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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Race, representativity, and the (im)probability of being a Black African professional psychology graduate: an institutional case study	41
Exploring marital safety: three South African wives living with HIV in nonmutual monogamous marriage	23
A brief comparison of forensic psychology in South Africa, the United States, and Canada	15
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons	14
An exploration of risk factors in a community sample of low socioeconomic status youth in South Africa	13
South African Psychologists’ experiences treating paedophilic disorder: an exploratory study	12
Post-migration stressors, correlates, and predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder and common mental disorders in refugees settled in Cape Town, South Africa	12
Editorial: Continuity, transformation and the future of the South African Journal of Psychology	12
Perceptions of primary mental health care in a semi-rural setting in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: a qualitative inquiry	10
Psychological distress related to COVID-19 among mental health care professionals in full-time private practice in South Africa	10
The correlation between self-reported sleep quality, anxiety levels, and balance confidence among university students	9
Experiences and views of clinical psychologists working in non-urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	9
Some sound, some fury, signifying very little: Frantz Fanon and psychological scholarship in South Africa	9
Book Reviews: Liezille Jean Jacobs, Rocklands—On Becoming the First Generation of Black Psychologists in Post-Apartheid South Africa JacobsLiezille Jean,	9
An analysis of KwaZulu-Natal clinical psychologists’ multicultural experience	8
Empowering leadership, playful work design, and work engagement	8
The psychology of social change – 30 years post-apartheid: what went wrong and how to fix it?	8
Artificial intelligence (AI) in psychology: a commentary on AI’s emerging role and the ensuing conversation	7
Differences in time-based prospective memory between field-independent and field-dependent cognitive styles under different time monitoring conditions	7
African traditional healing and mental well-being: insights from traditional healers in Gqeberha	7
Contextual factors impacting families in enabling resilience of gender and sexually diverse youth	7
Relationship between mindfulness and meaning in life among university students: roles of social support and the experience of being left behind	7
Decision-making associated with anxiety and depression among emerging adults	7
The mental health impact of loadshedding on small-business owners in Alexandra township, Gauteng	6
Psychosocial support for families journeying with developmental coordination disorder	6

Prevalence of mental distress and social support among university students in the occupied Palestinian territories	6
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship: themes, gaps, and futures	6
Adolescent girls’ experiences and health care workers’ perspectives on sexual and reproductive health services at urban public health care facilities in the Western Cape, South Africa	6
The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust	5
Associations of childhood violence experience and intimate partner violence during adulthood among women in Limpopo, South Africa	5
Delivering a South African mathematics mindset intervention via Social Networking Service (WhatsApp)	5
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: the relationship between cardiac vagal tone, emotion recognition, and expressive prosody	5
Repetitive negative thinking mediates the relationship between experiential avoidance and emotional distress among South African university students	5
Three decades of psychology in South Africa: legacies of hope and fault lines of the future	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
The effect of career construction counselling on high school students’ career decision-making difficulties and career adaptability	4
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour	4
The association between intimate partner violence and antiretroviral therapy adherence among individuals receiving art care in Johannesburg	4
A systematic exploratory review investigating the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation: implications for working memory training	4
A qualitative study on the role of alcohol in the lives of a group of sexual minority women in South Africa	3
Mental illness and stigma: subjective experiences of mothers with children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	3
Exploring environmental challenges among university students in conflict-affected Palestine	3
Leveraging adversity during pandemics: the role of adaptive cognitive appraisals of self and others in mental health outcomes among students	3
Resilience to structural violence: an exploration of the multisystemic resources that enable youth hope	3
Queer and using substances, a ‘ double whammy’ : results from a needs assessment of substance use treatment professionals in South Africa	3
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa	3
Through the lens of a global pandemic: the evolution of the multidimensional role of a school counsellor	3
Call for a special issue of the South African Journal of Psychology	3
Difficulties experienced by South African adolescents during COVID-19 lockdown: implications for early mental health interventions	3
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions	3
Editorial	3
‘Crushed all over again’: the professional experiences of early career counselling psychologists in South Africa	3
Young adult ex-offenders’ experiences of the transition from incarceration to their families in a rural community	3
Emotional experiences and challenges faced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who attend a support group in Ghana	2
Rhythmic engagement therapy improved drug use abstinence better than cognitive behavioural therapy among individuals with substance use disorder	2
The lived experiences of biological mothers parenting with a history of complex trauma in the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality, South Africa	2
Ethical transgressions by registered psychologists in South Africa during the period 2014–2023	2
Social media and adolescent psychosocial development: a systematic review	2
Mapping the evolution and hotspots of future orientation research: a visualized analysis from 1991 to 2023 using Citespace	2
Technologically assisted interventions for neurological and psychological applied outcomes: a scoping review	2
Participants’ Reflections on Constructing Timeline Genograms in Qualitative Research	2
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective	2
The relationship between the dark triad personality traits, motivation, mood states, and exercise dependence	2
Our grief matters – loss, grief, and mourning in Black vertically infected HIV-positive adolescents	2
Student training experiences within applied master’s in psychology programmes in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: a professional development perspective	2
Rumination impacts depressive symptoms among orthopedic patients: analysis of the buffering role of dispositional mindfulness	2
Loadshedding, safety concerns, and mental health in South Africa	2
From fear and vulnerability to fortitude: sustaining psychological well-being in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Moving from able to not able: the psychosocial experiences of adults who had a traumatic brain injury	2
A scoping review of Rogers’ person-centred approach to identify constructs relevant to optimal intergenerational relationships	2
Looking backwards, looking forwards: collective and critical conversations on psychology in South Africa	2
Beyond the shadows of trauma: exploring the synergy of emotional intelligence and distress disclosure in Nigerian adolescents’ trauma journey	2
Exploring the experiences of stigma among South African gay men who practice consensual nonmonogamy	2
Perceptions of causes and treatment of mental illness among traditional health practitioners in Johannesburg, South Africa	2

Distress among cancer patients: some considerations in identification and treatment	2
Something about us with us: a reflection of disability studies within psychology in South Africa	1
Advancing an agenda for psychological assessment in South Africa	1
The dynamics of Appraisal II: a meta-analysis of the relationship between fortitude and the indices of psychological well-being	1
Book Review: Gertie (HG) Pretorius (Ed.), Introduction to Forensic Psychology and Psycho-Legal Work	1
Using AI in academic writing: what’s allowed and what’s not	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
To what extent do career agility and psychological capital activate employees’ career adaptability and foster their career resilience and career satisfaction?	1
Designing interventions to ameliorate mental health conditions in resource-constrained contexts: some considerations	1
Transformation in psychology: exploring the experiences of black student clinical psychologists at a historically white institution	1
Book review: Maria Marchetti-Mercer; Leslie Swartz; and Loretta Baldassar (eds). Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the Role of Information Communication Technologie	1
The well-being correlates of religious commitment amongst South African and Kenyan students	1
The impact of active social network sites use on depression: analyzing the sequential mediating role of social support and loneliness	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
Examining the unique contributions of COVID-19 infodemics to psychological distress in Ghana and New Zealand	1
Conceptualising eco-anxiety using an existential framework	1
Health professionals’ perceptions of the South African adapted online Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale – Revised: properties, implementation, and context	1
Practical training completed by clinical psychology Master’s students commencing their internship at 1 Military Hospital: a preliminary study	1
CORRIGENDUM to “Ethical transgressions by registered psychologists in South Africa during the period 2014–2023”	1
Book Review: Hugo Ka Canham, Riotous Deathscapes	1
Investigating parenting factors, traumatic brain injury and callous and unemotional traits among high school students in a South African setting	1
Understanding the perceived psychosocial impact of father absence on adult women	1
Freedom from American psychology	1
Exploring worker subjectivity: shaping industrial and organizational psychology in post-apartheid South Africa	1
Computer-based cognitive training for cognitive development of alcohol-exposed children in South Africa: a feasibility randomised control trial	1
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in South African adolescents: family narratives and the added impact of COVID-19	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
Fertility preservation among women diagnosed with cancer in South Africa	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
Exploring levels of mental health: a focus on financially disadvantaged students in the South African higher education system	1
Editorial	1
Book review: Sharon B Sibanda, Kanene: The Untold Stories of ‘Unresolved’ Psychological Wounds of Combat After South Africa’s Demobilisation Among Black SANDF Soldiers	1
Editorial – Crisis, care and transformation: charting the future for the South African Journal of Psychology	1
Exploring the perceptions and experiences of diabetes management and self-regulation in young adults using a continuous glucose monitoring device	1
Editorial	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
Inclusive leadership, psychological safety, and employee voice in remote and hybrid work employees	1
Knowledge, misinformation, stigma, and disclosure hesitancy among women receiving curative treatment for cervical cancer at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	1
Mindfulness meditation among South African psychologists: a pathway to ‘being’ amid existential suffering in contemporary South Africa	1
Book Review: Duncan, N., Roos, V., & Pillay, J. (Eds.), Community Psychology: Global Crises, Local Realities, and Action DuncanN.RoosV.PillayJ. (Eds.	1
Stress of the COVID-19 pandemic: South African parents’ adaptation and coping strategies in response to a change in daily life	1
“I just want to stay here and sleep forever”: South African patients’ lived experiences of chronic fatigue in endometriosis	1
The adverse financial and psychological impact of Covid-19 on household heads in South Africa	1
Exploring detectives’ emotional and psychological experiences in interactions with families in intimate femicide cases	1
Reading a liberation psychology archive in South Africa	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
Celebrating 30 years of masculinities scholarship in the South African Journal of Psychology	1
Psychology and the climate emergency	1
Bodies, bruises, and blisters, and the struggle for/of the feminine/muscular body: the ways in which women CrossFitters transgress gendered boundaries	1
Why South Africa needs cognitive neuroscientists	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
The mediating role of positive reappraisal and self-compassion on the relationship between mindfulness and posttraumatic growth in patients with cancer	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