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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, ...
Children’s interactions with family and friends in constrained contexts: Considerations for children’s subjective well‑being
(Springer Nature, 2021)
The primary aim of the study was to determine the relation between the frequency of children’s interactions with family and friends and their subjective well-being amongst a sample of children residing in the Western Cape ...
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 beneficial effects of professional identity: The mediating role of teaching identification in the relationship between role stress and psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic
(MDPI, 2022)
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and students rapidly transitioned to
remote teaching and learning. In South Africa, this initial transition was followed by periods of
reopening and closing of schools ...
Trauma nation: Exposure to traumatic events among South African university students
(Journal of Community Psychology, 2020)
The current study investigated exposure to past trauma among South African students at a historically disadvantaged institution (HDI). The student population at HDI's are typically from low-income communities that were ...
Boys Are Victims, Too: The Influence of Perpetrators’ Age and Gender in Sexual Coercion Against Boys
(SAGE Journal, 2021-04)
Sexual coercion among adolescent boys in South Africa is an underresearched topic despite the frequency of such events. Although quantitative research has illuminated the prevalence of sexual coercion toward boys, it has ...
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 ...
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, 2023)
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 ...
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 ...