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is inadequate. Support groups for PLWHA could offer arenas where psychosocial issues are addressed, yet more knowledge is needed about those who join and those who do not join such groups... -
Investigating Disparities in Access and Returns to Endowments between Male and Female Headed Households in Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Boniface Ngah Epo --- Department of Economics and Management, Yaoundé Francis Menjo Baye --- Department of Economics and Management, Yaoundé Nadine Teme Angele Manga --- Department of Economics and Management, YaoundéThis paper investigates disparities in access and returns to endowments between male and female headed households in Cameroon using the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition and the 2007 Cameroon Household Consumption Survey. In particular, synthetic variables for education and health constructed by the... -
Gender Earnings Disparity and Discrimination in Urban China: Unconditional Quantile Regression
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Yao Tang --- School of Sociology and Social Policy, UK Wenjin Long --- School of Sociology and Social Policy, UKMarket-oriented economic reform has gone through several key stages to bring substantial changes to the current Chinese economy. It accelerated after 1992, and ushered in the pattern transformation since ‘scientific development outlook’ raised in 2002. During this dramatic and complicated... -
Gender, famine and HIV/AIDS: rethinking new variant famine in Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Andy GibbsAlthough making a large and rapid impact on our understandings of the interactions between famine and HIV/AIDS, the new variant famine hypothesis has had little critical scrutiny. This paper uses a case study of the Malawian food crisis of 2001/2002... -
Women's health, HIV/AIDS and the workplace in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Courtenay SpragueThis work explores the connections between gender inequality, HIV/AIDS and women's health in the world of work in South Africa. These connections are located within a context of significant reversals in development, specifically declining life expectancy and premature mortality for... -
Sex work, reform initiatives and HIV/AIDS in inner-city Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marlise RichterThe on-going criminalisation of sex work in South Africa, concurrent sexual partnerships, socio-economic vulnerability, migrant status and gender-based violence intensify sex workers' risk of contracting HIV. These factors combine to restrict the skills, ability and resources of sex workers to... -
Couples' communication on sexual and relational issues among the Akamba in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ann Neville Miller Lenette Golding Kyalo wa Ngula MaryAnne Wambua Evans Mutua MaryN Kitizo Caroline Teti Nancy Booker Kinya Mwithia DonaldL RubinA large portion of HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa occurs among married couples, yet the majority of research on safer-sex communication has focused on communication between couples in casual relationships. This paper explores how committed Kamba couples in Machakos District,... -
Sexual activity and condom use among people living with HIV in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: AgostinoM ZamberiaA number of studies have shown strong evidence of the association between HIV testing and an increase in consistent condom use. These studies have shown that HIV testing has contributed to a reduction in risk behaviours, since knowledge of HIV... -
Religious participation and HIV-disclosure rationales among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Robin Root --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Baruch College, United StatesDespite the cultural salience of Christianity in many parts of Africa and the expansion of antiretroviral treatment, few studies have examined experiences of religious participation among HIV-positive individuals. Correspondingly, most studies of HIV self-disclosure in sub-Saharan Africa focus primarily on... -
Rural black women's agency within intimate partnerships amid the South African HIV epidemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Britta Thege --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaIn a particular way, the HIV pandemic exposes the prevailing gender relations and the definitions of male and female gender roles, both in intimate relationships and in the wider society. The HIV pandemic reveals the contradictions between women's legal rights... -
Relationships between overweight, obesity and physical fitness of nine- to twelve-year-old South African children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: L Truter --- School of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science, North West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa AE Pienaar --- School of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science, North West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa D Du Toit --- School of Education, North West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South AfricaBackground: -
Gender discrepancies in the HIV/AIDS Community Home-Based Care Programme in Kanye, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SM Kang'ethe --- Social Work Department, RSAThe aim and objective of this paper is to discuss the gender discrepancies associated with caregiving based on empirical findings from the Kanye HIV/AIDS Community Home-Based Care (CHBC) Programme. The research study was explorative and descriptive in nature and qualitative... -
The relationship of overweight and obesity to the motor performance of children living in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: L Truter --- School of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science, North-West University, AE Pienaar --- School of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science, North-West University, D Du Toit --- School of Education, North-West University,Objectives: This study aimed to determine the relationship between overweight and obesity and the motor performance of nine- to 13-year-old South African children. -
Sense of humour and adolescents' cognitive flexibility
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: KGF Esterhuyse --- Department of Psychology, N Nortjé --- University of the Free State, A Pienaar --- University of the Free State, RBI Beukes --- University of the Free State,Objective: There is a lack of research on humour among adolescents in South Africa. This article examines cognitive flexibility and humour. The objective was to investigate the roles of gender and language as possible moderating variables in the relationship between... -
Jobs, food, taxis and journals: Complexities of implementing Stepping Stones and Creating Futures in urban informal settlements in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Andrew Gibbs --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Rachel Jewkes --- Gender and Health Unit, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa Nompumelelo Mbatha --- Project Empower, Room E304 Diakonia Conference Centre, South Africa Laura Washington --- Project Empower, Room E304 Diakonia Conference Centre, South Africa Samantha Willan --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South AfricaThis paper seeks to refocus debates on structural interventions away from ‘assessing’ their effectiveness towards understanding processes around how such interventions are implemented. Implementation Science is focused on understanding potential challenges of translating interventions from highly controlled conditions into ‘real... -
Experiences and conceptualizations of sexual debut from the narratives of South African men and women in the context of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Erin Stern --- University of Cape Town, Women's Health Research Unit, South Africa Diane Cooper --- University of Cape Town, Women's Health Research Unit, South AfricaGiven the pivotal role of first sex in the development of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) practices, there is a need for more contextualised and nuanced understandings of young people's early sexual debut experiences. This study used sexual history narratives... -
The Ways in Which Adolescents Cope and their Relationship to Age, Gender and Specific Religious Variables
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Trevor Moodley --- University of the Free State, South Africa Karel Esterhuyse --- University of the Free State, South Africa Roelf Beukes --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThis study investigated the roles of age, gender, the importance of religion/spirituality, attending church activities and frequency of prayer on the types of adolescents’ coping strategies. Participants were drawn from ten public high schools. Data on coping strategies, personal variables... -
Age, Gender and Social Class Influences on Skin Colour Preferences Among Mozambican Children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Germano Vera Cruz --- University of Toulouse II, FranceThis study examined skin colour preferences among Mozambican children (N = 500; male = 48% and females = 52%; middle-high SES = 48% and low SES = 52%; mean age = 7.34 and SD = 1.80). The children selected preferred... -
“An African way of doing things”: reproducing gender and generation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nolwazi Mkhwanazi --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaIn this article I draw on ethnographic research conducted in the townships of Nyanga East and Khayelitsha, South Africa, to suggest a link between normative ideals about the relations between children and adults, normative practises around the care of children,... -
Analysis of the impact of production technology and gender on under-utilised indigenous vegetables production in south-western Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Oluwagbenga T Alao --- College of Agriculture, Nigeria Odunayo C Adebooye --- College of Agriculture, Nigeria Olanike F Deji --- Faculty of Agriculture, Nigeria Kaothar M Idris-Adeniyi --- College of Agriculture, Nigeria Oluwafemi Agbola --- College of Agriculture, Nigeria Ahmed O Busari --- College of Agriculture, NigeriaWe quantified the impact of new production technologies on total land area allocated to production of six (ugu, igbagba, tete atetedaye, woorowo, ogunmo and odu) selected high-premium under-utilised indigenous vegetables (UIVs) in south-western Nigeria. Leaf yields and accruable returns were... -
Developing and implementing global gender policy to reduce HIV and AIDS in low- and middle -income countries: Policy makers’ perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Shannon Olinyk --- University of Michigan Columbus, USA Andrew Gibbs --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Catherine Campbell --- Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKGender inequalities have been recognised as central to the HIV epidemic for many years. In response, a range of gender policies have been developed in attempts to mitigate the impact and transform gender relations. However, the effects of these policies... -
HIV-serostatus disclosure in the context of free antiretroviral therapy and socio-economic dependency: experiences among women living with HIV in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Leah F Bohle --- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Germany Hansjörg Dilger --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Germany Uwe Groß --- Institute for Medical Microbiology, GermanyThe worldwide implementation of free antiretroviral therapy (ART) raised great hopes among policy makers and health organisations about the positive changes it would bring about in attitudes and behaviours towards HIV and AIDS, as well as for infected people's lives... -
Positive work experiences and life satisfaction: the moderating role of gender
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jillian C. Williamson --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Madelyn Geldenhuys --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaThis study investigated the effects of work engagement and psychological meaningfulness on life satisfaction taking into account the moderating effect of gender. A cross-sectional research design was used to capture data on satisfaction with life, work engagement and psychological meaningfulness... -
Confronting stereotypes in the fishing industry in post-apartheid South Africa: A case study of women on the West Coast in the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Sharon Groenmeyer --- Centre for the Study of Democracy, South AfricaDrawing on research conducted in fish processing and allied industries, the women in this study engage in shoreline activities collecting mussels, red bait, shellfish, seaweed; catching crayfish and fish or cleaning fish and mending nets. Women's role in fishing is... -
HIV in Harare: The role and relevance of social stigma
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Stephen O'Brien --- School of Humanities and Social Science, Australia Alex Broom --- School of Social Science, AustraliaHIV is a significant social, political and economic problem in Zimbabwe. However, few researchers have explored peoples’ experiences of living with HIV in that country. Drawing on 60 qualitative interviews conducted with Zimbabweans living in Harare in 2010, this paper... -
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... -
Sexuality, Power and Transgression: Homophobia in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Memory of Departure
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Kimani Kaigai --- Literature Department, KenyaThis paper offers a reading of Zanzibari-born, UK-based writer, Abdulrazak Gurnah’ debut novel, Memory of Departure in order to explore how the novel positions sexual activities that are seen as transgressive and how contestations over these bodily activities imply issues... -
Values in children's stories in South Africa: an exploratory discourse analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anne Fleischack --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Trudy Meehan --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored the presentation and construction of the values in story texts for children in South Africa. The data were from five children's stories from a widely-circulated weekly newspaper. The story content was analysed for value-laden themes child readers... -
Test anxiety: contributions of gender, age, parent's occupation and self-esteem among secondary school students in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji --- Department of Psychology, Sampson Kelechi Nwonyi --- Department of Psychology,Most of the previous studies on test anxiety have focused on students in higher institutions with little research on test anxiety in secondary school students. The present study examined the contributions of gender, age, parent's occupation and self-esteem on test... -
Ego-identity formation in Black South African young adults
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Malose S. Makhubela --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe study examined aspects of ego-identity development among black African students (N = 104; males = 42%; females = 58%; mean age = 18.7 yr.; SD = 0.9). They completed an ego-identity development measure. Data was analysed descriptively and also... -
Characteristics of micro, small and medium enterprises in Ghana: gender and implications for economic growth
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Roland Asare --- CSIR-Science Technology and Policy Research Institute, Ghana Mavis Akuffobea --- CSIR-Science Technology and Policy Research Institute, Ghana Wilhelmina Quaye --- CSIR-Science Technology and Policy Research Institute, Ghana Kwasi Atta-Antwi --- Rural Enterprises Programme, GhanaThis paper sought to investigate the characteristics of MSMEs and to suggest ways of improving performance, particularly tackling constraints faced by women and youth entrepreneurs in Ghana. A total of 4 433 MSME operators were interviewed in all the ten... -
Silence, blame and AIDS conspiracy theories among the Xhosa people in two townships in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jonas Samuel Sivelä --- African Studies, Department of World Cultures, FinlandConspiratorial expressions about the origins of HIV/AIDS have been recognised as an outcome of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. This article examines the reasons behind AIDS conspiracy theories, which include a reoccurring repertory of themes, motifs and characters. In... -
HIV-related stigma: implications for symptoms of anxiety and depression among Malawian women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Charles Kamen --- Behavioral Medicine Unit, USA Jill Arganbright --- Center for AIDS Intervention Research, USA Eliza Kienitz --- PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, USA Melissa Weller --- PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, USA Anna Khaylis --- British Columbia Operational Stress Injury Clinic, Canada Tammy Shenkman --- PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, USA Sarah Smith --- Center for AIDS Intervention Research, USA Cheryl Koopman --- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, USA Cheryl Gore-Felton --- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, USAAn estimated 11% of the adult population in Malawi, Africa, is living with HIV/AIDS. The disease has taken a toll on communities, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. Malawian women carry the burden of being caretakers for individuals infected with... -
“Whenever Jack sees a condom, he falls asleep”: experiences of condom use and erectile disorder among HIV positive men in a Zimbabwean rural setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Zibusiso Nyati-Jokomo --- Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, James January --- Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Seedwell Mpande --- Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Watch Ruparanganda --- Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies,In this qualitative inquiry, we set out to explore the experience of condom use and erectile disorder (ED) among men living with HIV in a rural district of Zimbabwe. Data on condom use related erectile disorder with antiretroviral (ART) medication... -
Women entrepreneurship in developing countries: A European example
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Ina Beqo --- Graduate Stenden MA in International Service Management Sjoerd A Gehrels --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University, Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsThis research investigates women small business entrepreneurship in Albania. The purpose is to provide contextual information to potential future (women) entrepreneurs about how to get into business and overcome challenges. The 11 interviewed Albanian women entrepreneurs explain how they survive a difficult... -
An assessment of the risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis among adult patients suffering from human immunodeficiency virus attending the Wellness Clinic at Themba Hospital
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Felix Alberto Herrera Rodriguez --- Medical Department, South Africa Samuel Onoja Agbo --- Family Medicine department, South AfricaBackground: In South Africa, the data about risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is limited. Therefore, the assessment of risk factors for PTB is an important step to identify which risk factors are unique in every specific population context and... -
Women, difference and urbanisation patterns in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Spiegel --- Department of Social Anthropology, South Africa Vanessa Watson --- Department of Social Anthropology, South Africa Peter Wilkinson --- Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaA point apparently often lost to policy makers is that those for whom policy is designed have very diverse life experiences. The article focuses on two women's experiences of urbanisation: experiences that are extremely different from one another, despite the... -
Community, family and intimate relationships: an exploration of domestic violence in Griquatown, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Linda Waldman --- Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UKThis paper explores domestic violence in the rural location of Griquatown, South Africa. Although academics have long recognised that structural and cultural factors influence people's experience of domestic violence, not much has been written about the manner in which this... -
Sexual practices and sensual selves in Zanzibar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rosabelle Boswell --- Anthropology Department, South AfricaThis paper focuses on the sexuality and contemporary sensual behaviour among Zanzibari women and their use of scent in these domains. It is argued that scent forms an integral part of different life-cycle rituals which are embedded in gendered everyday... -
‘Sick’ with Child
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nina Botha --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,Following a discursive approach, this paper introduces a school intended for sick learners; one that is regarded as an institution that promotes good mothering, and where the attending girls are cured of being ‘sick’ with child. The paper aims to... -
‘A Dog with a collar…’ Field notes on an ‘indigenous wedding gown’
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: J-M Dederen --- University of Venda (Thohoyandou),The purpose of this ethnographic narrative is to detail the social and symbolic nature of the tshirivha leather skirt. Venda-speaking women in Limpopo Province once articulated their marital status by means of this garment. My initial, literature based understanding, in... -
“Dying is dying, that's all”: Structural violence and cultural projects in Malawian AIDS proverbs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nicole C. Hayes --- Department of Anthropology, CanadaThis paper examines three Malawian proverbs about AIDS: “AIDS came for people”, “Dying is dying, that's all” and “It's in the flour”. Proverbs permit Malawians to discuss the otherwise taboo topic of AIDS because they offer a special register and... -
Reckoning HIV/AIDS care: A longitudinal study of community home-based caregivers and clients in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Robin Root --- Department of Sociology & Anthropology, USA Arnau Van Wyngaard --- Department of Science of Religion and Missiology, South Africa Alan Whiteside --- CIGI Chair in Global Health Policy, CanadaThe article is a descriptive case study of a community home-based care (CHBC) organisation in Swaziland that depicts the convergence of CHBC expansion with substantially improved health outcomes. Comprised of 993 care supporters who tend to 3 839 clients in... -
Patriarchal influences on the lives of African adolescent girls from child-headed households
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Charmaine Leatham --- Department of Educational Psychology and South African Research Chair in Education and Care in Childhood, Faculty of Education, South Africa Jace Pillay --- Department of Educational Psychology and South African Research Chair in Education and Care in Childhood, Faculty of Education, South Africa Helen Dunbar-Krige --- Department of Educational Psychology and South African Research Chair in Education and Care in Childhood, Faculty of Education, South AfricaThis study examined the gendered experiences of patriarchal family life by adolescent girls from a low socio-economic status (SES) neighbourhood in South Africa. The informants were nine girls from an urban setting, three of whom were from child-headed homes. The... -
The Kenyan Consumer-Reader: Gender, Consumption, and Grace Ogot's Crisis of Authorship
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ariel Bookman --- English Department,Grace Ogot has been lauded for advancing equality for African women in her writing. However her contributions to crucial debates about African authorship and readership have not yet been acknowledged. In her English-language fiction, Ogot addressed her readers as consumers,... -
Outcome of cholera admissions in Bauchi, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: Philip Kolo --- Department of Medicine, Nigeria Yusaf Jibrin --- Department of Medicine, Nigeria Emmanuel Sanya --- Department of Medicine, Nigeria Muhammad Alkali --- Department of Medicine, Nigeria Alakija Salami --- Department of Medicine, Nigeria Ayodele Omotoso --- Department of Medicine, Nigeria Abdulrahman Tahir --- Department of Medicine, NigeriaIn 2007, the World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa officially noted the resurgence of cholera in the Africa subregion, and called for strengthening of policies on water supply and sanitation. We study the mortality profile of patients admitted for... -
Making meaning in the time of AIDS: longitudinal narratives from the Malawi Journals Project
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Amy Kaler --- Department of Sociology and School of Public Health, Canada Susan Cotts Watkins --- California Center for Population Research, USA Nicole Angotti --- Department of Sociology and Center on Health, Risk and Society, USAThe Malawi Journals Project is one of the longest-running observational field studies in rural sub-Saharan Africa, ongoing since 1999. The journals provide real-time accounts of the unfolding epidemic, from the days when AIDS was considered by rural Malawians to be... -
The relationship between collective action and serious illness in western Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jane K Njuguna --- Save The Children, USA Andrew M Muriuki --- Save The Children, USABy 2012 HIV had infected about 1.6 million Kenyans and an estimated 58 000 had died due to HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS rates in western Kenya are disproportionately high compared to the rate in Kenya as a whole. This study aimed to... -
Factorial invariance of the Rahim emotional quotient index
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Martina Kotzé --- Business School, University of the Free State, South Africa Petrus Nel --- Department of Industrial Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated the degree of factorial invariance of the 30-item Rahim Emotional Quotient Index (REQI) (Afzalur Rahim et al., 2002) across gender and language, using multiple group confirmatory factor analysis. Respondents were 341 full-time employed applicants to programmes in... -
Oral histories of HIV/AIDS support group members, NGO workers and home-based carers in KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Philippe Denis --- School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, South AfricaThe purpose of this paper is to bring to the attention of the AIDS research community the existence of an oral history project known as the Memories of AIDS Project. The project focused on HIV/AIDS support group members, non-governmental organisation... -
Gender inequality dynamics in the prevention of a heterosexual HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jane Wathuta --- School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThis paper critiques the approach to the elimination of gender inequality as an HIV prevention strategy in the just ended era of the Millennium Development Goals, with the aim of contributing to the formulation of policy guidelines for sub-Saharan Africa... -
Sex in troubled times: moral panic, polyamory and freedom in north-west Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Steven Van Wolputte --- Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa, BelgiumIn Namibia, early missionaries among the Herero were intrigued by the important role of the matriclan, as it did not fit their ideals of a pastoral society. Despite their obsession with female sexuality, metonymically expressed in concerns over political organisation... -
Sustainable hospitality and tourism at different ages: Women’s and men’s attitudes in Italy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Alessandra Fermani --- Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, Luigi Bertelli Campus, Macerata, Italy Isabella Crespi --- Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, Luigi Bertelli Campus, Macerata, Italy Flavia Stara --- Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, Luigi Bertelli Campus, Macerata, ItalyFuture tourism experiences will be more oriented towards eco-friendly destinations and dictated by responsible lifestyles, as shown by the Travel Trends Report and UNWTO report. Many studies confirm that the number of travellers looking for accommodation that ensures greater respect... -
Measurement invariance across gender and ethnicity on the Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Casper J. J. Van Zyl --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated the measurement invariance of the Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0 across gender and ethnic groups in South Africa. The sample consisted of 1 144 working adults (female = 49.8%. black = 36.2%, white = 29.8%; other = 34%;... -
Determinants of obesity in an urban township of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: R Malhotra --- Department of Community and Family Medicine, USA C Hoyo --- Department of Community and Family Medicine, USA T Østbye --- Department of Community and Family Medicine, USA G Hughes --- Departments of Family Medicine and Surgery, Brody School of Medicine, USA D Schwartz --- Department of Community and Family Medicine, USA L Tsolekile --- School of Public Health, South Africa J Zulu --- School of Public Health, South Africa T Puoane --- School of Public Health, South AfricaObjective: To estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity, and identify factors associated with Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) among adults residing in an urban township in South Africa. -
Choice in HIV testing: the acceptability and anticipated use of a self-administered at-home oral HIV test among South Africans
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elizabeth A Kelvin --- City University New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, USA Sonia Cheruvillil --- City University New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, USA Stephanie Christian --- City University New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, USA Joanne E Mantell --- Division of Gender, Health and Sexuality, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, USA Cecilia Milford --- MatCH Research (Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, South Africa Letitia Rambally-Greener --- MatCH Research (Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, South Africa Nzwakie Mosery --- MatCH Research (Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, South Africa Ross Greener --- MatCH Research (Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, South Africa Jennifer A Smit --- MatCH Research (Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, South AfricaCombination HIV prevention is being widely promoted by funders. This strategy aims to offer HIV prevention choices that can be selected and combined to decrease HIV risk in ways that fit with each individual’s situation. Treatment as prevention and pre-exposure... -
Tackling gender inequalities and intimate partner violence in the response to HIV: moving towards effective interventions in Southern and Eastern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Andrew Gibbs --- Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South AfricaEnding intimate partner violence (IPV) and reducing gender inequalities are recognised as critical to “‘ending AIDS” by 2030. Amongst women, experiencing IPV has been shown to increase HIV acquisition, reduce women’s ability to use HIV prevention strategies and reduce adherence... -
True height and variability in estimates thereof across race and gender
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Christen Lahner --- Discipline of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Susanna Kassier --- Discipline of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness, Faculty of Science and Agriculture,Although standing height is the ideal indicator of a subject’s true height, numerous internal and external factors can have an effect on its accuracy. These factors include measurement error, the clinical environment, growth and a secular change in growth, and... -
Church representatives’ perspectives on masculinities in the context of HIV: the case of the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Hendrew G Lusey --- World Council of Churches, The Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo Monica Christianson --- Department of Nursing, Sweden Miguel San Sebastian --- Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Sweden Kerstin E Edin --- Department of Nursing, SwedenDespite a growing body of literature related to church leaders challenging dominant norms of masculinities that may enable the spread of HIV, research on masculinity issues among African church representatives who are policy makers is scarce. The objectives of this... -
Advancing gender equality to improve HIV prevention: A study of practice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jenevieve Mannell --- Institute for Global Health, University College London, United KingdomAddressing gender inequality as a social driver of HIV risk and vulnerability has become a key activity of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in South Africa. This paper sheds light on the environmental factors that influence gender and HIV activities in this... -
Factorial invariance and latent mean differences of the Beck Depression Inventory – second edition (BDI-II) across gender in South African university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Malose Makhubela --- Department of Psychology, Legesse Kassa Debusho --- Department of Statistics,This study examined the measurement invariance of scores from the BDI-II as well as the differences in latent mean scores by gender. Participants were 919 South African university students (females = 72%). They completed the BDI-II, which is a measure... -
Women entrepreneurship in developing countries: A European example
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Ina Beqo --- Graduate Stenden MA in International Service Management, Sjoerd A. Gehrels --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University, The NetherlandsThis research investigates women small business entrepreneurship in Albania. The purpose is to provide contextual information to potential future (women) entrepreneurs about how to get into business and overcome challenges. The 11 interviewed Albanian women entrepreneurs explain how they survive... -
Sustainable hospitality and tourism at different ages: Women’s and men’s attitudes in Italy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Alessandra Fermani --- Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Italy Isabella Crespi --- Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Italy Flavia Stara --- Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, ItalyFuture tourism experiences will be more oriented towards eco-friendly destinations and dictated by responsible lifestyles, as shown by the Travel Trends Report and UNWTO report. Many studies confirm that the number of travellers looking for accommodation that ensures greater respect... -
Personal factor effects on authentic leadership
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Martina Kotzé --- UFS Business School, South Africa Petrus Nel --- Department of Industrial Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored the relationship between authentic leadership and personal factors of emotional intelligence (EI), personality, cognitive abilities and gender. The convenience sample of respondents included 341 employees, and prospective students in an advanced leadership education programme at a South... -
Presence, Agency and Popularity: Kenyan “Socialites”, Femininities and Digital Media
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Dina Ligaga --- Department of Media Studies, South AfricaRepresentations and self-representations in new digital cultures have complicated readings of gender and sexuality in the media in increasingly interesting ways. This article explores such representations, focusing on two well-known figures in the Kenyan tabloid media, Vera Sidika and Huddah... -
Love grows with sex: teenagers negotiating sex and gender in the context of HIV and the implications for sex education
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Deevia Bhana --- School of Education, South AfricaHow do teenagers located in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, the epicentre of the HIV pandemic, give meaning to sexuality? This paper examines teenage black Africans investments in sex and sexuality and the gendered dynamics through which sexuality is... -
Reparative sexual orientation therapy effects on gay sexual identities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jaco Van Zyl --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Kathryn Nel --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Saraswathie Govender --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe study explored gay males’ identities and experiences with sexual reparative therapy. The sample consisted of five white Christian males (age range 24 – 41 years), who responded to a semi-structured interview on their self-identity with reparative therapy. Interpretative Phenomenological... -
Experiences and Challenges of Women Leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Angela Titi Amayah --- Business Management Economics, USA MD Haque --- Managing Director, USAThere is little research on non-Western women managers and leaders in general, and on African women in particular. More attention could be given to influences that shape leadership experiences in order to better understand African women leadership practices. The purpose... -
On reading about Lola Fine’s night on the town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Graeme Reid --- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Programme, USAThis is a commentary on Lindy-Lee Prince’s photographic essay about gender and drag featuring Cape Town performance artist Lola Fine. -
The dimensionality of disclosure of HIV status amongst post-partum women in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jo Hunter-Adams --- Health Economics Unit, Public Health and Family Medicine, South Africa Allison Zerbe --- ICAP, USA Tamsin Philips --- Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Research, Public Health and Family Medicine, South Africa Zanele Rini --- Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Research, Public Health and Family Medicine, South Africa Landon Myer --- Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Research, Public Health and Family Medicine, South Africa Greg Petro --- Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, South Africa Elaine Abrams --- ICAP, Mailman School of Public Health and College of Physicians and Surgeons, USADisclosure of HIV status to sexual partners and others has been presented as positive health behaviour and is widely encouraged by antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes, providers and policies. However, disclosure is also highly contextual and its positive effects are not... -
The relationship between Nairobi adolescents’ media use and their sexual beliefs and attitudes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ann Neville Miller --- Nicholson School of Communication, USA William Kinnally --- Nicholson School of Communication, USA Hellen Maleche --- Communication Department, Kenya Nancy Achieng’ Booker --- Graduate School of Media and Communications, KenyaAdolescents in sub-Saharan Africa are at risk for contracting HIV. Although media campaigns have educated the population as a whole, few studies are available about the time sub-Saharan African youth spend listening to and viewing sexual messages via the entertainment... -
Gender roles and decision making among isiXhosa-speaking adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Andile Alfred Mdikana --- Department of Inclusive Education, School of Educational Studies, South AfricaThis exploratory study examined gender roles and decision making among isiXhosa-speaking adolescents. Participants were a non-probability sample of 40 Grade 12 learners (females = 50%; aged between 17 and 24 years). Data were collected using identity status interviews and analysed... -
Constrained relationship agency as the risk factor for intimate partner violence in different models of transactional sex
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Rebecca Fielding-Miller --- Department of Medicine, USA Kristin Dunkle --- South African Medical Research Council, South AfricaWomen who engage in transactional sex are more likely to experience intimate partner violence (IPV) and are at higher risk of HIV. However, women engage in transactional sex for a variety of reasons and the precise mechanism linking transactional sex... -
Gendered childcare norms — evidence from rural Swaziland to inform innovative structural HIV prevention approaches for young women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Pinky N Shabangu --- Independent community-based researcher, Swaziland Michelle R Brear --- Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, AustraliaAddressing discriminatory gender norms is a prerequisite for preventing HIV in women, including young women. However, the gendered expectation that women will perform unpaid childcare-related labour is rarely conceptualised as influencing their HIV risk. Our aim was to learn from... -
The gendered experiences of children in child-headed households in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nozipho Mkhatshwa --- National Emergency Response Council on HIV and AIDS (NERCHA) Swaziland – Response Leadership and Partnerships, SwazilandThis study investigated the gender dynamics of living in child-headed households (CHHs) in a rural area in Swaziland that experiences high levels of drought, poverty and HIV and AIDS. Using a qualitative research methodology, the study examined ways in which... -
Interventions and pathways for South African women in engineering and the built environment professions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Christianah O. Ijagbemi --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South Africa Mukondeleli G. Kanakana --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South Africa Harold M. Campbell --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South AfricaWomen engineers are known to be very resourceful, result-oriented, committed and hardworking. The low participation of women in engineering and the built environment professions has been taking its toll on the economic and infrastructural development of South Africa. The practice... -
Academic self-confidence effects on test anxiety among Nigerian university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Abiodun Musbau Lawal --- Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, South Africa Erhabor Sunday Idemudia --- Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, South Africa Omotola Peter Adewale --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, NigeriaThe study investigated academic self-confidence effects on test anxiety indicators of performance impairment and intrusive worry. Respondents were 206 Nigerian undergraduate students (mean age = 20.29, SD = 2. 22; female = 43.2%). The students took the Westside Test Anxiety... -
Farm worker identities contested and reimagined: gender, race/ethnicity and nationality in the post-strike moment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Åsa Eriksson --- Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, SwedenIn 2012/2013, widespread rural unrest — commonly referred to as the “farm worker strike” — broke out in the Western Cape, South Africa. This exposed not only poor salaries and working conditions, but also the disparity between representations of farm... -
Retrospective clinical analysis of adverse drug reactions associated with antiretroviral therapy in Tlokwe district, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Rentia van Graan --- Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences (PharmaCen), Division of Pharmacology, South Africa Michelle Viljoen --- Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences (PharmaCen), Division of Pharmacology, South Africa Malie Rheeders --- Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences (PharmaCen), Division of Pharmacology, South Africa Fadeela Motara --- Potchefstroom Hospital, Pharmacy, South AfricaBackground: South Africa has the highest number of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) globally. Various obstacles were identified that influence effective reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in resource-limited countries. This investigation aimed to identify, classify and analyse the prevalence... -
Gender dimensions in the local chicken value chain in northern Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: I. Akite --- Department of Agribusiness and Rural Development, Uganda I. P. Aryemo --- Department of Agribusiness and Rural Development, Uganda E. K. Kule --- Department of Agribusiness and Rural Development, Uganda B. Mugonola --- Department of Agribusiness and Rural Development, Uganda D. R. Kugonza --- Department of Agricultural Production, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Uganda M. W. Okot --- Department of Animal Production and Range Management, UgandaThe study was conducted to explore gender dimensions in the local chicken value chain in northern Uganda. Specifically, it focused on characterizing local chicken value chain actors, ascertaining level and determinants of gender participation as well as relationships between gender,... -
Emotional intelligence and aggression among South African adolescents: Preliminary evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Wandile F. Tsabedze --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Mokoena P. Maepa --- Department of Clinical Psychology, South Africa Refilwe Gloria Pila–Nemutandani --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaWe investigated gender differences in emotional intelligence and aggression among South African adolescents. Four hundred and forty-four adolescents (female =51.4 %; mean age =15.5 years, SD= 1.42 years; rural residence = 35.5%, urban residence = 65.5%) completed an emotional intelligence... -
Exploring the links between gender, dwelling, and career orientations of African emerging adults
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tshepo Matjie --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Melinde Coetzee --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThe study explored the socio-ecological (i.e. gender and geographical location) influences on the career orientations of emerging adults. The participants comprised a convenience sample of 159 black African South African university students (57% rural, 43% urban; 63% females, 37% males;... -
Socioeconomic dynamics of the Ghanaian tuna industry: a value-chain approach to understanding aspects of global fisheries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: E Drury O’Neill --- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden NK Asare --- Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Ghana DW Aheto --- Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, GhanaThis study investigated how an industrial tuna fishery functions in terms of procedures, practices, governance and finance in the context of Ghana, West Africa. Tuna is Ghana’s biggest seafood export, contributing significantly to the domestic fisheries sector. A case-study approach... -
Female authorship in major endocrinology journals: a 25-year progression
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Wadei Elhakimi --- Department of Medicine, Saudi Arabia Ahmed Al Othman --- Department of Medicine, Saudi Arabia Mazen El Yahia --- Department of Medicine, Saudi Arabia Amal Al Dawood --- Department of Medicine, Saudi Arabia Sarah Al Sadiq --- Department of Medicine, Saudi Arabia Mahmoud Mosli --- Department of Medicine, Saudi Arabia Turki Al Ameel --- Division of Gastroenterology, Saudi ArabiaContext: The number of women in academic medicine has increased significantly in recent years. However, female authors are underrepresented in major medical journals. -
Tuberculosis, staring, love and loneliness: Flavia’s story
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Pieter du Plessis --- Department of Social Anthropology, South Africa Siv Tshefu --- Department of Social Anthropology, South Africa Flavia Nazier --- Research participant, South AfricaThis photo essay emanates from research conducted in 2017 that focused on the life histories of transgender sex workers in Cape Town who have had tuberculosis (TB). The aim was to capture the experiences of the disease from an anthropological... -
Beyond risk and vulnerability: a commentary on “TB, staring, love and loneliness: Flavia’s story”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Alex Müller --- Gender Health and Justice Research Unit, South AfricaThis article comments on the photo essay “TB, Staring, Love and Loneliness: Flavia’s Story” by Pieter du Plessis, Siv Tshefu and Flavia Nazier, published in the same issue. It contextualizes the essay and Flavia’s story against the historical and contemporary... -
When life's good: Gendered marital satisfaction and work-pay satisfaction influences on organisational commitment of advancement-career-stage employees
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Chibuzor Uchenna Onuoha --- Population & Health Research Entity, Faculty of the Human Sciences, South Africa Erhabor Sunday Idemudia --- Population & Health Research Entity, Faculty of the Human Sciences, South AfricaWe examined the influences of marital satisfaction and work-pay satisfaction on organisational commitment among advancement-career-stage employees while controlling for gender and a selection of socio-demographics. The sample consisted of 350 workers (females = 237; mean age = 32.44, SD =... -
Age categories and corresponding gender characteristics of five Crested Francolin subspecies (genus Dendroperdix)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Johann H van Niekerk --- Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, South AfricaFifty-five Crested Francolins, Dendroperdix sephaena sephaena, were trapped, marked, retrapped and observed from 1984 to 1988 to assess and describe gender and age criteria based on morphological measurements and plumage characteristics on the farm La Boheme (Rustenburg, North West province,... -
The relation between low self-esteem and depressive mood in a non-clinical sample: The role of gender and negative life events
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Malose Makhubela --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe suggestion that self-esteem is both a protective and a risk factor for depression is well documented. However, this association is not consistently observed by empirical research. The current study investigated the main and interactive effects of low self-esteem and... -
Wives’ career progression among dual-career ethno-cultural couples: Husbands’ perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sumaiyah Fuad Mohamed --- Department of Human Resource Management, South AfricaThis study explored the perspectives of husbands regarding the participation of their wives in professional occupations. The participants included nine South African Indian men in dual-career marriages (ages ranging from 25 to 54 years old). The completed semi-structured, life-story interviews... -
Kun Coo Kun Coo – Men for Men and the Curse in a Blessing: Gender and the Orature of War and Peace among the Acholi of Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Betty J. Okot --- Independent scholar, UgandaThe Acholi of Uganda are part of the greater Luo nation that migrated along the River Nile into East Africa. Taking ethnographic and qualitative approaches, I illustrate that Acholi orality comprises two main genera namely: oral anthology of factual narratives... -
Gender-sensitive training for substance use disorder treatment: Results and implications of a pilot health professionals needs assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Liezille Jacobs --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThis study explored mental health practitioner training needs in gender-sensitive substance use disorder (SUD) counselling genderqueer populations. Informants were health professionals in SUD practices and from the Eastern Cape, South Africa (females = 75%; black = 90%, 10% = white,... -
Gendered adversity and mental health of adolescents orphaned by AIDS in a rural South African community: An exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mokoena P. Maepa --- Clinical Psychology Department, South Africa Oluyinka Ojedokun --- Department of Pure & Applied Psychology, Nigeria Erhabor S. Idemudia --- School of Postgraduate Studies, South Africa Palesa Morubane --- Clinical Psychology Department, Vryburg Hospital, South AfricaThis study explored gender differences in adversity and mental health among South African adolescents orphaned by AIDS. Adolescents (N = 121; females = 45.5%; mean age 14.14 years, SD = 2.09) self-reported their childhood adversities and probable mental ill health... -
Gender Representation in Simba and Yanga’s Joking Cartoons in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Shani Omari --- Institute of Kiswahili Studies, United Republic of TanzaniaSimba and Yanga are popular soccer teams in Tanzania and are known as long-time joking partners. Several cartoons have emerged in relation to their joking relationship. This paper examines how gender is represented in the joking cartoons between these two... -
Profiling work-related signature strengths of “Born Free” South Africans: A gender perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ita Geyser --- Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management (STH), South Africa Madelyn Geldenhuys --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management (IPPM), South AfricaThis study investigated the importance of signature strengths of South African trainees in the hospitality industry who are the “Born Free” generation, who have only lived in a democracy, and were given equal opportunities. Utilising a cross-sectional research design, we... -
Social networks, gender and HIV within marriages in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Roseanne Njiru --- Department of Sociology and Social Work, KenyaGender inequalities drive the HIV risk within marriages in Kenya, yet strategies to combat the spread of HIV are limited by their emphasis on the individual or dyadic relationship rather than the wider social-cultural relations that shape gender relations within... -
Customers' loyalty to tablet commerce in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Sunday Adewale Olaleye --- Department of Marketing, Management, and International Business, Finland Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi --- School of Educational Services and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Fanning Stephen Mark --- School of Business and Law, Australia Jari Salo --- Department of Economics and management, FinlandConsumers' use of a variety of devices, for example desktops, laptops, tablets, and/or smartphones to conduct intelligent site searches, is advancing mobile commerce. Consumers' choice of devices to use depends largely on their perceptions of value. Given the importance of... -
Undermining gender: women mineworkers at the rock face in a Zambian underground mine
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: James Musonda --- , BelgiumThis article examines how women’s increased employment in the stereotypically masculine domain of large-scale underground mining affect gender stereotypes and cultural expectations in the Zambian Copperbelt. Based on three years of ethnographic research under and above the ground, it responds... -
Media images and the gendered representation of chefs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Beverly (Shih-Yun) Chen --- , New Zealand Alison McIntosh --- , New Zealand Candice Harris --- , New Zealand Warren Goodsir --- , New ZealandImages portrayed in online media may influence societal perceptions of chefs, with the potential to perpetuate gender segregation in the professional kitchen. Little scholarly attention in previous research has been given to the examination of gender and images in hospitality... -
Lady Kennaway: A ship story
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Phindi Mnyaka --- , South AfricaMy paper is a meditation on the performativity of history writing and uses the case of the ship, Lady Kennaway, as a point of departure. Lady Kennaway was a 19th century ship whose last voyage included transporting young women to... -
Raising the bar? Top management teams, gender diversity, and environmental sustainability
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Edward M. Mungai --- , Kenya S. Wagura Ndiritu --- , Kenya Tazeeb Rajwani --- , UKThis study examines how female board directors and top managers may influence an organization’s decision to adopt ISO 14001. Upper Echelon Theory (UET) argues that an organization’s outcomes are based on the decisions made by its directors and managers, who... -
Barriers to the success of female leaders in the hospitality industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Martina Deiana --- , the Netherlands Chiara Fabbri --- , the NetherlandsThis research analyses gender equality in the hospitality industry in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In particular, this quantitative study focuses on women who could potentially occupy a senior management position, and therefore the aim of this research is to... -
“Out there it’s YOLO”: Youth perspectives on a mass media HIV- and gender-based violence campaign in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Gavin Robert Walker --- , ChinaGender-based violence continues to be a leading determinant of South Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. As such, gender socialisation and de-normalisation of gender inequality and violence remain principal objectives for public health organisations. This article discusses youth reception of a mass media... -
‘I just want to live’: A case study exploring separation abuse among women in heterosexual relationships
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Samantha-Sue Johnson --- , South Africa Duane D. Booysen --- , South AfricaIntimate partner violence is a public health and human rights concern. We aimed to explore the lived experiences of women survivors of separation abuse. Our informants were four South African women who experienced separation abuse by a partner. The women... -
Sexual harassment as perceived and experienced by male and female restaurant employees
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Andreea-Stefania Baltag --- , the Netherlands Melanie Bosman --- , the Netherlands Andrea Bravo Wilson --- , the Netherlands Joanne Huismans --- , the Netherlands Wichard Zwaal --- , the NetherlandsThe purpose of this study was to gain knowledge about sexual harassment as perceived and experienced by male and female restaurant employees. The research was carried out by using an online survey and five interviews. The 137 participants of the... -
Effectiveness of the Sista2Sista programme in improving HIV and other sexual and reproductive health outcomes among vulnerable adolescent girls and young women in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Gemma Oberth --- , South Africa Tamisayi Chinhengo --- , South Africa Tendayi Katsande --- , Zimbabwe Rudo Mhonde --- , Zimbabwe Dagmar Hanisch --- , Zimbabwe Pennelope Kasere --- , Zimbabwe Beverley Chihumela --- , Zimbabwe Bernard Madzima --- , ZimbabweBackground: In Zimbabwe, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) experience high rates of HIV and other sexual and reproductive health challenges. In 2013, the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care partnered with the United Nations Population Fund to implement... -
Examining leadership preferences of working adults in Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: W. Randy Evans --- , USA Romie Frederick Littrell --- , Russian Federation Nai H. Lamb --- , USA Bradley Kirkman --- , USADo traditional, gender-based expectations and widely disseminated notions of African culture apply to preferred leadership behaviors in African nations? This study examines leadership preferences of working adults in Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia using the Leader behavior Description Questionnaire-XII (LBDQXII), a... -
Evaluation of a masculinity and gender equality intervention for primary school boys
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Maretha Visser --- , South AfricaInterventions to promote gender equality with children should focus on constructive perceptions of masculinity. This study aimed to evaluate a brief intervention to promote constructive gender perspectives among South African primary school boys. Participants were Grade five boys attending 10... -
Cumulative risk and school bullying experiences: Effects of moral disengagement and gender
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Huai-Bin Jiang --- , China Hui-Ling Zhou --- , China Bin Zhang --- , China Han-Yu Liang --- , China Jing-Jing Lian --- , China Yang-Yu Zhang --- , ChinaWe examined the mediation effect of moral disengagement in the association between children’s cumulative risk and high experience of school bullying. Additionally, we determined whether this mediating process was moderated by gender. A sample of 509 Chinese adolescent school students... -
Coalescing intellectual property incentives, gender inclusiveness and environmental sustainability for female traditional healers in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ofonmbuk Esther Ekong --- , NigeriaThe prevalence of women in the knowledge-based enterprise of traditional healing underscores the role of women in sustainable development. The World Health Organization (WHO) finds that about three quarters of the world’s population depend upon traditional remedies for their health... -
Low acceptance of intimate partner violence by pregnant women in Uganda predicts higher uptake of HIV self-testing among their male partners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Caroline J Vrana-Diaz --- , USA Jeffrey E Korte --- , USA Mulugeta Gebregziabher --- , USA Lauren Richey --- , USA Anbesaw Selassie --- , USA Michael Sweat --- , USA Rose Kisa --- , Uganda William Musoke --- , Uganda Harriet Chemusto --- , Uganda Esther Buregyeya --- , Uganda Joseph KB Matovu --- , Uganda Rhoda K Wanyenze --- , UgandaIntroduction: Heterosexual couples are at high risk for HIV acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa, and HIV self-testing (HST) is an additional approach to expand access to HIV testing services. However, it is not well known how gender equality is associated with... -
HIV self-testing may overcome stigma and other barriers to HIV testing among higher-socioeconomic status men in Botswana: A qualitative study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Laura M Bogart --- , USA Keonayang Kgotlaetsile --- , Botswana Nthabiseng Phaladze --- , Botswana Mosepele Mosepele --- , BotswanaIn Botswana, HIV prevalence is 20.3% among those between 15 and 49 years old, and in sub-Saharan Africa, higher income has been associated with increased HIV risk. We qualitatively explored barriers to HIV testing and acceptability of HIV self-testing (HIVST)... -
Role of clinical laboratories in reporting results of transgender individuals on hormonal therapy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: B Phiri-Ramongane --- , South Africa AA Khine --- , South AfricaTransgender individuals experience discordance between their gender identity and sex assigned at birth. To relieve the disconnection between their identity and their biological state, some may take hormonal therapy, which leads to notable changes in several laboratory results. As reference... -
Women offenders’ experiences of rehabilitation in a South African correctional centre
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sibulelo Qhogwana --- , South Africa Puleng Segalo --- , South AfricaThis study explored gendered rehabilitation of women in correctional spaces and the systems and structures that recreate inequities in women’s incarceration experiences. Eighteen black women completed in-depth interviews on their offender rehabilitation experiences. Their age ranged from 23 to 69... -
Profiling gendered multidimensional poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kehinde O. Omotoso --- , South Africa Jimi Adesina --- , South Africa Ololade G. Adewole --- , NigeriaReducing the gender gap in poverty remains a priority for South African policymakers. Using the 2018 General Households Survey (GHS), this paper examines gendered multidimensional poverty in post-apartheid South Africa. The analyses draw on Alkire-Foster multidimensional poverty methodology to present... -
“Becoming a somebody”: mobility, patronage and reconfiguration of transactional sexual relationships in postcolonial Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rufaro H. Mushonga --- , Zimbabwe Vupenyu Dzingirai --- , ZimbabweThe article explores the many ways in which Zimbabwean women married to Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Harare reconfigure transactional sexual relationships to further their own ends. Drawing on postcolonial feminism and based on a qualitative ethnographic inquiry, the article highlights... -
Why and to Where does Ajany Run? Culture and Femininity in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Esther K. Mbithi --- , Kenya Julia Njeri Karumba --- , KenyaLaunched around the time Kenya was marking fifty years of independence, Yvonne Owuor’s Dust has been described as a ‘cultural inheritance.’ It portrays a collection of colourful characters who laugh at themselves in their search for some sense of belonging... -
Experiences of black African women entrepreneurs in the South African male-dominated entrepreneurial environments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Dineo Diale --- , South Africa Nasima M. Carrim --- , South AfricaIn the current study, we examined how culture, gendered roles, and societal expectations shape South African black African women’s entrepreneurial experiences in male dominated entrepreneurial environments. Utilising a life story technique approach, we interviewed 12 Black African women entrepreneurs regarding... -
Lessons learnt from UNAIDS virtual technical support to countries applying for funding from the Global Fund COVID-19 Response Mechanism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Arlette Campbell White --- , United Kingdom Marc Péchevis --- , United Kingdom Adriana Jimenez Cuen --- , SwitzerlandIn 2020 the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria initiated a new funding modality, the COVID-19 Response Mechanism, to mitigate the pandemic’s effects on HIV, TB and malaria programmes and health systems in implementer countries. In 2021 UNAIDS introduced... -
Flourishing versus languishing amongst female academics during the national lockdown in South Africa: “Sink or swim” lived work lives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Christine Janse van Rensburg --- , South Africa Christel Marais --- , South AfricaWe investigated the lived workplace flourishing of South African female academics applying an interpretative phenomenological approach. Informants were female academic employees, ranging in ages from 32 to 58 years, within a university of technology. Most of the participants (60%) were... -
Modern family on the Zambian Copperbelt
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: James Musonda --- University of Liège, BelgiumThe family model promoted amongst Zambian mineworkers since the colonial period was based on a male breadwinner and a female housewife. This article examines the family dynamics in a context in contemporary Zambia of growing employment precariousness, declining incomes for... -
The effects of COVID-19 on food insecurity, financial vulnerability and housing insecurity among women and girls living with or at risk of HIV in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Erik Lamontagne --- , Switzerland Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Olujide Arije --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Amaka Enemo --- , Nigeria Aaron Sunday --- , Nigeria Amira Muhammad --- Northern Nigerian Transgender Initiative, Nigeria Hasiya Yunusa Nyako --- , Nigeria Rilwan Mohammed Abdullah --- , Nigeria Henry Okiwu --- , Nigeria Veronica Akwenabuaye Undelikwo --- University of Calabar, Nigeria Pamela Adaobi Ogbozor --- Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria Oluwaranmilowo Amusan --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Oluwatoyin Adedoyin Alaba --- Obafemi Awolowo University, NigeriaAim : Women and girls living with or at high risk of acquiring HIV (WGL&RHIV) in Africa are economically vulnerable. This study aims to advance understanding of the economic impact of COVID-19 on WGL&RHIV and to identify the factors associated... -
Associations between COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and the experience of violence among women and girls living with and at risk of HIV in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Olujide Arije --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Amaka Enemo --- , Nigeria Aaron Sunday --- , Nigeria Amira Muhammad --- Northern Nigerian Transgender Initiative, Nigeria Hasiya Yunusa Nyako --- , Nigeria Rilwan Mohammed Abdullah --- , Nigeria Henry Okiwu --- , Nigeria Erik Lamontagne --- , SwitzerlandAim : Women and girls living with and at high risk of HIV (WGL&RHIV) had an increased risk for gender-based violence (GBV) during COVID-19. The study aimed to assess the associations between vaccine hesitancy and GBV, HIV status and psychological... -
Understanding the role of men in women's use of the vaginal ring and oral PrEP during pregnancy and breastfeeding: multi-stakeholder perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Petina Musara --- University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Miriam Hartmann --- , USA Julia H Ryan --- , USA Krishnaveni Reddy --- Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Joseph Ggita --- Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration, Makerere University, Uganda Prisca Mutero --- University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Nicole Macagna --- , USA Frank Taulo --- University of Malawi, Malawi Nyaradzo M Mgodi --- University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Jeanna Piper --- , USA Ariane van der Straten --- University of California San Francisco, USAWe examined men’s influence on women’s interest in biomedical HIV prevention during pregnancy and breastfeeding through structured questionnaires and focus group discussions with currently or recently pregnant and breastfeeding (P/BF) women (n = 65), men with P/BF partners (n =... -
Slow repair: gender and restorative justice in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Shannon Morreira --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaThis article reports on a ceremony gone awry at Kufunda Village, Zimbabwe, in which women had refused to follow a gendered cultural script of forgiveness and had instead released rather than slaughtered a chicken. They thus reinscribed old symbols with... -
Gender and HIV/AIDS impact mitigation in sub-Saharan Africa — recognising the constraints
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Janet Seeley --- Gender and Development, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Rachel Grellier --- Options Consultancy Services, Tony Barnett --- Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science,In discussions of gender and HIV/AIDS, attention has focused on prevention. This is a vital area. However, we argue that there is also a need to focus more attention on the resulting impact of the epidemic, because inequalities that promote... -
Alcohol abuse, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in Botswana: establishing the link based on empirical evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Odireleng Phorano --- Department of Social Work, University of Botswana, Keitseope Nthomang --- Department of Social Work, University of Botswana, Dolly Ntseane --- Department of Social Work, University of Botswana,The existence of gender-based violence has been a source of concern within the public and private sectors as well as civil society organisations in Botswana. The present study investigated the link between alcohol abuse, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. Further, it... -
Social constructions of gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in two communities of the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Anna Strebel --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Mary Crawford --- Psychology Department, University of Conneticut, USA Tamara Shefer --- Women and Gender Studies Programme, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Allanise Cloete --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Nomvo Dwadwa-Henda --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Michelle Kaufman --- University of Conneticut, USA Leickness Simbayi --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme, Kgobati Magome --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Seth Kalichman --- Psychology Department, University of Conneticut, USAThe links between gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS risk are complex and culturally specific. In this qualitative study we investigated how women and men in two black communities in the Western Cape, South Africa, constructed their gender identities and... -
Using VCT statistics from Kenya in understanding the association between gender and HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Kennedy Otwombe --- University of the Witwatersrand, Ndindi Mutisya --- Policy and Performance Department, Liverpool VCT, Care & Treatment (LVCT), Kenya Carolyne Ajema --- Liverpool VCT, Care & Treatment (LVCT), Kenya John Wanyungu --- National HIV/AIDS and STI Control Program, Ministry of Health, KenyaThis paper demonstrates the importance of utilising official statistics from the voluntary counselling and testing centres (VCT) to determine the association between gender and HIV infection rates in Kenya. The study design adopted was a record based survey of data... -
Perceptions of acceptability and utility of microbicides in Ghana, West Africa: A qualitative, exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Amanda E Tanner --- Section of Adolescent Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine,Vaginal microbicides, substances that may substantially decrease transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STI) including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are currently in clinical trials. They are being presented as woman-initiated prevention methods that have the potential to be used without partners'... -
HIV-related needs for safety among male-to-female transsexuals (mak nyah) in Malaysia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Yik Koon Teh --- Faculty of Human and Social Development, University Utara, MalaysiaThis research, commissioned by the Malaysian AIDS Council in 2007, is qualitative and descriptive in nature. In depth face-to-face interviews were carried out with 15 mak nyah respondents from five major towns. The interviews were guided by an interview schedule... -
Gender differences regarding barriers and motivators of HIV status disclosure among HIV-positive service users
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Kebede Deribe --- , Ethiopia Kifle Woldemichael --- Department of Epidemiology, Jimma University, Bernard Joseph Njau --- Department of Community Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Bereket Yakob --- NASTAD Global Programme, Ethiopia Sibhatu Biadgilign --- John Hopkins University-Technical Support for the Ethiopian HIV/AIDS ART Initiative, Alemayehu Amberbir --- Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham,There are inconsistent findings about the relation between gender and HIV status disclosure. We conducted a facility-based cross-sectional study, using qualitative and quantitative data collection methods, to explore gender differences in HIV-positive status disclosure among service users in south-west Ethiopia... -
A qualitative exploration of HIV-positive pregnant women's decision-making regarding abortion in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Phyllis Orner --- Women's Health Research Unit in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Maria de Bruyn --- Ipas, USA Jane Harries --- Women's Health Research Unit in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Diane Cooper --- Women's Health Research Unit in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town,HIV-positive women's abortion decisions were explored by: (i) investigating influencing factors; (ii) determining knowledge of abortion policy and public health services; and (iii) exploring abortion experiences. In-depth interviews were held with 24 HIV-positive women (15 had an abortion; 9 did... -
Transgender in Africa: Invisible, inaccessible, or ignored?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Geoffrey A. Jobson [d170e19] Liesl B. Theron Julius K. Kaggwa He-Jin KimTransgender people are an important key population for HIV risk globally, and several studies have found HIV prevalence rates in transgender populations that are significantly higher than those among other key populations such as men who have sex with men... -
‘Every teacher is a researcher!’: Creating indigenous epistemologies and practices for HIV prevention through values-based action research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Lesley Wood [d88e14]Since gender is an undisputed driver of HIV infection, teachers concerned with HIV prevention education should ideally encourage critical awareness of and culturally sensitive practices around gender inequalities. Many interventions and programmes have been developed for teachers to enable them... -
The social and gender context of HIV disclosure in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of policies and practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Sarah Bott Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer [d314e29]This paper reviews the legal and policy context of HIV disclosure in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as what is known about rates, consequences and social context of disclosure, with special attention to gender issues and the role of health services... -
Conflicting discourses of church youths on masculinity and sexuality in the context of HIV in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Hendrew Lusey --- , , Democratic Republic of Congo Miguel San Sebastian --- , , Sweden Monica Christianson --- , , Sweden Lars Dahlgren --- , , Sweden Kerstin E. Edin --- , , SwedenMasculinity studies are fairly new and young churchgoers are an under-researched group in the current Congolese church context. In response to this knowledge gap, this paper attempts to explore discourses of young churchgoers from deprived areas of Kinshasa regarding masculinity... -
Exploring gender perceptions of risk of HIV infection and related behaviour among elderly men and women of Ga-Rankuwa, Gauteng Province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Eucebious Lekalakala-Mokgele --- , , South AfricaThe literature shows that there are important differences between women and men in the underlying mechanisms of transmission of HIV infection and AIDS, as well as in the social and economic consequences of HIV/AIDS. These stem from sexual behaviour and... -
Gendered differences in AIDS and AIDS-related cause of death among youth with secondary education in South Africa, 2009–2011
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Nicole De Wet --- , , South AfricaBackground: The prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is higher among females than males in Sub-Saharan Africa. Education is associated with better health outcomes. For this and other reasons, African countries have made a concerted effort... -
Rethinking HIV-prevention for school-going young people based on current behaviour patterns
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Maretha Visser --- , , South AfricaThe aim of the research was to gain increased knowledge regarding the sexual risk behaviour of school-going young people in South Africa after two decades of HIV-education in schools, to contribute to the development of improved HIV prevention strategies. In... -
The pull of soccer and the push of Xhosa boys in an HIV and drug abuse intervention in the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Melissa Medich --- , , USA Deborah Mindry --- , , USA Mark Tomlinson --- , , South Africa Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus --- , , USA Jason Bantjes --- , , South Africa Dallas Swendeman [cor1]There is growing interest in engaging men and boys in health and development programmes targeting the intersection of HIV risk, substance abuse, and violence. Understanding the conceptualisations of masculinities or masculine identities that shape both behaviours and opportunities for intervention... -
Wakurugenzi Networks: Reframing Kenyan Vernaculars of Gender/Gendering in Abel Mutua’s YouTube Channel
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Felix Mutunga Ndaka --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaDuring the Kenyan Covid-19 lockdown, Abel Mutua, a renowned actor, scriptwriter and comic created a YouTube channel that has instructively transformed a virtual space into a storytelling platform. The channel presents narrations on a diverse range of topics presented in... -
Defender self-efficacy and defender behaviour in school bullying of primary school pupils: The role of perceived responsibility and sex
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yuping Wu --- Lishui University, China Leishan Shi --- Lishui University, China Yanfang Zhou --- Lishui University, China Qi Zhang --- Lishui University, ChinaThis study examined the relationship between bullying defender self-efficacy and bullying defender behaviour in primary school pupils and the role perceived responsibility and sex played in this relationship. Participants included 1 310 pupils from Chinese primary schools attending Grades 4... -
Status of gender equality in ocean research, conservation and management institutions and organisations in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: RA Ojwala --- WMU–Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University, SwedenGender equality is key to achieving the objectives of the United Nation’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. In patriarchal societies, men’s dominance has long overshadowed women’s participation in science-related fields, including ocean science. The lack of gender-disaggregated data... -
Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 restrictions on HIV testing services in Malawi: an interrupted time series analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Barinaadaa Afirima --- , Malawi Ihoghosa O Iyamu --- University of British Columbia, Canada Zeena A Yesufu --- , Nigeria Emem Iwara --- , Nigeria David Chilongozi --- , Malawi Louis Banda --- , Malawi Emanuel Zenengeya --- , Malawi Chimwemwe Mablekisi --- , Malawi Blackson Matatiyo --- , Malawi Joseph Kuye --- , Nigeria Odo Michael --- , Liberia Andrew Gonani --- , Malawi Melchiade Ruberintwari --- , Mali Ngonidzashe Madidi --- , Malawi Edward Oladele --- , Zambia Chris Akolo --- , USABackground: Restrictions on public gatherings and movement to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 may have disrupted access and availability of HIV services in Malawi. We quantified the impact of these restrictions on HIV testing services in Malawi. -
Early infant male circumcision: Potential for changing adverse gender norms associated with traditional male circumcision among circumcising communities in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jacob Onyango --- , Kenya Marylyn Ochillo --- , Kenya Eunice Omanga --- , Kenya Ohaga Spala --- , Kenya Gift-Noelle Wango --- , Kenya Edwin Lwanya --- , Kenya Kawango Agot --- , KenyaIntroduction: Traditional male circumcision (TMC) inculcates masculine-dominance norms in young men. Early infant male circumcision (EIMC) and medical male circumcision (MMC) can potentially minimise these adverse gender norms. We explored the perceptions about EIMC and MMC among communities practising TMC... -
Moving the Margins: Gender Inequality and Homelessness in Amma Darko’s Faceless
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- University of South Africa, South Africa Theresah Patrine Ennin --- University of South Africa, South AfricaMany African women writers have engaged with issues of social justice, development and the need to pay attention to the persistent inequalities that eat away the fabric of many societies. To this day, they continue to be at the coalface... -
Peer relationships and aggressive behaviour in adolescents: Moderation by gender and mediation by media violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Izuchukwu L. G. Ndukaihe --- Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria Chiedozie O. Okafor --- Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria Uchechukwu L. Okeowata --- Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria Hillary O. Eze --- Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria Emmanuel O. Agha --- Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria Peter Offu --- Alex Ekwueme Federal University, NigeriaWe investigated the role of gender and media violence in adolescents’ peer relationship problems and aggressive behaviour. High school students (n = 144) from South-Eastern Nigeria participated in the study. Seventy-two completed an experiment in which they were exposed to... -
Pay satisfaction and work–life balance among Nigerian bank employees: The roles of psychological empowerment and gender
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gabriel C. Kanu --- University of Nigeria, Nigeria Ijeoma C. Odinko --- University of Nigeria, Nigeria Ikechukwu V. N. Ujoatuonu --- University of Nigeria, NigeriaThis study examined the roles of psychological empowerment and gender in the relationship between pay satisfaction and work–life balance among bank employees. In total, 393 Nigerian bank employees participated in the study (female (49.36%; mean age = 32.07, SD =... -
Prevalence and psychological correlates of anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive adolescents with a high level of rumination response style
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Xingzhi Mao --- Capital Normal University, China Qi Li --- Capital Normal University, China Fangfang Shangguan --- Capital Normal University, China Jing Xiao --- Capital Normal University, ChinaThis study examined between anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive (SD) adolescents with rumination and their personal predispositions. A total of 371 SD adolescents were enrolled in the study (females 55.26%, mean age = 16.34, SD = 0.96). The adolescents completed... -
Homophilic social networks and school adjustment among primary school pupils: Results and implications from a Zimbabwean study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Edwin Simbarashe Mpofu --- University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Maximus Monaheng Sefotho --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaSocial network patterns were explored among Zimbabwean rural school pupils to determine their peer preferences and statuses. Participants were 173 school pupils attending grades 4–6 in a rural school in Zimbabwe (76 boys; 97 girls; age range 9 years to... -
Impact analysis of innovation and gendered constraints in the fisheries sector of southern Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Edward Ebo Onumah* --- University of Ghana Legon-Accra, Ghana Martha Joycelyn Makafui Dogbey --- University of Ghana Legon-Accra, Ghana Freda Elikplim Asem --- University of Ghana Legon-Accra, GhanaThis paper adopts the multinomial endogenous treatment effect approach to analyze the impact of innovation choices on the income of 230 fish workers in the Greater Accra and Central regions of Ghana, while the Kendall’s ranking technique is applied to... -
A gendered approach to determinants of adoption of cassava-legume intensification technology and its impact on households’ poverty status in innovation platforms of Southwestern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Adewumi Titus Adesiyan --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Imole Rafael Olaniyan --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Hyeladi Ibrahim Gaya --- University of Maiduguri, Nigeria Ayodeji Damilola Kehinde --- Obafemi Awolowo University, NigeriaThe scourge of poverty has spread over Nigeria. Efforts to address the problem have yielded no tangible results. This study investigated a gendered approach to determinants of adoption of cassava-legume intensification technology and its impact on households’ poverty status in... -
Beyond gender bias: Factors affecting female employee retention and advancement in the Dutch hotel sector
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marrit Lijster --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Georges El Hajal --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsIn The Netherlands, gender roles have evolved remarkably, marked by feminist activism and legislative strides. Nevertheless, persistent gender biases and disparities continue to impact many industries, including the Dutch hotel sector. This quantitative research explores the factors affecting female employee... -
Effect of rotational harvesting on the size composition of Cape rock oysters Striostrea margaritacea on the east coast of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: E Steyn --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa JC Groeneveld --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa J Santos --- Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Uit – The Arctic University of Norway, NorwayA commercial fishery for the Cape rock oyster Striostrea margaritacea along the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (western Indian Ocean), follows a 4-year rotational cycle, with each harvest year followed by 3 fallow years across four harvest zones. We... -
Tactile technologies of the self: connection, hapticscape and self-development narratives in Cape Town’s Afro-Latin dance scene
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Alice Aterianus-Owanga --- Institut d’ethnologie, Université de Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandDrawing on ethnographic research within the salsa, bachata and kizomba (SBK) scene of Cape Town, this article examines the values and narratives of personal development that Cape Town’s adepts of Afro-Latin dance elaborate around the emic notion of “connection.” I... -
Gender-disaggregated analysis of sustainable intensification practices adoption: A case of northern Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abdulai Adams --- SD. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah --- Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic Asaah Sumaila Mohammed --- CK. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, GhanaAgricultural productivity has remained low in Africa, especially among smallholder farmers. Women often suffer resource constraints and access to certain technologies needed to increase productivity relative to men. This study analyzes the effect of gender on the adoption of selected... -
Mobile money and intra-household employment diversification: Empirical evidence from Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Richmond Atta-Ankomah --- University of Ghana, GhanaThis study investigates the effect of mobile money on intra-household employment diversification in Ghana using data from the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Surveys. The study relies on several econometric models including instrumental variables and shows that mobile... -
Examining the income gap-gender inequality nexus in Africa using bi-wavelet and partial wavelet coherence analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Rasaq Raimi --- Nelson Mandela University, South Africa Andrew Phiri --- Nelson Mandela University, South AfricaThe eradication of gender discrimination traditions and the reduction of income disparities are vital global objectives outlined in Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 10, particularly in African nations where gender and income gaps persist. In alignment with these goals, this... -
Serving Hot Tea: Analyzing Narratives of ‘Abroad’ on Glocal Kenyan Twitter/X Spaces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Caroline Mose --- The Mawazo Institute, KenyaSocial media reconstitutes the idea of ‘abroad’ as a geographical place, shortens the symbolic distance between borders, and renders the local and global into one almost seamless space. This seamlessness is both metaphorical and symbolic, where happenings on the spatial... -
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... -
Determinants of rural women economic empowerment: the Case of Bahir Dar Zuria Woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abate Yesigat --- Department of Economics, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia, Walelign Awoke --- Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Expert, Department of Project Management and Monitoring, Amhara Region Bureau of Women, Children and Social Affairs, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia,The issue of women's empowerment has been a topic of ongoing discussion in developing countries, considering the complex socio-demographic and cultural factors at play. Women tend to face disadvantages compared to men across various human development indicators. Therefore, it is... -
Determinants of the effective tax rate: Board composition of South African firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Cecileen Greeff --- School of Accountancy, Stellenbosch University, South AfricaMotivation: Numerous international studies have been conducted to determine the effect of board composition on tax aggressiveness, and ultimately the effective tax rate (ETR) of firms, but to the best of the author's knowledge, no similar research from a South... -
Impacts of corporate governance attributes on audit quality in emerging economies: The case of India
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Reshma Kumari Tiwari --- Tezpur University, India Santi Gopal Maji --- Tezpur University, India -
How academic stress affects academic performance: A chain-mediated model of sex moderation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yunhan Zhang --- Central China Normal University, China Sannyuya Liu --- Central China Normal University, China Liang Zhao --- Central China Normal University, China Zhi Liu --- Central China Normal University, ChinaAcademic stress is a common psychological issue among college students, but the mechanism by which it affects academic performance is not well understood. This study extends existing literature by exploring a chain-mediated model composed of academic stress, learning motivation, depression,... -
Context is key: Using intersectionality and sensemaking to unlock new doors in leadership theory
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Clif P Lewis --- Queen Mary University of London, UKThis research explores differences in how marginalized groups in leadership roles within the South African private sector engage in sensemaking, influenced by intersecting gender and race identities. Primary data was collected with semi-structured intersectional interviews. Thematic and axial coding was... -
Is there a gender gap in audit fees in Spain? Explaining the variables involved in audit fees
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Mercedes Mareque --- University of Vigo, Spain Susana Escaloni --- University of Vigo, Spain -
Gender preferences in cryptocurrency systems: Sentiment analysis and predictive modelling
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Samer Muthana Sarsam --- School of Management, Coventry University, UK Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani --- Community College, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Hosam Al-Samarraie --- School of Design, University of Leeds, UK Fahad Alblehai --- Community College, King Saud University, Saudi ArabiaThis study explored the role of gender preferences in cryptocurrency investments using sentiment analysis. X (Twitter) users’ gender (male/female) together with relevant sentiments (positive/negative) were extracted and investigated in this study. The Latent Dirichlet Allocation technique was utilised to model... -
Exploring the role of open and distance education in empowering women technological skills in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Jane Ada Ukaigwe --- National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria Hakeem O. Liadi --- National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria Christiana Uchenna Ezeanya --- National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria Olayemi Mikail Olaniyi --- National Open University of Nigeria, NigeriaThe pursuit of gender equality and women's empowerment is a crucial driver of societal and economic growth in any nation. Despite the expansion of educational opportunities, women in Nigeria still encounter major obstacles to pursuing higher education and developing their... -
Women and Femininity in Setswana Proverbs: Pragmatic Analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Kealeboga Aiseng --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaMany African cultures have been discredited, ridiculed and negated. This study offers a different perspective on understanding African cultures. The article visits one of the oldest forms of literature in African societies, oral literature, focusing on proverbs to unpack gender... -
Ucwaningo ngokuvezwa kokuhlukunyezwa kwabesifazane enovelini kaME Ngcobo, Igazi Lezibi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Lungile Friedah Zuma --- University of Kwazulu-Natal, South AfricaAbantu besifazane iningi labo bangabantu abacindezelwayo umphakathi abahlala kuwona bazithola beyizisulu zokunukubezwa ngokocansi. Amalungelo alinganayo phakathi kwezakhamuzi zase-Afrika abukeka kuyinto okusenzima ukuthi ilungiseke ngenxa yokuthi kusenabesilisa abazibona ukuthi bangaphezulu uma beziqhathanisa nabesifazane. Esikhathini samanje sithole abantu besifazane sebenza nemisebenzi eyenziwa... -
Unpacking masculine stereotypes: a critical analysis of selected isiXhosa proverbs and idioms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Andiswa Mvanyashe --- Nelson Mandela University, South AfricaThis article examines the application of proverbs and idioms in perpetuating male stereotypes, seeking their cultural and historical origins and societal perceptions of masculinity. It traces the evolution of Western masculinity in relation to the labour market, family, and gender... -
The experiences of oppression among transgender and gender expansive young people in Australia: An interpretative phenomenological study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Daniel Abela --- Monash University, Australia Lefteris Patlamazoglou --- Monash University, Australia Sophie Lea --- Monash University, AustraliaBackground: Transgender and gender expansive (TGE) people experience poorer mental health outcomes compared to their cisgender counterparts. There is limited research on understanding the experiences of TGE school-aged young people from an Australian perspective. Since each country and state has... -
Exploring mental health literacy and its intersection with help-seeking behaviours and gender in adolescents in the Western Cape.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Michelle Scher --- University of South Africa, South Africa Naiema Taliep --- Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa Ghouwa Ismail --- Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, South AfricaBackground: Adolescent mental illness contributes significantly to both the global and South African burden of mental health. Mental health literacy (MHL) promotes early recognition and intervention and consequently, determines mental health-promoting behaviours. We aimed to explore adolescent MHL and its... -
Who will be more likely to seek help? The relationship between suicidal ideation, suicide literacy, attitudes toward suicide and help-seeking intention in male and female adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Bich-Phuong Vu --- RMIT University Vietnam, Vietnam Ha-Giang Nguyen --- University of Education, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam Hoang-Minh Dang --- University of Education, Vietnam National University Hanoi, VietnamObjectives: Among adolescents, suicide is a critical global concern, yet research is limited in low- and middle-income countries. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the interrelations among suicide-related factors (specifically, suicidal ideation, suicide literacy, attitudes toward suicide,... -
Increased risk of suicidality in treatment-seeking transgender adults and adolescents with autism traits and anxiety/depression
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Katrin Lehmann --- , Northern Ireland Michael Rosato --- Ulster University, Northern Ireland Gerard Leavey --- Ulster University, Northern IrelandBackground: Transgender adolescents and adults appear to be at increased risk of suicidality, but the risk factors are unclear. -
Divergent Housing Spatialities and Gender Subjectivities in Transition: Women's Cooperatives and Poverty Eradication Discourse in Dakar, Senegal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Elettra Griesi --- Collaborative Research Centre 1265, Technische Universität Berlin, GermanyThis article examines the dynamic relationship between spaces and subjectivity, demonstrating how they mutually influence each other to produce distinctive housing spatialities. Through ethnographic research in Thiaroye sur Mer, Dakar (Senegal), I analyze how women's subjectivities, responding to historical processes... -
Access to PrEP for cis and transgender women: Developing and implementing a community-based intervention adapted to populations exposed to HIV in Mali, Morocco, and Mauritius
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mustapha Sodqi --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Amal Ben moussa --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Rosemary Delabre --- , France Rime Barrakad --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Luis Sagaon Teyssier --- Aix-Marseille University, France Niloufer Khodabocus --- Lutte contre le SIDA, Mauritius Sofia Fathi --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Fodié Diallo --- ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Patrice Monvoisin --- Lutte contre le SIDA, Mauritius Bintou Keita Dembele --- ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Annette Treebhoobun --- Lutte contre le SIDA, Mauritius Naoual Laaziz --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Lahoucine Ouarsas --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Daniela Rojas Castro --- , France Mehdi Karkouri --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, MoroccoBackground: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is recommended as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention approach, but its uptake among women, particularly those in key populations, remains limited. -
The women eat last: traditions, table manners and gender narratives at the Romanian dining table
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Alexandra Constantinescu --- Buckinghamshire New University, United KingdomThis study explores gendered food practices and mealtime dynamics in Romanian households, both in Romania and in the United Kingdom. It examines how traditions of food sourcing, preparation, and serving are reproduced, adapted, or contested in native and diasporic settings... -
Numerical semigroups of coated odd elements
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: M.B. Branco --- Universidade de Évora, J.C. Rosales --- Universidad de Granada, Spain M.A. Traesel --- Instituto Federal de São Paulo, BrazilA numerical semigroup S is coated with odd elements (Coe-semigroup), if {x − 1, x + 1} ⊆ S for all odd elements x in S. In this note, we will study this kind of numerical semigroup. In particular, we... -
Climate adaptation, geopolitics, and structural exclusion in South African agriculture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Michael J Savage --- South African Journal of Plant and Soil,Southern African agriculture stands at a critical intersection of accelerating climate risk and entrenched structural inequality. While climate change increasingly shapes global research and policy agendas, other intersecting forces—such as the divide between large-scale commercial agriculture and smallholder farming, the...
