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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
University students’ mental health and emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown	71
Mental health and COVID-19 in South Africa	46
Undergraduate psychology student experiences during COVID-19: challenges encountered and lessons learnt	29
Leading with heart: academic leadership during the COVID-19 crisis	27
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	26
Depression among health care students in the time of COVID-19: the mediating role of resilience in the hopelessness–depression relationship	21
Suicidal behaviour among university students: a systematic review	18
Managing the Covid-19 pandemic in South African Schools: turning challenge into opportunity	17
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	14
Telepsychology and the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of psychologists in South Africa	14
Climate justice is central to addressing the climate emergency’s psychological consequences in the Global South: a narrative review	11
Social justice, health equity, and mental health	11
Trends in the prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms among undergraduate students at a South African University, 2016–2019	10
Suicide and depression in university students: a possible epidemic	10
African/Afrikan-centered Psychology	10
Botho as an essential ingredient of African psychology: an insider perspective	10
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	9
Student factors affecting academic success among undergraduate students at two South African higher education institutions	9
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective	8
Comorbid anxiety and depression psychopathology in university students: a network approach	8
Emotional consequences of hate incidents: experiences of a South African cohort	8
Social media and adolescent psychosocial development: a systematic review	8
Current strategies in the reduction of stigma among caregivers of patients with mental illness: a scoping review	7
An exploratory survey of the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual South Africans of Indian descent: towards intersectional insights	7
An investigation into the South African correctional officers’ experiences of their work and the Employee Assistance Programme	7

Influence of poor emotion regulation on disrupted sleep and subsequent psychiatric symptoms in university students	7
Adjustment and socioeconomic status: how do these factors influence the intention to dropout of university?	7
Is post-apartheid South Africa training more black African clinical psychologists and addressing the historical imbalance?	6
Conceptualising eco-anxiety using an existential framework	6
Reducing nonfatal suicidal behaviour among university students: actuarial analysis of potential effects of treating common mental disorders	6
Career agility and career embeddedness as psychological needs of the value-oriented psychological contract	6
Social anxiety and internet addiction among adolescent students in a sub-Saharan African country: does family functioning make a difference?	5
Innovating and contextualising career counselling for young people during the Covid-19 pandemic	5
The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust	5
Perceptions of thermal comfort and coping mechanisms related to indoor and outdoor temperatures among participants living in rural villages in Limpopo province, South Africa	5
The mediating role of positive reappraisal and self-compassion on the relationship between mindfulness and posttraumatic growth in patients with cancer	5
The development and use of adolescent mobile mental health (m-mhealth) interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	5
The role of fortitude, loneliness, and depression in the association between risk perception of contracting COVID-19 and life satisfaction: serial mediation analysis	5
Racism, climate activism, and the politics of apology: the image exclusion of Black youth activists	4
Preparedness for caregiving moderates the association between burden and health-related quality of life among family caregivers of stroke patients in Nigeria	4
Mental health policy and system preparedness to respond to COVID-19 and other health emergencies: a case study of four African countries	4
Culture, politics and being more equal than others in COVID-19: some psychological anthropology perspectives	4
Knowledge, misinformation, stigma, and disclosure hesitancy among women receiving curative treatment for cervical cancer at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	4
Social support, depression, anxiety, and quality of life among persons living with type 2 diabetes: a path analysis	4
Fatigue-management strategies among women with endometriosis in South Africa: a qualitative study	4
Discourses in accounts of rape by sex offenders in Limpopo province, South Africa	3
Posttraumatic stress disorder and psychological distress in Rwandan refugees living in Zambia	3
Controlling for inequality in neuropsychological assessment: using Crawford and Howell’s (1998) single-case methodology with norms from demographically homogeneous groups of South Africans	3
Quantifying the psychosocial outcomes of outdoor adventure education for adolescent learners in a South African setting	3
Motorists’ perceptions of factors that influence payment of speeding fines in Cape Town, South Africa: application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour	3
Positioning resilience science more centrally in affirming LGBTIQA+ persons and communities	3
Insecure attachment styles as predictors of posttraumatic growth in a South African student sample	3
The prevalence of common mental disorders and its relationship with mental toughness in professional South African rugby players	3
Client and counsellor experiences of abbreviated trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for South African adolescents	3
Poverty, protests and pandemics: what can we learn from community resilience?	3
Cancer coping self-efficacy mediates the relationship between mental adjustment to cancer and health-related quality of life in persons with cancer	3
COVID-19, inequality, and the intersection between wealth, race, and gender	3
The need for psychosocial oncology research in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of the terrain	2
The well-being correlates of religious commitment amongst South African and Kenyan students	2
Perceptions of causes and treatment of mental illness among traditional health practitioners in Johannesburg, 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
Distress among cancer patients: some considerations in identification and treatment	2
Frequently asked questions about African psychology: another view	2
Intersectionality in South African health care – what is to be done?	2
The role of non-governmental organisations in strengthening the South African health system: a commentary	2
Difficulties experienced by South African adolescents during COVID-19 lockdown: implications for early mental health interventions	2
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions	2
Designing interventions to ameliorate mental health conditions in resource-constrained contexts: some considerations	2
Authorship and building psychological research in low and middle income countries: a view from the Pacific Island Nation of Fiji	2
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour	2
Profiling the unemployed from selected communities in South Africa based on their experiences, commitment to employment, and job search behaviour	2
COVID-19, psychosocial issues, politics, and public mental health care	2
When threat is imminent, does character matter for climate action? Exploring environmental concerns, well-being, and character strengths in the Pacific Island Countries	2
The prevalence of hope, subjective well-being, and psychopathology among trauma survivors at community-based clinics in Gauteng	2
The mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between global climate change awareness and hope for the prevention of climate change	2

Collaborative care for mental health in South Africa: a qualitative systematic review	2
Looking back to move forward: a scoping review of counselling psychology in South Africa	2
To what extent do career agility and psychological capital activate employees’ career adaptability and foster their career resilience and career satisfaction?	2
The use of research methods in the South African Journal of Psychology	2
Police interventions in victims’ encounters of intimate partner violence in a rural setting	2
Can social dominance orientation predict intergroup hostility and aggression in South Africa? Testing the applicability of the SDO_7(s) Scale	1
Cyclone Idai–related losses and the coping strategies of adolescent survivors in the Odzi community of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe	1
Assessing sources of resilience in orphans and vulnerable children in Amajuba District schools	1
Critical health response in the time of COVID-19: lessons from the past	1
‘Crushed all over again’: the professional experiences of early career counselling psychologists in South Africa	1
Reading a liberation psychology archive in South Africa	1
Understanding the perceived psychosocial impact of father absence on adult women	1
“I just want to stay here and sleep forever”: South African patients’ lived experiences of chronic fatigue in endometriosis	1
The house that apartheid built: what room for cohabitation?	1
What motivates South African students to attend university? A cross-sectional study on motivational orientation	1
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship: themes, gaps, and futures	1
Significance as component of meaning in career narratives of unemployed graduates	1
Advancing an agenda for psychological assessment in South Africa	1
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa	1
Freedom from American psychology	1
Looking backwards, looking forwards: collective and critical conversations on psychology in South Africa	1
Assessing the employability and employment destinations of professional psychology alumni	1
Caseness and comorbidity of probable (complex) post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in survivors of genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda: the role of social determinants	1
Fetal alcohol syndrome knowledge and risk behaviors among university students and community residents in Limpopo, South Africa	1
Interviewing older men at an interdisciplinary pain clinic: the journey to chronic pain and treatment experience	1
Moderating role of meaning in life in the relationship of death anxiety, experiential avoidance and health-related quality of life among type 2 diabetes patients	1
Re-visiting the relevance and importance of health psychology in South Africa	1
RETRACTION NOTICE: Emotional experiences and challenges faced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who attend a support group in Ghana	1
Psychology and the climate emergency	1
Chasing the ghosts: stories of people left behind on the frontline of climate and ecological crisis	1
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy mediates the link between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and health-related quality of life	1
Racism in clinical psychology within the heart of the old empire	1