Luzelle Naudé
Biographic Data
| ID | 119333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luzelle Naudé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luzelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Naudé |
| SIGNATURE | NAUDÉ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6660-8885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mental health of young adults in South Africa: Evidence from the Africa Long Life Study (ALLS)
Around 70% of Africa’s population is under 30, yet many young people face challenges which contribute to psychological distress. Studies have shown gender, financial status, and religiosity can serve as both risk and protective factors depending on the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors young adults are exposed to. However, research in the area tends to focus primarily on adolescence. This study investigated the presence of …
Crafting an Identity for Identity Interventions
Personality trait change in three sub-Saharan countries: Normative development and life events
Over the last 20 years, personality development has become one of the most widely studied topics in personality science. However, evidence on normative and event-related personality development stems almost exclusively from Western countries, providing limited insight into the cross-cultural generalizability of personality trait changes. To address this limitation, we used data from the Africa Long Life Study to examine personality development in…
Reconciling control and identity development: Experiences of South African adolescents
The aim of this study was to explore how a group of South African adolescents experience and react to being controlled during their process of finding a personal identity. Adolescents from the Eastern Cape province in South Africa (n = 120; 58.33% female) participated in focus group discussions regarding their experiences of how control shaped their sense of self. Participants understood identity as a continuous and fluid process of negotiation a…
The Quest for a “Soft Life” and the Transition into Adulthood: Views from South African Emerging Adult Students
Gaining financial independence is a prominent marker of adulthood. This study explored the experiences of a group of South African students (M Age = 22.24), with a specific focus on how the psychological tasks of emerging adulthood are embedded in the socio-economic context. Through the thematic analysis of 26 interviews, participants’ hopes, fears, and well-being (while managing student life shaped by an economically contentious situation) were …
Fatherhood, manhood, and personhood: South African fathers’ experiences of parental identity development
Motherhood, role conflict, and identity: South African mothers’ experiences amid a pandemic
This qualitative study aimed to explore and describe the role conflict that working South African mothers experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to their maternal and work roles and examine the mothers' descriptions and experiences of their individual and maternal identities. The phenomenon of work-life conflict is not new; however, the COVID-19 pandemic provided new research opportunities since the lockdown restrictions created unp…
The cross-cultural big two: A culturally decentered theoretical and measurement model for personality traits
63,720). (3) The 45-item Cross-Cultural Big Two Inventory was assessed psychometrically and validated against external criteria in the Africa Long Life Study samples and (4) in the online data and additionally compared to existing two-factor frameworks. The relation of the cross-cultural big two to other two-factor models and theories, its future development, and the potential and importance of culturally decentered models and inventories are dis…
Identity in university students: The semiotic work of making sense of yourself
The development of a deepened sense of self in young adults is a complex process. In this paper, we report on an interdisciplinary research project on identity formation among students at the University of the Free State from the perspective of semiotic work. Based on work in psychology and semiotics, we interviewed fifty-seven students about their identity. In particular, we asked students to bring along 'something' that they thought represents …
(Tat)who Am I? Tattoos as an Expression of Narrative Identity
Humans have been getting tattoos and telling stories for thousands of years. Although research on narratives has been gaining momentum in the past few decades, it is only now that the connection between tattoos and the life story is arousing interest among researchers. For this study, the use of tattoos as an expression of narrative identity was explored using reflective writing exercises and semi-structured interviews. Ten South African universi…
Parental Identity Processes Across Cultures: Commitment, In-Depth Exploration and Reconsideration of Commitment Among Parents from the United States, Israel, Poland, South Africa and Japan
The goal of the present study was to assess the similarities and differences between parents from different cultures in terms of the intensity of parental identity processes described in the three-dimensional model of identity formation. The cultural measurement invariance of the questionnaire used, the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale-Parental Identity (U-MICS-PI), was also assessed. Participants were 2340 parents (51.4% of mothe…
Perceptions of parenting among parents who regret having a child: A mixed-methods study
Regretting the decision to have a child is under-researched. In the present study, a mixed methodology was used to compare the perspective of parents who regretted the decision to have a child (n = 24, 62% of women, age M = 33.42, SD = 4.89) with parents who thought the decision was a good one (n = 35, 51% of women, M = 34.71, SD = 4.43). Parents participated in an in-depth interview about their experiences before having a child; the pregnancy an…
Connecting the I to the we to the world: Social Media as Dialogue Between Self and Society
Social media has become a central context in which young people connect with others, explore their identity, and express their agency. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with the aim of exploring how a diverse group of South African emerging adults (N = 41) construct the meaning of self and society through their online engagements. Narrative identity theory provided a framework for understanding the construction of personal an…
Being me: Content and context in South African adolescents’ identity development
On Becoming an Emerging Adult Parent in South Africa: Processes of Commitment, Exploration and Reconsideration of a Parental Identity
This study aimed to explore perceptions and experiences of parental identity development, with a specific focus on how the developmental dynamics of emerging adulthood intersect with processes of commitment, exploration and reconsideration of the parental role. Twenty-four South-African emerging adult parents were interviewed. Thematic analysis revealed that the intersection of the transitions towards parenthood and adulthood culminates in a nuan…
Protecting my Positivity”: Emerging Adults as Social Media Actors, Agents, and Authors
Social media engagements are integral to the lives and experiences of emerging adults. The aim of this study was to explore social media as a space where South African emerging adults shape and refine their sense of self. An explorative and descriptive qualitative approach was employed and individual interviews were conducted with 41 participants ((M Age = 23.17; SD = 2.65; Females = 53.7%). Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Participant…
Behavioural and psychological control during adolescence: An ecological systems perspective
This study investigated the extent and the nature of the behavioural and psychological control experienced by adolescents within four contexts (parental, peer, school, and community) of their everyday lives. The adolescents (n = 463; female = 52.5%, black African = 69.3%; mean age = 15.69 years, SD = 2.86 years) were from six public high schools in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The participants completed adapted versions of the Parents’ Psych…
Towards interdependence: Reciprocal relationships between students living with disability and their significant others
This article presents the findings of a qualitative study that explored and described how students living with disability construct meaning from their first-year experience through their social systems and interpersonal relationships. Two groups of participants, namely 18 students living with disability and their self-identified significant others were purposively sampled. Data were gathered by means of individual interviews and reflective writin…
Grade 12 performance and academic performance in first-year psychology students: Influences of generational status and academic self-concept
We examined the relationship between students’ Grade 12 achievement and their first-year academic performance and the potential moderating and/or mediating roles of generational status and academic self-concept in this relationship. Participants were 203 students (female = 82.8%; black African =73.9%; mean age =19.46 years, SD = 1.36 years). They completed a self-concept scale and self-reported their demographic and academic information. A series…
I have grown with it: Experiences of Spiritual Identity Development in a Group of South African Adolescents
This qualitative phenomenological study aimed to capture experiences of spiritual identity development in a purposive sample of South African adolescents, using semi-structured interviews and reflective writing exercises. Participants confirmed the prominence of religiosity and spirituality, as intertwined concepts central to their sense of purpose and identity. Consistent with the ideas expressed in psychosocial theories and lifespan development…
Context as co-creator in spiritual life stories: The contextual nature of South African adolescents’ spiritual identity development
This study explored spiritual identity development in a sample of South African adolescents, by considering how the participants perceived and experienced their spirituality, as well as how these meaning-making experiences contributed to their identity development. Twelve adolescent participants were purposively sampled and participated in semi-structured interviews and reflective writing exercises. The themes that emerged from the analysis allud…
Responsibility in the Face of Adversity: Adolescents’ Sense of Self in Reciprocal Relationships
The aim of this study was to explore Black South African adolescents' sense of self as it emerges through their direct and indirect environments. Black African adolescents ( N = 57; 52.63% male; 47.37% female) participated in eight focus groups, which were analyzed thematically. The emphasis fell on the interconnectedness and interdependency between individuals and social systems. The importance of family and peer relations, as well as the juxtap…
Predictors of academic success in the entry and integration stages of students’ academic careers
Success in higher education: Differences between first- and continuous-generation students
When There Are Only Minorities: Identity and In-Group / Out-Group Orientations of Emerging Adults in Four South African Ethnocultural Groups
Intergroup relation perspectives stem from research in Western contexts with clear distinctions between the dominant and nondominant groups. In South Africa, with at least 13 different cultural groups and 11 official languages, no group is dominant in all life spheres. We examine the relationship between identity and in-/out-group orientation across Black-Zulu, Coloured (mixed racial ancestry), Indian, and White-Afrikaans emerging adults ( N = 39…
Perceptions of parenting among parents who regret having a child: A mixed-methods study
Regretting the decision to have a child is under-researched. In the present study, a mixed methodology was used to compare the perspective of parents who regretted the decision to have a child (n = 24, 62% of women, age M = 33.42, SD = 4.89) with parents who thought the decision was a good one (n = 35, 51% of women, M = 34.71, SD = 4.43). Parents participated in an in-depth interview about their experiences before having a child; the pregnancy an…
(Tat)who Am I? Tattoos as an Expression of Narrative Identity
Humans have been getting tattoos and telling stories for thousands of years. Although research on narratives has been gaining momentum in the past few decades, it is only now that the connection between tattoos and the life story is arousing interest among researchers. For this study, the use of tattoos as an expression of narrative identity was explored using reflective writing exercises and semi-structured interviews. Ten South African universi…
Fatherhood, manhood, and personhood: South African fathers’ experiences of parental identity development
Connecting the I to the we to the world: Social Media as Dialogue Between Self and Society
Social media has become a central context in which young people connect with others, explore their identity, and express their agency. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with the aim of exploring how a diverse group of South African emerging adults (N = 41) construct the meaning of self and society through their online engagements. Narrative identity theory provided a framework for understanding the construction of personal an…
Success in higher education: Differences between first- and continuous-generation students
Social media, permanence, and tattooed students: The case for personal, personal branding
This article explores the perspectives of students regarding tattoos as a form of branding themselves. Various cohort groups of students at a South African university participated by completing a questionnaire (with both quantitative and qualitative components) on their behaviour and perspectives related to tattoos and personal branding. Most participants revealed reasons of a highly personal nature for getting tattoos, and the majority of the pa…
Carrying the culture: Ethnic identity development in black African adolescents
This study explored the ethnic identity exploration, commitment, and strength statuses in black African adolescents from the central region of South Africa. A total of 388 adolescents were recruited for this study (females = 66.24%; age range 13 to 21; Setswana = 22.42%; Sesotho = 61.08%, isiXhosa = 16.49%). The adolescents completed a survey battery measuring ethnic identity exploration, commitment, and strength. They also participated in focus …
Motherhood, role conflict, and identity: South African mothers’ experiences amid a pandemic
This qualitative study aimed to explore and describe the role conflict that working South African mothers experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to their maternal and work roles and examine the mothers' descriptions and experiences of their individual and maternal identities. The phenomenon of work-life conflict is not new; however, the COVID-19 pandemic provided new research opportunities since the lockdown restrictions created unp…
The cross-cultural big two: A culturally decentered theoretical and measurement model for personality traits
63,720). (3) The 45-item Cross-Cultural Big Two Inventory was assessed psychometrically and validated against external criteria in the Africa Long Life Study samples and (4) in the online data and additionally compared to existing two-factor frameworks. The relation of the cross-cultural big two to other two-factor models and theories, its future development, and the potential and importance of culturally decentered models and inventories are dis…
Towards interdependence: Reciprocal relationships between students living with disability and their significant others
This article presents the findings of a qualitative study that explored and described how students living with disability construct meaning from their first-year experience through their social systems and interpersonal relationships. Two groups of participants, namely 18 students living with disability and their self-identified significant others were purposively sampled. Data were gathered by means of individual interviews and reflective writin…
Your Culture or Mine? Changes in Cultural Sensitivity in a Service-Learning Class
This study investigated patterns of attitudinal change in students following a service-learning experience. The data for this study was collected from psychology students in their third and fourth years of study at the University of the Free State. All these students were involved in the Study Buddy Service-Learning module. The sample consisted of 75 students: 9 male and 66 female students; 37 black and 38 white students. Change in student attitu…
Time perspective amongst a group of Black African first-year students: Correlates with academic competence
This study explores the constructs of academic competence and time perspective amongst Black African first-year students (n = 178, females = 72.5%) from a large South African university. Self-report data were collected on the students' time perspective and academic competence. Participants' time perspective was measured with the Time Perspective Inventory (Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999 Zimbardo, P. G., & Boyd, J. N. (1999). Putting time in perspective: a…
Learning to like learning”: An appreciative inquiry into emotions in education
Various learning philosophies, such as humanistic, constructivist, and socio-cultural approaches, have accentuated the importance of emotion in learning. In this article, we reviewed these approaches and explored the affective dimensions of learning. We conducted focus group and individual interviews with a group of female students in the humanities enrolled in an academic facilitation programme employing a student-centred, experiential, and coll…
Contrast and contradiction: Being a black adolescent in contemporary South Africa
This study aimed to gain in-depth understanding of the lived identity of black African adolescents in a contemporary South African setting. A purposive sample of 59 adolescents (females = 47%; Sesotho = 46%, Setswana = 36%, Other = 18%) from the Motheo district of the Free State, South Africa, participated in focus group discussions and in-depth individual interviews. Thematic analysis suggested that black South African adolescents experience tra…
Identity status and perceived parenting style in adolescents living in central South Africa
This study investigated the relationship between black South African adolescents’ identity statuses and their perceived parenting styles. Participants (n = 188; 66% = females) were from central South Africa. They completed the Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status and the Parental Authority Questionnaire in addition to a biographic survey that included questions on their family structures (nuclear, extended, other types). Findings suggest that…
National collective identity in transitional societies: Salience and relations to life satisfaction for youth in South Africa, Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Kosovo and Romania
In this study we investigated the salience of the construct of national collective identity and its associations with life satisfaction among adolescents living in transitional societies characterised by relevant change in the last decades. Participants were 1 066 adolescents (M = 15.35 years, SD = 1.35) from South Africa (n = 186) and five Central Eastern European countries, including Albania (n = 209), Bulgaria (n = 146), Czech Republic (n = 30…
The Oxford handbook of identity development
So, why another book on identity? the editors of this book rightfully ask. They continue to answer this question convincingly.Considering the centrality of the question Who am I? as well as the gro
Breaking the cycle”: Black adolescents’ experiences of being stereotyped during identity development
This study explored the experience of being stereotyped in a group of black South African adolescents. Participants were 73 black adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 (females = 43.8%, majority ethnicity Setswana = 43,8%). The adolescents participated in focus group discussions on their experience of ethnicity-based stereotyping by others. The data were thematically analysed. The adolescents reported to experience identity compromising stere…
Identities in transitional societies
As the title of this special issue in the Journal of Psychology in Africa (JPA) alludes, the aim of this issue is to present and debate the manifestation of the multiple dimensions of identity as t
Social media, permanence, and tattooed students: The case for personal, personal branding
This article explores the perspectives of students regarding tattoos as a form of branding themselves. Various cohort groups of students at a South African university participated by completing a questionnaire (with both quantitative and qualitative components) on their behaviour and perspectives related to tattoos and personal branding. Most participants revealed reasons of a highly personal nature for getting tattoos, and the majority of the pa…
Carrying the culture: Ethnic identity development in black African adolescents
This study explored the ethnic identity exploration, commitment, and strength statuses in black African adolescents from the central region of South Africa. A total of 388 adolescents were recruited for this study (females = 66.24%; age range 13 to 21; Setswana = 22.42%; Sesotho = 61.08%, isiXhosa = 16.49%). The adolescents completed a survey battery measuring ethnic identity exploration, commitment, and strength. They also participated in focus …
When There Are Only Minorities: Identity and In-Group / Out-Group Orientations of Emerging Adults in Four South African Ethnocultural Groups
Intergroup relation perspectives stem from research in Western contexts with clear distinctions between the dominant and nondominant groups. In South Africa, with at least 13 different cultural groups and 11 official languages, no group is dominant in all life spheres. We examine the relationship between identity and in-/out-group orientation across Black-Zulu, Coloured (mixed racial ancestry), Indian, and White-Afrikaans emerging adults ( N = 39…
Antecedents of risk-taking behaviour among South African adolescents
This study aimed to investigate contextual predisposition to risk-taking behaviour among South African adolescents. Participants included 194 black adolescents from central South Africa (female = 50.5% between the ages of 16 and 19 years). The adolescents completed a youth risk behaviour survey as well as a questionnaire on their parental, peer, school, and community relationships. Data were analysed by means of multivariate analyses of variance …
Living in Two Worlds: Experiences and Perceptions of Diversity Among Adolescents in Racially-Integrated Schools
This study explored the experiences and perceptions of diversity among adolescents in racially-integrated schools in South Africa. Social psychological perspectives were used to consider the socio-cultural context of integrated schools in South Africa. A total number of 60 adolescents from desegregated, urban, public high schools in central South Africa participated in 10 focus groups. Participants struggled with the goal of staying true to thems…
Predictors of academic success in the entry and integration stages of students’ academic careers
Success in higher education: Differences between first- and continuous-generation students
Context as co-creator in spiritual life stories: The contextual nature of South African adolescents’ spiritual identity development
This study explored spiritual identity development in a sample of South African adolescents, by considering how the participants perceived and experienced their spirituality, as well as how these meaning-making experiences contributed to their identity development. Twelve adolescent participants were purposively sampled and participated in semi-structured interviews and reflective writing exercises. The themes that emerged from the analysis allud…
Responsibility in the Face of Adversity: Adolescents’ Sense of Self in Reciprocal Relationships
The aim of this study was to explore Black South African adolescents' sense of self as it emerges through their direct and indirect environments. Black African adolescents ( N = 57; 52.63% male; 47.37% female) participated in eight focus groups, which were analyzed thematically. The emphasis fell on the interconnectedness and interdependency between individuals and social systems. The importance of family and peer relations, as well as the juxtap…
Grade 12 performance and academic performance in first-year psychology students: Influences of generational status and academic self-concept
We examined the relationship between students’ Grade 12 achievement and their first-year academic performance and the potential moderating and/or mediating roles of generational status and academic self-concept in this relationship. Participants were 203 students (female = 82.8%; black African =73.9%; mean age =19.46 years, SD = 1.36 years). They completed a self-concept scale and self-reported their demographic and academic information. A series…
I have grown with it: Experiences of Spiritual Identity Development in a Group of South African Adolescents
This qualitative phenomenological study aimed to capture experiences of spiritual identity development in a purposive sample of South African adolescents, using semi-structured interviews and reflective writing exercises. Participants confirmed the prominence of religiosity and spirituality, as intertwined concepts central to their sense of purpose and identity. Consistent with the ideas expressed in psychosocial theories and lifespan development…
Being me: Content and context in South African adolescents’ identity development
On Becoming an Emerging Adult Parent in South Africa: Processes of Commitment, Exploration and Reconsideration of a Parental Identity
This study aimed to explore perceptions and experiences of parental identity development, with a specific focus on how the developmental dynamics of emerging adulthood intersect with processes of commitment, exploration and reconsideration of the parental role. Twenty-four South-African emerging adult parents were interviewed. Thematic analysis revealed that the intersection of the transitions towards parenthood and adulthood culminates in a nuan…
Protecting my Positivity”: Emerging Adults as Social Media Actors, Agents, and Authors
Social media engagements are integral to the lives and experiences of emerging adults. The aim of this study was to explore social media as a space where South African emerging adults shape and refine their sense of self. An explorative and descriptive qualitative approach was employed and individual interviews were conducted with 41 participants ((M Age = 23.17; SD = 2.65; Females = 53.7%). Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Participant…
Behavioural and psychological control during adolescence: An ecological systems perspective
This study investigated the extent and the nature of the behavioural and psychological control experienced by adolescents within four contexts (parental, peer, school, and community) of their everyday lives. The adolescents (n = 463; female = 52.5%, black African = 69.3%; mean age = 15.69 years, SD = 2.86 years) were from six public high schools in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The participants completed adapted versions of the Parents’ Psych…
Towards interdependence: Reciprocal relationships between students living with disability and their significant others
This article presents the findings of a qualitative study that explored and described how students living with disability construct meaning from their first-year experience through their social systems and interpersonal relationships. Two groups of participants, namely 18 students living with disability and their self-identified significant others were purposively sampled. Data were gathered by means of individual interviews and reflective writin…
Psychology (34 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Identity (music (12 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works)