INTERNATIONAL PRIZE TO BE PRESENTED TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN ICJ TEAM

by Web Admin | Sep 10, 2024 | 30th Anniversary Psychology Congress, Congress, Events and Announcements, PsySSA Congress

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE TO BE PRESENTED TO THE
SOUTH AFRICAN ICJ TEAM

At the Opening Ceremony of the joint 30th Anniversary of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) and the 10th Anniversary of the Pan-African Psychology Union (PAPU) Congress to be held at Emperor’s Palace on Tuesday, 8 October 2024, the 4th Steve Biko/Frantz Fanon Award for Psychological Liberation will be awarded to the legal team that presented South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in January this year.

The Steve Biko/Frantz Fanon Award for Psychological Liberation, conferred jointly by the Fondation Frantz Fanon, PAPU, PsySSA, and the Steve Biko Foundation, is in recognition of the “extraordinary step towards dismantling empire” that the South Africa legal team generated by their successful action.

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PAPU Administrator, Dr John Ostrowick, at +27 11 486 3322 or papu@psyssa.com

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Out Now! SAJP Volume 54 Issue 3: September 2024

by Web Admin | Sep 10, 2024 | SAJP

Over four decades later, it seems that we have created lost generations with a rising sense of helplessness and hopelessness, intolerable levels of disaffection, joblessness, violence, dependency, and the inability to engage meaningfully in disrupting prevailing narratives and emerging with a qualitatively different and inclusive trajectory for the future.

Was Shakespeare correct in stating, “The fault… is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”? Can we cohere in the quest to find meaning for youth and enable them to fully assume their rightful roles in society? These and other critical issues affecting all of us will be traversed in this lecture, to enable us to work together in our various roles and disciplines towards a quest for our common humanity and future.

Date: 10 September 2024
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Format: Virtual

About the Presenter

Prof. Saths Cooper

Prof. Saths Cooper is the current president of the Pan-African Psychology Union and the past president of the International Union of Psychological Science and the Psychological Society of South Africa. Prof Cooper is also a Fellow of the Psychological Societies of South Africa, India, Ireland, Britain and Nigeria. He is a founding governing Board Member of the International Science Council and a Foundation Fellow serving on its Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science. Prof Cooper was a close colleague of the Black Consciousness Movement founder, the late Bantu Stephen (Steve) Biko. At the age of 22, Cooper was banned, placed under house arrest, and thereafter jailed for nine years, five of which he spent in the same cell block as the late South African President Mandela. He was Accused No. 1 in the seminal South African Students’ Organisation/Black Peoples Convention (SASO/BPC) trial, a leader of the struggle against apartheid oppression and exploitation from the late 1960s. He obtained his PhD from Boston University as a Fulbright Scholar. Prof Cooper has taught at the University of Witwatersrand, Boston University and the University of the Western Cape. He also served as the last Vice Chancellor of the University of Durban Westville. Prof Cooper chairs the Robben Island Museum and the 1970s Group of Activists.

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PsySSA’s 30th and PAPU’s 10th Anniversary Congress: Invited Address by Prof. Olukayode Afolabi

by Web Admin | Aug 27, 2024 | 30th Anniversary Psychology Congress, Psychology Events, PsySSA Announcements, PsySSA Congress

Religious Orientation and Self Esteem as Predictors of Subjective Happiness and Prosocial Behaviour among a Sample of Undergraduates

Prosocial behavior and subjective happiness are important social and cognitive lubricants that help students to cope and maintain focus in the midst of social, economic, and academic challenges in order to attain success. However, the interplay of religious orientation and self-esteem on prosocial behavior and subjective happiness has been less considered in literature, especially among the population of university undergraduates. Thus, this study examined the predictors of religious orientation and self-esteem on subjective happiness and prosocial behavior among a sample of undergraduates. Using purposive and convenience sampling techniques, 250 undergraduates were selected. The sample comprised of male=110 and female= 140 aged between 17 – 32 years (Mean =20.82; SD = 2.70). The participants responded to measures on prosocial behavior, subjective happiness, religious orientation and self-esteem. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested with Multiple Regression Analysis.

The findings showed that religious orientation [r (2,247) β= .24, p<.01] and self-esteem [r (2,247) β= .28, p<.01] had significant independent and joint [F(2, 247) =18.80, p <.01] prediction on prosocial behavior. Similarly, the findings revealed a significant independent predictions of religious orientation [r (2,247) β= .23, p<.01], and self-esteem [r (2,247) β= .29, p<.01] on subjective happiness. Also, the joint prediction of religious orientation and self-esteem on subjective happiness were significant [F (2, 247) =18.91, p <.01].

Based on these findings, the study therefore recommends that parents must play a significant role to ensure that religious orientations on rendering help to others are taught in their daily devotions to their children.

Keywords: Prosocial behavior, subjective happiness, religious orientation and self-esteem.

About the Presenter

Prof. Olukayode Afolabi

I have B.Sc, M.Sc, & Ph.D DEGREES in Psychology from Nigeria’s premier University of Ibadan and have been a University Lecturer in the last 24 years.

Based on my love and dedication to the Nigerian Psychological Association, in 2012, I was elected the Editor-in-Chief of the Association’s journals (three in all). By the second year, another journal, Nigerian Psychological Research was added. These journals were published annually for the five years that I served as the Editor-in-Chief. No single volume/edition was omitted.

During the five-year period (2012-2017) and based on my capabilities and dedication to duty, I was, in addition, (2013), made the South West Coordinator of the Association. At the period as well, I was able to successfully organise annual zonal conferences. The conferences were well-attended.

As I completed my tenure as both the Editor-in-Chief and the South West Coordinator (in 2017), I was elected as the Vice President of the Association for four years (two terms). During the period, I was in charge of membership mobilization and registration as well as being in charge of the State Chapters. This tenure was completed in 2021

In 2020, I became the President-Elect (for one year). Thus, in 2021, I was sworn-in as the President of the Association for two years. I was re-elected in 2023. Joyfully, between the last three years and now, I have led major reformations in the leadership of psychology in Nigeria that have led to the integration of psychology in the Nigerian Public Service. In conjunction with the National Universities Commission, the psychology curriculum in Nigerian Universities have been successfully reviewed in line with the best global practices. This implied that psychology graduates from Nigeria can successfully compete with their counterpart worldwide. We have also mentored emerging scholars across Nigeria to serve appropriate manpower needs.