- Title
- Exploring ambiguity in the construction of professional competence amongst Xhosa speaking early career psychologists
- Creator
- Semono, Valery
- Subject
- Professional competence
- Subject
- Psychologists -- Training of
- Subject
- Psycholinguistics
- Date Issued
- 2022-04
- Date
- 2022-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/69827
- Identifier
- vital:78038
- Description
- Psychology training is strongly influenced by Western conceptualisations and ways of knowing. Xhosa Early Career Psychologist’s (ECP’s) may experience incongruence from the clash between Western influences with their own cultural contexts, and this may result in ambiguity. This study aims to explore and describe the experiences of ambiguity of Xhosa ECP’s, and how this has been navigated in the process of constructing professional competence and comfort. The aim of the study is accomplished by understanding the experiences of Xhosa ECP’s from a social constructionist framework. The study falls within a qualitative paradigm and uses an exploratory descriptive research design. Participants are selected using non-probability purposive and snowball sampling. Data is collected using semi-structured interviews and is analysed using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) reflexive thematic analysis. Findings show that participants are navigating many grey areas in their journey to forming professional comfort. These areas of ambiguity centre around training, professional experience, race and culture, self, and how they resolved the ambiguity. It is hoped that this knowledge can be effectively used in the training of future Xhosa Psychologists.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Behavioural & Lifestyle Sciences, 2024
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (130 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of XXXX
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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