Browsing Department of Psychology by Author "Pretorius, Tyrone"
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A descriptive study of patients going 'absent without leave' from Lentegeur Hospital (April 1992-November 1992)
Hashim, Shereen B (University of the Western Cape, 1996)This study provides a descriptive profile of psychiatric patients who had gone ‘Absent Without Leave'(AWOL) from Lentegeur Hospital over an 8-month period from April to November 1992. The clinical sample comprised 93 ... -
Psychosocial variables in the transmission of AIDS
Perkel, Andrian, Keith (University of the Western Cape, 1991)In the decade since first identified, the Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has become a serious global disease. The nature of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, whereby a carrier may be ... -
The social construction of racialised identities in the post-apartheid South African sport context: A case study of black sport-persons in the western cape
Miller, Ingrid M. (University of Western Cape, 2001)The main purpose of the study was to analyse how current discourses about black South African sport-persons contribUJte to the racial Othering of this group and how they serve to perpetuate neoracist notions of blacks' ... -
Stress-resistant resources: A comparison of hardiness, sense of coherence, potency, fortitude, ego-resilience, and problem-solving appraisal
Gibson, Mokgobi Maboe (University of the Western Cape, 1999)This study compared the fortigenic constructs of the Sense of Coherence, Fortitude, Potency, Hardiness, Problem-Solving, and Ego-Resilience in terms of three aspects: (i) Psychometric properties of instruments that are ...