Isaac Kabelenga

Biographic Data

ID224650
NAMEIsaac Kabelenga
GIVEN NAMESIsaac
FAMILY NAMEKabelenga
SIGNATUREKABELENGA I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Zambia
ORCID0000-0002-2414-1989
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Social Media Use and Associations with Psychological Distress Among Older Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessHege Ragnhildsløkken, Tore Bonsaksen et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2024References: 5

    Social media may have the double potential to support and undermine mental health, and research is needed to investigate these relationships in age-specified populations. The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between the use of social media and psychological distress among older adults (60 years and above) both nine and 19 months after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. An online repeated cross-sectional survey was conduct…

  • Patterns of Social Media Use across Age Groups during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessTore Bonsaksen, Hilde Thygesen et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2024Cited by: 2References: 29

    The aim of this study was to examine patterns of social media use across age groups in four countries (Norway, USA, UK, and Australia) two years after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, and whether types of use and time spent using social media was related to health worries. A cross-sectional online survey was completed by 1578 adult participants. The data were analysed with one-way analyses of variance and a linear regression analysis. Younger peop…

  • Visualising the iconography of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid heroes and heroines in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa

    Open AccessMathias Alubafi Fubah, Chammah J Kaunda et al.ARTICLEVisual Studies2024References: 6

  • Perceptions of social media challenges and benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessMariyana Schoultz, Gary Lamph et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in January 2020 the need for rapid information spread grew and social media became the ultimate platform for information exchange as well as a tool for connection and entertainment. With the rapid information spread along came the various public misconceptions and misinformation which consequently influenced perceptions and behaviors of the public towards the coronavirus pandemic. Thus, there was a nee…

  • Perceptions of community leaders about normative understandings of good family care of older people in rural and urban Zambia

    Isaac KabelengaARTICLEInternational Journal of Care and…2023References: 6

    Drawing on qualitative interviews and focus groups with 35 community leaders, this article investigates how community leaders understand norms of care for older people in Zambia. I ask what leads older people in Zambia to receive good care from family. The findings show that across both rural and urban settings, respondents related profoundly powerful norms of reciprocity in both family and community care, with older people viewed as reaping what…

  • Unintended Consequences of Modernization Theory on University Students and Graduates in Zambia

    Open AccessFumbani Mphande, Isaac KabelengaARTICLEJournal of Community Positive…2020References: 4

    This ethnographic study explores the unintended consequences of the modernization theory on university students and graduates in Zambia. The study involved 40 participants from the University of Zambia, observed over periods of 9 to 14 years. The study has established that modernization theory has got further-reaching consequences on the participants and the whole Zambian society than what has been documented in the available literature. Whilst s…

  • Zambian elders’ experiences and perceptions of the generation gap

    Open AccessIsaac KabelengaARTICLEAnthropological Researches and…2017Cited by: 2References: 1

    Objectives. The study tries to understand the effects of the generation gap on elder people in Zambia using the experiences and perceptions of elder people. It also solicits their views on what the government of Zambia and other stakeholders should do to address the identified issues. Material and methods. The material used in this study was collected by undertaking qualitative research with 90 elder people in Zambia. One-on-one in-depth intervie…