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The role of fortitude in relation to exposure to violence among adolescents living in lower socio-economic areas in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
OBJECTIVE: There is compelling evidence that a significant proportion of adolescents exposed to violence do not develop trauma-related symptoms, but adapt successfully. This differential vulnerability has propelled research ...
Validation of the fear of COVID-19 scale in South Africa: Three complementary analyses
(Elsevier, 2021)
TFear is the most common response to disease outbreaks. Persistent and prolonged fear can elevate the levels of psychological distress and aggravate preexisting mental health problems. Therefore, prompted by the central ...
Promoting well-being in the face of a pandemic: The role of sense of coherence and ego-resilience in the relationship between psychological distress and life satisfaction
(SAGE Publications, 2022)
COVID-19 has impacted negatively on the lives and academic activities of university students.
This has contributed to increasing levels of psychological distress among this population group.
Intrinsic and contextual ...
Facing your fear of Covid-19: Resilience as a protective factor against burnout in South African teachers
(Elsevier, 2022)
Frontline workers have been distinctively impacted by the rapid spread of the COVID-19
pandemic. Teachers, as frontline employees in the educational system, had to contend with
unprecedented changes to their work role, ...
Identity matters: Validation of the professional identifcation scale in a sample of teachers in South Africa during the Covid 19 pandemic
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022)
Professional identity has been linked to organizational outcomes such as job performance and commitment, as well as health and well-being indices such as burnout
and depression. Professional identity is a powerful mechanism ...
The dynamics of appraisal: a review of 20 years of research using the Fortitude Questionnaire
(South African Journal of Psychology, 2021-03)
Fortitude refers to the psychological strength to manage adversity and stay well. It is derived from adaptive cognitive appraisals of self, family, and social supports and has consistently been identified as a protective ...
Toward a positive life beyond covid-19: Problem-solving appraisal as a resistance resource in the relationship between stress and well-being in students
(MDPI, 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic is a major global stressor that has been associated with elevated
risk of negative mental health symptoms. As a helping profession, our main task should be identifying
factors that may shield ...
Deriving meaning from chaos: the mediating role of the sense of coherence in the serial relationships among fear of Covid-19, indices of psychological distress, and life satisfaction
(MDPI, 2022)
The current study focused on the role of the sense of coherence (SOC) in the serial relationships among the fear of COVID-19, indices of psychological distress, and life satisfaction. It examined
the hypothesis that an ...
Anxiety in brief: Assessment of the five-item trait scale of the state-trait anxiety inventory in South Africa
(MDPI, 2023)
The current study examined the psychometric properties of a short form of the trait scale
of the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Participants consisted of a convenience sample of
students (n = 322) who completed ...
Teacher burnout in the time of Covid-19: Antecedents and psychological consequences
(MDPI, 2023)
The important, frontline role of teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic has often gone
unrecognized, and attention to their mental health and well-being is often only the focus of scholarly
research. The unprecedented ...