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Rangeland assessment and monitoring: the elusive elixir
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: P.J.K. Zacharias'Classical' rangeland monitoring is discussed in the context of its fitness-for-purpose. The theoretical or descriptive models that underpin global approaches are considered and reviewed. The needs and types of measurements are discussed as are developments in southern Africa over three... -
Bullying at Rural High Schools in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: Prevalence, and Risk and Protective Factors at School and in the Family
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: L. Nomfundo Mlisa --- University of Fort Hare, South Africa Catherine L. Ward --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Alan J. Flisher --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Carl J. Lombard --- Medical Research Council, South AfricaThis study examined bullying and risk and protective factors in school and family domains, in a sample of 1,565 Grade 11 students in 41 high schools in two rural school districts in South Africa. The questionnaire included two questions to... -
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... -
Risk Factors for Educator-Targeted Bullying: A Social-Ecological Perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Corene de Wet --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThis study investigated educator-targeted bullying (ETB) in a South African school setting from a social-ecological perspective. Seven survivors of ETB were interviewed using open ended questions. The data were content analysed for themes. The main findings of the study were:... -
South African Educators' Understanding of Bullying
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Corene de Wet --- University of the Free State, South Africa Lynette Jacobs --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThis study examined educators' understanding of learner-on-learner school bullying. Participants were 91 educators from the Free State Province, South Africa (females = 65.9%, primary/elementary school teaching = 46.1%). Data on bullying was collected by means of questionnaires in which a... -
(Φ, M)–extensions of near-rings
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mark FaragIn this paper, we define and study a generalization of matrix, polynomial, and group near-rings. New results on ideal essentiality and lying over are obtained. -
The prevalence of erectile dysfunction at a primary healthcare clinic in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Y Lockhat --- King Dinuzulu Hospital, A Ross --- Department of Family Medicine, P Ramlachan --- University of Sydney, Australia C Rangiah --- Department of Family Medicine,Objectives: The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) in men attending a primary healthcare (PHC) clinic in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, and to document any relationship between ED and age, smoking, economic status and co-morbid... -
Emotional load and social support as indicators of bullying at work
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Leon T. de Beer --- WorkWell Research Unit, South AfricaThis study sought to ascertain whether elevated emotional load and a lack of social support could be indicative of bullying at work. Participants totalled 1442 employees from the manufacturing industry in South Africa. Data on emotional load, social support, and... -
Exploring the bullying behaviours experienced by South African domestic workers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yolo-loyolo Maboyana --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, South Africa Lusanda Sekaja --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, South AfricaThis article phenomenologically explores the nature of bullying behaviours as experienced by domestic workers in South Africa. Participants were a convenience sample of 10 black female domestic workers (age range = 27 to 53 years, work experience = 3 to... -
‘Don't “paraffin” me!’: deception, power and agency in a South African sport for development organisation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Cassandra Clark --- Department of Social Anthropology,The staff of Sport FUNdamentals Southern Africa (SFSA), a sport for development organisation, have labelled a range of deceitful behaviours ‘paraffining’. These behaviours range from improvising life skills lessons to lying in reports. It references paraffin, a common, yet potentially... -
Opportunistic breeding in the Cape spiny mouse (Acomys subspinosus)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: P.A. Fleming [AN0001] S.W Nicolson --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South AfricaThe relationship between Protea humiflora and its small mammal pollinators was investigated at the fynbos/karoo ecotone in the Riviersonderend Mountains, South Africa. Acomys subspinosus occurred in low densities at Jonaskop, with around 3.9 ± 2.0 (mean ± 1 S.D.) individuals/ha... -
Antecedents of Bullying in the South African Workplace: Societal Context Matters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Ngao Motsei --- Department of Human Resource Management, South Africa Stella M. Nkomo --- Department of Human Resource Management, South AfricaWhile there is a growing interest in the role of organizational context in workplace bullying, little is known about how societal context may influence perceptions of bullying in organizations. Context is defined as situational factors in the external environment which... -
Work-role psychosocial flourishing: Its mediation role on workplace bullying and employee turnover intention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Melinde Coetzee --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Rudolf M. Oosthuizen --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThe study investigated the work-role of psychosocial flourishing attributes in countering workplace bullying behaviour and turnover intention. Data on participants’ perceptions of workplace bullying behaviour, turnover intentions, and psychosocial flourishing were collected from n = 373 employees in various South... -
Bullying experiences and literacy achievement amongst primary school children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jace Pillay --- South African Research Chair, Education and Care in Childhood, Faculty of Education,This study investigated the association between school bullying and literacy achievements in a sample of primary school children from Johannesburg, South Africa. The children (n = 443; females = 56%, males = 44%) attending six primary schools in the Soweto area suburbs, self-reported their experience of... -
Prevalence of bullying victimisation and associated factors among in-school adolescents in Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Department of Research & Innovation, South Africa Supa Pengpid --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Phutthamonthon, Nakhonpathom, Thailand; Department of Research & Innovation, South AfricaThe study aimed to assess the prevalence of bullying victimisation and its correlates among middle school students in Mozambique. We analysed cross-sectional survey data from the 2015 Mozambique Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS). The sample consisted of 1 918 participants... -
The relationship between perceived parenting dimensions, attachment, and pre-adolescent bullying
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mariska Carter --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Ronél van der Watt --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Karel Esterhuyse --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated the mediating and/or moderating role of pre-adolescent learners’ perception of their parent-child attachment on the relationships between perceived parenting dimensions (acceptance, firm control, and psychological control) and types of bullying experience (physical, verbal, social-relational, and cyber-bullying). We... -
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... -
Skill development and employment opportunity from Chinese migrating ‘Geese’ in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ehizuelen Michael Mitchell Omoruyi --- , People’s Republic of ChinaConsidering Chinese FDI in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the paper attempts to verify if the long-existing ‘flying geese’ paradigm (FGP) might be used to clarify the headway of Chinese migrating geese transmission of skills and job generation in SSA. Notably, since... -
Parent and peer attachment in bullying experiences among pre-adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mariska Carter --- University of the Free State, South Africa Ronél van der Watt --- University of the Free State, South Africa Karel Esterhuyse --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThe study aimed to determine the mediating and/or moderating associations of perceived parent attachment and peer attachment dimensions (trust, communication, alienation) with bullying experiences (perpetration and/or victimisation). Data were collected from 465 Sesotho-speaking learners (10 – 12 years; female =... -
Low self-esteem and cyberbullying perpetration among Chinese adolescents: Mediation by catharsis and moderation by sex
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Xianliang Zheng --- Gannan Normal University, China Lijuan Huang --- Gannan Normal University, China Zhihua Xie --- Gannan Normal University, China Linlu Peng --- Gannan Normal University, ChinaThis study aimed to investigate the association between self-esteem and cyberbullying via the mediating role of catharsis and moderating role of sex. The sample consisted of 665 Chinese adolescents (317 girls; mean age = 14.56 years, SD = 0.96 years),... -
Childhood emotional abuse and gamebullying among Chinese youths: The mediating roles of mindfulness and Machiavellianism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: --- University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China --- Peking University, China --- Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ChinaThis study investigated the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and gamebullying among youths, and the roles of mindfulness and Machiavellianism in that relationship. The study sample comprised 504 Chinese youths (female = 51.2%) who completed the Childhood Emotional Abuse Scale,... -
Empathy and defender behaviour in bullying of young children: The mediating role of peer status
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yanfang Zhou --- Shaoxing University, China Sihui Wang --- Ningbo University, China Xiaojie Deng --- Ningbo University, China Leishan Shi --- Shaoxing University, ChinaThe present study examined the relationship between empathy and defender behaviour in young children and the mediating role of peer status. Participants were 310 children (girls = 48.1%; mean age = 66.85 months, SD = 7.04 months, age range =... -
Callous-unemotional traits and online aggressive behaviour: Mediated moderation by moral disengagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lijun Song --- School of Marxism, Zhengzhou Urban Construction Vocational College, ChinaThis study investigated the role of moral disengagement in the relationship between callous-unemotional traits and online aggression. The study sample comprised 484 college students (female = 68.4%; mean age = 19.27 years, SD = 1.21 years). The students completed questionnaires... -
Online risk exposure and mental health in Chinese junior high school students: A latent profile analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yali Zhang --- Hebei Normal University, China Kangyue Jin --- Hebei Normal University, China Yuanyuan Huang --- , China Yongzhi Jiang --- Inner Mongolia Minzu University, ChinaWe explored the latent profile of online risk exposure and its relationship with school students’ mental health. Junior high school students (n = 1 178; female = 49.5%, male = 50.5%; Grade 7 = 57.1%, Grade 8 = 42.9%) completed... -
Exploring the relationship between peer loneliness, problematic videogame use, and cyberbullying victimisation in adolescence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Alberto Amadori --- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Giulia Prestera --- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Francesca Sangiuliano Intra --- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Livia Taverna --- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Caterina Primi --- University of Florence, Italy Antonella Brighi --- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, ItalyBackground: Adolescence, acknowledged as a transformative developmental phase marked by socio-emotional challenges, introduces an elevated susceptibility to loneliness. As adolescents are exposed to loneliness, they concurrently navigate the dynamic landscape of problematic videogame use, characterised by deleterious gaming patterns with...