The purpose of this research is to explore individual behaviour towards authority.
The psychodynamic and phenomenological paradigms are used.
Unstructured interviews, conducted on five female consultants, produced ...
The humanised Aids patient increasingly finds itself a part of mainstream popular rhetoric.
There was a time however, when the Aids patient was no more than a disease ravaged corpse
without rights. Conventional histories ...
The word "cancer" has different meanings for different people. In general, it is
synonymous with fatality, either imminent or in the forseeable future. How each person
perceives and attributes meaning to this personal ...
The present study aimed at investigating the neuropsychological sequelae of transient ischaemic
attacks. Transient ischaemic attacks are defined as those neurological disorders in which there
is complete ...
This study aims at giving a three-generational perspective on the meanings that a
family attaches to asthma and on how these meanings recursively informed their
behaviours. The wider social context was taken into ...
This study investigated the differences between descriptions of the lived experiences of painful loneliness
and comfortable aloneness. Loneliness, is documented as a modern-day social problem, associated with
psychic ...
'n Ondersoek word gedoen na die aard, die oorsprong en die geloofwaardigheid van
die inligtingsvetwerkingsbenadering in die kognitiewe sielkunde.
Reeds vir die antieke Griekse denkers vorm logika 'n uitdrukking van die ...
This study was based on subjective attitudes towards wife rape of 85 women and detailed interviews with 20 of them. It aimed to measure the relation between traditionalism and use of the term wife rape, awareness of wife ...
Organizations in South Africa have been going through a great deal of change in recent years.
However, little is known about the effects on employees. This study aimed to ascertain the
psychological impact of change on ...
The theories of social cognition and personal constructs compose the theoretical backdrop to this dissertation which deals with people's expectations regarding romantic partners and relationships.Five women were interviewed ...
The literature on stroke reveals an increasing interest in the role played by social and emotional factors in
rehabilitation after stroke. A comprehensive literature survey shows profiles of spontaneous recovery, the ...
In this study an ecosystemic approach to self-hypnosis was utilised as a tool to explore and
describe the healing of sport injuries. Four injured Subjects, from four different sporting
activities participated in the ...
This study focuses on a group of homosexual men. The group has been defined as 'Queer'
based on the value and pride which they place on their difference to the general norms and
values of the wider society. Four of these ...
This thesis operates, unashamedly, from the premise that every act of criticism
involves a self-reflexive gesture of one's own concerns and ideological imprintings. For this
reason Chapter One establishes ...
This study examines the mental preparation of elite athletes
using naturalistic action research. The focus of investigation
was on the personal difficulty of dealing with the "expert
issue" that existed in the consultative ...
South African society is currently negotiating a new future. As a result, the sense of identity amongst all groups in South Africa may be undergoing change. This dissertation attempts to identify what type of sense of ...
Individual distress in the work-place has been cited as the cause of
enormous loss of productivity and income, and has therefore attracted much attention from researchers and therapists alike. However, an extensive ...
In teenstelling met die takseersentrumteorie het navorsing getoon dat takseersentrum trektellings nie oor verskillende situasies stabiel is nie. Hierdie bevindinge mag 'n aanduiding wees van 'n lae konstrukgeldigheid ...
The small Chinese community in South Africa has played an important part in the economic and political life of South Africa. From 1660 to 1912, it reflected the experiences of migrant Chinese who left the mainland during ...