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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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
University students’ mental health and emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown	51
Mental health and COVID-19 in South Africa	39
Psychology and COVID-19: impacts, themes and way forward	35
The influence of self-leadership strategies, psychological resources, and job embeddedness on work engagement in the banking industry	26
Undergraduate psychology student experiences during COVID-19: challenges encountered and lessons learnt	23
Leading with heart: academic leadership during the COVID-19 crisis	23
A looming mental health pandemic in the time of COVID-19? Role of fortitude in the interrelationship between loneliness, anxiety, and life satisfaction among young adults	21
Depression among health care students in the time of COVID-19: the mediating role of resilience in the hopelessness–depression relationship	18
Suicidal behaviour among university students: a systematic review	17
Doing systematic reviews in Psychology	16
Mental health and academic failure among first-year university students in South Africa	14
Effects of COVID-19 on the economy and mental health of young people in South Africa: opportunities for strengthening social protection programmes by integrating mental health	13
Managing the Covid-19 pandemic in South African Schools: turning challenge into opportunity	12
Telepsychology and the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of psychologists in South Africa	12
Exploring the reciprocal correspondence among workplace relationships, career goal instrumentality, career satisfaction, and organisational commitment	10
On the biopolitics of breathing: race, protests, and state violence under the global threat of COVID-19	9
Secondary traumatic stress in police detective officers dealing with complainants of sexual crimes	9
Working memory and psychological resilience in South African emerging adults	9
Social justice, health equity, and mental health	8
Suicide and depression in university students: a possible epidemic	7
Botho as an essential ingredient of African psychology: an insider perspective	7
Climate justice is central to addressing the climate emergency’s psychological consequences in the Global South: a narrative review	7
Comorbid anxiety and depression psychopathology in university students: a network approach	7
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	6
An exploratory survey of the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual South Africans of Indian descent: towards intersectional insights	6

Current strategies in the reduction of stigma among caregivers of patients with mental illness: a scoping review	6
Trends in the prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms among undergraduate students at a South African University, 2016–2019	6
Emotional consequences of hate incidents: experiences of a South African cohort	6
An investigation into the South African correctional officers’ experiences of their work and the Employee Assistance Programme	6
A review of place identity studies in post-apartheid South Africa	6
The influence of father involvement during childhood on the emotional well-being of young adult offspring: a cross-sectional survey of students at a university in Botswana	6
The revolution will not be peer reviewed: (creative) tensions between academia, social media and anti-racist activism	6
Career agility and career embeddedness as psychological needs of the value-oriented psychological contract	6
What antiracist psychology does and does not (do)	5
The dynamics of appraisal: a review of 20 years of research using the Fortitude Questionnaire	5
Student factors affecting academic success among undergraduate students at two South African higher education institutions	5
Adjustment and socioeconomic status: how do these factors influence the intention to dropout of university?	5
African/Afrikan-centered Psychology	5
Is post-apartheid South Africa training more black African clinical psychologists and addressing the historical imbalance?	5
Innovating and contextualising career counselling for young people during the Covid-19 pandemic	5
The influence of social achievement goals on academic engagement: a cross-sectional survey in a Namibian primary school	5
Reducing nonfatal suicidal behaviour among university students: actuarial analysis of potential effects of treating common mental disorders	5
Influence of poor emotion regulation on disrupted sleep and subsequent psychiatric symptoms in university students	5
Social media and adolescent psychosocial development: a systematic review	5
Three Pathways for Enlarging Critical African Psychology	4
Perceptions of thermal comfort and coping mechanisms related to indoor and outdoor temperatures among participants living in rural villages in Limpopo province, South Africa	4
The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust	4
Culture, politics and being more equal than others in COVID-19: some psychological anthropology perspectives	4
The role of fortitude, loneliness, and depression in the association between risk perception of contracting COVID-19 and life satisfaction: serial mediation analysis	4
Mental health policy and system preparedness to respond to COVID-19 and other health emergencies: a case study of four African countries	4
Pathways to health: conceptual clarification and appropriate statistical treatment of mediator, moderator, and indirect effects using examples from burnout research	4
Conceptualising eco-anxiety using an existential framework	4
COVID-19, inequality, and the intersection between wealth, race, and gender	3
The mediating role of positive reappraisal and self-compassion on the relationship between mindfulness and posttraumatic growth in patients with cancer	3
Perceived benefits of nature-based experiences as mediators of connectedness with nature: the case of Mystic Mountain	3
Preparedness for caregiving moderates the association between burden and health-related quality of life among family caregivers of stroke patients in Nigeria	3
Client and counsellor experiences of abbreviated trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for South African adolescents	3
De/coloniality, disabled sexualities, and anti-oppressive education: a review of Southern African literature	3
Navigating agency: adolescents’ challenging dating violence towards gender equitable relationships in a South African township	3
The prevalence of peripartum depression and its relationship to mode of delivery and other factors among mothers in Ixopo, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa	3
Posttraumatic stress disorder and psychological distress in Rwandan refugees living in Zambia	3
Poverty, protests and pandemics: what can we learn from community resilience?	3
Motorists’ perceptions of factors that influence payment of speeding fines in Cape Town, South Africa: application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour	2
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective	2
The need for psychosocial oncology research in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of the terrain	2
Basic rights caught in the web of racism, classism and police brutality	2
Cancer coping self-efficacy mediates the relationship between mental adjustment to cancer and health-related quality of life in persons with cancer	2
Factors influencing alcohol use among female in-school adolescents in the Western Cape, South Africa	2
The prevalence of common mental disorders and its relationship with mental toughness in professional South African rugby players	2
Social support, depression, anxiety, and quality of life among persons living with type 2 diabetes: a path analysis	2
Participation in (non)violent protests and associated psychosocial factors: sociodemographic status, civic engagement, and perceptions of government’s performance	2
Positioning resilience science more centrally in affirming LGBTIQA+ persons and communities	2
Strengthening the National Health Insurance Bill for mental health needs: response from the Psychological Society of South Africa	2
Assessing the employability and employment destinations of professional psychology alumni	2
Knowledge, misinformation, stigma, and disclosure hesitancy among women receiving curative treatment for cervical cancer at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	2

The double burden of treating traumatic stress in low-resource communities: experiences and perspectives of non-specialist health workers in South Africa	2
Discourses in accounts of rape by sex offenders in Limpopo province, South Africa	2
The role of non-governmental organisations in strengthening the South African health system: a commentary	2
The prevalence of hope, subjective well-being, and psychopathology among trauma survivors at community-based clinics in Gauteng	2
Fatigue-management strategies among women with endometriosis in South Africa: a qualitative study	2
Caregiver–child separation during tuberculosis hospitalisation: a qualitative study in South Africa	2
Profiling the unemployed from selected communities in South Africa based on their experiences, commitment to employment, and job search behaviour	2
Authorship and building psychological research in low and middle income countries: a view from the Pacific Island Nation of Fiji	2
Cognitive coping strategies of South African women in breast cancer care	1
The house that apartheid built: what room for cohabitation?	1
Assessing sources of resilience in orphans and vulnerable children in Amajuba District schools	1
Racism is personal	1
Difficulties experienced by South African adolescents during COVID-19 lockdown: implications for early mental health interventions	1
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions	1
Quantifying the psychosocial outcomes of outdoor adventure education for adolescent learners in a South African setting	1
To what extent do career agility and psychological capital activate employees’ career adaptability and foster their career resilience and career satisfaction?	1
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy mediates the link between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and health-related quality of life	1
Distress among cancer patients: some considerations in identification and treatment	1
COVID-19, psychosocial issues, politics, and public mental health care	1
Police interventions in victims’ encounters of intimate partner violence in a rural setting	1
RETRACTION NOTICE: Emotional experiences and challenges faced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who attend a support group in Ghana	1
When threat is imminent, does character matter for climate action? Exploring environmental concerns, well-being, and character strengths in the Pacific Island Countries	1
‘Language is over’: on racism’s epistemic closures	1
Insecure attachment styles as predictors of posttraumatic growth in a South African student sample	1
Decoloniality and psychology’s reckoning with rebellion	1
Can social dominance orientation predict intergroup hostility and aggression in South Africa? Testing the applicability of the SDO_7(s) Scale	1
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship: themes, gaps, and futures	1
Death obsession’s potential mediational role in the relation between pregnancy-related anxiety and prenatal obsessive-compulsive disorder	1
Racism, climate activism, and the politics of apology: the image exclusion of Black youth activists	1
Delay aversion in school-aged children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder	1
Attitude to ambiguity as a predictor of analytic thinking	1
The use of research methods in the South African Journal of Psychology	1
Racism in clinical psychology within the heart of the old empire	1