South African Journal of Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of South African Journal of Psychology is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons29
Race, representativity, and the (im)probability of being a Black African professional psychology graduate: an institutional case study29
An exploration of risk factors in a community sample of low socioeconomic status youth in South Africa22
A brief comparison of forensic psychology in South Africa, the United States, and Canada22
Post-migration stressors, correlates, and predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder and common mental disorders in refugees settled in Cape Town, South Africa18
Exploring marital safety: three South African wives living with HIV in nonmutual monogamous marriage13
Perceptions of primary mental health care in a semi-rural setting in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: a qualitative inquiry12
Collaborative care for mental health in South Africa: a qualitative systematic review10
Some sound, some fury, signifying very little: Frantz Fanon and psychological scholarship in South Africa10
The correlation between self-reported sleep quality, anxiety levels, and balance confidence among university students10
An analysis of KwaZulu-Natal clinical psychologists’ multicultural experience9
Experiences and views of clinical psychologists working in non-urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa9
Book Reviews: Liezille Jean Jacobs, Rocklands—On Becoming the First Generation of Black Psychologists in Post-Apartheid South Africa JacobsLiezille Jean, (2024). Rocklan8
The psychology of social change – 30 years post-apartheid: what went wrong and how to fix it?7
Artificial intelligence (AI) in psychology: a commentary on AI’s emerging role and the ensuing conversation7
Relationship between mindfulness and meaning in life among university students: roles of social support and the experience of being left behind7
Empowering leadership, playful work design, and work engagement7
Decision-making associated with anxiety and depression among emerging adults7
Differences in time-based prospective memory between field-independent and field-dependent cognitive styles under different time monitoring conditions7
Psychosocial support for families journeying with developmental coordination disorder6
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship: themes, gaps, and futures6
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 Africa6
The mental health impact of loadshedding on small-business owners in Alexandra township, Gauteng6
Contextual factors impacting families in enabling resilience of gender and sexually diverse youth6
Client and counsellor experiences of abbreviated trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for South African adolescents6
Looking back to move forward: a scoping review of counselling psychology in South Africa5
Repetitive negative thinking mediates the relationship between experiential avoidance and emotional distress among South African university students5
Delivering a South African mathematics mindset intervention via Social Networking Service (WhatsApp)5
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour5
Associations of childhood violence experience and intimate partner violence during adulthood among women in Limpopo, South Africa5
The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust5
A systematic exploratory review investigating the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation: implications for working memory training5
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: the relationship between cardiac vagal tone, emotion recognition, and expressive prosody5
Three decades of psychology in South Africa: legacies of hope and fault lines of the future4
Queer and using substances, a ‘double whammy’: results from a needs assessment of substance use treatment professionals in South Africa4
Resilience factors of orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons and implications for practice post pandemic4
Mental illness and stigma: subjective experiences of mothers with children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder4
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa4
Insecure attachment styles as predictors of posttraumatic growth in a South African student sample4
The association between intimate partner violence and antiretroviral therapy adherence among individuals receiving art care in Johannesburg4
Editorial4
Exploring environmental challenges among university students in conflict-affected Palestine3
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions3
Emotional experiences and challenges faced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who attend a support group in Ghana3
Cyclone Idai–related losses and the coping strategies of adolescent survivors in the Odzi community of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe3
A qualitative study on the role of alcohol in the lives of a group of sexual minority women in South Africa3
‘Crushed all over again’: the professional experiences of early career counselling psychologists in South Africa3
Resilience to structural violence: an exploration of the multisystemic resources that enable youth hope3
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective3
Difficulties experienced by South African adolescents during COVID-19 lockdown: implications for early mental health interventions3
Leveraging adversity during pandemics: the role of adaptive cognitive appraisals of self and others in mental health outcomes among students3
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
A scoping review of Rogers’ person-centred approach to identify constructs relevant to optimal intergenerational relationships3
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