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Copeptin relates to a fatty liver and measures of obesity in a South African population with mixed ethnicities
(Springer, 2019)Purpose Elevated copeptin, a vasopressin marker, is linked to metabolic disease, and obese rats with low-vasopressin concentration had a decreased risk of liver steatosis. We here investigated the association between ... -
Coping and autonomic dysfunction act in tandem with alcohol-related subclinical atherosclerosis: the SAPBA study
(Nova Science Publishers, 2014)"Introduction: Alcohol abuse is among the Westernized world‘s most common lifestyle factors contributing to sensitization of vascular structure and pathology. Gamma glutamyl transferase (γ-GT), as a marker of alcohol abuse, ... -
Coping and metabolic syndrome indicators in urban black South African men: the SABPA study
(Clinics Cardiv Publishing, 2010)Urbanisation is associated with obesity, hypertension anddevelopment of the metabolic syndrome (MS). We aimed toassess the use of different coping styles and their influenceon increases in MS indicators and target end-organ ... -
Coping and work engagement in selected South African organisations
(AOSIS, 2011)Orientation: The coping strategies of their employees are amongst the activities that organisations should address to improve their employees’ work engagement. Research purpose: The objective of this study was to investigate ... -
Coping and work engagement in selected South African organisations
(AOSIS, 2011)Orientation: The coping strategies of their employees are amongst the activities that organisations should address to improve their employees’ work engagement. Research purpose: The objective of this study was to investigate ... -
Coping and work engagement in selected South African organisations
(AOSIS, 2011)Orientation: The coping strategies of their employees are amongst the activities that organisations should address to improve their employees’ work engagement. Research purpose: The objective of this study was to investigate ... -
Coping behaviour, posttraumatic growth and psychological well-being in women with childhood sexual abuse
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick & NISC [© 2010 Elliot & Fitzpatrick], 2013)This study investigated the coping behaviours and posttraumatic growth of women with sexual abuse in childhood (CSA) and long-term effects on their psychological well-being in adulthood. Participants were 10 women survivors ... -
Coping behaviour, posttraumatic growth and psychological well–being in women with childhood sexual abuse
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This study investigated the coping behaviours and posttraumatic growth of women with sexual abuse in childhood (CSA) and long-term effects on their psychological well-being in adulthood. Participants were 10 women survivors ... -
Coping disability of Africans during urbanization: a risk marker in the development of lifestyle diseases?
(Nova Science Publishers, 2008)Urbanization with accompanying insecurities and disruption in African social relationships is consistent with an increase in the prevalence of lifestyle diseases such as hypertension and the metabolic syndrome. The individual ... -
Coping facilitated troponin T increases and hypo-responsivity in the copeptin-HPA-axis during acute mental stress in a black cohort: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2019)Background Defensive coping (DefS) was associated with a vulnerable cardiovascular profile in blacks. The copeptin/vasopressin system is a manifestation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis activity and may act as an ... -
Coping mechanisms, perception of health and cardiovascular dysfunction in Africans
(Elsevier, 2006)The purpose of this study was to compare active and passive coping strategies of Africans with perception of own health and cardiovascular data. The subjects included 236 apparently healthy Africans (men = 109; women = 127). ... -
Coping self-efficacy and psychosocial well-being of marginalised South African youth
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The aim of this study was to investigate coping self-efficacy and aspects of psychosocial well-being amongst youth from marginalised backgrounds. A total of 794 black South African marginalised youth (males = 54%, females ... -
Coping self-efficacy as mediator in the dynamics of psychological well-being in various contexts
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick, 2011)The aim of this study was to explore whether coping self-efficacy mediates between various distress related variables on the one hand (symptoms of stress and depression), and the degree of psycho-social well-being as ... -
Coping strategies among the food–insecure household in Malawi, a case of female and male–headed household in south eastern of Malawi
(Social Sciences Research Society, 2017)Food insecurity remains a serious concern in most developing countries. The fact that so many households are considered to be food insecure makes pertinent the question as to how these households survive. As food is vital ... -
Coping with diversity in dormitories in a historically white HEI in South Africa
(Unisa Press, 2013)The dormitories of historically white higher education institutions (HEIs) are becoming increasingly diverse in South Africa. We were interested in finding out how white students cope with this increased diversity. We ... -
Coping with drought: Indigenous knowledge application in rural South Africa
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Coping with drought: Indigenous knowledge application in rural South Africa
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Coping with HIV-related stigma in five African countries
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Coping with HIV/AIDS stigma by women who lost their partners to AIDS in the North West Province
(Zhengzhou University, 2011)The aim of this article is to explore and describe how women who lost their partners to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the North West Province, cope with the stigma of the disease. A phenomenological ... -
Coping with job insecurity – exploring effects on perceived health and organizational attitudes
(Emerald, 2013)Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to investigate how employees’ coping (problem, emotion and avoidance focused coping) may affect the reactions to job insecurity. Because the coping investigated in the present ...