COPING RESOURCES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS UTILIZED BY ORPHANS IN MAGONA VILLAGE OF MALAMULELE COMMUNITY IN LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA

The semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data and was analyzed using Thematic Content analysis, and five steps adapted from Terre-Blanche were followed. Some were involved in informal employment to get money to care for the family; cleaning of tombstones and putting flowers to the tomb was a way of expressing love to the late parents. Oasis Heaven of Love Foundation (2013) found that AIDS orphans in an urban Cape Town township have been shown to have significant rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, peer relationship difficulties, suicidal urges, delinquency, and homelessness than either non-AIDS orphans or non-orphans in South Africa. There are two types of coping resources, namely internal and external or environmental resources (The Department of Social Development, 2013). Aim and Objective of the Study The study aimed at investigating the coping resources of the psychological stress among orphans in Magona Village of Malamulele Community in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Method Research Approach and Design The researcher adopted the qualitative exploratory methodology to gather an in-depth understanding of coping resources of psychological stress among orphans (De Vos et al., 2011). The population for this study included all male and female orphans of Magona Village of Malamulele Community in Limpopo Province, South Africa between the ages of 13 to 18 years, orphaned by any cause. Research Instrument and Pre-testing The research instrument used to collect data was semi-structured interviews. Semi-structured interviews gave participants the freedom to express fully and elaborate their responses (De Vos http://www.uir.unisa.ac.za. HIV-associated orphanhood...