Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Magister Psychologiae - MPsych / The South African Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act (no. 92 of 1996) regulates the process of termination of pregnancy in the country. However, research has shown noncompliance to the stipulation leading to clandestine practices, ostracism and lack of knowledge regarding the Act. The aim of this study was thus to explore perceptions of Psychology Honours students toward termination of pregnancy as well as to investigate their knowledge of the CTOP Act and assess how far the legislature informs their perceptions, if at all. Although CTOP Act legislation stipulates pre and post CTOP counselling, evidence suggests that few women seeking termination of pregnancy (TOP) rarely receive counselling as envisaged. Numerous challenges were indicated as factors affecting the implementation of this stipulation. Considering this evidence, the way that prospective mental health care professionals such as Psychology Honours students’ – perceptions toward TOP were regarded pivotal in engaging with the implementation of the TOP legislature. A qualitative exploratory research design was used to explore and describe the perceptions that Psychology Honours students have toward TOP. Individual interviews with 15 students from a historically disadvantaged university in the Western Cape were conducted and recorded. The collected data was transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s model of Thematic Analysis. The results from the collected data reveal complex perceptions toward TOP. Participants reflected gradual modification of their perspectives due to exposure to different contexts and views in tertiary institutions, different friends and social engagements. Most participants indicated a religious background, however, indicated deviation from religious prescriptions pertaining to TOP.

Magister Psychologiae - MPsych / Literature identified Psychology students to be vulnerable to the stress associated with professional postgraduate studies and the nature of multiple processes. Less research has been conducted on Honours students as a cohort. The present study attempted to examine the associations between personality traits, perceived stress and coping styles in a sample of Honours students and post-Honours interns enrolled at a historically disadvantaged university. The present study was a cross-sectional internet survey including four instruments: the Brief COPE questionnaire (coping styles), the Perceived Stress Scale (subjective stress), the Big 5 Personality Survey (BFI-10) (personality traits) and a demographic questionnaire. All participation was voluntary and general principles of ethics were adhered to. The data was analysed using frequencies, correlation matrices, coefficients of determination and and regression. Findings indicated medium levels of perceived stress in this sample including contextual factors like gender, age and race. The B.Psych students reported reduced ranges on perceived stress compared to Honours students. Personality profiles indicated the four highest ranked traits (agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness and extraversion) closely banded. Neuroticism was ranked substantially lower in this sample. More adaptive coping styles like (planning, religion, active coping, acceptance etc.) were used than maladaptive coping styles. Associative relationships were indicated between demographic variables and coping, personality traits and perceived stress respectively. Race, Gender, relationship status, registration status and Age was found to correlate significantly with the three core constructs (perceived stress, coping and personality traits). Findings indicated predictive relationships between combinations of coping styles which could significantly predict perceived stress. Maladaptive coping significantly predicted perceived stress controlling for adaptive coping (e.g. emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping).

Magister Artium - MA (Psychology) / Honours students in Psychology typically form larger cohorts with numbers ranging from 20 to 40 students in comparison to other disciplines that have fewer than 10 students in a cohort. The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) requires Honours students to complete a thesis that is equivalent to 300 notional hours or 30 credits. The learning outcome is that students conduct low level research that prepares them for conceptualizing, executing and writing up a research project. The thesis requirement should also prepare them for future studies. The larger cohorts and revised NQF thesis requirement places increased pressure on the staff compliment of Psychology departments. Some of the ways in which departments have attempted to cope with this increased demand include conducting group-based research projects, and secondary research projects. One of the concerns raised is whether these particular types of methodology prepared students adequately for reactive research in further studies. This study aimed to explore students' subjective perceptions about the extent to which group-based systematic review methodology in the Honours year adequately prepared students for conducting research during their masters-level studies. An explorative study was conducted to explore the experiences of purposively selected recent graduates from two identified Honours programmes that have progressed to Masters level studies. Participants were invited on the basis of being graduates or alumni rather than their registration status as Masters students at particular universities.

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This thesis describes the functioning and development of the consular triad made up of consuls, consular establishments as well as the physical and symbolic territories in which they are inscribed, in the Ottoman Regency of Tunis, covering the period from the construction of the first model building (1660) to the advent of the French Protectorate (1881). The research questions the materialisation of relations between powers through a series of formal practices and physical spaces with which cultural and social processes overlap purporting at cultivating differences in a quest for distinction and competition between states representatives.The collected data come from the study of sources and the examination of the consular and diplomatic archives of eight major powers having representatives in Tunis during the studied period. They are written in five languages mainly (French, Arabic, English, Italian, Spanish) and were analysed through the prism of global micro-history. This analysis included the consultation of the diocesan and congregational archives documenting the daily life of the Christian communities living under consular jurisdiction as well as the travel reports and the guides that completed the studies, descriptions, illustrations and memoirs assigned to scientists and other European officers on mission in the Regency.The research has allowed us to determine, from the 17th century, the position of these buildings in the city and to trace back the genealogy of the consular district. The thesis has also revealed the existence of three phases in the development of consular spaces. The first one (1660-1792) was initiated by the construction of the Fondouk des Français (1660) and it inaugurated a cumulative and linear process of consular houses multiplication and concentration in the lower part of the city. The granting of fondouk, its shape, dimensions, and location, testify to the importance of the nation and its place in the Regency’s diplomatic scene. Archetype of the origins, the fondouk will emancipate itself from its primitive typology by integrating spaces of conquest, symbols of privileges consecrating rank and prestige, in an atmosphere of competing powers and rising tensions with the hosting state.This first phase was followed by a second one of "overthrow of clarity" (1792-1816), following the outbreak of the French Revolution, marked by the loss of old powers and the appearance of new actors. This phase is followed by the third and final one (1816-1881) which arises in the shadow of nationalism, bureaucratisation and the assertion of the consular function as an economic and political institution. The burgeoning consular corps challenges the established order and engages in a quest for distinction and symbolic superiority demonstrated by a spatial conquest in the city. Ruptures and continuities are identified as milestones punctuating the changes in consular houses which, from the archetype of the fondouk, will gradually adopt the European model of town house (Hôtel particulier), by appropriating its architectural, ornamental and spatial elements. This process culminates in the establishment of the French consulate (1860) outside the walls in a hôtel particulier, signaling thus the death of the Fondouk des nations model.The representational work of consuls is also expressed in terms of mobility, submission but also circumvention of court ceremonial and reception rules. Geographical spaces are overlapped by symbolic spaces where a subtle war is played out, that of the conquest of privileges testifying to the rank of the State and its prestige. Everything becomes a pretext to treat "on the stronger foot" and any privilege is good to take and to maintain. Use of four-wheeled carriages, submission to the hand-kissing ceremony, wearing of sword and shoes during audiences with the Bey, provision of a country house, are subject to harsh negotiations with the local authorities who play with competition and egos by dispensing privileges and sermons according to its policy.Through its buildings, its specific territory forming a fragment of historic urban landscape and the consular habitus, the consular district constitutes a tangible and intangible heritage, revealed by the thesis, which needs to be known. Its recognition as a heritage is a prelude to its future protection, which has become urgent. / Cette thèse décrit le fonctionnement et l’essor de la triade consulaire composée des consuls, des établissements consulaires et de leurs territoires d’inscription, physiques et symboliques, dans la capitale de la Régence ottomane de Tunis, en couvrant la période allant de la construction du premier spécimen (1660) à l’avènement du Protectorat français (1881). La thèse questionne la matérialisation des relations entre puissances par une série de pratiques formelles et d’espaces physiques auxquels se superposent des processus culturels et sociaux visant à cultiver la différence sur fond de quête de distinction et de compétition entre puissances mandataires. Les données recueillies par l’étude des sources et le dépouillement des archives consulaires et diplomatiques de huit puissances disposant de représentants accrédités à Tunis en la période étudiée, principalement en cinq langues (français, arabe, anglais, italien, espagnol), s’est faite au prisme de la micro-histoire globale. Cette analyse a compris la consultation des archives diocésaines et congrégationnelles documentant la vie quotidienne des communautés chrétiennes sous juridiction consulaire ainsi que les relations de voyage et les guides qui sont venus compléter les études, descriptions, illustrations et mémoires commandités à des scientifiques et autres officiers européens en mission dans la Régence. Le travail entrepris a permis de déterminer, à partir du XVIIe siècle, la position de ces édifices dans la ville et de reconstituer le quartier consulaire en en dressant la généalogie. La thèse a mis au jour l’existence de trois phases de développement des espaces consulaires. Une première phase d’existence (1660-1792) est initiée par la construction de fondouk des Français (1660) et inaugure un processus cumulatif et linéaire de multiplication des représentations consulaires concentrées dans la partie basse de la ville. L’octroi de fondouk, sa forme, ses dimensions et sa position témoignent de l’importance que revêt la nation mandataire et de sa place dans l’échiquier diplomatique de la Régence. L’archétype des origines, figé dans sa typologie, va s’en émanciper en intégrant, sur fond de tensions et de contestations avec l’Etat hôte et les représentants des autres puissances, des espaces de conquêtes, symboles de privilèges consacrant le rang et le prestige de l’Etat mandataire. A cette première phase, succède, par suite de l’éclatement de la Révolution française, une deuxième de « renversement des clartés » (1792-1816), marquée par la disparition d’anciennes puissances et l’apparition de nouveaux acteurs. Cette seconde phase est suivie de la troisième et dernière (1816-1881) qui nait sur fond de nationalismes, de bureaucratisation et d’affirmation de la fonction consulaire comme institution économique et politique. Le corps consulaire en gestation bouscule l’ordre établi et s’engage dans un processus de quête de distinction et de supériorité symbolique se manifestant par une conquête de l’espace dans la ville. Ruptures et continuités sont identifiées en tant que jalons rythmant les mutations des maisons consulaires qui, de l’archétype du fondouk, vont adopter progressivement le modèle européen d’hôtel particulier dont ils s’approprient les éléments architecturaux, ornementaux et spatiaux par à-coups. Ce processus culmine avec l'installation du consulat de France dans un hôtel particulier (1860) hors-les-murs actant ainsi la mort du fondouk des nations. L’œuvre de représentation du consul s’exprime de même en termes de mobilité, de réception, de soumission et de contournement du cérémonial de cour. Aux espaces géographiques se joignent des espaces symboliques où se joue une guerre subtile, celle de la conquête de privilèges témoignant du rang de l’Etat et de son prestige. Tout est prétexte à traiter « sur le pied le plus fort » et tout privilège est bon à prendre et à préserver. Usage des carrosses à quatre roues, soumission au cérémonial du baisemain, port du sabre et des souliers lors des audiences avec le Bey, mise à disposition d’une maison de campagne, font l’objet d’âpres négociations avec le pouvoir local qui se joue des concurrences et des égos en dispensant privilèges et sermons au gré de sa politique. Par les bâtiments qu’il contient, par son territoire spécifique formant un fragment de paysage urbain historique et par l’habitus consulaire dont les rites ont façonné la pratique des lieux, ce quartier constitue un patrimoine matériel et immatériel, révélé par la thèse, qu’il incombe de faire connaître afin que sa reconnaissance soit un prélude à sa protection future, désormais urgente. / Doctorat en Histoire, histoire de l'art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished