Journal of Psychiatry

Department of Psychology, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Biography

Dr. Anathi Ntozini was a  counselling  psychologist  and  obtained  an  MSocSci  (Counselling Psychology) degree from the University of Fort Hare in 2012. She worked at this university  as  a  University  Psychologist  for  about  a  year  before  moving  to  the Faculty  of  Humanities  and  Social  Sciences  where she lectured  Psychology  and Sociology  undergraduate  and  post  graduate students  on  deferent  modules  of Psychology  and Sociology as well as supervised post graduate research in Psychology.  She also worked in part-time private practice for about three years providing psychotherapy for mainly adolescents and adults.

Publications

• Research   
  The Relationship between Religion/Spirituality and the General Psychological Well-Being of the Elderly Institutionalised Population in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Author(s): Anathi Ntozini* and Karen Walton
  
  Psychological well-being has a number of known benefits and is important for the quality of life of the elderly in particular. South Africa can be considered a religious country, with the majority of citizens identifying with some religious orientation. The elderly are considered to be a particularly religious segment of the population. This article reports on a quantitative exploratory study undertaken to ascertain whether a correlation exists between psychological well-being and religiosity/spirituality in the elderly institutionalised population of South Africa. The General Psychological Well-Being Scale and ASPIRES were administered to a convenience sample of 336 elderly in the Eastern Cape Province. A significant but weak positive correlation was found between the variables of psychological well-being and religiosity, which supports the findings of a body of studies undertaken fr.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2378-5756.20.23.470

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