THE COPING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY UNISA’S UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TO ADDRESS THE REALITIES EXPERIENCED WITH RESPECT TO THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS IN SUNNYSIDE, TSHWANE

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  • Assim Hashim Alpaslan Department of Social Work, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15270/46-1-178

Abstract

A dearth of information about the realities related to the living conditions of Unisa’sundergraduate students in general emerged as a central research problem for an investigationinto the realities and coping strategies relating to the living conditions of a sample of Unisa’sundergraduate students who reside in Sunnyside, Tshwane.

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2014-06-17

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Alpaslan, A. H. (2014). THE COPING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY UNISA’S UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TO ADDRESS THE REALITIES EXPERIENCED WITH RESPECT TO THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS IN SUNNYSIDE, TSHWANE. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 46(1). https://doi.org/10.15270/46-1-178

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