Doel: Die studie het gepoog om vaders se persepsie en ervaring van uitdagings in hulle verhouding met hul leergestremde kind te verken en te beskryf. Agtergrond: Leergestremdheid is ’n baie algemene probleem by kinders en is bekend vir die negatiewe effek wat dit op die kind self en op die ouers van die kinders uitoefen. Dit blyk dat ’n leergestremde kind addisionele spanning op die ouers plaas. Hierdie studie fokus alleenlik op die vader van ’n leergestremde kind omrede die meeste studies slegs op die moeder-kind-verhouding fokus, aangesien die moeder as die primêre versorger van die kind beskou word. Die navorsingsmetode wat vir hierdie studie gebruik is, was ’n kwalitatiewe navorsingsontwerp. Die populasie het bestaan uit vaders met leergestremde kinders in die ouderdomsgroep van 13 tot 18 jaar en wat as gevolg van intrinsieke oorsake leergestremd is. Die data is aan die hand van semigestruktureerde onderhoude met vyf vaders, asook met ’n groepsgesprek bekom. Die doel was om die vaders se ervaring van hulle verhouding met hul leergestremde kind te ondersoek, waarna tematiese analises gebruik is om data saam te stel. Die elemente van kwalitatiewe verkennende en beskrywende teorie het as breër raamwerk vir die studie gedien. Bevindings: Die vaders het hulle verhouding met hul leergestremde kind as baie frustrerend beskryf en gesê dat hulle ook nie ’n goeie verhouding met hul kind het nie. Gevoelens van teleurstelling het primêr betrekking op die onvoldoende verwagtinge wat die vaders vir hulle kind koester. Hulle gevoel dat hulle geen ondersteuning van die skole en van die breër gemeenskap ontvang nie, het ook tot ’n negatiewe ervaring met die leergestremde kind gelei. / MA (Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

Doel: Die studie het gepoog om vaders se persepsie en ervaring van uitdagings in hulle verhouding met hul leergestremde kind te verken en te beskryf. Agtergrond: Leergestremdheid is ’n baie algemene probleem by kinders en is bekend vir die negatiewe effek wat dit op die kind self en op die ouers van die kinders uitoefen. Dit blyk dat ’n leergestremde kind addisionele spanning op die ouers plaas. Hierdie studie fokus alleenlik op die vader van ’n leergestremde kind omrede die meeste studies slegs op die moeder-kind-verhouding fokus, aangesien die moeder as die primêre versorger van die kind beskou word. Die navorsingsmetode wat vir hierdie studie gebruik is, was ’n kwalitatiewe navorsingsontwerp. Die populasie het bestaan uit vaders met leergestremde kinders in die ouderdomsgroep van 13 tot 18 jaar en wat as gevolg van intrinsieke oorsake leergestremd is. Die data is aan die hand van semigestruktureerde onderhoude met vyf vaders, asook met ’n groepsgesprek bekom. Die doel was om die vaders se ervaring van hulle verhouding met hul leergestremde kind te ondersoek, waarna tematiese analises gebruik is om data saam te stel. Die elemente van kwalitatiewe verkennende en beskrywende teorie het as breër raamwerk vir die studie gedien. Bevindings: Die vaders het hulle verhouding met hul leergestremde kind as baie frustrerend beskryf en gesê dat hulle ook nie ’n goeie verhouding met hul kind het nie. Gevoelens van teleurstelling het primêr betrekking op die onvoldoende verwagtinge wat die vaders vir hulle kind koester. Hulle gevoel dat hulle geen ondersteuning van die skole en van die breër gemeenskap ontvang nie, het ook tot ’n negatiewe ervaring met die leergestremde kind gelei. / MA (Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

Young men who grew up with emotionally absent fathers seem to find it difficult to attain equilibrium through dedication to both personal and relational concerns, probably because they tend to have low self-esteem, struggle to establish intimate relationships and may be at greater risk of engaging in antisocial or violent behaviour. The aim of this study was to explore the self-regulation strategies that white young adult male students employ to deal with the emotions and cognitions related to the experience of having emotionally absent fathers. Interactive Qualitative Analysis was applied to facilitate a discussion group process through which a hypothetical model for a purposive sample of nine participants’ self-regulation strategies was systematically constructed. Ten themes were identified, and judging from the model participants’ attempts at self-regulation seem to be unproductive in the long run, hence the presence of three feedback loops from which they are unable to produce constructive behavioural outcomes. Disappointment over emotionally absent fathers has introduced a number of inhibiting factors that hinder the participants’ growth towards self-actualisation. Results support the literature on the complex nature of self-regulation within conflicting relationships. Although the study was explorative and findings cannot be generalised, it does provide valuable cues for counsellors, psychologists and further research. / MA (Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Young men who grew up with emotionally absent fathers seem to find it difficult to attain equilibrium through dedication to both personal and relational concerns, probably because they tend to have low self-esteem, struggle to establish intimate relationships and may be at greater risk of engaging in antisocial or violent behaviour. The aim of this study was to explore the self-regulation strategies that white young adult male students employ to deal with the emotions and cognitions related to the experience of having emotionally absent fathers. Interactive Qualitative Analysis was applied to facilitate a discussion group process through which a hypothetical model for a purposive sample of nine participants’ self-regulation strategies was systematically constructed. Ten themes were identified, and judging from the model participants’ attempts at self-regulation seem to be unproductive in the long run, hence the presence of three feedback loops from which they are unable to produce constructive behavioural outcomes. Disappointment over emotionally absent fathers has introduced a number of inhibiting factors that hinder the participants’ growth towards self-actualisation. Results support the literature on the complex nature of self-regulation within conflicting relationships. Although the study was explorative and findings cannot be generalised, it does provide valuable cues for counsellors, psychologists and further research. / MA (Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris IV, 1975. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-406).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Stockholm, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-94).

Text in Afrikaans / This study is aimed at the development of a guiding framework for fathers and their adolescent sons by focusing on male identity as the main binding factor in the relationship between father a and son. The establishment, as well as the confusion regarding male identity, have been stated as starting point and problem statement of the study. The need regarding the way in which the father and son can be guided within this dynamic relationship in order to establish male identity, has been stated as motivation for the study. The need regarding the guidance of fathers and their sons was thus the primary aim with the research question, namely what the most applicable factors in a guiding framework should be that would guide fathers and their sons in order to support the formation of male identity within the sons. The research methodology that has been followed, was from a Gestalt perspective as meta theoretical assumption from which qualitative, explorative and descriptive strategies were followed. The qualitative strategy consisted of an auto-ethnography and semi-structured interviews. The trustworthiness of the research has been strengthened by a quantitative component of the research by utilizing questionnaires, after which data was collected and analysed. A purposive sample was drawn that included respondents from the Drakenstein municipal area in the Boland district. Categories that were identified from data from the semi-structured interviews, as well as indicators from the questionnaires, have been integrated, from which propositions were constructed. Six themes and resulting guiding strategies were presented in the form of a guiding framework. / Hierdie studie is gerig op die ontwikkeling van 'n begeleidingsraamwerk vir vaders en hulle adolessente seuns deur te fokus op manlike identiteit as die samebindende faktor in die verhouding tussen vader en seun. Die vestiging, asook die verwarring ten opsigte van manlike identiteit, is as vertrekpunt en probleemstelling vir die studie gestel. Die behoefte ten opsigte van die manier waarop vader en seun binne hierdie dinamiese verhouding begelei kan word ten einde manlike identiteit te vestig, is as motivering vir die studie gestel. Die behoefte aan begeleiding vir vaders en huile seuns was dus die primere doel met 'n navorsingsvraag, naamlik wat die mees toepaslike faktore sal wees wat in 'n begeleidingsraamwerk aan vaders en hulle seuns leiding sal bied ten einde die vorming van manlike identiteit by die seuns te ondersteun. Die navorsingsmetodologie wat gevolg is, was vanuit die Gestaltperspekief as metateoretiese aanname waaruit kwalitatiewe, verkennende en beskrywende strategies gevolg is. Die kwalitatiewe strategie het bestaan uit 'n outoetnografie en semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude. Die vertrouenswaardigheid van die navorsing is deur 'n kwantitatiewe komponent van die navorsing versterk deur vraelyste te benut waarna data ingesamel en geanaliseer is. 'n Doelgerigte steekproef is getrek, wat respondente ingesluit het uit die Drakenstein munisipale gebied in die Boland distrik. Kategoriee wat vanuit die data van die semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude geidentifiseer is, asook indikatore vanuit die vraelyste, is geintegreer waaruit proposisies saamgestel is. Ses temas en voortspruitende begeleidingstrategiee is aangebied in die vorm van 'n begeleidingsraamwerk. / Social Work / D.Diac. (Spelterapie)

Text in Afrikaans / This study is aimed at the development of a guiding framework for fathers and their adolescent sons by focusing on male identity as the main binding factor in the relationship between father a and son. The establishment, as well as the confusion regarding male identity, have been stated as starting point and problem statement of the study. The need regarding the way in which the father and son can be guided within this dynamic relationship in order to establish male identity, has been stated as motivation for the study. The need regarding the guidance of fathers and their sons was thus the primary aim with the research question, namely what the most applicable factors in a guiding framework should be that would guide fathers and their sons in order to support the formation of male identity within the sons. The research methodology that has been followed, was from a Gestalt perspective as meta theoretical assumption from which qualitative, explorative and descriptive strategies were followed. The qualitative strategy consisted of an auto-ethnography and semi-structured interviews. The trustworthiness of the research has been strengthened by a quantitative component of the research by utilizing questionnaires, after which data was collected and analysed. A purposive sample was drawn that included respondents from the Drakenstein municipal area in the Boland district. Categories that were identified from data from the semi-structured interviews, as well as indicators from the questionnaires, have been integrated, from which propositions were constructed. Six themes and resulting guiding strategies were presented in the form of a guiding framework. / Hierdie studie is gerig op die ontwikkeling van 'n begeleidingsraamwerk vir vaders en hulle adolessente seuns deur te fokus op manlike identiteit as die samebindende faktor in die verhouding tussen vader en seun. Die vestiging, asook die verwarring ten opsigte van manlike identiteit, is as vertrekpunt en probleemstelling vir die studie gestel. Die behoefte ten opsigte van die manier waarop vader en seun binne hierdie dinamiese verhouding begelei kan word ten einde manlike identiteit te vestig, is as motivering vir die studie gestel. Die behoefte aan begeleiding vir vaders en huile seuns was dus die primere doel met 'n navorsingsvraag, naamlik wat die mees toepaslike faktore sal wees wat in 'n begeleidingsraamwerk aan vaders en hulle seuns leiding sal bied ten einde die vorming van manlike identiteit by die seuns te ondersteun. Die navorsingsmetodologie wat gevolg is, was vanuit die Gestaltperspekief as metateoretiese aanname waaruit kwalitatiewe, verkennende en beskrywende strategies gevolg is. Die kwalitatiewe strategie het bestaan uit 'n outoetnografie en semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude. Die vertrouenswaardigheid van die navorsing is deur 'n kwantitatiewe komponent van die navorsing versterk deur vraelyste te benut waarna data ingesamel en geanaliseer is. 'n Doelgerigte steekproef is getrek, wat respondente ingesluit het uit die Drakenstein munisipale gebied in die Boland distrik. Kategoriee wat vanuit die data van die semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude geidentifiseer is, asook indikatore vanuit die vraelyste, is geintegreer waaruit proposisies saamgestel is. Ses temas en voortspruitende begeleidingstrategiee is aangebied in die vorm van 'n begeleidingsraamwerk. / Social Work / D.Diac. (Spelterapie)