Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 1999. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-224).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2009. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-02, page: .

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2004. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-74).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-116). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of West Florida, 2005. / Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 117 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation focusses on pupils who do not act according to the expectations of their educators. They are restrained in their becoming actualising persons. On the basis of the description of becoming as a phenomenon, criteria are formulated in order to identify children restrained in their becoming. These children's actualisation is investigated in accordance with the criteria for adequate actualisation. By way of observation, questionnaires and personal interviews it has been empirically established that the restrained child has relational difficulties, especially with parents, and that these difficulties result in inadequate exploration, emancipation, differentiation, distantiation and objectification. One restraint can affect every area of the child's actualisation. Educators may assist the restrained child by ensuring that his basic educational needs are met. But the chief need of the child restrained in his becoming has emerged as the security and protection an adequate father-figure (all be it a teacher) provides. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Empirical Education)

Background: International research has clearly indicated that the world’s population is ageing: almost all countries in the world are experiencing a significant growth in the proportion of older persons in their population. This is also true for developing countries such as South Africa that are beginning to show signs and symptoms of an ageing population. Among Southern African Development Communities (SADC), South Africa has the highest number of ‘senior citizens’. Population reports indicate that the population of old people rose from paltry 2.8 million in 1996 to more than 4 million in 2011 and this is expected to skyrocket to seven million by 2030. In spite of the increasing number of senior citizens in socio-structural landscapes in South Africa, there is still lack of adequate, workable and effective policy frameworks for the wellbeing of the elderly. There is also paucity of psychological data of the elderly, especially along racial divides to determine whether the after-effects of apartheid still hold sway or not in post-apartheid South Africa. This study was conceived to investigate the psychological well-being of the elderly in Buffalo City, Eastern Cape, South Africa between two racial-ethnic elderly groups. The specific objectives of the study were to explore the relationship between the socio-demographic characteristics and psychological well-being of the black (Xhosa) and white (English) elderly in Buffalo City, South Africa and second, to validate the relationship between psychological well-being and physical activity, loneliness, spirituality/religiosity as well as ageism among the sampled population. The set-point theory, selective optimisation compensation theory (SOCT) as well as the continuity theory were employed to guide the conduct of the study. Method: Psychological measuring instruments were deployed to collect data for the study from a total of 301 elderly respondents in retirement and private individual homes (191 isiXhosa and 110 English speaking elderly). Both simple random sampling (SRS) and purposive sampling procedures were used to select the respondents. The measuring instruments included the Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-being (RSPWB), Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE), Assessment of Spiritual and Religious Sentiments Scale (ASPIRES), University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale, the Palmore Ageism Survey scale and a biographical questionnaire. Data was analysed using MANOVA, One-way variance analysis and regression coefficient. The racial differences logically influenced the selection of the respondents for the study. Results: The study revealed a significant statistical relationship between physical activity (PA) and psychological well-being of the elderly, regardless of the sociodemographic variables. PA showed a significant relationship with psychological wellbeing of the elderly. The study also discovered that loneliness correlates significantly with all four of the psychological well-being scales. It shows that the higher the levels of loneliness experienced by the elderly, socio-demographic variables controlled, the lower the levels of psychological well-being in terms of autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and self-acceptance. However, with the exception of the relationship between loneliness and purpose in life, ethnic affiliation moderates autonomy, environmental mastery and self-acceptance. English elderly constantly experienced higher levels of autonomy than the isiXhosa elderly do with an increase in loneliness. The study also found a positive relationship between ageism and psychological well- being. However, with low levels of ageism, the English elderly, in comparison with the isiXhosa elderly, is likely to show higher levels of autonomy. In addition, a significant statistical relationship between ageism and environmental mastery and purpose in life was found among the isiXhosa elderly. Although, with an increase in ageism, there is a slight increase in autonomy in both groups, the English elderly throughout showed higher levels of autonomy than the isiXhosa elderly showed. The study found a positive relationship between religiosity/spirituality and psychological well-being of the elderly. However, race could moderate the relationship between prayer fulfillment and psychological well-being at all four levels (autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and self-acceptance). With an increase in prayer fulfillment, the autonomy of the English elderly increases fairly quickly, while the autonomy of the isiXhosa elderly decreases slightly. Comparatively, the study found that isiXhosa elderly reported lower levels of psychological well-being than the English elderly. Conclusion/Recommendation: The study concludes that there is the need to develop a solid national data bases on needs and use of services, and process of ageing in order to access research data to assist planning, dissemination, delivery and evaluation of effective service delivery for the elderly population in South Africa, especially along racial divides.

The number of women who choose to combine careers and traditional roles as mothers has been increasing steadily over the last number of years. As a result, the subjective wellbeing of these women has been the focus of many research projects over the last number of years. Subjective well-being has been defined in various ways by different authors. One definition describes subjective well-being as people's evaluations of their lives, which includes happiness, pleasant emotions, life satisfaction, and a relative absence of unpleasant moods and emotions. The current study, which took the form of a multiple case study, attempted to explore and describe White employed married mothers’ subjective experience of their well-being. The study also explored these women's experiences of combining the roles of employee and motherhood. The sample was obtained through the snowballing technique, and both qualitative (in-depth interviews) and quantitative techniques (two questionnaires - the Satisfaction with Life Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory) were utilized. The analysis of the data that was gathered was done by means of thematic and content analyses.

L‟intérêt porte sur l‟intervention ou la non-intervention du réel dans la représentation. Le réalisme dans l‟oeuvre dramatique se mesure à l‟aune de la mise au jour des actualités historiques, politico-sociales et des réalités existentielles. A la quête de l‟interprétation de la conception du “réel” s‟ajoute un questionnement esthétique : la manière de le montrer. Notre recherche a comme objet l‟oeuvre dramatique de Michel Deutsch. C‟est en donnant à voir les défaillances des individus et leur non-intégration sociale dans le monde actuel désorganisé que le dramaturge témoigne son approche réaliste. La configuration dramaturgique de l‟espace extrascénique et l‟usage vraisemblable des objets qui y sont installés en sont des arguments à l‟appui. “L‟annonciation/incarnation de la réalité” rajoute de l‟exactitude aux faits représentés et la mise en oeuvre de la fonctionnalité du symbolique en dépit des descriptions standards prévaut. Or, la non-accessibilité dudit réel est un défi lancé à la reproduction d‟une image globale et parfaite de tous les événements. L‟incongruité tributaire du “nowhere” et de l‟anti-naturalisme structurel et factuel de l‟espace dramatique culmine avec l‟exposition inappropriée des principes consubstantiels à l‟espace théâtral. Le brouillage des repères temporels et l‟atemporalité accentuent le dysfonctionnement. Le langage lacunaire déjoue l‟expression, l‟extériorisation, la compréhension et la communicabilité. Le rapport au vécu se creuse : la pensée et la parole individuelle s‟évincent en faveur de l‟irruption recommencée de “l‟auteur-rhapsode”. Si la non-identification, le démembrement ou l‟indétermination de la situation d‟énonciation de l‟individu est condamnable, son existence atomique ou sa non-existence l‟est davantage.Michel Deutsch opte pour la transgression du réel et préconise le rejet catégorique de la duplication imitative et le principe de la “déconstruction-reconstruction” dans la représentation. / The interest in the representation gets to the intervention or the nonintervention of the real in it. The realism in the dramatic work is measured by ell updating the historical and political-social actualities and the existing realities. In the quest for the interpretation of the conception of “real”, it is add the ethic questioning of how to show it.Our research aims the dramatic work of Michel Deutsch. Seeing the individuals failures and their social nonintegration in the actual disorganized world that the playwright testifies his realistic approach. The extrastage space dramatic configuration and the likely use of the objects installed are supporting arguments for it. “The annunciation-incarnation of reality” adds exactitude to the representing facts and prevails the implentation of symbolic feature despite the standard descriptions. Though, the non-availability of real is a challenge launch to the reproduction of a global and perfect image of all the events. The tributary incongruity of “nowhere” and the structural, factual antinaturalism of dramatic space culminates in the inappropriate exposition of consubstantials principles of the theatrical space. The jamming time markers and the timeless stress the dysfunction. The lacunar language foiled the expression, the externalization, the comprehension and the communicability. The relationship with life fails : the thinking and the individual speech ousting on account of the restarted irruption of the “rhapsode-author”. If the non-identification, the dismembrement or the indetermination of speech situation of every person is condemnable, its atomic existence or his non existence are worse.Michel Deutsch opt for the transgression of the real and preconize to reject categoricaly the imitative duplication and the principal of the deconstruction-reconstruction in the representation.

Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard (Barnard) was a world renowned surgeon who made medical history when he performed the world’s first human heart transplant. Barnard was celebrated by some for his courage and contribution in advancing the field of cardiothoracic surgery, while others believed that the technique of human heart transplantation was not his own. Barnard became known for his controversial lifestyle, and acquired a reputation as a playboy. He died in 2001 at the age of 78, following an asthma attack. The aim of the current study was to explore and describe the personality development of Barnard, by applying Alfred Adler’s theory of Individual Psychology to the context of his lived life. The study used a single case study research design, and purposive sampling was used to select the subject. This selection was made on the basis of the researcher’s interest in Barnard’s life history and his immense contribution to medical science. Data sampled was qualitative, and was collected from primary and secondary data sources. Collected data was analysed in accordance with Alexander’s model of data analysis. The findings of the study indicated that Barnard’s life was in many respects aligned with Adler’s theory and that his striving for significance was largely influenced by his social environment as well as the cultural context in which he lived.