Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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The performance of wearable sensors in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection : a systematic review
(Elsevier, 2022)Containing the COVID-19 pandemic requires rapidly identifying infected individuals. Subtle changes in physiological parameters (such as heart rate, respiratory rate, and skin temperature), discernible by wearable devices, ... -
Hopelessness and shame in relation to suicide attempts by Cuban adolescents
(SAGE Publications, 2022)Youth suicide rates in Cuba are very high compared with most other countries, despite considerable improvement in recent years. The purpose of our study was to determine whether hopelessness and shame distinguish adolescent ... -
Afrikaanse Jakkals-en-Wolftrieksterverhale : strukturele en inhoudelike patroonmatighede Afrikaans Jackal and Wolf trickster stories : patterning in the structure and general content
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2022)Afrikaans Jackal and Wolf trickster stories: Patterning in the structure and general content This article explores characteristic or repetitive pattern formations in the structure and general content of selected Afrikaans ... -
Transendensie, toeval en geluk
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2022)The question posed in this article is how happiness in life relates to transcendence and chance. This question is linked to questions about the core of our being as negation (something negative) and/or affirmation (something ... -
Hegemonie en mag : ’n normatiewe besinning in die lig van ’n gevallestudie
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2022)Hegemony and power are overlapping concepts. Hegemony can be understood as a way of exercising power and as the consequences of exercising power. Limited studies attempted to use the relationship between the concepts to ... -
Relasionele ontologie en posthumanistiese subjektiwiteit in Pieter Odendaal se poësiedebuut
(African Journals online, 2022)In Pieter Odendaal’s debut, asof geen berge ooit hier gewoon het nie (as if no mountains ever lived here), the poet expands the complex question “re mang?” (who are we?) into an important theme and utilises it as a structural ... -
Environmental attitudes among undergraduate students at a South African university
(ediPUCRS [University Publisher], 2022)Understanding environmental attitudes (EAs) has been viewed as prerequisite to changing environmental behaviour and is a particularly salient topic in the context of higher educational institutions which play an important ... -
Employers’ attitude, intention, skills and barriers in relation to employment of vulnerable workers
(2022)BACKGROUND: Little is known why some organizations employ vulnerable workers and others do not. OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationships between the attitude, intention, skills and barriers of employers and employment of ... -
Does occupational self-efficacy mediate the relationshipsbetween job insecurity and work-related learning? A latentgrowth modelling approach
(2022)This study investigates whether job insecurity is related to employee learning (i.e. the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies/characteristics; KSAOs) and whether occupational self-efficacy functions as a ... -
Ease of doing business in local government: push and pull actors for business investment in selected South African Municipalities
(2022)Ease of doing business with municipalities and within municipal areas refers to the simplicity, effortlessness, and extent to which private enterprises can establish and conduct their business. It is influenced by multiple ... -
Implementation of a multimodal academic literacy resource at a South African University: a critical autoethnographic reflection
(IGI Global, 2021)As a lecturer at a higher education institution in South Africa, the author is conscious of an emphasis placed on multimodal resources as part of the globally experienced shift to teach remotely due to the COVID-19 epidemic. ... -
Contesting Ideas of a University: The Case of South Africa
(MDPI, 2015)This article portrays four historically evolved ideas of a university, as they have developed in the South African context, namely the British liberal-humanistic education idea, the Afrikaner idea of an ethnically-oriented ... -
Undergraduate students’ perceptions of factors affecting job satisfaction
(AOSIS, 2018)Orientation: Globally, people engage in work and sell their services to an organisation in exchange for compensation. This compensation can have a significant effect on employees’ attitude towards their work, resulting in ... -
The epistemological implications of critical complexity thinking for operational research
(MDPI, 2019)Classical operational research (OR) is mainly concerned with the use of mathematical techniques and models used in decision-making situations. The basic assumptions of OR presuppose that the structure of the world is one ... -
How do mentally tough athletes overcome self-directed anger, shame, and criticism? A self-forgiveness mediation analysis
(Edizioni Luigi Pozzi, 2018)We examined associations between mental toughness, self-directed, negatively toned emotions and cognitions, and self-forgiveness. With reference to their participation in competitive tennis, a sample of 343 competitive ... -
Mitigating the socio-economic consequences of mine closure
(SAIMM, 2018)An analysis of trends in the mining industry in South Africa reveals a general lack of understanding among mining companies of the significant socio-economic consequences that mine closure may have on affected communities. ... -
Exploring lived experiences of spirituality amongst five Dalcroze teachers
(Sage, 2018)This article presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of the lived spiritual experiences of five Dalcroze teachers while teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics. It responds to a recent expansion of research into ... -
Music-inspired free play to foster scientific exploration in early childhood
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: The importance of music and play in early childhood development is widely acknowledged. However, no recent studies have investigated the potential of music-inspired free play to foster scientific exploration. Aim: ... -
Disaster risk problem framing: insights from societal perceptions in Zimbabwe
(Elsevier, 2017)As disasters are on the rise with devastating consequences, understanding the dynamics of disaster risk problem framing is crucial because the way in which a problem is framed circumscribes the search for solutions to that ... -
Exploring corporate reputation variables to measure personal reputations
(University of Johannesburg, 2017)his explorative article qualitatively describes reputation variables that are applicable to both corporate and personal reputations: identity, image, branding, personality, behaviour, culture, ethics and storytelling. The ...
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