South African Journal of Psychology

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring marital safety: three South African wives living with HIV in nonmutual monogamous marriage43
A brief comparison of forensic psychology in South Africa, the United States, and Canada26
An exploration of risk factors in a community sample of low socioeconomic status youth in South Africa19
Post-migration stressors, correlates, and predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder and common mental disorders in refugees settled in Cape Town, South Africa16
Psychological distress related to COVID-19 among mental health care professionals in full-time private practice in South Africa14
Editorial: Continuity, transformation and the future of the South African Journal of Psychology14
South African Psychologists’ experiences treating paedophilic disorder: an exploratory study13
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons12
Some sound, some fury, signifying very little: Frantz Fanon and psychological scholarship in South Africa10
Perceptions of primary mental health care in a semi-rural setting in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: a qualitative inquiry10
The correlation between self-reported sleep quality, anxiety levels, and balance confidence among university students10
Race, representativity, and the (im)probability of being a Black African professional psychology graduate: an institutional case study10
Book Reviews: Liezille Jean Jacobs, Rocklands—On Becoming the First Generation of Black Psychologists in Post-Apartheid South Africa JacobsLiezille Jean,9
Differences in time-based prospective memory between field-independent and field-dependent cognitive styles under different time monitoring conditions9
An analysis of KwaZulu-Natal clinical psychologists’ multicultural experience9
The psychology of social change – 30 years post-apartheid: what went wrong and how to fix it?9
Relationship between mindfulness and meaning in life among university students: roles of social support and the experience of being left behind8
Empowering leadership, playful work design, and work engagement8
Artificial intelligence (AI) in psychology: a commentary on AI’s emerging role and the ensuing conversation8
Reclaiming the Hidden Curriculum: Embedding Empathy Development in Online Professional Psychology Training Through Experiential Learning7
Psychosocial support for families journeying with developmental coordination disorder7
Decision-making associated with anxiety and depression among emerging adults7
Contextual factors impacting families in enabling resilience of gender and sexually diverse youth7
African traditional healing and mental well-being: insights from traditional healers in Gqeberha7
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 Africa7
The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust6
Prevalence of mental distress and social support among university students in the occupied Palestinian territories6
Delivering a South African mathematics mindset intervention via Social Networking Service (WhatsApp)6
The mental health impact of loadshedding on small-business owners in Alexandra township, Gauteng6
Repetitive negative thinking mediates the relationship between experiential avoidance and emotional distress among South African university students6
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship: themes, gaps, and futures6
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: the relationship between cardiac vagal tone, emotion recognition, and expressive prosody5
Resilience factors of orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons and implications for practice post pandemic5
Associations of childhood violence experience and intimate partner violence during adulthood among women in Limpopo, South Africa5
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour5
A systematic exploratory review investigating the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation: implications for working memory training5
Queer and using substances, a ‘ double whammy’ : results from a needs assessment of substance use treatment professionals in South Africa4
Conceptualising an Afrocentric Model of Resilience Among Black Rural Adolescents in Limpopo, South Africa4
Mental illness and stigma: subjective experiences of mothers with children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder4
The effect of career construction counselling on high school students’ career decision-making difficulties and career adaptability4
Three decades of psychology in South Africa: legacies of hope and fault lines of the future4
The association between intimate partner violence and antiretroviral therapy adherence among individuals receiving art care in Johannesburg4
A scoping review of Rogers’ person-centred approach to identify constructs relevant to optimal intergenerational relationships3
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa3
Exploring environmental challenges among university students in conflict-affected Palestine3
‘Crushed all over again’: the professional experiences of early career counselling psychologists in South Africa3
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective3
Resilience to structural violence: an exploration of the multisystemic resources that enable youth hope3
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 satisfaction3
Editorial3
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions3
Leveraging adversity during pandemics: the role of adaptive cognitive appraisals of self and others in mental health outcomes among students3
Young adult ex-offenders’ experiences of the transition from incarceration to their families in a rural community3
Moving from able to not able: the psychosocial experiences of adults who had a traumatic brain injury3
Through the lens of a global pandemic: the evolution of the multidimensional role of a school counsellor3
A qualitative study on the role of alcohol in the lives of a group of sexual minority women in South Africa3
Difficulties experienced by South African adolescents during COVID-19 lockdown: implications for early mental health interventions3
Call for a special issue of the South African Journal of Psychology3
Rhythmic engagement therapy improved drug use abstinence better than cognitive behavioural therapy among individuals with substance use disorder3
The relationship between the dark triad personality traits, motivation, mood states, and exercise dependence2
Participants’ Reflections on Constructing Timeline Genograms in Qualitative Research2
Our grief matters – loss, grief, and mourning in Black vertically infected HIV-positive adolescents2
Editorial2
Something about us with us: a reflection of disability studies within psychology in South Africa2
Ethical transgressions by registered psychologists in South Africa during the period 2014–20232
The lived experiences of biological mothers parenting with a history of complex trauma in the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality, South Africa2
Loadshedding, safety concerns, and mental health in South Africa2
From fear and vulnerability to fortitude: sustaining psychological well-being in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic2
Corrigendum to “Psychosocial experiences, challenges, and coping strategies of Xhosa women during ulwaluko ”2
Perceptions of causes and treatment of mental illness among traditional health practitioners in Johannesburg, South Africa2
Group-based emotional regulation training for adolescents in primary health care settings: a proof-of-concept study of its utility to improve mental health2
‘Private practice was my second option’: exploring barriers and facilitators to the delivery of mental health care by registered counsellors in South Africa2
Inclusive leadership, psychological safety, and employee voice in remote and hybrid work employees2
Advancing an agenda for psychological assessment in South Africa2
Student training experiences within applied master’s in psychology programmes in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: a professional development perspective2
Social media and adolescent psychosocial development: a systematic review2
Technologically assisted interventions for neurological and psychological applied outcomes: a scoping review2
Exploring the experiences of stigma among South African gay men who practice consensual nonmonogamy2
Exploring the perceptions and experiences of diabetes management and self-regulation in young adults using a continuous glucose monitoring device2
Beyond the shadows of trauma: exploring the synergy of emotional intelligence and distress disclosure in Nigerian adolescents’ trauma journey2
Practical training completed by clinical psychology Master’s students commencing their internship at 1 Military Hospital: a preliminary study2
CORRIGENDUM to “Ethical transgressions by registered psychologists in South Africa during the period 2014–2023”2
Rumination impacts depressive symptoms among orthopedic patients: analysis of the buffering role of dispositional mindfulness2
Mapping the evolution and hotspots of future orientation research: a visualized analysis from 1991 to 2023 using Citespace2
Looking backwards, looking forwards: collective and critical conversations on psychology in South Africa2
Transformation in psychology: exploring the experiences of black student clinical psychologists at a historically white institution1
Bodies, bruises, and blisters, and the struggle for/of the feminine/muscular body: the ways in which women CrossFitters transgress gendered boundaries1
Exploring detectives’ emotional and psychological experiences in interactions with families in intimate femicide cases1
Freedom from American psychology1
Moderating role of meaning in life in the relationship of death anxiety, experiential avoidance and health-related quality of life among type 2 diabetes patients1
Psychological Distress Among South African Students With Disabilities: Levels and Correlates of Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, Alcohol Use, Hopelessness, and Loneliness1
Conceptualising eco-anxiety using an existential framework1
Knowledge, misinformation, stigma, and disclosure hesitancy among women receiving curative treatment for cervical cancer at a tertiary hospital in South Africa1
Editorial1
Investigating parenting factors, traumatic brain injury and callous and unemotional traits among high school students in a South African setting1
Celebrating 30 years of masculinities scholarship in the South African Journal of Psychology1
Understanding the perceived psychosocial impact of father absence on adult women1
Examining the unique contributions of COVID-19 infodemics to psychological distress in Ghana and New Zealand1
Stress of the COVID-19 pandemic: South African parents’ adaptation and coping strategies in response to a change in daily life1
Computer-based cognitive training for cognitive development of alcohol-exposed children in South Africa: a feasibility randomised control trial1
Using AI in academic writing: what’s allowed and what’s not1
Acknowledgement of reviewers1
Fertility preservation among women diagnosed with cancer in South Africa1
Psychology and the climate emergency1
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in South African adolescents: family narratives and the added impact of COVID-191
Acknowledgement of reviewers1
Why South Africa needs cognitive neuroscientists1
Book Review: Marnell, J., Camminga, B., Bompani, B. & Wairuri, K. (Eds.), East African Queer and Trans Displacements MarnellJ.CammingaB.BompaniB.Wair1
The mediating role of positive reappraisal and self-compassion on the relationship between mindfulness and posttraumatic growth in patients with cancer1
The mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between global climate change awareness and hope for the prevention of climate change1
The impact of active social network sites use on depression: analyzing the sequential mediating role of social support and loneliness1
Editorial – Crisis, care and transformation: charting the future for the South African Journal of Psychology1
Controlling for inequality in neuropsychological assessment: using Crawford and Howell’s (1998) single-case methodology with norms from demographically homogeneous groups of South Africans1
“I just want to stay here and sleep forever”: South African patients’ lived experiences of chronic fatigue in endometriosis1
Exploring levels of mental health: a focus on financially disadvantaged students in the South African higher education system1
Exploring worker subjectivity: shaping industrial and organizational psychology in post-apartheid South Africa1
Book Review: Gertie (HG) Pretorius (Ed.), Introduction to Forensic Psychology and Psycho-Legal Work1
The dynamics of Appraisal II: a meta-analysis of the relationship between fortitude and the indices of psychological well-being1
Acknowledgement of reviewers1
Book Review: Hugo Ka Canham, Riotous Deathscapes1
Book review: Maria Marchetti-Mercer; Leslie Swartz; and Loretta Baldassar (eds). Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the Role of Information Communication Technologie1
Designing interventions to ameliorate mental health conditions in resource-constrained contexts: some considerations1
Reading a liberation psychology archive in South Africa1
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
Health professionals’ perceptions of the South African adapted online Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale – Revised: properties, implementation, and context1
Mindfulness meditation among South African psychologists: a pathway to ‘being’ amid existential suffering in contemporary South Africa1
Book Review: Duncan, N., Roos, V., & Pillay, J. (Eds.), Community Psychology: Global Crises, Local Realities, and Action DuncanN.RoosV.PillayJ. (Eds.1
The adverse financial and psychological impact of Covid-19 on household heads in South Africa1
Adapting an evidence-based contingency management and text messaging intervention for South African perinatal women who drink1
Caseness and comorbidity of probable (complex) post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in survivors of genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda: the role of social determinants1
To what extent do career agility and psychological capital activate employees’ career adaptability and foster their career resilience and career satisfaction?1
The well-being correlates of religious commitment amongst South African and Kenyan students1
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