Elmien Lesch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 193091 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elmien Lesch |
| NOMBRES | Elmien |
| APELLIDO | Lesch |
| FIRMA | LESCH E |
| AFILIACIONES | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8083-1925 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Factors associated with psychological distress following romantic relationship dissolutions and the role of attachment
Romantic relationship formation is critical in the development and identity formation of emerging adult students (EAS). Romantic relationship dissolutions (RRDs), and consequent psychological distress may overstretch the inner resources of EAS and negatively impact identity development. Yet, little is known about the factors involved in RDDs and secondary psychological distress. EAS ( n = 886) completed a demographic and romantic relationship que…
Empowering Daddy’s Little Girl
Globally, research conducted over the last two decades has shown that fathers can positively impact their daughters’ well-being across various life domains. However, studies rarely locate these findings within the context of women’s empowerment. This synthetic review aims to do so by providing an integrated discussion of research relating to fathers’ contribution to daughters’ egalitarian gender socialization, and thus, women’s empowerment. This …
Ugandan Practitioner Perspectives on Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Exploring the uptake of inclusive masculinity ideas in a group of South African, White, Afrikaans, heterosexual University student men
This study explored the masculinity constructions of White, Afrikaans, cisgender, heterosexual, tertiary-educated, young men – a socio-cultural group strongly associated with hegemonic masculinity ideas. More specifically, informed by Anderson’s Inclusive Masculinity Theory, the study investigated whether these young men incorporated more inclusive masculinity ideas. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 15 men between the ag…
Expectations and Interactions About Father Provision in South African, Black, Low-Income, Non-Resident Father Families
These are His Rules, Our Rules
Parental discipline is an important aspect of a child's socialization and has been adapted over time as social views on disciplinary approaches have changed. Although both parents play a role in carrying out discipline, fathers are frequently viewed as the ultimate disciplinary figure, and their methods are often associated with harsh and aggressive practices. Thus, the recent prohibition of corporal punishment in South Africa has added heightene…
Abdication of Responsibility for Father-Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families
Much of what is known about non-resident fathers is based on studies conducted in North America and Europe, and on the accounts of only one family member. This article draws from a study which utilised a family systems perspective and obtained the views of four members of ten Black South African non-resident father families ( N = 40) with infrequent father-child contact. The aim was to investigate if and how non-resident fathers' contact with ado…
Factors associated with breakup distress following a romantic relationship dissolution among emerging adult students
Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships
Research indicates that close father-child relationships contribute to the well-being of adolescents. However, most studies on closeness have been conducted in the northern hemisphere on adult relationships of White, middle-class population groups. The aim of this study, therefore, was to explore constructions of father-child closeness in a different setting. Informed by social constructionism, an exploratory-descriptive research design was used …
“A Child Needs Both a Mother and a Father”
Quality of parenting plays a critical role in human development and well-being across the lifespan. Concurrently, the quality of parenting is underpinned by the dominant parenting ideas and practices that prevail in a specific socio-cultural context at a specific time. These ideas and practices may, therefore, vary over different social contexts, as well as over time. South Africa has a history of patriarchal family structures characterised by au…
Exploring the caring of fathers in low-income, rural communities in South Africa
Early research on fatherhood in South Africa emphasize the prevalence of absent fathers and the detrimental impact thereof on families. More recent research on fatherhood, however, has shown a shift in fathering practices, where contemporary men engage in more involved and complicated fathering practices, which include nurturing and caring activities. Although local studies have begun to identify nurturing and caring activities in fathering, they…
Inconceivable
The maintenance of gender inequality in South African tertiary educated heterosexual couples
Gender equality has been found to benefit individual and couple well-being. However, much of what is known about the uptake of gender equality ideas in intimate heterosexual relationships is based on individual data from tertiary educated groups in the global North. South African research has also relied on individual data, but has predominantly utilized low socio-economic status samples. Locally, research is therefore needed that employs dyadic …
We are Equal”! Gender Constructions in a Group of Middle-Class South African Muslim Couples
Living single
Worldwide, societies continue to privilege the ideology of couplehood to the detriment of other relationship states, like singlehood, that are steadily increasing in number. Furthermore, according to developmental psychology theory, the formation of a committed romantic relationship is viewed as an important psychosocial developmental task in adulthood. It is therefore not surprising that women’s experience of being single has generally been negl…
Man Talk
Drinking with respect
This article aims to provide a community-specific understanding of a subgroup of South African men who exhibit particularly high rates of hazardous alcohol consumption. Adopting a social constructionist framework, we interviewed 13 Cape Winelands men who lived on farms to explore their drinking constructions. We present three themes that shed light on problematic drinking in this group: (1) the notion of weekend binge-drinking as 'respectable' dr…
Romantic relationships and loneliness in a group of South African postgraduate students
According to psychological developmental theory, the formation of a committed romantic relationship is a critical psychosocial development task for young adults. They are also socialised to believe that such a relationship is the ultimate pathway to love and psychological intimacy and they may therefore experience general and romantic loneliness in its absence. However, people in romantic relationships can also experience romantic loneliness, whi…
Sexual Intimacy Constructions of Heterosexual Couples Living in a Low-Income, “Colored,” Farmworker Community in South Africa
This study has been motivated by the scarcity of research that adopts an unproblematic focus on sexuality in South African Black and Colored low-income communities. We explored the sexual intimacy constructions of 15 Colored married/cohabiting couples who live in a low-income, historical South African farmworker community. Using a social constructionist thematic analysis method, we identified four themes: (a) metaphoric and indirect sexual langua…
Couples living with and around alcohol abuse
Fathers, adolescent daughters and gender in a low-income South African community
Knowledge about father–adolescent daughter relationships is mostly based on research in North-American and European contexts. Furthermore, it tends to rely on either fathers' or daughters' perspectives, and not on dyadic data. Informed by a social constructionist perspective, this study investigated the fatherhood constructions of fathers and adolescent daughters in a South African low-income community. We used Charmaz' social constructionist gro…
“In My Dream She Finds Me…And She Wants Me Just the Way I Am”
Limited research is available with regard to the experience of biological fathers who are interested in being involved in their children’s lives but are restricted from doing so. In this study, we aimed to contribute to understanding these paternal constraints and to give unmarried fathers a platform to voice their experiences regarding restricted contact with their children. Interviews were conducted with six single, Setswana-speaking black fath…
I Want a Better Life for Her”
Although research indicates the importance of fathers in adolescent daughters’ psychosocial development, father–adolescent daughter relationships have been neglected in both international and local research. Furthermore, the relatively small body of research that does exist has mostly been conducted in North American and European contexts. Our study aimed to generate knowledge about father–adolescent daughter relationships in a minority, low-inco…
Young Adult South African Daughters’ Perceptions of Paternal Involvement and Nurturance
This study aimed to assess current and retrospective levels of reported and desired paternal involvement experienced by young adult daughters, as well as current and retrospective levels of paternal nurturance. A sample of 89, female, third year South African Psychology students completed self-administered questionnaires, consisting of a biographical questionnaire, four Father Involvement Scales and two Nurturant Father Scales. Daughters reported…
South African Adolescents’ Constructions of Intimacy in Romantic Relationships
Localized understandings of adolescent romantic relationships are needed to expand our knowledge of the diversity of adolescent romantic experiences and to challenge negative discourses of adolescent heterosexual relationships. This study explored the constructions of intimacy of 20 adolescent men and women in romantic relationships from one low-income community in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Using Charmaz’s constructivist grounded…
Mothers, daughters and sexual agency in one low-income South African community
South African social workers' knowledge of attachment theory and their perceptions of attachment relationships in foster care supervision
Sexual Intimacy Constructions of Heterosexual Couples Living in a Low-Income, “Colored,” Farmworker Community in South Africa
This study has been motivated by the scarcity of research that adopts an unproblematic focus on sexuality in South African Black and Colored low-income communities. We explored the sexual intimacy constructions of 15 Colored married/cohabiting couples who live in a low-income, historical South African farmworker community. Using a social constructionist thematic analysis method, we identified four themes: (a) metaphoric and indirect sexual langua…
Fathers, adolescent daughters and gender in a low-income South African community
Knowledge about father–adolescent daughter relationships is mostly based on research in North-American and European contexts. Furthermore, it tends to rely on either fathers' or daughters' perspectives, and not on dyadic data. Informed by a social constructionist perspective, this study investigated the fatherhood constructions of fathers and adolescent daughters in a South African low-income community. We used Charmaz' social constructionist gro…
I Want a Better Life for Her”
Although research indicates the importance of fathers in adolescent daughters’ psychosocial development, father–adolescent daughter relationships have been neglected in both international and local research. Furthermore, the relatively small body of research that does exist has mostly been conducted in North American and European contexts. Our study aimed to generate knowledge about father–adolescent daughter relationships in a minority, low-inco…
Living single
Worldwide, societies continue to privilege the ideology of couplehood to the detriment of other relationship states, like singlehood, that are steadily increasing in number. Furthermore, according to developmental psychology theory, the formation of a committed romantic relationship is viewed as an important psychosocial developmental task in adulthood. It is therefore not surprising that women’s experience of being single has generally been negl…
Man Talk
Drinking with respect
This article aims to provide a community-specific understanding of a subgroup of South African men who exhibit particularly high rates of hazardous alcohol consumption. Adopting a social constructionist framework, we interviewed 13 Cape Winelands men who lived on farms to explore their drinking constructions. We present three themes that shed light on problematic drinking in this group: (1) the notion of weekend binge-drinking as 'respectable' dr…
Couples living with and around alcohol abuse
South African Adolescents’ Constructions of Intimacy in Romantic Relationships
Localized understandings of adolescent romantic relationships are needed to expand our knowledge of the diversity of adolescent romantic experiences and to challenge negative discourses of adolescent heterosexual relationships. This study explored the constructions of intimacy of 20 adolescent men and women in romantic relationships from one low-income community in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Using Charmaz’s constructivist grounded…
Reflections on the Sexual Agency of Young Women in a Low-Income Rural South African Community
Reproductive health issues are pertinent in the mental health development of young women in South Africa, especially young women in low-income communities. The prevalence of problems such as HIV/AIDS and unplanned or unwanted pregnancies among South African female adolescents specifically warrants urgent attention. It is argued that inadequate theoretical frameworks and inadequate data on sexuality in different South African communities hamper ef…
Exploring the caring of fathers in low-income, rural communities in South Africa
Early research on fatherhood in South Africa emphasize the prevalence of absent fathers and the detrimental impact thereof on families. More recent research on fatherhood, however, has shown a shift in fathering practices, where contemporary men engage in more involved and complicated fathering practices, which include nurturing and caring activities. Although local studies have begun to identify nurturing and caring activities in fathering, they…
The maintenance of gender inequality in South African tertiary educated heterosexual couples
Gender equality has been found to benefit individual and couple well-being. However, much of what is known about the uptake of gender equality ideas in intimate heterosexual relationships is based on individual data from tertiary educated groups in the global North. South African research has also relied on individual data, but has predominantly utilized low socio-economic status samples. Locally, research is therefore needed that employs dyadic …
Reflections on the Sexual Agency of Young Women in a Low-Income Rural South African Community
Reproductive health issues are pertinent in the mental health development of young women in South Africa, especially young women in low-income communities. The prevalence of problems such as HIV/AIDS and unplanned or unwanted pregnancies among South African female adolescents specifically warrants urgent attention. It is argued that inadequate theoretical frameworks and inadequate data on sexuality in different South African communities hamper ef…
Mothers, daughters and sexual agency in one low-income South African community
Safe sex and constructions of young male sexuality in one semi-rural Western Cape community
Young people in South Africa are at risk of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. In efforts to address these reproductive health problems, the dominant focus so far has been on young women. There is an increasing awareness that males need to be involved at all levels of reproductive health, and the importance of researching young men's sexuality has been emphasised. Sexuality researchers also argue for localised understandings o…
The Reliability of the Dyadic Satisfaction (DS) Subscale in a Low-income Semi-rural South African Community
This study investigated the reliability of the Dyadic Satisfaction (DS) subscale of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) in a South African setting. One-hundred heterosexual, coloured, low-income, semi-rural couples with a mean age of 43.59 years and limited formal education participated in the study. To estimate validity, the DS subscale was correlated with the Index of Marital Satisfaction (IMS) and the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMSS). Th…
I am like a woman’
South African research on same-sex sexuality is sparse. Black men living in rural areas, and particularly coloured men, have often been neglected in same-sex sexuality research. This paper describes the findings from a study that explored the sexuality constructions of a group of young, coloured, self-identified gay men who live in a semi-rural, low-income, South African community. Social constructionist grounded theory was used to analyse interv…
Relationship Satisfaction and Gender Differences in a South African Farm-worker Community
This study formed part of a larger research and community development project which aimed to explore intimate heterosexual relationships as mental health resource and stressor in one lowincome, coloured farm-worker community in South Africa. The specific aims of this study were to generate descriptive data of the couples in this community; investigate overall relationship satisfaction; and investigate gender differences in relationship satisfacti…
South African Adolescents’ Constructions of Intimacy in Romantic Relationships
Localized understandings of adolescent romantic relationships are needed to expand our knowledge of the diversity of adolescent romantic experiences and to challenge negative discourses of adolescent heterosexual relationships. This study explored the constructions of intimacy of 20 adolescent men and women in romantic relationships from one low-income community in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Using Charmaz’s constructivist grounded…
South African social workers' knowledge of attachment theory and their perceptions of attachment relationships in foster care supervision
Young Adult South African Daughters’ Perceptions of Paternal Involvement and Nurturance
This study aimed to assess current and retrospective levels of reported and desired paternal involvement experienced by young adult daughters, as well as current and retrospective levels of paternal nurturance. A sample of 89, female, third year South African Psychology students completed self-administered questionnaires, consisting of a biographical questionnaire, four Father Involvement Scales and two Nurturant Father Scales. Daughters reported…
“In My Dream She Finds Me…And She Wants Me Just the Way I Am”
Limited research is available with regard to the experience of biological fathers who are interested in being involved in their children’s lives but are restricted from doing so. In this study, we aimed to contribute to understanding these paternal constraints and to give unmarried fathers a platform to voice their experiences regarding restricted contact with their children. Interviews were conducted with six single, Setswana-speaking black fath…
I Want a Better Life for Her”
Although research indicates the importance of fathers in adolescent daughters’ psychosocial development, father–adolescent daughter relationships have been neglected in both international and local research. Furthermore, the relatively small body of research that does exist has mostly been conducted in North American and European contexts. Our study aimed to generate knowledge about father–adolescent daughter relationships in a minority, low-inco…
Romantic relationships and loneliness in a group of South African postgraduate students
According to psychological developmental theory, the formation of a committed romantic relationship is a critical psychosocial development task for young adults. They are also socialised to believe that such a relationship is the ultimate pathway to love and psychological intimacy and they may therefore experience general and romantic loneliness in its absence. However, people in romantic relationships can also experience romantic loneliness, whi…
Sexual Intimacy Constructions of Heterosexual Couples Living in a Low-Income, “Colored,” Farmworker Community in South Africa
This study has been motivated by the scarcity of research that adopts an unproblematic focus on sexuality in South African Black and Colored low-income communities. We explored the sexual intimacy constructions of 15 Colored married/cohabiting couples who live in a low-income, historical South African farmworker community. Using a social constructionist thematic analysis method, we identified four themes: (a) metaphoric and indirect sexual langua…
Couples living with and around alcohol abuse
Fathers, adolescent daughters and gender in a low-income South African community
Knowledge about father–adolescent daughter relationships is mostly based on research in North-American and European contexts. Furthermore, it tends to rely on either fathers' or daughters' perspectives, and not on dyadic data. Informed by a social constructionist perspective, this study investigated the fatherhood constructions of fathers and adolescent daughters in a South African low-income community. We used Charmaz' social constructionist gro…
Drinking with respect
This article aims to provide a community-specific understanding of a subgroup of South African men who exhibit particularly high rates of hazardous alcohol consumption. Adopting a social constructionist framework, we interviewed 13 Cape Winelands men who lived on farms to explore their drinking constructions. We present three themes that shed light on problematic drinking in this group: (1) the notion of weekend binge-drinking as 'respectable' dr…
We are Equal”! Gender Constructions in a Group of Middle-Class South African Muslim Couples
Living single
Worldwide, societies continue to privilege the ideology of couplehood to the detriment of other relationship states, like singlehood, that are steadily increasing in number. Furthermore, according to developmental psychology theory, the formation of a committed romantic relationship is viewed as an important psychosocial developmental task in adulthood. It is therefore not surprising that women’s experience of being single has generally been negl…
Man Talk
The maintenance of gender inequality in South African tertiary educated heterosexual couples
Gender equality has been found to benefit individual and couple well-being. However, much of what is known about the uptake of gender equality ideas in intimate heterosexual relationships is based on individual data from tertiary educated groups in the global North. South African research has also relied on individual data, but has predominantly utilized low socio-economic status samples. Locally, research is therefore needed that employs dyadic …
Inconceivable
“A Child Needs Both a Mother and a Father”
Quality of parenting plays a critical role in human development and well-being across the lifespan. Concurrently, the quality of parenting is underpinned by the dominant parenting ideas and practices that prevail in a specific socio-cultural context at a specific time. These ideas and practices may, therefore, vary over different social contexts, as well as over time. South Africa has a history of patriarchal family structures characterised by au…
Exploring the caring of fathers in low-income, rural communities in South Africa
Early research on fatherhood in South Africa emphasize the prevalence of absent fathers and the detrimental impact thereof on families. More recent research on fatherhood, however, has shown a shift in fathering practices, where contemporary men engage in more involved and complicated fathering practices, which include nurturing and caring activities. Although local studies have begun to identify nurturing and caring activities in fathering, they…
Factors associated with breakup distress following a romantic relationship dissolution among emerging adult students
Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships
Research indicates that close father-child relationships contribute to the well-being of adolescents. However, most studies on closeness have been conducted in the northern hemisphere on adult relationships of White, middle-class population groups. The aim of this study, therefore, was to explore constructions of father-child closeness in a different setting. Informed by social constructionism, an exploratory-descriptive research design was used …
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