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Does positive affect buffer the associations between job insecurity and work engagement and psychological distress? A test among South African workers
(Wiley, 2013)This study aims to respond to earlier calls to study well-known concepts, more specifically, job insecurity, in less traditional (i.e. non-European, non-US) settings, as well as factors that may mitigate the aversive ... -
Does positive affect buffer the associations between job insecurity and work engagement and psychological distress? A test among South African workers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)This study aims to respond to earlier calls to study well-known concepts, more specifically, job insecurity, in less traditional (i.e. non-European, non-US) settings, as well as factors that may mitigate the aversive ... -
Does religion affect alcohol and tobacco use among students at North-West University, South Africa?
(Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), 2017)The present study used multidimensional measures of religion to assess religion's influence in engendering positive behaviours as measured by alcohol and tobacco use among a sample of undergraduate students at the North-West ... -
Does religion affect sexual behaviour? Focus on first sexual intercourse among youth in North West University South Africa
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2017)The aim of the study was to assess the impact of religion on the timing of youth transition to first sexual intercourse using a sample of undergraduate students from the North-West University in South Africa. Cox regression ... -
Does the traditional healer have a modern medical identity in South Africa?
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: Research supports the view that the South African traditional healer does not hold a modern medical identity, but developed from the traditional African religions and cultural environment as a kind of caregiver. ... -
Does the traditional healer have a religious distinctiveness in Modern-day South Africa?
(WordPress, 2016)Research alludes that the South African traditional healer is not a medical identity, but origin from the old Traditional African Religious Culture as a traditional religious-healer; a spiritual remnant from a previous, ... -
Does virginity still matter in the modern world? Virginity and the denial of marriage in the Acts of Paul and Thecla
(2015)In the modern world where people are still fascinated by the idea of virginity, the expression 'being a Thecla' or being a 'disciple of Thecla' refers to the state of virginity. This is a reference to Thecla in the ancient ... -
Does visual participatory research have resilience-promoting value? Teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)I report on a phenomenological investigation into teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings during their participation in the Resilient Educators (REds) intervention. All 18 teacher participants came ... -
Does visual participatory research have resilience–promoting value? Teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2012)I report on a phenomenological investigation into teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings during their participation in the Resilient Educators (REds) intervention. All 18 teacher participants came from ... -
Doing gender is unavoidable: Women’s participation in the core activities of the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1938-1943
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2013)Afrikaner women played a major role in the Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) movement in South Africa from 1939 to 1954. Women participated in a range of activities as part of the OB Women's Division. As an organisation born out of ... -
'Doing' and 'using' sexual orientation: the role of gay male pornographic film in the identity construction of gay men
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The taken-for-granted dominance of heteronormativity in contemporary society has been well documented and critiqued in several social science studies. Acutely aware of its fragility and vulnerability (Butler 1991), its ... -
Domestic workers lived realities of empowerment and disempowerment within the South African labour legislative context: two sides of the same coin
(2015)South Africa is heralded as a global ambassador for the rights of domestic workers. Empowerment, however, remains an elusive concept within the sector. Fear–based disempowerment still characterises the employment relationship, ... -
Dooyeweerd's legal and political philosophy: a response to the challenge of historicism.
(University of the Orange Free State. Faculty of Law, 2014)A look at the penetrating and encompassing nature of Dooyeweerd's political and legal philosophy makes it understandable why Georgio Del Vecchio, a reputable Italian philosopher of law, appreciated Dooyeweerd as "the most ... -
Dooyeweerd's philosophy entails no support for Apartheid whatsoever
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2015)In an article on Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the perversion of critique, Rèné Eloff argues that E.A. Venter and H.J. Strauss drew upon the philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd to justify separate development and that ... -
Dooyeweerd's theory of religious ground motives: a few implications for Christian philosophy and scholarship
(Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2012)The first part of the article surveys the theory of "religious ground motives" elaborated by Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977), a Dutch Calvinist philosopher and founder of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea. The main tenets ... -
Drummistic piano composition: an approach to teaching piano composition from a Nigerian cultural perspective
(Sage Publications, 2008)The search for Nigerian-based content and methodology for music education has been one of the primary concerns of music educators in contemporary Nigeria. Debates and criticisms surrounding the existing curriculum are ... -
Dumela Mma: an examination of resilience among South African grandmothers raising grandchildren
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)Grandmothers serve as primary care-givers for a significant number of South African children. Previous research has documented that South African grandmothers experience physical, financial, emotional and social adversity. ... -
Dupuy's view on economism
(AOSIS, 2013)French economist and philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy has drawn attention to the dominance of society by not only the powers of finance and commerce, but also by economic rationalism, a methodology of maximising profit, rent, ... -
Dutch and Afrikaans as post-pluricentric languages
(De Gruyter, 2011)The relationship between Afrikaans and Dutch cannot be captured adequately by the construct of pluricentrism. However, to deny a connection of a similar kind would leave aspects of the historical and current relationship ... -
Dutch and Afrikaans as post–pluricentric languages
(De Gruyter, 2011)The relationship between Afrikaans and Dutch cannot be captured adequately by the construct of pluricentrism. However, to deny a connection of a similar kind would leave aspects of the historical and current relationship ...