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Volume 29, 2019 vol 28, 2018 vol 27, 2017 vol 26, 2016 vol 25, 2015 vol 24, 2014 vol 23, 20 vol 22, 2012 vol 21, 2011 vol 20, 2010 vol. Perceptions of the utility of personality assessment for personnel selection in the south african context. Fostering diversity and social justice within institutions of higher educations faculties, staff, students, research, curricula, and service to the community creates a rich atmosphere for teaching, learning, and inquiry and is a necessary condition for preparing our graduates to succeed in a. Sabinet african journals reliable research that offers more than 500 african journals, including the african journal archive. The south african journal of science publishes original work of importance in any field which will interest readers from more than one discipline. Journal of psychology in africa national inquiry services centre.
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Offers a broad introduction to critical psychology and explores the sociopolitical contexts of postapartheid south africa. Pdf a history of community psychology in south africa. An overview of industrial and organisational psychology research in south africa. What will it take to make a successful administrative professional in the fourth industrial. They participated in semistructured interviews exploring their understanding of the place of personality assessment in personnel selection. Posttraumatic stress disorder as a public health concern in south africa. Sa journal of industrial psychology directory of open. Cultural differences may also affect psychological constructs hofstede, 1980, but most of the. South african journal of industrial psychology vol. This study explored south african industrial psychologists perceptions of the utility of personality assessment for personnel selection.
South african journal of psychology information for contributors submission of a manuscript sajp is a peerre vie wed journ al p ublishin g empiric al, the ore tica l, a nd re vie w artic le s o n all asp ects of psychology. The transformation of psychology in a postapartheid south africa. Therefore the key question to be asked regards the extent to which south african industrialorganisational psychology research has been paying attention to the south african workplace. A proposed model for effective research support in zimbabwean university libraries.
South african journal of psychology volume 50, number 1. Substance abuse and psychological wellbeing of south. The africentric framework is a genre of thought and praxis based in the cultural picture and interest of people of african descent. Substance abuse and psychological wellbeing of south african. The formation of the forum of african psychology fap division by the psychological society of south africa psyssa in 2009 has reanimated the politics of the relevance of psychology in south africa, that had been thought to have in part been negotiated by the intervention by nsamenang 1990 and the then journal of african psychology.
The relationship between servant leadership, organisational citizenship behaviour and team effectiveness. But such efforts have foundered, argues long in a recent editorial south african journal of psychology, vol. Fortunately, through the inspirational writings of some africanist writers and scholars this unfair situation was not allowed to go unchallenged indefinitely. The south african journal of industrial engineering in this way, it aims to contribute to the further development of these fields of study and to serve as a vehicle for the effective interchange of knowledge, ideas and experience between the research and training. The unification of psychology under the psychological society of south africa, a few months before the advent of democracy in south africa, is explicated. African indigenous knowledge systems and relevance of. Knowledge sharing in selected municipalities of limpopo province. The protection of the title of psychologist in law and certain other changes in the legislative environment, enabling a greater role for psychologists, are reported. It presents theoretical, empirical, and practical issues that are foundational to african american psychology. Pdf an overview of industrial and organisational psychology. In this paper the authors argue that euroamerican mainstream models of psychological intervention have limited value in the context of south african apartheid.
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Unlike the hpcsa, membership of the organisation is voluntary. This overview of psychology in south africa presents a concise and historical account of its science and practice, from its early origins in the. Perceptions of the utility of personality assessment for. As we begin to focus on south africa, we notice interesting parallels and differences in how industrialorganizational psychology has evolved and. The content of the journal falls into two categories. This title expands on the theoretical resources usually referred to in the field of critical psychology by providing substantive discussions on black consciousness, postcolonialism and africanist forms of critique. This article represents a south african contribution to the growing international body of knowledge on histories of community psychology. Early south african engagement with international psychology. April 2015, volume 52, number 4 lynda zugec the workforce consultants in the last column on the international practice of io psychology, we discussed industrialorganizational psychology within the context of india and indian organizations. Sa journal of industrial psychologysa tydskrif vir bedryfsielkunde. A preliminary study article pdf available in sa journal of industrial psychology 361 march 2010 with 3,242. Chibuzor uchenna onuohafaculty of humanities, south africa, erhabor sunday.
Psyssa publishes the countrys only generalinterest psychology journal, the south african journal of psychology sajp, and hosts the annual south african psychology congress cooper, 2014. Substance abuse and psychological wellbeing of south african adolescents maretha visser department of psychology, university of pretoria, brooklyn, 0002, south africa maretha. Abstracts only from 1998 to 1999, citations only from 1984 to 1997. But with the recent emergence of african psychology as an academic subject field, it soon became necessary to. It is the most comprehensive, searchable collection of fulltext african electronic journals available on one platform. During the 1980s, when the relevance of psychological theory and practice was first called into question, the south african journal of psychology contained the lowest proportion of articles that dealt with race macleod, 2004 the field of psychology has undergone many changes since then, however some problems continue to persist in the post. While the emphasis is on empirical research, the journal. Stressmanagement strategies among firstyear students at a. Pdf showcasing io psychology in south africa semantic. The apartheid system introduced in the republic of south africa in. African journals online ajol is the worlds largest and preeminent platform of african published scholarly journals. The practice of psychology in south africa cannot be complete without its multicultural nature and historical background. Africas vulnerabilities, challenges and responses to pandemics like covid19.
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