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An exploration of WEF-Nexus coping strategies of rural women in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and Limpopo Province, South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)
This study explored the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus security and coping strategies of rural women in Chivi district, Zimbabwe and Vhembe district, South Africa. The WEF nexus is a term adopted to explore the connections ...
Historically disadvantaged youth negotiating for resilience resources to navigate towards violence prevention
(North-West University, 2018)
This phenomenological study applied participatory visual methods to explore the social ecology of resilience in a rural Free State community. The purpose of this study was to investigate how visual messages created and ...
Rural resilience and historically disadvantaged young women’s negotiations for protection against gender-based violence
(North-West University, 2018)
Research on gender-based violence proliferates. Yet there is little research on the resilience of young women faced with gender-based violence. The aim of my research study is to understand how social ecologies can best ...
Vulnerability and resilience in the Mopani district municipality in a changing climate
(North-West University, 2018)
The overall aim of this study is to identify how climate change may impact on the Mopani district municipality (MDM) in Limpopo province of South Africa, towards the formulation of suitable adaptation strategies. This ...
Daily hassles, resilience, and burnout of call centre staff
(North-West University, 2007)
Internationally, as well as locally, the trend is for companies to use call centres as their
preferred method of service delivery. The increase in the use of call centres as a service
delivery mechanism thus provides ...
Adventure based experiential learning and adolescents' self-reported levels of resilience and positive mental health
(2015)
The aim of this study was to determine to what extent resilience and positive mental health are promoted in adolescents within a South African context through participation in an adventure based experiential learning ...
Drought responses of forb and grass communities in communal and protected rangelands
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2019)
The structure, growth, dynamics and productivity of herbaceous vegetation in semi-arid savannas are strongly limited by rainfall variability and nutrient availability. These factors interact with other drivers of savanna ...
The antecedents of resilience among street children
(North-West University, 2009)
The chief focus of this study was on unearthing the antecedents of resilience in children on the street and street children in institutional care. This study was motivated by the desire to understand what made some street ...
When white Afrikaans-speaking adolescents from divorced families function resiliently : an overview of the protective antecedents
(North-West University, 2008)
Divorce is an ever-present phenomenon in society. This is also true for white Afrikaans-speaking
adolescents. Some of these adolescents seem to cope resiliently with the risk inherent in divorce while others struggle to ...
Relational well-being of a group of adolescents in a South African high-risk community
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)
Little is known about the experience of South African adolescents’ relational well-being who are living in high-risk environments. There has been an increase in well-being research over the past three decades pointing to ...