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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

Bridging the Gap of the Afri-Eurocentric Worldview Divide in a Postcolonial South Africa.

Sharon Johnson, Izanette Van Schalkwyk

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sharon JohnsonFaculty of Humanities, Psychology Department, Cornerstone Institute, Cape Town 7441, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-2304-6581
Izanette Van SchalkwykAfrica Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2526, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-8662-0897

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backgroundThis paper is an attempt to bridge the gap between Africentric and Eurocentric worldviews through the lens of positive psychology's second wave of attaining pathways to well-being.

methodsThe overcoming of existential suffering with indigenous understandings has been addressed through photo-elicitation in retrospective timelines with students Lihile+, Tanaka+, and Diana+, +Pseudonyms to protect identity Thematic analysis with semi-structured virtual interviews has also been utilized to gain insights into Africentric and Eurocentric worldviews. All students come from different contexts of cultural complexity. Lihile was raised by her maternal Xhosa family, with a traditional Sotho father. Tanaka is Shona, born and schooled in Zimbabwe, studying in South Africa. Diana was born in England and is now living in rural KwaZulu-Natal.

findingsStudents' worldviews were shaped by their primary caregivers' multicultural influences, as well as their exposure to educational and religious contact zones. Despite having to survive the traumatic legacy of social injustices, the students managed to pursue positive goals and transcend challenges and achieve well-being.

conclusionsThis study attempted to transcend the divide of Afri-Eurocentric worldviews towards a shared responsibility to develop an improved social science in Africa. Positive psychology offered a space to accommodate well-being as a healing process, not only for the oppressed but also the oppressors of past social injustices.

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Rural PopulationStudentsBlack PeopleFemaleHumansRetrospective StudiesSouth AfricaAfricentricEurocentricsocial injusticeswell-beingworldview

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PMCPMC8835104

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