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Incidence of psycho‐social well‐being in a rural community of South Africa

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ID11045192
AuthorsVicki Koen (0000-0002-0039-7007, Department of Psychology within the School of Psychosocial Health, COMPRES, School of Psychosocial Health, Faculty of Health Sciences North‐West University Potchefstroom South Africa, corresponding author), Neville Robertson (Department of Psychology within the School of Psychosocial Health, COMPRES, School of Psychosocial Health, Faculty of Health Sciences North‐West University Potchefstroom South Africa), Neville D Robertson (North-West University), Wandile Tsabedze (Department of Psychology within the School of Psychosocial Health, COMPRES, School of Psychosocial Health, Faculty of Health Sciences North‐West University Potchefstroom South Africa), Wandile F Tsabedze (0000-0002-6845-1460, North-West University)
Year2022
Volume50
Issue3
Pages1549-1563
Publication date2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-4392 • E-ISSN: 1520-6629
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jcop.22734
PMID34662437
OpenAlexW3205777381
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited37

This article explores the incidence of psychosocial well‐being within Lokaleng; a rural community located in the North West province of South Africa. While the community is unique, it shares similarities with many other rural communities in South Africa, such as being deprived of various resources and being impoverished, indicating a need to explore the incidence of psychosocial well‐being in this community as there has been no research on this phenomenon in this community specifically. A quantitative, cross‐sectional design was employed. A purposive sample of adult community members ( n = 189) completed a battery of validated questionnaires and data were analyzed with the IBM SPSS Statistics 26 software package. The results are indicative that the sample experienced lower levels of psychosocial well‐being, which supports similar findings of other South African studies that rural communities tend to report lower levels of psychosocial well‐being

Geography · Incidence (geometry) · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Health, psychology, and well-being · Mathematics · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Resilience and Mental Health

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