Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "Well-being"
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A reason to stay healthy: the role of meaning in life in relation to physical activity and healthy eating among adolescents
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2015)The present longitudinal study investigated the incremental contribution of meaning in life to sustaining health–promoting behaviors, after controlling for well–being and health values among East–European adolescents (N = ... -
African female adolescents experience of parenting and their sense of well-being
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick & NISC [© 2010 Elliot & Fitzpatrick], 2011)The objective of this study was to explore and describe South African, African female adolescents' experience of parent-adolescent relationships and their perceptions of the influence of the parent-adolescent relationship ... -
Burnout and engagement of reformed church ministers
(AOSIS, 2010)Orientation: The ministry is one occupation where burnout is increasingly considered to be a consequence of the problems with which ministers have to cope. However, few studies focused on the positive antipode of a ... -
Contractual relations between employers and employees in an HEI: individual and organisational outcomes
(HESA / Unisa Press, 2013)The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between employees' experiences of contractual relations and job satisfaction, flourishing and turnover intention in a higher education institution (HEI). A ... -
Exemplification and Perceived Job Insecurity
(Hogrefe, 2014)Impression management is typically seen as a means to achieve success. Little is known about potential side effects for the self, or about impression management aimed at prevention of loss. Here, we probe the relationship ... -
An exploration of families’ psychosocial well-being in a South African context
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick & NISC [© 2010 Elliot & Fitzpatrick], 2012)The aim of this study was to explore and describe aspects that contribute to the psychosocial well-being of families from diverse cultures in a South African context by analysing data obtained through narratives, drawings ... -
Is poverty a matter of perspective? Significance of Amartya Sen for the church's response to poverty: a public practical theological reflection
(AOSIS, 2016)Poverty continues to present an enormous challenge to the well-being of humanity. Different frameworks on poverty tend to identify different persons as poor, impacting on efforts to fight poverty. The church as a role ... -
Music and well-being
(Vaal Triangle Faculty, North-West University, 2014)This paper scrutinizes how human beings relate to the wider cosmos in the thinking of the European Middle Ages. The re-invention of the ‘spiritual’ might liberate Western culture from Cartesian elements within Western ... -
The nexus between the rights to life and to a basic education in South Africa
(2015)This article aims at exploring the nexus between the fundamental rights to life and to a basic education within the ambit of the legal framework created by both the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and ... -
Onderwys, die weg na lewenskwaliteit – die optimale realisering van die reg op lewe
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akad Vir Wetenskap En Kuns, Sekretaris, 2015)Against the background of the aims as expressed in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, namely to improve the quality of life of all citizens and to free everyone's potential, the perplexities of the right to ...