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Papers

(The median citation count of South African Journal of Psychology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Race, representativity, and the (im)probability of being a Black African professional psychology graduate: an institutional case study	87
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons	57
An exploration of risk factors in a community sample of low socioeconomic status youth in South Africa	22
COVID-19, inequality, and the intersection between wealth, race, and gender	19
A brief comparison of forensic psychology in South Africa, the United States, and Canada	17
Perceptions of primary mental health care in a semi-rural setting in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: a qualitative inquiry	15
Exploring marital safety: three South African wives living with HIV in nonmutual monogamous marriage	15
Some sound, some fury, signifying very little: Frantz Fanon and psychological scholarship in South Africa	14
Collaborative care for mental health in South Africa: a qualitative systematic review	11
Experiences and views of clinical psychologists working in non-urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	9
An analysis of KwaZulu-Natal clinical psychologists’ multicultural experience	9
Differences in time-based prospective memory between field-independent and field-dependent cognitive styles under different time monitoring conditions	8
The correlation between self-reported sleep quality, anxiety levels, and balance confidence among university students	8
Artificial intelligence (AI) in psychology: a commentary on AI’s emerging role and the ensuing conversation	8
Quantifying the psychosocial outcomes of outdoor adventure education for adolescent learners in a South African setting	8
The psychology of social change – 30 years post-apartheid: what went wrong and how to fix it?	7
Relationship between mindfulness and meaning in life among university students: roles of social support and the experience of being left behind	7
Emotional consequences of hate incidents: experiences of a South African cohort	7
Contextual factors impacting families in enabling resilience of gender and sexually diverse youth	6
Culture, politics and being more equal than others in COVID-19: some psychological anthropology perspectives	6
Post-traumatic growth mediates the relationship between valences of trauma centralisation and health-related quality of life	6
Decision-making associated with anxiety and depression among emerging adults	6
Psychosocial support for families journeying with developmental coordination disorder	6
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship: themes, gaps, and futures	5
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: the relationship between cardiac vagal tone, emotion recognition, and expressive prosody	5

Delivering a South African mathematics mindset intervention via Social Networking Service (WhatsApp)	5
The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust	5
Client and counsellor experiences of abbreviated trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for South African adolescents	5
The house that apartheid built: what room for cohabitation?	4
Looking back to move forward: a scoping review of counselling psychology in South Africa	4
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour	4
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa	4
Repetitive negative thinking mediates the relationship between experiential avoidance and emotional distress among South African university students	4
Resilience factors of orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons and implications for practice post pandemic	4
Insecure attachment styles as predictors of posttraumatic growth in a South African student sample	4
A systematic exploratory review investigating the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation: implications for working memory training	4
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy mediates the link between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and health-related quality of life	4
Three decades of psychology in South Africa: legacies of hope and fault lines of the future	4
‘Crushed all over again’: the professional experiences of early career counselling psychologists in South Africa	3
Resilience to structural violence: an exploration of the multisystemic resources that enable youth hope	3
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective	3
Difficulties experienced by South African adolescents during COVID-19 lockdown: implications for early mental health interventions	3
Queer and using substances, a ‘double whammy’: results from a needs assessment of substance use treatment professionals in South Africa	3
RETRACTION NOTICE: Emotional experiences and challenges faced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who attend a support group in Ghana	3
Emotional experiences and challenges faced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who attend a support group in Ghana	3
Post-traumatic stress disorder among rural widows in Nsukka: risk factors and wellbeing domains	3
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions	3
Leveraging adversity during pandemics: the role of adaptive cognitive appraisals of self and others in mental health outcomes among students	3
A qualitative study on the role of alcohol in the lives of a group of sexual minority women in South Africa	3
Cyclone Idai–related losses and the coping strategies of adolescent survivors in the Odzi community of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe	3
Call for a special issue of the South African Journal of Psychology	3
Editorial	3
Depressive symptoms and socio-demographic correlates among adolescents in Kampala: a cross-sectional study	2
Promoting well-being in the face of a pandemic: the role of sense of coherence and ego-resilience in the relationship between psychological distress and life satisfaction	2
Distress among cancer patients: some considerations in identification and treatment	2
Exploring the experiences of stigma among South African gay men who practice consensual nonmonogamy	2
Cancer coping self-efficacy mediates the relationship between mental adjustment to cancer and health-related quality of life in persons with cancer	2
Rhythmic engagement therapy improved drug use abstinence better than cognitive behavioural therapy among individuals with substance use disorder	2
Authorship and building psychological research in low and middle income countries: a view from the Pacific Island Nation of Fiji	2
Climate justice is central to addressing the climate emergency’s psychological consequences in the Global South: a narrative review	2
Mapping the evolution and hotspots of future orientation research: a visualized analysis from 1991 to 2023 using Citespace	2
Social media and adolescent psychosocial development: a systematic review	2
A scoping review of Rogers’ person-centred approach to identify constructs relevant to optimal intergenerational relationships	2
From fear and vulnerability to fortitude: sustaining psychological well-being in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Looking backwards, looking forwards: collective and critical conversations on psychology in South Africa	2
Perceptions of causes and treatment of mental illness among traditional health practitioners in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
Loadshedding, safety concerns, and mental health in South Africa	2
Something about us with us: a reflection of disability studies within psychology in South Africa	1
The well-being correlates of religious commitment amongst South African and Kenyan students	1
Group-based emotional regulation training for adolescents in primary health care settings: a proof-of-concept study of its utility to improve mental health	1
Freedom from American psychology	1
The need for psychosocial oncology research in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of the terrain	1
Designing interventions to ameliorate mental health conditions in resource-constrained contexts: some considerations	1
Investigating parenting factors, traumatic brain injury and callous and unemotional traits among high school students in a South African setting	1
Poverty, protests and pandemics: what can we learn from community resilience?	1

University students’ mental health and emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown	1
Reading a liberation psychology archive in South Africa	1
‘Private practice was my second option’: exploring barriers and facilitators to the delivery of mental health care by registered counsellors in South Africa	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
Practical training completed by clinical psychology Master’s students commencing their internship at 1 Military Hospital: a preliminary study	1
Why South Africa needs cognitive neuroscientists	1
The role of fortitude, loneliness, and depression in the association between risk perception of contracting COVID-19 and life satisfaction: serial mediation analysis	1
Can social dominance orientation predict intergroup hostility and aggression in South Africa? Testing the applicability of the SDO_7(s) Scale	1
Our grief matters – loss, grief, and mourning in Black vertically infected HIV-positive adolescents	1
Advancing an agenda for psychological assessment in South Africa	1
The role of non-governmental organisations in strengthening the South African health system: a commentary	1
Fetal alcohol syndrome knowledge and risk behaviors among university students and community residents in Limpopo, South Africa	1
Editorial	1
The mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between global climate change awareness and hope for the prevention of climate change	1
Posttraumatic stress disorder and psychological distress in Rwandan refugees living in Zambia	1
The mediating role of positive reappraisal and self-compassion on the relationship between mindfulness and posttraumatic growth in patients with cancer	1
Knowledge, misinformation, stigma, and disclosure hesitancy among women receiving curative treatment for cervical cancer at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	1
Conceptualising eco-anxiety using an existential framework	1
Exploring the perceptions and experiences of diabetes management and self-regulation in young adults using a continuous glucose monitoring device	1
Beyond the shadows of trauma: exploring the synergy of emotional intelligence and distress disclosure in Nigerian adolescents’ trauma journey	1
Health professionals’ perceptions of the South African adapted online Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale – Revised: properties, implementation, and context	1