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An Exploration of How Working-Class Substance Users in the Western Cape Understand Their Addiction
The study aims to explore how substance users from poor and working-class backgrounds in the Western Cape, South Africa, understand the development of their patterns of substance use. Using a mono-method qualitative research design under an intersectional theoretical framework, 11 face-to-face inter...
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| description | The study aims to explore how substance users from poor and working-class backgrounds in the Western Cape, South Africa, understand the development of their patterns of substance use. Using a mono-method qualitative research design under an intersectional theoretical framework, 11 face-to-face interviews were conducted. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Six themes were identified: addiction and agency; substance use as a coping mechanism; unmet attachment needs; societal factors influencing substance use; the psychology of active addiction; and recovery. The results of this study correspond to existing literature on substance abuse; however, this study is unique in that it relates problematic substance use to violence and poverty, through the mechanism of shame, in a South African context. Future research should aim to conduct interviews in participants' home languages to aid in capturing more nuanced narratives. Moreover, a more gender-balanced sample should be interviewed which would allow the female voice to come through more consistently. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/38027 An Exploration of How Working-Class Substance Users in the Western Cape Understand Their Addiction Kara, Tashmira Long, Wahbie Clinical Psychology The study aims to explore how substance users from poor and working-class backgrounds in the Western Cape, South Africa, understand the development of their patterns of substance use. Using a mono-method qualitative research design under an intersectional theoretical framework, 11 face-to-face interviews were conducted. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Six themes were identified: addiction and agency; substance use as a coping mechanism; unmet attachment needs; societal factors influencing substance use; the psychology of active addiction; and recovery. The results of this study correspond to existing literature on substance abuse; however, this study is unique in that it relates problematic substance use to violence and poverty, through the mechanism of shame, in a South African context. Future research should aim to conduct interviews in participants' home languages to aid in capturing more nuanced narratives. Moreover, a more gender-balanced sample should be interviewed which would allow the female voice to come through more consistently. 2023-07-06T06:43:31Z 2023-07-06T06:43:31Z 2023 2023-07-06T06:43:02Z Master Thesis Masters Masters http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38027 eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities |
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| title | An Exploration of How Working-Class Substance Users in the Western Cape Understand Their Addiction |
| title_full | An Exploration of How Working-Class Substance Users in the Western Cape Understand Their Addiction |
| title_fullStr | An Exploration of How Working-Class Substance Users in the Western Cape Understand Their Addiction |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Exploration of How Working-Class Substance Users in the Western Cape Understand Their Addiction |
| title_short | An Exploration of How Working-Class Substance Users in the Western Cape Understand Their Addiction |
| title_sort | exploration of how working class substance users in the western cape understand their addiction |
| topic | Clinical Psychology |
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