About

Dr Angela Anarfi Gyasi-Gyamerah is a social psychologist and senior lecturer. Before her work at UG, she had had several years of field experience working with street youth and commercial sex workers under the auspices of Streetwise Project-Ghana and West Africa Project to Combat AIDS and STIs (WAPCAS), respectively. Dr Gyasi-Gyamerah’s research interests include sexual and reproductive health issues, with a current focus on cohabitation and abortion decision-making. In line with these interests, she has set up a social advocacy organisation known as Dialogue Genitalia Ghana (DGG), which focuses on creating safe spaces for individuals of different genders to discuss issues relating to sexuality and reproductive health. Additionally, she has worked on researching the representations of personhood in an African context and on other topics relevant to social and community psychology.

Education

PhD Psychology (social psychology option) from the University of Ghana.

MPhil Psychology (clinical psychology option)

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

Research Interest

1. Cohabitation attitudes, intentions, and psychosocial experiences
2. Abortion attitudes and decision-making
3. Personhood in the African context from a social/community psychology viewpoint

Publications

1. Asafo, S. M., Osafo, J., Akotia, C. S., Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A., Andoh-Arthur, J., & Gavi, J. K. (2025). Is personhood lost after mental illness? Exploring the dynamic interface between personhood and mental illness in Ghana. Transcultural Psychiatry, https://doi:10.1177/13634615241306227
2. Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A., Quansah, C., Amissah, C. M., & Gyasi-Gyamerah, K. (2024). Development and Validation of Cohabitation Intentions Scale (CIS). Cogent Psychology OAPS, https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2024.2304923
3. Gyasi-Gyamerah, K. G., Osafo, J., Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A., & Boadu, E. S. (2024). Examining acculturative stress among international students in Ghana using an interpretative phenomenological approach. Unpacking the social support systems. PLoS ONE 19(9), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311123
4. Manukure, J. M., Annor, F., & Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A. (2024). ‘Leaving the child behind was not easy’: Lived experiences of mothers returning to work after maternity leave in Ghana. Community, Work & Family, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2024.2309367
5. Andoh-Arthur, J., Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A., Akotia, C. S., & Osafo, J. (2023).  Sense of Community and Personhood in Africa: Consistencies, Tensions and Prospects for a Post-Modernist African Centred Theory.  In J. Osafo, & C. S. Akotia, (Eds.), Personhood, Community and the Human Condition: Reflections and Applications in the African Experience (pp. 67-85). Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited.
6. Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A., Andoh-Arthur, J., Osafo, J., & Akotia, C. S. (2023).  Personhood and Group Dynamics: Implications for Personal Wellbeing in a Changing Social Milieu. In J. Osafo, & C. S. Akotia, (Eds.), Personhood, Community and the Human Condition: Reflections and Applications in the African Experience (pp. 86-102). Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited.
7. Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A., Quansah, C., Annor, F., & Gyasi-Gyamerah, K. (2023). Is cohabitation a prerequisite for marriage?: Exploring Ghanaian emerging adults’ attitudes and intentions. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40(12), 4176-4196. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231202927
8. Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A. (2023).  Women in Psychology – Angie’s Story.  In E. N. Quarshie, & C. S. Akotia, (Eds.), Women in Psychology in Ghana: An autobiographical collection (pp. 215-235).  Sub-Saharan Publishers.
9. Gavi, J. K., Akotia, C. S., Osafo, J., Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A., Andoh-Arthur, J., & Asafo, S. M. (2022). Conceptions of personhood in Ghana: An emic perspective. Ghana Social Science Journal, 19(1).
10. Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A., Manukure, J. M., Andoh, L. N. A., Dey, N. E. Y., Ansah, K. O., & Agbadi, P. (2022).  Rural-urban variation in exclusion from social activities due to menstruation among adolescent girls and young women in Ghana. Heliyon 8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09463