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Proactive coping, just-world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/25410 Proactive coping, just-world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse Human-Vogel, Salome tebuhleni.nxumalo@gmail.com Nxumalo, Tebuhleni Phila Proactive coping Future aspirations Child sexual abuse Personal belief in a just world UCTD Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2010. This study represents a shift in focus with regard to studies related to traumatic events such as childhood sexual abuse (CSA). It endeavours to go beyond documenting the prevalence of CSA to understanding the moderating factors that encourage adaptive adjustment to CSA. The rationale of this study was to understand how personal beliefs in a just world, future aspirations and proactive coping in the context of an earlier traumatic event such as CSA, are related. My secondary interest was to understand how the aforementioned constructs feature in the development of resilience. I strove to do this by exploring the relationship between proactive coping, just-world beliefs (with specific reference to personal belief in a just world) and future aspirations of a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. I made use of an instrumental case study design. A single participant was purposively selected for this study due to her unique features of being a self-identified resilient survivor of child sexual abuse. Data was collected over a period of three months by means of semi-structured interviews, drawings and theory-based scales. In this study I made use of qualitative data analysis to explore the theoretical relationships amongst the constructs. The results of the study suggest that there is a relationship between personal belief in a just world and religiosity, and that this relationship may mediate the optimistic orientation in the participant of the present study. There also appears to be a relationship between the personal belief in a just world and future aspirations of the participant in this study, suggesting that the role of just world beliefs in terms of the active pursuit and investment in future goals need to be further examined. Finally, the relationship between positive future aspirations and proactive coping was less clear, requiring further investigation to elucidate this relationship. Educational Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-06T21:13:31Z 2011-06-15 2013-09-06T21:13:31Z 2011-04-12 2010 2011-06-10 Dissertation Nxumalo, TP 2010, Proactive coping, just-world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse, MEd dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25410 > E11/271/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25410 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06102011-113125/ © 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Proactive coping Future aspirations Child sexual abuse Personal belief in a just world UCTD Proactive coping, just-world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse |
| title | Proactive coping, just-world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse |
| title_full | Proactive coping, just-world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse |
| title_fullStr | Proactive coping, just-world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Proactive coping, just-world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse |
| title_short | Proactive coping, just-world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse |
| title_sort | proactive coping just world beliefs and future aspirations of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse |
| topic | Proactive coping Future aspirations Child sexual abuse Personal belief in a just world UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25410 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06102011-113125/ |