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The Practices of Apostolic Faith Healers in Mental Health Care in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: James January --- University of Zimbabwe, Tholene Sodi --- University of Venda,This study aimed to understand and interpret faith healers' explanations of the aetiology and treatment of diseases and to canvass their views regarding collaboration between Western trained health care professionals and faith healers. Fifteen female and six male faith healers... -
Jung's Breath-Body and African Spiritual Healing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D. Edwards --- University of Zululand, David J. Edwards --- University of Zululand,Psychology essentially refers to the study and use (logos) of the breath, soul or spirit of life (psyche) that leaves a person at death and continues in some other form. From such a fundamental perspective, all forms of ancient and... -
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... -
The Description and Evaluation of an African Breath Psychotherapeutic Workshop
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D. Edwards --- University of Zululand,An African breath psychotherapeutic workshop is described and evaluated with a small group of participants (students =9, males = 3, females =6, age range =24 to 59 years, mean age 40.3 years) all of whom were professionally registered psychologists. There... -
Exploring the Role of Spirituality in the Context of the Five Factor Model of Personality in a South African Sample
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sumaya Laher --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Gregg Quy --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe study explored the relationship between the Five Factor Model of personality and spirituality by using the NEO PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and the Spiritual Transcendence Scale (STS) (Piedmont, 1999) respectively. Participants were 94 psychology undergraduate students at a... -
A Psychology of Indigenous Healing in Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen David Edwards --- University of Zululand,Converging lines of evidence from various scientific disciplines consistently point to humanity's African roots. In this context, the term “indigenous healing” is used to refer to universal forms of healing that began in Africa and were developed further both locally... -
Spirituality and Religion in Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in Kwazulu-natal, South Africa: A Longitudinal Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria and University of Limpopo,This study assesses the effects of spirituality and religion in health outcomes of patients on ART in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Participants were 735 patients who attended three HIV clinics for ART over a period of 20 months as follows: 519... -
Standardization of a Spirituality Scale with a South African Sample
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D. Edwards --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThe study reports on the psychometric properties of a Spirituality Scale developed in the USA in a South African setting. Respondents were 218 women and 84 men with a mean age of 25.54 years and an age range from 17... -
South African Muslim Psychologists' Perceptions of Mental Illness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sumaya Laher --- University of the Witwatersrand, aheera Ismail --- University of the Witwatersrand,This study explored perceptions of mental illness in a sample of 10 female Muslim psychologists in a South African city to determine the influences of religion (and Islam specifically) on their understanding of the aetiology and treatment of mental illness... -
Influence of a Self-identification Meditation Intervention on Psychological and Neurophysiologic Variables
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D. Edwards --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThis study investigated the influence of a brief, twenty minute, breath based, Self-identification meditation intervention on meditation experiences, identity, mindfulness and spirituality perceptions, and correlative neurophysiologic functioning in a small convenience sample of 10 South African adults (7 women and... -
Holistic Psychology: A Brief Primer
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D. Edwards --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThis article explicates the foundations, essential themes and healing principles of holistic psychology; an approach which provides a corrective for such trends in modern scientific psychology as disciplinary perspectives, the overemphasis on the economics and politics of professionalism. Holistic psychology... -
Intuition as a Healing Modality: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D. Edwards --- University of Zululand,This article examines intuition as an archetypal, cultural-spiritual healing modality. It builds on the notion of intuition as a reality founded on the archetypal calling to become a healer. Consideration is given to a variety of intuition traditions as well... -
Spirit(ed) away: preventing foetal alcohol syndrome with motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: A Jansen Van Vuuren --- University of Cape Town, D Learmonth --- University of Cape Town,Foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a growing concern in South Africa. In the Western Cape, prevalence rates for FAS are the highest in the world. Not surprisingly, the Western Cape also has some of the highest levels of alcohol consumption... -
Presence of meaning and search for meaning as mediators between spirituality and psychological well-being in a South African sample
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Itumeleng P. Khumalo --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Marié P. Wissing --- Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, South Africa Lusilda Schutte --- Statistical Consultation Services, South AfricaSpirituality and meaning in life are important pathways to well-being. Research has conceptually and empirically linked spirituality, religiousness and meaning in life. The present study was concerned with investigating presence of meaning (MLQ-P) and search for meaning (MLQ-S) as mediators... -
Meaning as perceived and experienced by an African student group
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marié P. Wissing --- Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, South Africa Itumeleng P. Khumalo --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Shingairai C. Chigeza --- Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, South AfricaThis qualitative study explored what a Batswana group of African students (N = 73) find most meaningful in their life and why those sources of meaning are important to them. Findings showed that, in line with previous Western studies, the most important... -
First-time mothers’ experiences of meaningfulness during their third trimester of pregnancy: A focus on spirituality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Amoné Redelinghuys --- African Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, South Africa Heleen Coetzee --- African Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, South Africa Vera Roos --- African Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, South AfricaThis study sought to gain in-depth understanding of the lived experiences of first-time mothers during their third trimester of pregnancy. The non-probability, purposive sample were Afrikaans speaking first-time mothers aged between 22 and 40 years. Data on their experiences of... -
Phenomenological and neurophysiologic investigation into contemplating umoya (Spirit) and its psychological applications
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Steve Edwards --- Psychology Department, South Africa Dumisani Nzima --- Psychology Department, South Africa Sumeshni Govender --- Psychology Department, South Africa Mandla Hlongwane --- Psychology Department, South Africa Dennis Kent --- Psychology Department, South Africa Caroll Hermann --- Psychology Department, South Africa Vusi Mathe --- Psychology Department, South Africa David Edwards --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThis study explored subjective and objective perspectives on uMoya, Spirit consciousness and/or spirituality, from a heuristic phenomenological and neurophysiologic perspective. Contemplative reflective data on uMoya and its neurophysiologic correlates were gathered from a culturally diverse group of eight researcher-participants aged... -
Changeover-time in psychosocial wellbeing of people living with HIV and people living close to them after an HIV stigma reduction and wellness enhancement community intervention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: H Christa Chidrawi --- Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR), South Africa Minrie Greeff --- Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR), South Africa Q. Michael Temane --- Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR), South Africa Suria Ellis --- Statistical Consultation Services, South AfricaHIV stigma continues to affect the psychosocial wellbeing of people living with HIV (PLWH) and people living close to them (PLC). Literature unequivocally holds the view that HIV stigma and psychosocial wellbeing interact with and have an impact on each... -
Liminoid religion: Ritual practice in alternative spirituality in the Netherlands
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: P.G.A. Versteeg --- VISOR/Faculty of Theology, The NetherlandsAlternative spirituality can be seen as a particular form of religious practice related to processes of de-traditionalisation and deinstitutionalisation. Although often regarded as a western, secularised phenomenon, such alternative forms of spirituality are becoming increasingly popular among the middle classes... -
Spirited Women: The role of spirituality in the work lives of female entrepreneurs in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Margaret Reid --- Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Dorothea Roumpi --- Sam M. Walton College of Business, Anne M. O'Leary-Kelly --- Sam M. Walton College of Business,The purpose of this research is to explore the role of spirituality in the work lives of female entrepreneurs in Ghana. Using a qualitative methodology, we explored three research questions that examined: (1) the types of spirituality expressions used by... -
The spiritual wellness of Beyers Naudé: A psychobiographical study of a South African anti-apartheid theologian
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Paul Fouché --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, South Africa Barbara Burnell --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, South Africa Roelf van Niekerk --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThe study explores and describes Beyers Naudé's (1915–2004) spiritual wellness across his lifespan. Naudé's life history was uncovered through the systematic collection and analyses of life history materials. Data were interpreted applying the Wheel of Wellness model (WoW) by Sweeney... -
Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jane Parish --- Sociology, United KingdomAmong Akan spirit preachers at shrines in New York, gold and gold weights are at the centre of the creation of new moral topographies in a fluid and contested context. In a get-rich-quick New York marketplace, the preachers appeal to... -
‘Inhliziyo ekhombisa uthando’: Exploring children’s conceptions of spirituality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gugulethu M. Hlatshwayo --- School of Education, College of Humanities, South Africa Nithi Muthukrishna --- School of Education, College of Humanities, South Africa Melanie Martin --- School of Education, College of Humanities, South AfricaIn this study we explored young isiZulu children’s conceptions of spirituality. The children (n = 8; females = 5; male = 3) were nine to eleven years old and attended a primary school in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. They drew pictures... -
The psychological experiences of foster mothers of adolescent children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Keolebogile Betty Mosimege --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Frederik Snyders --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe present study explored the psychological experiences of foster mothers who were fostering adolescents abandoned by their biological parents and whose parents had passed away. A purposive sample of 20 foster mothers (age range 25 to 83 years) was informants... -
Beliefs and the Spiritual World: Socio-cultural and Material Conditions of Tanzania’s Occult Fiction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Eliah S. Mwaifuge --- Department of Literature,This paper examines how traditional beliefs and spirituality inform and are represented in A. M Hokororo's Salma's Spirit (1997), A. S. Mmasi's Satanic Tortures (1998) and I. Yohana's Tears from a Lonely Heart (2013). The paper proceeds from the assumption... -
Spirituality as a coping mechanism for family caregivers of persons with aphasia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Khetsiwe Phumelele Masuku --- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, South Africa Katijah Khoza-Shangase --- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, South AfricaThis study sought to describe spirituality resourcing of family caregivers for people with aphasia (PWA). A purposive sample of 14 female family caregivers of PWA from a historically disadvantaged South African community were participants (married = 42%; age range 21... -
“Bringing back hope”: how faith-based responses to HIV and AIDS differ from secular responses
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Deborah Simpson --- Centre for the Study of Democracy, South AfricaThis article investigates an assertion by faith-based organisations (FBO) that spirituality is the defining feature of their HIV and AIDS interventions. It is based on interviews with 24 people working on the issue of HIV and AIDS in churches or... -
Women’s spiritually mediated stories about recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder: A brief report
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Liezille Jacobs --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThis study explored women’s lived recovery experiences from alcohol use disorder (AUD) facilitated by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The women (n = 10; age range 30–62 years; married = 6) completed life story interviews regarding their recovery from AUD with AA participation. Discourse analysis of... -
Ubuntu HeartMath programme efficacy for social coherence and work spirit: Preliminary evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D. Edwards --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThis study reports preliminary evidence on the efficacy of an Ubuntu type HeartMath intervention for the purpose of facilitating social coherence and spirit at work. The study employed a pre-test and post-test, mixed methods design with 17 students and staff... -
Job apathy and work engagement: Moderating influence of perceived leader integrity and spiritual intelligence in a Nigerian mass transit company
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Fabian O. Ugwu --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Nigeria Ike E. Onyishi --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, Nigeria Okechukwu Ibiam Egwu --- Department of Political Science, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Nigeria Otu Otu Akanu --- Department of Political Science, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Nigeria Okechukwu Groupson --- Department of Political Science, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Nigeria Moses Agudiegwu --- Department of Political Science, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, NigeriaThis study explored the direct and interactive roles of job apathy, perceived leader integrity, and spiritual intelligence on work engagement among 206 Nigerian employees of a leading mass transit company (females = 33%; mean age = 35.81years, SD = 5.04;... -
Fostering entrepreneurship for innovation in African Banks’ subsidiaries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Christian Wolf --- Policy Experimentation & Evaluation Platform, Portugal Dana T. Redford --- Policy Experimentation & Evaluation Platform, PortugalHow to keep the spirit and dynamics of an entrepreneurial venture alive as it evolves into a large institution? A small number of African-owned banks have risen from early entrepreneurial beginnings to large scale operations with subsidiaries in international markets... -
Marital symbols and the marriage satisfaction and spiritual well-being of BaTswana married women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Victoria B Segami --- Optentia Research Area, South Africa Chrizanne Van Eeden --- Optentia Research Area, South AfricaThe study explored marriage satisfaction and spiritual well-being, the association between marital symbols, and the association between marriage satisfaction and spiritual well-being. A convenience sample of BaTswana married women were participants (n = 366; age range = 30–60 years, SD... -
Depressive symptoms among older adults with HIV in Namibia: the role of social support and spirituality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Eveline Ndinelao Kalomo --- , USA Jung Sim Jun --- , USA Kyoung Hag Lee --- , USA Mgori Nuru Kaddu --- , NamibiaBackground: More than 60% of older adults living with HIV reside in sub-Saharan Africa. Namibia has one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates. This study examined the association between social support, spirituality and depressive symptoms. -
Ethnomedicinal use of pythons by traditional medicine practitioners in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Maxwell K Boakye --- Ho Technical University, Ghana Edward D Wiafe --- University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Ghana Meyir Y Ziekah --- Forestry Commission (Wildlife Division), GhanaThe use of Python spp. for traditional medicine purposes has been recorded, but there is a dearth of information on the versatility of body parts used for the treatment of human ailments. This study aimed to determine the medicinal knowledge... -
HIV in (and out of) the clinic: Biomedicine, traditional medicine and spiritual healing in Harare
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Stephen O'Brien --- , , Australia Alex Broom --- , , AustraliaContemporary lived experiences of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are shaped by clinical and cultural encounters with illness. In sub-Saharan countries such as Zimbabwe, HIV is treated in very different ways in various therapeutic contexts including by biomedical experts, traditional... -
It’s a journey … Emerging adult women’s experiences of spiritual identity development during postgraduate psychology studies in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Luzelle Naudé --- University of the Free State, South Africa Lara Fick --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThe spiritual identity development of six South African, emerging adult, female, postgraduate psychology students (21 to 22 years old) was explored using reflective writing exercises and individual interviews. Interpretative phenomenological analysis revealed that spiritual identity exploration occurs continuously across the... -
The challenge of using museum specimens to track the emergence of a pathogen: a case study from amphibian chytrid fungus in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: TM Doherty-Bone --- Natural History Museum London, M Perkins --- Zoological Society of London, AA Cunningham --- Zoological Society of London,Archived specimens can provide insights on emerging infectious diseases through the tracking of the progression or occurrence of a pathogen through time. Specimen fixation and preservation may however affect detectability of pathogens, obscuring the signal of emergence. A case study... -
Psychotherapy in South African indigenous languages: Positioning isiXhosa as a language of symbolisation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Ntokozo Gqweta --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe sociopolitical history of language use in South Africa is controversial and complex. This article utilises postcolonial theory to problematise the historical pattern of language use in South Africa to oppress black people. African psychology and Afrocentricity are used to... -
Wine stewards: future professionalism in a rapidly changing hospitality world
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: John Dunning --- Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Gregory Charles Zetzsche --- OMNES Education INSEEC, FranceThe hospitality industry is diverse, with restaurants forming a significant sub-sector. Within these, the sale of wine and other drinks is not only a potential source of profit, but also an integral part of the dining experience. Wine stewards, or... -
Unveiling Kianda: a multifaceted symbol in Luanda, Angola
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kyeri Kim --- Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Global Campus, Republic of KoreaThis article explores how Kianda, an (un)official urban symbol of Luanda, the capital of Angola, is rooted in the cosmological worldview of residents of Luanda’s Cabo Island (Ilha do Cabo, also known as Ilha de Luanda) and how it has...
