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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
An exploration of risk factors in a community sample of low socioeconomic status youth in South Africa84
Knowledge, misinformation, stigma, and disclosure hesitancy among women receiving curative treatment for cervical cancer at a tertiary hospital in South Africa53
A brief comparison of forensic psychology in South Africa, the United States, and Canada29
Conceptualising eco-anxiety using an existential framework21
Race, representativity, and the (im)probability of being a Black African professional psychology graduate: an institutional case study17
Adjustment and socioeconomic status: how do these factors influence the intention to dropout of university?16
Computer-based cognitive training for cognitive development of alcohol-exposed children in South Africa: a feasibility randomised control trial14
COVID-19, inequality, and the intersection between wealth, race, and gender13
Perceptions of primary mental health care in a semi-rural setting in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: a qualitative inquiry12
The prevalence of common mental disorders and its relationship with mental toughness in professional South African rugby players10
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons9
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour9
Looking back to move forward: a scoping review of counselling psychology in South Africa8
Depressive symptoms and socio-demographic correlates among adolescents in Kampala: a cross-sectional study8
Caseness and comorbidity of probable (complex) post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in survivors of genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda: the role of social determinants7
Authorship and building psychological research in low and middle income countries: a view from the Pacific Island Nation of Fiji7
Investigating parenting factors, traumatic brain injury and callous and unemotional traits among high school students in a South African setting7
Distress among cancer patients: some considerations in identification and treatment6
Personality traits and traffic violations: the serial mediating role of theory of planned behavior constructs and intention6
Frequently asked questions about African psychology: another view6
From fear and vulnerability to fortitude: sustaining psychological well-being in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic6
Exploring worker subjectivity: shaping industrial and organizational psychology in post-apartheid South Africa6
Exploring marital safety: three South African wives living with HIV in nonmutual monogamous marriage5
Call for papers: Psychology and the Climate Emergency5
Climate justice is central to addressing the climate emergency’s psychological consequences in the Global South: a narrative review5
“I just want to stay here and sleep forever”: South African patients’ lived experiences of chronic fatigue in endometriosis4
Assessing the employability and employment destinations of professional psychology alumni4
An exploratory study of the mental health of first responders: depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder4
Managing the Covid-19 pandemic in South African Schools: turning challenge into opportunity4
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy mediates the link between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and health-related quality of life4
The role of fortitude, loneliness, and depression in the association between risk perception of contracting COVID-19 and life satisfaction: serial mediation analysis4
Mapping the evolution and hotspots of future orientation research: a visualized analysis from 1991 to 2023 using Citespace4
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 adults4
To what extent do career agility and psychological capital activate employees’ career adaptability and foster their career resilience and career satisfaction?4
Adapting an evidence-based contingency management and text messaging intervention for South African perinatal women who drink4
Loadshedding, safety concerns, and mental health in South Africa3
Insecure attachment styles as predictors of posttraumatic growth in a South African student sample3
Designing interventions to ameliorate mental health conditions in resource-constrained contexts: some considerations3
Looking backwards, looking forwards: collective and critical conversations on psychology in South Africa3
Freedom from American psychology3
Precarious work and constructions of masculinities: the case of day labour workers in Cape Town, South Africa3
Career agility and career embeddedness as psychological needs of the value-oriented psychological contract3
An analysis of KwaZulu-Natal clinical psychologists’ multicultural experience3
Three decades of psychology in South Africa: legacies of hope and fault lines of the future3
Experiences and views of clinical psychologists working in non-urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa3
Health risk behaviour and persistent and incident depression among middle-aged and older adults in South Africa3
Preparedness for caregiving moderates the association between burden and health-related quality of life among family caregivers of stroke patients in Nigeria3
The correlation between self-reported sleep quality, anxiety levels, and balance confidence among university students3
Sense of coherence, social support, satisfaction with life, and resilience as mediators between fear of COVID-19, perceived vulnerability to disease and depression2
Book Review: Gertie (HG) Pretorius (Ed.), Introduction to Forensic Psychology and Psycho-Legal Work2
Perceptions of causes and treatment of mental illness among traditional health practitioners in Johannesburg, South Africa2
Reading a liberation psychology archive in South Africa2
Exploring the experiences of stigma among South African gay men who practice consensual nonmonogamy2
Exploring the demand, practicality, and acceptability of a mental health application intervention for students at a South African university2
Quantifying the psychosocial outcomes of outdoor adventure education for adolescent learners in a South African setting2
Investigating the influence of expressive writing exercises on the working memory of middle adolescents and young adults in South Africa2
Cancer coping self-efficacy mediates the relationship between mental adjustment to cancer and health-related quality of life in persons with cancer2
Perceptions of thermal comfort and coping mechanisms related to indoor and outdoor temperatures among participants living in rural villages in Limpopo province, South Africa2
Chasing the ghosts: stories of people left behind on the frontline of climate and ecological crisis2
Knowledge of dementia and dementia care in a cross-sectional sample of individuals living in rural and urban areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa2
Some sound, some fury, signifying very little: Frantz Fanon and psychological scholarship in South Africa2
Social media and adolescent psychosocial development: a systematic review2
Collaborative care for mental health in South Africa: a qualitative systematic review2
Controlling for inequality in neuropsychological assessment: using Crawford and Howell’s (1998) single-case methodology with norms from demographically homogeneous groups of South Africans2
The mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between global climate change awareness and hope for the prevention of climate change2
‘They couldn’t really gauge where we were and what we were struggling with’: intern psychologists’ experiences of support within their placement during COVID-192
Why South Africa needs cognitive neuroscientists2
Challenges, coping strategies, and sources of support available to South African parents with children with autism spectrum disorder during the COVID-19 lockdown: a qualitative study2
Understanding the perceived psychosocial impact of father absence on adult women2
Acknowledgement of reviewers1
Colonial methodologies: a discourse analysis of medical students’ talk about psychology1
South African fathers’ experiences with healthcare providers during their partners’ medically high-risk pregnancy and childbirth1
The mental health state of extended programme students at a South African university1
Fatigue-management strategies among women with endometriosis in South Africa: a qualitative study1
Beyond the shadows of trauma: exploring the synergy of emotional intelligence and distress disclosure in Nigerian adolescents’ trauma journey1
Our grief matters – loss, grief, and mourning in Black vertically infected HIV-positive adolescents1
Poverty, protests and pandemics: what can we learn from community resilience?1
Relationship between mindfulness and meaning in life among university students: roles of social support and the experience of being left behind1
Psychology and the climate emergency1
Artificial intelligence (AI) in psychology: a commentary on AI’s emerging role and the ensuing conversation1
‘It shuttered down our hearts’: the mental health of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in rural Limpopo, South Africa1
The well-being correlates of religious commitment amongst South African and Kenyan students1
A qualitative study on the role of alcohol in the lives of a group of sexual minority women in South Africa1
Internet addiction and subjective well-being: the mediating role of social support and meaning in life1
Positioning resilience science more centrally in affirming LGBTIQA+ persons and communities1
Editorial1
Health literacy among an undergraduate student population: a comparative study1
Perceived diversity, threat, and attitudes towards immigrants: the mitigating role of cross-group friendships and empathy1
Acknowledgement of reviewers1
Differences in time-based prospective memory between field-independent and field-dependent cognitive styles under different time monitoring conditions1
The dynamics of Appraisal II: a meta-analysis of the relationship between fortitude and the indices of psychological well-being1
Queer and using substances, a ‘double whammy’: results from a needs assessment of substance use treatment professionals in South Africa1
The psychology of social change – 30 years post-apartheid: what went wrong and how to fix it?1
Behind the scenes of scholarly success: the critical yet underappreciated role of editing and peer review1
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa1
Book Review: Hugo Ka Canham, Riotous Deathscapes1
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