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Sport, Girls, Trouble and Humour: Black and Indian Boys Negotiating Gender, Race and Class in a Formerly White Single Sex School in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Rob Pattman --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Deevia Bhana --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,This article reports on an interview study conducted by Deevia Bhana and Rob Pattman of Grade 11 (16–17 year old) boys attending different kinds of public schools in the Durban, South Africa. It investigated their accounts personal lives and identities... -
Just jokes! Icebreakers, innuendo, teasing and talking: The role of humour in HIV/AIDS peer education among university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Silvie Cooper --- Department of Sociology, South Africa David Dickinson --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaPeer conversation provides an important platform for people to explore and disseminate sexual health knowledge. Humour forms part of conversations held between peers including those where sexual health and sexual decisions are discussed. The central argument of this article links... -
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... -
Teacher-humour types and college students’ academic performance in online teaching: The mediating role of academic interest
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Runfeng Luo --- , China Qiqi Zhan --- , ChinaWe investigated the relationship between teacher-humour types and academic performance in online learning and the role of student academic interest in that relationship. Our study participants were 2 401 college students from 22 universities across China (female =68.1 %, mean...