Paul J P Fouché
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4488263 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul J P Fouché |
| NOMBRES | Paul J P |
| APELLIDO | Fouché |
| FIRMA | FOUCHÉ P J P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9559-876X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Waltz King, Johann Baptist Strauss II (1825–1899)
This psychobiography was undertaken on the creative life of the eminent composer Johann Baptist Strauss II (1825–1899). As an Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer he produced acclaimed waltzes, quadrilles, polkas and devoted time to operettas and ballets. He was dubbed the ‘Waltz King’ after he composed the ‘The Blue Danube’. Psychobiography is rooted in the constructivist-interpretivist paradigm and involves a longitudinal and in-depth ca…
Beyond Weird
The volume presents psychobiographical work in non-WEIRD contexts and samples, focusing on culture, transcultural and transdisciplinary research.
Beyond Weird
A psychobiography of Oliver Reginald Tambo from an African psychology perspective
The objective of this study was to psychologically reconstruct the life of Oliver Reginald Tambo (1917-1993), using integrated African-centred psychological approaches. The researchers applied a constructivist, single-case psychobiographical approach and Alexander’s (1988) principal identifiers of salience to analyse primary and secondary biographical data available on Tambo’s life. From these analyses, we characterise Tambo’s life to reflect the…
The career development of Christiaan Neethling Barnard
This study employs a psychobiographical case study to describe and interpret the career development of Christiaan Neethling Barnard, who performed the first human heart transplant. It interprets Barnard's life history according to the career development model of Greenhaus, Callanan and Godshalk (2010), which proposes the following four stages: occupational and organisational choice, early, middle, and late career. Generally, Barnard's career prog…
The spiritual wellness of Beyers Naudé
The study explores and describes Beyers Naudé's (1915–2004) spiritual wellness across his lifespan. Naudé's life history was uncovered through the systematic collection and analyses of life history materials. Data were interpreted applying the Wheel of Wellness model (WoW) by Sweeney and Witmer (1991 Sweeney, T. J., & Witmer, J. M. (1991). Beyond social interest: Striving toward optimum health and wellness. Journal of Individual Psychology, 47(4)…
Roald Dahl
This study applies analytical psychobiography, particularly Freud's psychoanalytic apporoach, to the study of the psychosexual development of Roald Dahl (1916–1990), a renowned children's author, gentleman spy, connoisseur, and philanthropist of his time. Data sources for the analysis included primary and secondary sources, and only publically available and published materials on his life. Alexander's (1988 Alexander, I. E. (1988). Personality, p…
The Dracula killer
This psychobiographical study of Richard Trenton Chase (1950–1980), a serial murderer, has the aim to uncover the psychic mechanisms characteristic of his functioning. The study included primary and secondary data sources. All materials collected and analysed, were published and publically available. The Schahriar syndrome model served as the conceptual framework for data framing and interpretation. Findings suggest that Chase exhibited five prim…
The ‘coming of age’ for Southern African psychobiography
Psychobiographical studies have been relatively rare in the research scholarship from Southern Africa. The exceptions are the works of especially Fouche and Van Niekerk (2010). In their article on
Helen Suzman
The primary aim of this study was to describe Helen Suzman's (1917–2009) psychosocial developmental trajectory within her socio-historical context through the application of the stage based description of psychosocial development by Erikson. Two methodological strategies were used. Alexander's psychobiographical model was used to prioritise and extract salient data. Furthermore, a conceptual framework and matrix enabled the longitudinal explorati…
Psychofortology of Women Undergoing Infertility Treatment
This study explored the coping and subjective well-being of women undergoing infertility treatment. Participants were 61 South African women attending a fertility clinic was selected by means of non- probability purposive sampling (mean age = 34.5). Data were gathered by means of a self-report survey consisting of various questionnaires and analysed using descriptive statistics and cluster analysis. Participants reported lower total coping resour…
Academic Psychobiography in South Africa
Our aim is to highlight the past, present and future state of affairs of South African psychobiography. Particular attention is given to the trends and the challenges faced by academic psycho-biographers in South Africa. Over the past decade psychobiography has evolved into an established research genre and has become a methodology used by various academics and post-graduate research scholars at South African universities. Psychobiography entails…
Emotional Stress and Coping Strategies in South African Clinical and Counselling Psychologists
This study aimed to explore psychologists' emotional stress levels, as manifested in anxiety and depression, their coping strategies, and the relationship between stress and coping strategies. A stratified random sample of 238 South African clinical and counselling psychologists completed internet surveys that included a biographical questionnaire, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the Brief Coping…
The Biopsychosocial Coping and Adjustment of Female Medical Professionals
Most research on professional women has focused on their stress experience as opposed to their coping and adjustment. In addition, there is a paucity of South African research on coping in general, and on coping and adjustment among medical professional women in particular. This study accordingly investigated the biopsychosocial coping and adjustment of medical professional women in South Africa, by means of an exploratory, descriptive research d…
Biopsychosocial Coping and Adjustment of Adult Female Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients
This study describes the biopsychosocial coping and adjustment of adult female Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) patients in managed health care. The non-probability convenience sample consisted of 36 adult women aged between 18 and 60 years, recruited at a managed health care facility in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, and who volunteered to become part of this study. A biographical questionnaire and two paper-and-pencil measures were used to collect…
The Biopsychosocial Coping and Adjustment of Female Medical Professionals
Most research on professional women has focused on their stress experience as opposed to their coping and adjustment. In addition, there is a paucity of South African research on coping in general, and on coping and adjustment among medical professional women in particular. This study accordingly investigated the biopsychosocial coping and adjustment of medical professional women in South Africa, by means of an exploratory, descriptive research d…
Academic Psychobiography in South Africa
Our aim is to highlight the past, present and future state of affairs of South African psychobiography. Particular attention is given to the trends and the challenges faced by academic psycho-biographers in South Africa. Over the past decade psychobiography has evolved into an established research genre and has become a methodology used by various academics and post-graduate research scholars at South African universities. Psychobiography entails…
Emotional Stress and Coping Strategies in South African Clinical and Counselling Psychologists
This study aimed to explore psychologists' emotional stress levels, as manifested in anxiety and depression, their coping strategies, and the relationship between stress and coping strategies. A stratified random sample of 238 South African clinical and counselling psychologists completed internet surveys that included a biographical questionnaire, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the Brief Coping…
Biopsychosocial Coping and Adjustment of Adult Female Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients
This study describes the biopsychosocial coping and adjustment of adult female Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) patients in managed health care. The non-probability convenience sample consisted of 36 adult women aged between 18 and 60 years, recruited at a managed health care facility in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, and who volunteered to become part of this study. A biographical questionnaire and two paper-and-pencil measures were used to collect…
The Biopsychosocial Coping and Adjustment of Female Medical Professionals
Most research on professional women has focused on their stress experience as opposed to their coping and adjustment. In addition, there is a paucity of South African research on coping in general, and on coping and adjustment among medical professional women in particular. This study accordingly investigated the biopsychosocial coping and adjustment of medical professional women in South Africa, by means of an exploratory, descriptive research d…
Biopsychosocial Coping and Adjustment of Adult Female Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients
This study describes the biopsychosocial coping and adjustment of adult female Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) patients in managed health care. The non-probability convenience sample consisted of 36 adult women aged between 18 and 60 years, recruited at a managed health care facility in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, and who volunteered to become part of this study. A biographical questionnaire and two paper-and-pencil measures were used to collect…
Emotional Stress and Coping Strategies in South African Clinical and Counselling Psychologists
This study aimed to explore psychologists' emotional stress levels, as manifested in anxiety and depression, their coping strategies, and the relationship between stress and coping strategies. A stratified random sample of 238 South African clinical and counselling psychologists completed internet surveys that included a biographical questionnaire, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the Brief Coping…
Academic Psychobiography in South Africa
Our aim is to highlight the past, present and future state of affairs of South African psychobiography. Particular attention is given to the trends and the challenges faced by academic psycho-biographers in South Africa. Over the past decade psychobiography has evolved into an established research genre and has become a methodology used by various academics and post-graduate research scholars at South African universities. Psychobiography entails…
Psychofortology of Women Undergoing Infertility Treatment
This study explored the coping and subjective well-being of women undergoing infertility treatment. Participants were 61 South African women attending a fertility clinic was selected by means of non- probability purposive sampling (mean age = 34.5). Data were gathered by means of a self-report survey consisting of various questionnaires and analysed using descriptive statistics and cluster analysis. Participants reported lower total coping resour…
Helen Suzman
The primary aim of this study was to describe Helen Suzman's (1917–2009) psychosocial developmental trajectory within her socio-historical context through the application of the stage based description of psychosocial development by Erikson. Two methodological strategies were used. Alexander's psychobiographical model was used to prioritise and extract salient data. Furthermore, a conceptual framework and matrix enabled the longitudinal explorati…
The career development of Christiaan Neethling Barnard
This study employs a psychobiographical case study to describe and interpret the career development of Christiaan Neethling Barnard, who performed the first human heart transplant. It interprets Barnard's life history according to the career development model of Greenhaus, Callanan and Godshalk (2010), which proposes the following four stages: occupational and organisational choice, early, middle, and late career. Generally, Barnard's career prog…
The spiritual wellness of Beyers Naudé
The study explores and describes Beyers Naudé's (1915–2004) spiritual wellness across his lifespan. Naudé's life history was uncovered through the systematic collection and analyses of life history materials. Data were interpreted applying the Wheel of Wellness model (WoW) by Sweeney and Witmer (1991 Sweeney, T. J., & Witmer, J. M. (1991). Beyond social interest: Striving toward optimum health and wellness. Journal of Individual Psychology, 47(4)…
Roald Dahl
This study applies analytical psychobiography, particularly Freud's psychoanalytic apporoach, to the study of the psychosexual development of Roald Dahl (1916–1990), a renowned children's author, gentleman spy, connoisseur, and philanthropist of his time. Data sources for the analysis included primary and secondary sources, and only publically available and published materials on his life. Alexander's (1988 Alexander, I. E. (1988). Personality, p…
The Dracula killer
This psychobiographical study of Richard Trenton Chase (1950–1980), a serial murderer, has the aim to uncover the psychic mechanisms characteristic of his functioning. The study included primary and secondary data sources. All materials collected and analysed, were published and publically available. The Schahriar syndrome model served as the conceptual framework for data framing and interpretation. Findings suggest that Chase exhibited five prim…
The ‘coming of age’ for Southern African psychobiography
Psychobiographical studies have been relatively rare in the research scholarship from Southern Africa. The exceptions are the works of especially Fouche and Van Niekerk (2010). In their article on
A psychobiography of Oliver Reginald Tambo from an African psychology perspective
The objective of this study was to psychologically reconstruct the life of Oliver Reginald Tambo (1917-1993), using integrated African-centred psychological approaches. The researchers applied a constructivist, single-case psychobiographical approach and Alexander’s (1988) principal identifiers of salience to analyse primary and secondary biographical data available on Tambo’s life. From these analyses, we characterise Tambo’s life to reflect the…
Beyond Weird
The volume presents psychobiographical work in non-WEIRD contexts and samples, focusing on culture, transcultural and transdisciplinary research.
Beyond Weird
The Waltz King, Johann Baptist Strauss II (1825–1899)
This psychobiography was undertaken on the creative life of the eminent composer Johann Baptist Strauss II (1825–1899). As an Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer he produced acclaimed waltzes, quadrilles, polkas and devoted time to operettas and ballets. He was dubbed the ‘Waltz King’ after he composed the ‘The Blue Danube’. Psychobiography is rooted in the constructivist-interpretivist paradigm and involves a longitudinal and in-depth ca…
Psychology (15 obras) · Psychoanalysis (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Clinical Psychology (4 obras) · Health, psychology, and well-being (4 obras) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Psychiatry (4 obras) · Coping (psychology) (3 obras)