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 2021-04-01 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
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour9
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons9
Depressive symptoms and socio-demographic correlates among adolescents in Kampala: a cross-sectional study8
Looking back to move forward: a scoping review of counselling psychology in South Africa8
Investigating parenting factors, traumatic brain injury and callous and unemotional traits among high school students in a South African setting7
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
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
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
Climate justice is central to addressing the climate emergency’s psychological consequences in the Global South: a narrative review5
Exploring marital safety: three South African wives living with HIV in nonmutual monogamous marriage5
Call for papers: Psychology and the Climate Emergency5
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
“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
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
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
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