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Social support and depression in women : a constructivist approach

Text in English / The purpose of this study is to tell the story around the roles of relationships in the world of depressed women.
The epistemological framework of this study is constructivism. This study involved a series of in-depth interviews with three depressed women who had young children.
Hermeneutics was the method used to analyse the data.
The stories of the participants were recounted through the researcher's lens in the form of themes that emerged. The specific ways each participant tried to cope, and the emerging processes from the researcher's perspective as to what she believed was helpful or unhelpful to the participants, in addition to what the participants themselves
regarded as helpful, was discussed. Recurring themes evident in the stories of all three participants were elucidated in the story of the stories.
The information gained could serve as guidelines to those working with depressed people from a Western and an African context. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/17590
Date11 1900
CreatorsRapmund, Valerie Joan
ContributorsMoore C. (Cora)
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation
Format1 online resource (350 leaves)

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