Christopher R Stones
Biographic Data
| ID | 4223906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher R Stones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher R |
| FAMILY NAME | Stones |
| SIGNATURE | STONES C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A psycho-social exploration of street begging
The practice of street begging tends to be perceived by motorists simultaneously as a nuisance but also perhaps as a prod to one’s social conscience. In view of its increasing pervasiveness and visible presence on the streets of both small and large metropolitan areas, this psycho-social phenomenon merits further investigation. This study reports on a range of experiential factors that contribute toward the practice, and reinforcement, of begging…
The association of racial attitudes and spiritual beliefs in post-apartheid South Africa
Previous research has investigated the complex association between religious beliefs and racism. Many studies have found that fundamentalist religious beliefs are positively associated with racial prejudice among European and European American populations. However, few studies have examined whether this association is found in other cultures or whether the association also characterizes spiritual beliefs. Data from 493 South African university st…
Antigay Prejudice Among Heterosexual Males
In recent years there has been much contested debate around the psychology of prejudice and the extent to which it is essentially an outcome of a variety of personality-related variables or whether the social context with which one identifies plays an equally, if not more, important role. Debate has also focused on the complex interplay of personality and social context. This study, using a combination of survey and experimental methodology, exam…
Ethnic Identity and Racial Attitudes in a Minority Group of Mixed Racial Origin
Limited information exists on the racial attitudes and ethnic identities of groups of mixed racial origin. The present research tested the hypotheses that the construct of ethnic identity is valid among such groups and that ethnic identity is related to out-group prejudice, as predicted by social identity theory. The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure, the Anti-White Scale, and the Subtle Racism Scale were administered to 70 South Africans of mix…
Racial Attitudes among South African Young Adults
The many social changes that have occurred in South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994 warrant that careful scrutiny be given to the racial attitudes of South Africa's young adults. Their degree of acceptance of the doctrine of deracialisation and reconciliation represents a hope or a warning about the possibility of a stable future. A follow-up study was thus carried out in order to update data collected in 1995, with the hypoth…
South African Adolescents' Explanations for Juvenile Delinquency
Research in other parts of the world suggests that adolescents invoke a multiplicity of causes to explain juvenile offending. The extent to which the different explanations are endorsed appears partly to be a function of cultural and demographic characteristics. The aim of this study was to investigate South African adolescents' explanations for delinquency and to examine cultural differences in these explanations. A total of 554 secondary school…
Identities and Racial Attitudes of South African and American Adolescents
Issues of group identity and prejudice have played a large role in the history of South Africa. In this study the authors examined differences among Xhosa-speaking black, so-called coloured, English-speaking white, and Afrikaans-speaking white adolescents within a context of social change. Data was collected from 818 high school students using a questionnaire that assessed aspects of these groups' perceptions of themselves (their identities), att…
Political Change and Social Attitudes in South Africa
This investigation sought to determine the correlates of attitudes towards the new ANC-dominated government in South Africa among two groups of White university students. To a large extent, the research replicates an earlier project conducted in 1986 which investigated the predictors of attitudes towards the ANC at a time when it was banned as were its leaders who were either imprisoned or in exile. Results indicate that conformity to group norms…
Attitudes toward Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Illness in the Central Eastern Cape of South Africa
A survey of attitudes held by a large sample of university students as well as by smaller samples of psychologists, general medical practitioners, members of the public, psychiatric hospital staff and patients in the central eastern Cape toward mental illness and mental health-care service providers was conducted during the early part of 1994. It was found that marked differences existed between the different samples and that the extent of a pers…
Love-Attitudes of White South African Adolescents
Perusal of the cross-cultural literature indicates an absence of reported research on a crucial aspect of interpersonal relationships, that of love and romance in South Africa. Accordingly, the Munro-Adams Love-Attitude Scale was administered to a random sample of 92 white adolescent seniors in secondary school from the Eastern Cape. While this study indicates that the white adolescent boys are more romantic than the girls, this finding might not…
The Protestant Work Ethic and Apartheid
Phenomenological Praxis
Serious consideration is given to the possibility that the traditional quantitative research orientation in psychology can no longer be considered the panacea that it was once believed to be. It is argued that any research approach, such as a quantitative one, which gives priority to the methodology as opposed to the phenomenon is based on inappropriate ontological reduction. Consequently, it is argued that psychology should aim more at being a d…
Love Styles Revisited
Previous research has shown that distinct attitude profiles toward love exist in North America and Uganda, as a representative of an African culture. Given the social upheaval currently occurring in South Africa and the particular nature of its official policy toward ethnic relations, the present paper aimed to compare and contrast the attitudes toward love in South Africa with those prevalent in the other two cultures. The data suggest that alth…
A note on the relationship between intrinsic religious orientation and attitude towards death
ty-five members of mainstream Protestant denominations, who were clearly identified by means of the Religious Orientation Scale as holding intrinsically motivated religious beliefs, were found to hold a significantly more healthy attitude towards their own deaths, as assessed by the Death Attitude Scale, than did an equivalent sample of extrinsically motivated individuals. It is thus suggested that religious believers who are intrinsically motiva…
Self-Determination and Attribution of Responsibility
While evidence pertaining to an internal locus of control suggests the postulate of consistent attribution of responsibility to personal forces, that concerning the external orientation does not present a clear picture, and findings suggest the “external” orientation is more sensitive to environmental influences, especially under conditions of perceived threat. To investigate this further, two distinct groups of subjects, external and internal sc…
Note on the self disclosure pattern of a sample of white South African university students
Jourard's 60-item Self Disclosure Questionnaire was completed by 100 White male and female South African university students. Although the disclosure patterns of these two groups were similar, the females disclosed significantly more to the mother- and the same-sex-friend-targets than did the males. The results are discussed in terms of male and female university student life-styles and processes of socialization
A Jesus Community in South Africa
22 members of the Jesus movement in Johannesburg, South Africa, were presented with Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory, to assess perceived changes in self-actualization as a function of their religious conversion. The control group, comprising 22 mainstream-church denominational members who had not undergone rapid and emotional conversions, was matched with the Jesus People for age, sex, home-language, and occupation of father. The self-p…
Purpose in Life in South Africa
Crumbaugh and Maholick's Purpose-in-Life test was administered to 100 English-speaking South African subjects, who were later to become members of discrete religiously oriented groups, to test the hypothesis that samples of particular South African young people would receive substantially lower scores prior to their group affiliation than comparable American samples. This hypothesis was confirmed. Four individually distinct samples are briefly di…
Personal Religious Orientation and Frankl's Will-To-Meaning in Four Religious Communities
Numerous theorists argue that the anomie characteristic of contemporary mass-society results in a lack of meaning and personal identity and that membership of small religious communities serves to relieve, if not eliminate, this existential vacuum. In order to explore this area further, four religious communities in Johannesburg — the Jesus People, the Hare Krishna Devotees, the Maharaj Ji Premies and a Catholic Priest community — were given the …
Ray's ethnocentrism scale
Data pertaining to Ray's ethnocentrism scale among South African student samples is analysed and the conclusion reached that this attitude measure is suitable for research purposes in South Africa. It is also suited to samples drawn from the general population
The Jesus People
Members of the Jesus movement in Johannesburg, South Africa, were presented with Brown and Lowe's Inventory of Religious Belief and the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale. These were completed so as to reflect the respondents' past and present attitudes. The respondents were Caucasian, English-speaking young men and women between the ages of 17 and 28. The control group, comprised of members of mainstream-church denominations, was matched with t…
A psycho-social exploration of street begging
The practice of street begging tends to be perceived by motorists simultaneously as a nuisance but also perhaps as a prod to one’s social conscience. In view of its increasing pervasiveness and visible presence on the streets of both small and large metropolitan areas, this psycho-social phenomenon merits further investigation. This study reports on a range of experiential factors that contribute toward the practice, and reinforcement, of begging…
Identities and Racial Attitudes of South African and American Adolescents
Issues of group identity and prejudice have played a large role in the history of South Africa. In this study the authors examined differences among Xhosa-speaking black, so-called coloured, English-speaking white, and Afrikaans-speaking white adolescents within a context of social change. Data was collected from 818 high school students using a questionnaire that assessed aspects of these groups' perceptions of themselves (their identities), att…
Love Styles Revisited
Previous research has shown that distinct attitude profiles toward love exist in North America and Uganda, as a representative of an African culture. Given the social upheaval currently occurring in South Africa and the particular nature of its official policy toward ethnic relations, the present paper aimed to compare and contrast the attitudes toward love in South Africa with those prevalent in the other two cultures. The data suggest that alth…
The Jesus People
Members of the Jesus movement in Johannesburg, South Africa, were presented with Brown and Lowe's Inventory of Religious Belief and the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale. These were completed so as to reflect the respondents' past and present attitudes. The respondents were Caucasian, English-speaking young men and women between the ages of 17 and 28. The control group, comprised of members of mainstream-church denominations, was matched with t…
Racial Attitudes among South African Young Adults
The many social changes that have occurred in South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994 warrant that careful scrutiny be given to the racial attitudes of South Africa's young adults. Their degree of acceptance of the doctrine of deracialisation and reconciliation represents a hope or a warning about the possibility of a stable future. A follow-up study was thus carried out in order to update data collected in 1995, with the hypoth…
South African Adolescents' Explanations for Juvenile Delinquency
Research in other parts of the world suggests that adolescents invoke a multiplicity of causes to explain juvenile offending. The extent to which the different explanations are endorsed appears partly to be a function of cultural and demographic characteristics. The aim of this study was to investigate South African adolescents' explanations for delinquency and to examine cultural differences in these explanations. A total of 554 secondary school…
Attitudes toward Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Illness in the Central Eastern Cape of South Africa
A survey of attitudes held by a large sample of university students as well as by smaller samples of psychologists, general medical practitioners, members of the public, psychiatric hospital staff and patients in the central eastern Cape toward mental illness and mental health-care service providers was conducted during the early part of 1994. It was found that marked differences existed between the different samples and that the extent of a pers…
The Protestant Work Ethic and Apartheid
The Jesus People
Members of the Jesus movement in Johannesburg, South Africa, were presented with Brown and Lowe's Inventory of Religious Belief and the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale. These were completed so as to reflect the respondents' past and present attitudes. The respondents were Caucasian, English-speaking young men and women between the ages of 17 and 28. The control group, comprised of members of mainstream-church denominations, was matched with t…
Ray's ethnocentrism scale
Data pertaining to Ray's ethnocentrism scale among South African student samples is analysed and the conclusion reached that this attitude measure is suitable for research purposes in South Africa. It is also suited to samples drawn from the general population
Note on the self disclosure pattern of a sample of white South African university students
Jourard's 60-item Self Disclosure Questionnaire was completed by 100 White male and female South African university students. Although the disclosure patterns of these two groups were similar, the females disclosed significantly more to the mother- and the same-sex-friend-targets than did the males. The results are discussed in terms of male and female university student life-styles and processes of socialization
A Jesus Community in South Africa
22 members of the Jesus movement in Johannesburg, South Africa, were presented with Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory, to assess perceived changes in self-actualization as a function of their religious conversion. The control group, comprising 22 mainstream-church denominational members who had not undergone rapid and emotional conversions, was matched with the Jesus People for age, sex, home-language, and occupation of father. The self-p…
Purpose in Life in South Africa
Crumbaugh and Maholick's Purpose-in-Life test was administered to 100 English-speaking South African subjects, who were later to become members of discrete religiously oriented groups, to test the hypothesis that samples of particular South African young people would receive substantially lower scores prior to their group affiliation than comparable American samples. This hypothesis was confirmed. Four individually distinct samples are briefly di…
Personal Religious Orientation and Frankl's Will-To-Meaning in Four Religious Communities
Numerous theorists argue that the anomie characteristic of contemporary mass-society results in a lack of meaning and personal identity and that membership of small religious communities serves to relieve, if not eliminate, this existential vacuum. In order to explore this area further, four religious communities in Johannesburg — the Jesus People, the Hare Krishna Devotees, the Maharaj Ji Premies and a Catholic Priest community — were given the …
A note on the relationship between intrinsic religious orientation and attitude towards death
ty-five members of mainstream Protestant denominations, who were clearly identified by means of the Religious Orientation Scale as holding intrinsically motivated religious beliefs, were found to hold a significantly more healthy attitude towards their own deaths, as assessed by the Death Attitude Scale, than did an equivalent sample of extrinsically motivated individuals. It is thus suggested that religious believers who are intrinsically motiva…
Self-Determination and Attribution of Responsibility
While evidence pertaining to an internal locus of control suggests the postulate of consistent attribution of responsibility to personal forces, that concerning the external orientation does not present a clear picture, and findings suggest the “external” orientation is more sensitive to environmental influences, especially under conditions of perceived threat. To investigate this further, two distinct groups of subjects, external and internal sc…
Phenomenological Praxis
Serious consideration is given to the possibility that the traditional quantitative research orientation in psychology can no longer be considered the panacea that it was once believed to be. It is argued that any research approach, such as a quantitative one, which gives priority to the methodology as opposed to the phenomenon is based on inappropriate ontological reduction. Consequently, it is argued that psychology should aim more at being a d…
Love Styles Revisited
Previous research has shown that distinct attitude profiles toward love exist in North America and Uganda, as a representative of an African culture. Given the social upheaval currently occurring in South Africa and the particular nature of its official policy toward ethnic relations, the present paper aimed to compare and contrast the attitudes toward love in South Africa with those prevalent in the other two cultures. The data suggest that alth…
Love-Attitudes of White South African Adolescents
Perusal of the cross-cultural literature indicates an absence of reported research on a crucial aspect of interpersonal relationships, that of love and romance in South Africa. Accordingly, the Munro-Adams Love-Attitude Scale was administered to a random sample of 92 white adolescent seniors in secondary school from the Eastern Cape. While this study indicates that the white adolescent boys are more romantic than the girls, this finding might not…
The Protestant Work Ethic and Apartheid
Attitudes toward Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Illness in the Central Eastern Cape of South Africa
A survey of attitudes held by a large sample of university students as well as by smaller samples of psychologists, general medical practitioners, members of the public, psychiatric hospital staff and patients in the central eastern Cape toward mental illness and mental health-care service providers was conducted during the early part of 1994. It was found that marked differences existed between the different samples and that the extent of a pers…
Political Change and Social Attitudes in South Africa
This investigation sought to determine the correlates of attitudes towards the new ANC-dominated government in South Africa among two groups of White university students. To a large extent, the research replicates an earlier project conducted in 1986 which investigated the predictors of attitudes towards the ANC at a time when it was banned as were its leaders who were either imprisoned or in exile. Results indicate that conformity to group norms…
Identities and Racial Attitudes of South African and American Adolescents
Issues of group identity and prejudice have played a large role in the history of South Africa. In this study the authors examined differences among Xhosa-speaking black, so-called coloured, English-speaking white, and Afrikaans-speaking white adolescents within a context of social change. Data was collected from 818 high school students using a questionnaire that assessed aspects of these groups' perceptions of themselves (their identities), att…
South African Adolescents' Explanations for Juvenile Delinquency
Research in other parts of the world suggests that adolescents invoke a multiplicity of causes to explain juvenile offending. The extent to which the different explanations are endorsed appears partly to be a function of cultural and demographic characteristics. The aim of this study was to investigate South African adolescents' explanations for delinquency and to examine cultural differences in these explanations. A total of 554 secondary school…
Ethnic Identity and Racial Attitudes in a Minority Group of Mixed Racial Origin
Limited information exists on the racial attitudes and ethnic identities of groups of mixed racial origin. The present research tested the hypotheses that the construct of ethnic identity is valid among such groups and that ethnic identity is related to out-group prejudice, as predicted by social identity theory. The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure, the Anti-White Scale, and the Subtle Racism Scale were administered to 70 South Africans of mix…
Racial Attitudes among South African Young Adults
The many social changes that have occurred in South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994 warrant that careful scrutiny be given to the racial attitudes of South Africa's young adults. Their degree of acceptance of the doctrine of deracialisation and reconciliation represents a hope or a warning about the possibility of a stable future. A follow-up study was thus carried out in order to update data collected in 1995, with the hypoth…
Antigay Prejudice Among Heterosexual Males
In recent years there has been much contested debate around the psychology of prejudice and the extent to which it is essentially an outcome of a variety of personality-related variables or whether the social context with which one identifies plays an equally, if not more, important role. Debate has also focused on the complex interplay of personality and social context. This study, using a combination of survey and experimental methodology, exam…
The association of racial attitudes and spiritual beliefs in post-apartheid South Africa
Previous research has investigated the complex association between religious beliefs and racism. Many studies have found that fundamentalist religious beliefs are positively associated with racial prejudice among European and European American populations. However, few studies have examined whether this association is found in other cultures or whether the association also characterizes spiritual beliefs. Data from 493 South African university st…
A psycho-social exploration of street begging
The practice of street begging tends to be perceived by motorists simultaneously as a nuisance but also perhaps as a prod to one’s social conscience. In view of its increasing pervasiveness and visible presence on the streets of both small and large metropolitan areas, this psycho-social phenomenon merits further investigation. This study reports on a range of experiential factors that contribute toward the practice, and reinforcement, of begging…
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