BRAIN FAG SYMPTOMS AMONG BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Black South African

scholarly journals Psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale amongst black South African university students

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malose Makhubela ◽  
Solomon Mashegoane
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Acceptable Internal Consistency

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.

scholarly journals Cancer prevention: attitudes and practices among black South African university students

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
South African ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Attitudes And Practices

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.

HEALTH-PROMOTING LIFESTYLES AND PERSONALITY AMONG BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Stepwise Regression ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
African Students ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Health Promoting

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.

Gambling Attitudes among Black South African University Students

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer ◽  
Johannes M. Thole
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Law Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Black South African ◽  
The North ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Course Of Study

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.

Identities in Transition: Shifting Conceptions of Home among “Black” South African University Students

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bongi Bangeni ◽  
Rochelle Kapp
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

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.

South African University Students' Life Satisfaction and Perceptions of African Immigrants

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 1127-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Louise Kayitesi ◽  
Kelvin Mwaba
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Life Scale

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.

scholarly journals Psychosocial correlates of health practices in black South African university students

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Psychosocial Correlates ◽  
Black South African

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.

FACTOR STRUCTURE OF CONDOM ATTITUDES AMONG BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvester N. Madu ◽  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Preventive Measure ◽  
Black South African ◽  
The North ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Condom Attitudes ◽  
The University

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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