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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"South African university students"”.
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Surviving separatism : persistent divisions among South African university students
Bibliography: leaves 173-185.
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A qualitative exploration of blackness among black South African university students
… of Apartheid, the new mandate of the democratic South African government has been to provide equal quality education for all and to desegregate the education system in South Africa. The desegregation of tertiary education afforded Black students the opportunity to navigate different campuses with …
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South African university students' user experience of mobile applications for anxiety and depression
Background: Globally, university students have been shown to be disproportionately affected by common mental disorders (CMDs). The primary CMDs reported by students have been anxiety and depression. Research on South African students has proven no exception. Moreover, this predicament is worsened …
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Associations between mental health, social cognition, and COVID-19 stress among South African university students
… all populations globally, most notably among university students, who are already a vulnerable cohort to CMDs, including PTSD. As integral socio-cognitive mechanisms of emotional regulation and interpersonal functioning, cognitive and affective empathy may potentially protect against or …
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Entrepreneurial Intentions of South African university students: an application of the theory of planned behaviour
… the Entrepreneurial Intentions (EI) of South African students at three universities in the Western Cape, using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). The research employed a two-phase design, starting with a less dominant qualitative exploration through nine interviews with students. …
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Associations between mental health, social cognition, and COVID-19 stress among South African university students
… all populations globally, most notably among university students, who are already a vulnerable cohort to CMDs, including PTSD. As integral socio-cognitive mechanisms of emotional regulation and interpersonal functioning, cognitive and affective empathy may potentially protect against or …
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Perceptions of risk for HIV amongst South African university students: the impact of the MTV film “Shuga”
… world, particularly in developing countries like South Africa (UNAIDS, 2010). South Africa has the largest percentage of people living with HIV & AIDS in the world, with AIDS continuing to be the leading cause of death(UNAIDS, 2010). Yet, as Svenson et al., (1997), Cain, (2005), Shisana et al., …
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The relationship between emotional expression and psychological distress amongst British, Indian, Polish, and South African university students
… the study. Method: A non-clinical sample of 399 university students (99 in India, 100 in Poland, 100 in South Africa, and 100 in the UK) were investigated. The questionnaires included the Emotional Self-Disclosure Scale, the Distress Disclosure Index, the Emotional Expressivity Scale, the …
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The relationship between perceived employability, core self-evaluations, and approach-avoidance temperaments in South African University students
… study collected survey response data from 303 South African prospective job seekers. Correlation analysis revealed that perceived employability and core self-evaluations were positively related, suggesting that general evaluations of self-worth may affect how individuals perceive their own …
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An exploration of South African university students utilization of and engagement with mental health-related information on Instagram
Mental health difficulties are prevalent among university students in South Africa and globally, but help-seeking is low due to a variety of structural and attitudinal barriers. It is therefore important to find novel ways of offering mental health information and support through modalities that …
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Excavating the meaning of information and communication technology use amongst South African university students : a critical discourse analysis
… and Communication Technologies (ICTs) mean to South African university students and how these meanings form the basis of technological identities. It explores the relationships between these meanings and identities and the possibilities and opportunities that they create or limit.
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Relationship between online-learning self-efficacy and risk for psychological distress and harmful substance use in South African university students
… with a mass migration to online learning. Students' level of online learning self-efficacy (OLSE) may be an important determinant of how they cope with these changes. This study explored whether sociodemographic and online learning context factors are associated with OLSE among South …
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The Case for Contextual Linguistic Diversity: Language Profiling, Multilingual Identity, and High-Level Listening Comprehension Ability in South African University Students
… analysis with data from 353 participants (62.9% South African, 37.1% UK), a three-factor solution best describes the structure of the CILD-Q: Multilingualism in Context (contextual use and societal practice of multiple languages within a community), Multilingualism in Practice (direct and …
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Prevalence of eating disorders at three universities in the Western Cape
… among adolescent and young women, notably university students. While eating disorders are multidetermined, sociocultural factors have been particularly implicated, among them, pressures to be thin and successful. In developing countries and among ethnic minorities in Western societies, …
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I want to look like that : the role of ideal-type media in disordered eating behaviours
… knowledge of this relationship in a sample of South African university students, who could be expected to have reasonably high levels of media exposure. It examined the relationship via both quantitative and qualitative methods. In the quantitative part, 222 second-year psychology students at …
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Mobile devices : taxation students' perception and acceptance of engaging with mobile learning environment
Universities should strive to educate students by applying new learning environments where students are given the opportunity to explore the world of education by the use of mobile devices. These technologies and mobile devices are already second nature to them and applying these devices in a …
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Understanding the relationship between interviewers' dispositional reasoning and judgement accuracy of deceptive impression management in interviews: does the accuracy measure matter?
… The primary study, conducted in a sample of South African university students (N = 516), required students to rate the levels of DIM in interview transcripts written to depict different levels and types of impression management. Results show that judges who were higher in dispositional …
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Mediated activity and the role of technology in peer-to-peer learning at the University of Fort Hare
… calls for research into the ways in which South African university students use technology for peer-to-peer learning (Czerniewicz and Brown, 2005). This study aims to explore the ways in which students mediate one another's learning and the ways in which they use (and don't use) information …
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A qualitative generational comparison of learning motivation amongst South African students : apartheid and Born- free generations
… and intellectual change. In a country such as South Africa, with its history of discrimination and division, generational studies are particularly important to bring about understanding of people and their behaviour. This study compares the motivation to attend university of South African …
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A formative evaluation of the UCT PMD Programme
… important educational technology components for university students. Although advances in wireless, mobile technology have resulted in PMDs becoming widely available and less expensive, PMD ownership still presents a substantial capital outlay beyond the means of many South African university …
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