Browsing by Subject "Adaptation"

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    • Adaptation to the worker role: The vocational experience of South African male ex offenders 

      Soeker, Mogammad Shaheed (OMICS International, 2014)
      Objectives: The study is aimed at exploring, describing and understanding the experiences and perceptions of male ex-offenders with regard to adapting to their worker roles after they have been released from prison. Methods: ...

    • Afrikaans adaptation of the children’s hope scale: Validation and measurement invariance 

      Savahl, Shazly; Adams, Sabirah; Florence, Maria Ann (Cogent OA, 2020)
      The overarching aim of this study was to validate the Afrikaans version of Snyder’s (1997) Children’s Hope Scale in a sample of children from Cape Town, South Africa. Within this process, the study aimed to test the ...

    • Aspirations and human development interventions 

      Conradie, Ina; Robeyns, Ingrid (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
      What role can aspirations play in small-scale human development interventions? In this paper, we contribute to answering that question with both conceptual and empirical work. Aspirations can play at least two roles in ...

    • Between text and stage: the theatrical adaptations of J.M. Coetzee’s Foe 

      Naidoo, Kareesha; Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      Several of J.M. Coetzee’s novels have been adapted successfully for the stage, both as theatrical and operatic versions, but these adaptations have not received much critical attention. This article examines the ways in ...

    • Neighbourhood responses to drought in the Western Cape 

      Rule, Stephen; Parker, Saahier; Majikijela, Yamkela (Springer, 2021-10)
      An extreme drought event occurred in the Western Cape when the mean level of water supply dams declined to 28% of capacity in August 2017 (Odendaal 2019). Our survey of 240 households and 71 businesses identified ...

    • Psychologie du sport : une psychologue aux Jeux Olympiques (1re partie) 

      Paré, M; Bouchard, J.P (Elsevier, 2021)
      Top athletes are often introduce when they are performing at major championships. But what about their daily life and all the things they put together for those success ? Maroussia Paré, high level athlete in track and ...

    • Sport psychology: A psychologist at the Olympic Games (part II) 

      Pare, Maroussia; Bouchard, Jean-Pierre (Elsevier, 2021-10-26)
      Access to high level sport goes hand in hand with athlete’s personal history. The literature reports two types of access: heirs and non-heirs. Heirs are athletes who have inherited the sporting background of their family ...