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Download full textBongani V. Mtshweni; Fortunate T. Silinda – Transformation in Higher Education, 2025
Social support and academic motivation play an imperative role in university students' success. This study investigated the influence of perceived social support and academic motivation on academic persistence. The participants included 207 undergraduate first-generation black students (FGBS) from a comprehensive university in South Africa (Mean…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence, Student Motivation, First Generation College Students
Direct linkGarton, Paul M.; Wawrzynski, Matthew R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2021
Student affairs and student engagement are becoming important mechanisms for social change within South African tertiary education. We explored the relationship between student involvement in cocurricular activities and learning outcomes related to collective leadership for social change. Data were collected via a survey of 1,309 students that…
Descriptors: Social Change, Student Personnel Services, Learner Engagement, Higher Education
Hsiao, Celia; Richter, Linda M. – Infants and Young Children, 2014
This article examines the influence of early development on preschool cognitive and behavioral outcomes in South Africa, as well as the role of family factors such as maternal education in moderating this association. The study involved 167 Black South African children (89 boys and 78 girls) from the Birth to Twenty study during their first 5…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Halvorsen, Joar Overaas; Kagee, Ashraf – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The present study investigated potential predictors of the psychological sequelae of torture among 143 former political activists who had been detained during the apartheid era in South Africa. Using multiple regression analyses, the authors found that the number of times detained for political reasons, negative social support, strong…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Predictor Variables, Risk, Violence
Peer reviewedZaaiman, Hermien; van der Flier, Henk; Thijs, Gerard D. – Higher Education, 2000
Research on the fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency of selecting students is reported in the context of selecting educationally disadvantaged black students in South Africa for a one-year mathematics- and science-based student-centered compensatory university preparatory program. A formula comprised of weighted mathematics, science, and…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Black Students, College Bound Students, Compensatory Education
Peer reviewedGoduka, Ivy N.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Compared family characteristics and developmental outcomes of African-American children from three rural contexts in South Africa: the homeland, the resettlement, and white-owned farms. Child outcomes were highly intercorrelated in all three contexts, but correlations among family variables, and between family and child variables, showed different…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Black Youth, Cognitive Development, Crowding
Boer, Henk; Mashamba, M. Tshilidzi – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
We assessed the usefulness of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and protection motivation theory (PMT) to predict intended condom use among 201 adolescents from Venda, South Africa. Results indicated that both the TPB and the PMT could significantly predict intended condom use, although the level of explained variance was limited. Hierarchical…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Psychological Patterns, Correlation, Health Behavior
