A Pilot Study of World View of Black and White South African Adolescent Pupils: Implications for Cross-Cultural Counselling

Hickson, Joyce; Christie, Grania; Shmukler, Diana

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“…However, little research has been done to demonstrate the validity of the questionnaire for the different ethnic and cultural groups in South Africa. Several studies during the 1980s and early 1990s indicated that black and coloured South Africans generally achieved lower scores than their white counterparts on measuring instruments such as the Career Maturity Inventory and the Career Development Questionnaire (Alexander, 1990;Beekman, 1989;Hickson & White, 1989;Reid-van Niekerk & Van Niekerk, 1990;Watson & Van Aarde, 1986). A recent study by Baloyi (1996) indicates that these differences can be ascribed to socioeconomic factors.…”

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The Career Development Questionnaire And The Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale For South African High School Students

Bruin

Bernard-Phera

2002

SA j ind psychol

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This study investigated the construct validity of the Career Development Questionnaire and the Career Decision- Making Self-Efficacy Scale for Grade 12 students from a low socioeconomic area in South Africa. The results of confirmatory factor analyses provided support for the construct validity of the Career Development Questionnaire and the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale as measures of career maturity and career decision-making self efficacy respectively.<p> <strong>Opsomming</strong> <br>Hierdie studie het ondersoek ingestel na die konstrukgeldigheid van die Loopbaanontwikkelingsvraelys en die Loopbaan-besluitneming-selfdoeltreffendheidskaal vir Graad 12 leerlinge van ‘n lae sosio-ekonomiese gebied. Die resultate van bevestigende faktorontledings het ondersteuning gebied vir die konstrukgeldigheid van die twee vraelyste as meetinstrumente van onderskeidelik loopbaanvolwassenheid en loopbaanbesluit-nemingselfdoeltreffendheid

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The Career Development Questionnaire And The Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale For South African High School Students

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Bernard-Phera

2002

SA j ind psychol

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“…'African culture' is said to be 'collectivist' or 'communalist' in that it is kinshipbased, and the interests of the social group are more highly valued than those of the individual (e.g. Bodibe & Sodi, 1997;Hickson, Christie, & Shmukler, 1990). Constructions of ubuntu -a fundamental humanity and caring for the well being of others -are often cited as evidence of an African communalism that is holistic, natural and loyal to ancestral tradition.…”

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Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part II: African Mentality

Yen

Wilbraham²

2003

Transcult Psychiatry

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This discourse analytic study explores constructions of culture and illness in the talk of psychiatrists, psychologists and indigenous healers as they discuss possibilities for collaboration in South African mental health care. Disjunctive versions of what 'culture' is in relation to the illness of a person form an important site for the negotiation of power relations between mental health practitioners and indigenous healers. The results of this study are presented in two parts. Part I explores how a professionalist discourse structured western psychiatric and psychological practice as rational, pragmatic and effective. 'Cultural differences' were variously deployed to support and subvert western psychiatric power. Part II explores the various constructions of African culture'--as 'collectivist' and 'pathogenic'--and the 'African mind'--as 'primitive' and 'irrational'--and how these formulations work to disqualify egalitarian positioning for indigenous healers within formal mental health care settings in South Africa.

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“…Given the unique situation of apartheid, there is ample evidence to believe that the Black South African cultural perspective (especially with regard to racial identity) is unique in itself (e.g., Hickson, Christie, & Shmukler, 1991). With particular reference to Blacks in South Africa and their unique situation, Harari and Beaty (1990) found that traditional questionnaire and survey approaches generated superficial or inaccurate data, leading to misconceptions of Blacks.…”

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The Validity of Cross’s Model of Black Racial Identity Development in the South African Context

Hocoy

1999

Journal of Black Psychology

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W.E. Cross's theoretical model for Black racial identity development has had substantial empirical validation. However, this validation has occurred exclusively in the United States; the applicability of the model to Black populations outside the United States remains largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to assess the validity of the Cross model in the South African context. South Africa was specifically chosen because of: a) the unique importance and salience of race in the country, b) the greater degree of societal discrimination based on race, and c) its indigenous African context and the omnipresent influences of African heritage. Considerable support for Cross's stages of Black racial identity development was found among Black South Africans, as were some marked differences. Modifications to Cross's model and the development of an indigenous African framework are recommended to account for all aspects of Black racial development in the South African context.

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A Pilot Study of World View of Black and White South African Adolescent Pupils: Implications for Cross-Cultural Counselling

Cited by 8 publications

References 47 publications

Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The Career Development Questionnaire And The Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale For South African High School Students

Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The Career Development Questionnaire And The Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale For South African High School Students

Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part II: African Mentality

The Validity of Cross’s Model of Black Racial Identity Development in the South African Context

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