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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 ...
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 ...
The psychological consequences of unemployment in South Africa
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
The objective of this study was to investigate the affective experiences, attitudes to work, and job application behaviour of unemployed people. A survey design was used and samples (N = 381) were drawn from unemployed ...
Well-being in times of task restructuring: The buffering potential of workplace learning
(Taylor &Francis, 2014)
In this paper, we focus on task restructuring as one of the most frequently occurring types of change in our contemporary knowledge society. In spite of its evident prevalence, research on task restructuring and employee ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ubuomba: Negotiating indigenisation of liturgical music in the Catholic Church in Zambia
(2014)
In the early 1950s the Vatican accepted the translation of Catholic hymnals into local Zambian languages and the incorporation of indigenous musical instruments into the liturgical music. This development inspired a group ...
The sweet peace of perfect assurance: On well-being in the hymns texts of Fanny Crosby
(2014)
Well-being is often described as a state of happiness or satisfaction with life, but it is so much more. The influence of religious involvement on a positive sense of well-being of the individual has been well documented. ...