The present study is focused to investigate the prevalence of anxiety and depression among married pregnant and non-pregnant women and to find out the risk factors that are responsible for the devel ... Read More
In this study, the Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis validity has been tested for the five South Asian Countries (SACs). The EKC hypothesis assumes an inverted-U-shaped association betwee ... Read More
Empowerment is a popular approach concerning women and development. Empowerment considers gender needs from practical and strategic perspectives. The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination ... Read More
The passage of 25thamendment to the Constitution of Pakistan guaranteed doing away of articles 246 and 247 in the Constitution which had restricted the application of parliamentary and provincial la ... Read More
The present study is designed to compare two different types of meditations ie Mindfulness meditation (MBSRP) and Sufi meditation(SM) in the treatment of neurotic anxiety among the female population, ... Read More
The objective of the research was to establish the association between perceived social support and stress, self-esteem, anxiety and depression respectively. For this purpose, mothers of children wi ... Read More
Considering the current trends in stressors, this study examines the mediating role of job satisfaction between challenge-hindrance stressors and employee job performance. Adopting time-lagged and t ... Read More
The poor growth of musharakah-based finance in the context of Pakistani Islamic banking is the main motivation behind this study. The literature identifies several factors for this poor growth. Amon ... Read More
The aim of this study was to develop a culturally relevant scale of mental toughness for Pakistani cricketers with sound psychometric properties. In order to explore the phenomenology of mental toug ... Read More
In the wake of 9/11, 2001 religious extremism became a major concern of international security agencies. Pakistan, in particular, became a focus of academic discourse on radical religious extremism ... Read More
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) remained as ‘no men’s land’ since the times of the British rule and was governed under the Frontier Crime Regulation (FCR), a draconian law based on collec ... Read More
Choice of career is a very complicated decision for students because it establishes the kind of profession they plan to chase in their future life. Mostly, students make career choice during their s ... Read More
The main objective of this paper is to explore prospects of democracy in contemporary China in presence of unprecedented economic growth since late 1970s. Chinese political system has created huge c ... Read More
Thesis writing carries a pivotal place in accomplishment of the postgraduate degree. Research supervision for post-graduation has been a subject of social sciences across societies, demanding critic ... Read More
The state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has been a source of enmity between Pakistan and India since 1947. Though the incident of 9/11 pushed Kashmir issue to backburner, the year 2016 proved as a turn ... Read More
Pakistan is a multilingual country with more than 72 living languages. Language choice for medium of instruction (MOI), especially in a linguistically diversified country like Pakistan, is not an ea ... Read More
The phenomenon of gender issue in higher education is not new. It prevailed around the globe in different forms however, it theses, anti-theses and syntheses are vary from culture to culture and so ... Read More
Previous studies suggested a link between psychopathy and suicide attempt and current suicide ideation among inmate population (Conner, Meldrum, Wieczorek, Duberstein, & Welte, 2004; Douglas, Lilien ... Read More
The current study aimed to determine the effect of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) on depression in fibromyalgia patients. Randomized Control Group Pre-Post-test design was used to study the effec ... Read More
Objectives of this correlational research were threefold. Firstly, investigation of association between alexithymia and illness anxiety; secondly, to look at the role of negative affect in relations ... Read More
The present study investigated the impact of physical disabilities on sexual esteem and sexual depression among male and female physically disabled, universities students. A sample of (N=100) physic ... Read More
This paper sets out to determine the perceptions of students and faculty regarding students’ evaluation of teachers’ teaching and seeks their suggestions for improvement in the Student Evaluation of ... Read More
Cancer among children may produce depressive symptoms which affect the will power of children against the disease. Conventional psychotherapy is difficult to conduct with these children along with t ... Read More
In a developing country like Pakistan where financial and labor markets are immature, trade is not very much open with low per capita income and high output risk shows economic and financial uncerta ... Read More
As a global problem that relates to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), violence against woman (VAW) also exist in Indonesia. Although many Indonesian scholars gives attention to VAW, the curr ... Read More
Previous literature either penned down the philosophical and mystic attributes of Ghani Khan’s poetry, or the literary qualities of his poetry, but perhaps no study has undertaken cognitive linguist ... Read More
This paper examines how and to what extent the violent conflict in the North Waziristan Tribal District of Pakistan distorted the traditional social structure, which embodies the informal social ins ... Read More
In the imperial aura of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, archaeologists were not indifferent to socio-political developments in India. It is obvious, amongst others, from Sir Aurel S ... Read More
People prefer public sector jobs as compared to private sector, which is a reason for high and rising unemployment duration. Many developing countries have experienced an appreciable rise in unemplo ... Read More
This study finds out the effects of using WhatsApp as a teaching method to improve writing, speaking, listening, reading and critical skills of postgraduate students of Karachi, Pakistan. An experim ... Read More
This paper attempts to develop a model that would be looking at the effects of some knowledge-sharing factors such individuals’ perception, and attitude on knowledge sharing in University of Peshawa ... Read More
Regional and global geo-political and geo-strategic whirlwind changes have pushed the states to revisit and reconceptualize their role and position. Mutual politico-economic and strategic significan ... Read More
The present study focused on type II Diabetes patients in terms of their subjective wellbeing (QoL), life satisfaction (LS) and their sense of control over disease (Internal Locus of Control, ILoC). ... Read More
This study addresses evolution of research culture in Pakistan. The study is descriptive in nature. The primary analysis is related to 180 Pakistani universities and 13259 PhDs produced from these u ... Read More
Identity is one the most critical concepts of the developmental psychology, yet it is quite elusive. This paper explores the structure of identity in a sample of adolescents from a collectivistic cu ... Read More
In this empirical research, we examine the relation of economic growth, foreign trade, energy consumption and industrial growth with carbon dioxide emissions in Japan during the period 1970-2010. We ... Read More
Shanghai Cooperation Organization became a permanent international organization when a new member Uzbekistan joined it in 2001. This group has eight permanent members; China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyr ... Read More
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