BRAIN FAG SYMPTOMS AMONG BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Author(s):  
Malose Makhubela ◽  
Solomon Mashegoane

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread widely leading to a global public health crisis of a pandemic proportion. Whilst infection rates tend to fluctuate in South Africa, COVID-19 remains a life-threatening disease with the capacity to wreak fear and concern. The present study evaluated the psychometric qualities of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) amongst black South African university students (N = 433; Female: 58%; Mage = 23.51 [SD = 4.18]). The FCV-19S demonstrated a unidimensional factor structure and acceptable internal consistency (α = 0.87), Omega (ω = 0.88) and the greatest lower bound (GLB = 0.90) reliabilities. In addition, discriminant validity was demonstrated when FCV-19S items loaded separately from ordinary fear. The FCV-19S can be used as a measure of COVID-19-related fear amongst black South African university students.


2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer

This study intended to investigate the attitudes and practices of cancer prevention among Black South African university students.OpsommingDie doelwit van hierdie navorsing was om die houdings en praktyke vir die voorkoming van kanker onder swart studente aan Universiteite in Suid Afrika na te vors. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.


2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer

The aim of this study was to investigate health-promoting lifestyles (HPLP) and personality in black South African students. The sample included 606 students: 236 Grade 12, secondary school and 370 first year social science university students in South Africa. Results indicate a reasonable percentage of health-promoting lifestyles with a mean of 2.72. Secondary school students reported more overall health-promoting lifestyles than did university students. Multiple stepwise regression identified the Lie scale, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism as independent predictors for the total HPLP; Extraversion, gender and group (=secondary or university students) were excluded.


2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer ◽  
Johannes M. Thole

Political change in South Africa since 1994 has led to a marked increase in opportunities to gamble. The purpose of the study was, therefore, to investigate attitudes towards gambling in African University students with the Gambling Attitude Scales by sex, course of study, and personality traits such as conservatism and risk-taking. The sample included 136 University of the North students, 80 first-year psychology and 56 second-year African law students. The students were 69 men and 65 women in the age range of 18 to 32 years ( M of 21.8 yr., SD = 3.9). Analysis showed that men held more positive attitudes than women did towards gambling. Positive attitudes toward gambling were related to individual differences in risk-taking, liberalism, and course of study.


2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bongi Bangeni ◽  
Rochelle Kapp

Abstract:This paper is drawn from a longitudinal case study in which we are tracking the progress of twenty students as they pursue their undergraduate degrees at the University of Cape Town. In this paper we trace two first-generation university students' changing constructions of who they are and the concomitant changes in their relationship to home and university over the course of three years. We describe their struggles to present coherent “home” identities and the ways in which these identities are challenged by both the dominant discourses of the institution and by rejection by their home communities. The research questions conventional notions that students from marginalized communities are either alienated from, or uncritically assimilated into, dominant institutional discourses.


2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 1127-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Louise Kayitesi ◽  
Kelvin Mwaba

In recent years, South Africa has experienced xenophobic violence directed against African immigrants. Our aim in this study was to investigate life satisfaction and perceptions of African immigrants among black South African university students. Undergraduate psychology students (192 women and 63 men) completed the Temporal Satisfaction With Life Scale and Southern African Migration Programme Survey Questionnaire. The results supported our expectation of the students' high levels of life satisfaction and favorable perceptions of African immigrants.


2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer

The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of health practices among young male and female adults.OpsommingDie doel van die navorsing was om die voorkeur en die korrelasies van psigososiale gesondheidspraktyke van jong manlike en vroulike volwassenes te bestudeer. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.


2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvester N. Madu ◽  
Karl Peltzer

The factor structure of condom attitudes among black South African university students was investigated amongst 1203 undergraduate students – ranging in age from 16 to 45 years – at the University of the North, South Africa, using a 25-item anonymous self-rating questionnaire constructed by the authors to tap students' opinions and complaints about using con- doms as a preventive measure against HIV/AIDS. Factor analysis reduced the items to five factors with five items each. Each of the factors correlated highly with the total scale and moderately or poorly with each other. Results indicate that the study is useful as a baseline and for providing information for further investigation into related topics amongst black South African university students.


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