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Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan organized 1st Pakistan Knowledge Festival (PKF) from January 21st to 25th, 2011 at Convention Centre, Islamabad. All eminent educational,

intellectual, and cultural organizations of the state participated in the intellectual discourse at the auditorium in terms of seminars, workshops, art and music, etc. In the periphery of auditorium there were stalls furnished and manned by respective organizations to depict activities and services of each participating institution. The objective of the festival was to provide information to the public at large on the works and services rendered by the federal educational institutions, working in all provinces of the country. The slogan of the event was Knowledge for All —All for Knowledge’. Minister for Education Sardar Asif Ahmed Ali was the chief guest on the occasion. Ambassador of Indonesia Ishak Latuconsina, educationists, scholars and a large number of students and teachers attended the inaugural ceremony of the festival. National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (NIP) also participated in this festival. The main objective of NIP was to promote the Programs and Courses offered at the Centre. The stall was beautifully presented with all the publications of NIP. Publications were displayed on the stall. Director NIP, Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal supervised the event

NIP PartIcIPatIoNAT 1ST PAKISTAN KNOWLEDGE FESTIVAL,

CONVENTION CENTRE, ISLAMABAD

In this IssueNIP Participation in the 1st Pakistan Knowledge Festival at Convention Centre, IslamabadBy: Irum Naqvi ---------------------------------- 1 NIP celebrates Women’s DayBy: Kanwal Shahbaz ---------------------------- 3 Workshops at NIP; A report on 2 days workshop on AMOS & Regression Analysis, A series of workshops organized by Helpage International at NIP, A report of the 3 days Workshop on Educational Psychology at PAF School, Lower Topa, Murree.By: Jamil Malik, Nilofer Kiran, & Aisha Zubair -------------------------------------- 6 Foreign Collaboration between NIP and VU (Amsterdam)By: Jamil Malik ----------------------------------- 9 Students’ Corner ------------------------------ 10

M.Phil/PhD Researches CompletedBy: Naeem Aslam -------------------------------- 11

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Home Page_1st Knowledge Festivalherself and appreciated the services being pro-vided at the stall of NIP. The information desk of NIP comprised

the brochures of the academic programs and Services that includes the brochures of M.Sc M.Phil and Ph.D Program offered at NIP. It also included the brochures of Counseling Centre at NIP, focusing on helping the individuals in crises and support them to think clearly and resolve their problems in a productive manner. Testing Resource Centre (TRC) at NIP

highlighting the collection of TRC tests related to categories of clinical and screening tests, educational tests, intelligence tests, aptitude tests, personality inventories, and vocational tests. Other brochures include NIP library, Publications of National Institute of Psychology, Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research,

and News Letters, Proceedings of International Conferences held at NIP, Pakistan Psychological Abstracts, NIP scan and Research Monographs

were placed at the desk. A team of psychologists from NIP was available during the festival for the psychological assessment services at a minimal cost. The psychological domains that were assessed included intelligence, personality, aptitude, career guidance, anxiety, and stress etc. People visiting the stall were genuinely interested in finding about their own

personalities and knowing their IQ. Furthermore, y o u n g a t t e n d e e s o f the festival were also interested in finding about their aptitudes and they were provided guidance regarding their careers and vocational aspirations. The stall was visited by many students from different institutions and professionals of various organization.Besides this, Dr. Rubina Hanif (Assistant Professor, NIP) delivered a seminar titled “Psychological Effects of Terrorism on Youth”. The organization of 1st Pakistan Knowledge

Festival was a great effort by ministry of education to provide opportunity to the academic institutions from all over Pakistan to present their programs and services at a national forum for the better awareness of the youth.

Reported by: Irum Naqvi , Lecturer NIP

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NIP CELEBRATED THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN DAY IN A FESTIVE MANNER

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National Institute of Psychology has organized a get together of all the faculty of Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad to celebrate the International Women Day. Every year on 8th March, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. A global web of rich and diverse local activity connects women from all around the world ranging from political rallies, business conferences, and government activities as well as networking. Keeping the traditions alive, National Institute of Psychology celebrated Women’s Day on 16th March, 2011. Vice Chancellor QAU, Prof. Dr. Masoom Yasin Zai, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Dr. Navid-e-Rahat were the chief guests of the event. Dr. Moazzama Abidi, Assistant Professor at NIP supervised the whole event. A brief description of this event is presented below; The chief guests with the Director National Institute of Psychology, Dr. Anila Kamal arrived at 10 am at National Institute of Psychology. Afterwards thumb impression was done on topic “Say No to Women Harassment”. Maymoona Zahid and Nazia Anwar greeted the the chief guests. Anam Riaz recited verses of Holy Quran and Kanwal Shahbaz as stage secretary initiated the program and explained the significance of Women’s day. She narrated that the International Women’s Day is an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world. When women from all the continents, despite of national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development. International Women’s Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for “liberty, equality, fraternity” marched on Versailles to demand women’s suffrage. The idea of an International Women’s Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was

a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. But the fact remains that hundreds of year prior to that Islam had given a special status to women when they were being treated as chattels and lower human beings. Islam pulled her out of the abyss of humiliation and gave her equal rights. Over the years, United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions: promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research, including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups. Pakistan is a scintillating star in the galaxy of the Muslim world. It came into being for the well being and protection. The Muslim population of the sub-continent render the sacrifices of their lives, homes and relations to achieve freedom from the British yoke and Hindu hegemony. Women played active role in this great struggle. They will continue to play their rule for the progress and development of Pakistan. Today bigoted and illiterate clergy are bent upon pushing back women to pre-Islamic status. It is time for us to stand up against this backward lot and work diligently for women empowerment. Romana Rehman (MSc 3rd) presented a ghazal by Kafie Azmi, an Indian poet who arose his voice for women rights. Tahira Hameed Abbasi (MSc 3rd) sang English song in her melodious voice: I am alive by Celin Dion that further assured the wisdom and strength of women. In order to show the culture of Pakistan a Punjabi skit was presented that highly depicted the need of education for women. Students of MSc I Madiha, Faika, Haleema, Saba and students of MSc 3rd Hassam Iqbal, Muhammad Aqeel and Ali Hassan beautifully presented the comic skit. Aqsa Sultan and Tehseen Aslam gave tribute to the famous female personalities of the world (i.e., Mother Teresa, Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah, Muhtarma Benazir Bhutto, Madam Noor Jahan, and Perveen Shakir. Sharon John presented as Mother Teresa, Fatima Jinnah was presented by Warisha, Benazir Bhutto was presented by Samar Zahra, Saira Abbasi presented Noor Jahan and Javeria Khalid presented as Perveen Shakir of MSc 3rd. Students of M.Phil, Najda


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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN DAY:SOME GLIMPSES OF THE EVENT


GLIMPSES OF STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIESAT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN DAY


and co-participants presented Myme on the women issues that displayed sexual harassment among women and need for education among them. Tahira Hameed Abbasi (Voice of QAU) presented beautiful ghazal, ay jazba-e-dil gar main chahon. A stunning skit presented on the theme of Anarkali enterance in the premises of NIP along with Shahzada Saleem and psycho messenger titled as “Anar Kali in NIP”. The actors were Muhammad Akram as Badshah Akbar, Muhammad Aqeel as shahzada Saleem, Madeeha Butt as Jodah Akbar and Sania Shujaat as Anar Kali.She presented a tribute to women of Pakistan, showing the journey of women from Islamic history to the present era. The sizzling slide show was prepared by Maymoona Zahid (MSc 3rd). A tribute for the Dean Social Sciences Dr. Navid-i-Rahat was presented in form of visual presentation, depicting the struggle of

a dedicated women and her journey from girl to Dean Social Sciences. It was a surprise for the Dr. Navid-e-Rahat and she thoroughly enjoyed it. Saira Majid of M.Phil presented a beautiful Ghazal about modern women. Vice Chancellor of QAU, Dr. Masoom Yasin Zai, and Dean Social Sciences, Dr. Navid-e-Rahat appreciated all the performances and unity among the students and the way of presentations. Director, National Institute of Psychology Dr. Anila Kamal summed up the program and thanked all the guests for their participation and appreciation. At the end, refreshments were served to all the guests and trees were planted by Vice Chancellor QAU, Dr. Masoom Yasin Zai and Dean Social Sciences, Dr. Navid-e- Rahat in the garden of NIP which will be remembered as the pleasant memories that we spent together at NIP.

Prepared by: Kanwal Shahbaz (MSc 3rd)


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TWO DAYS TRAINING WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING (SEM)

WITH AMOS

A two day training w o r k s h o p w a s o r g a n i z e d a t National Institute of Psychology, Center of Excellence on 23-24th Feb 2011 to upgrade the skill-oriented knowledge of the faculty and research students of NIP. Dr.

Jamil A. Malik was the recourse person and the workshop was a replica of the event organized as pre-conference workshop at the occasion of the National Conference in October 2010. Although the workshop was very popular among scholars and researchers, a bunch of interested research scholars and faculty members were unable to participate due to limited number of seats. The event was repeated to entertain the skill-oriented thirst of the scholar and faculty of NIP. The Participants learned various applications of Structural Equation Modeling using graphical interface of a latest software AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures). Purpose was to upgrade research students and professional with the latest data analytic techniques adopted by the advanced world in the research industry. The workshop aimed at developing skill-based independence in professionals and researchers by enabling them to construct their own theory and analyze their own data.As with the previous workshop, this workshop was also designed to provide a practical guide to SEM. The workshop covered a variety of complex and advanced level data analytic techniques including confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis, mediation analysis, moderation analysis, full latent variables model, missing data analysis, multiple group analysis, and latent growth curves. The workshop was organized in four sessions and after each session participants

spend an hour of supervised practice in Lab. The practice sessions were aimed to enable participants to find theoretical and statistical solutions to their own research questions. Such skill based intervention programs are essential for research students and professionals to enhance quality of their research to meet the international standards.

Contributed by : Dr.Jamil A. Malik

A two days advanced training workshop on Regression Analysis was organized at National Institute of Psychology, Center of Excellence on 24th -25th March 2011 to upgrade the skill-oriented knowledge of the faculty, students

TWO DAYS TRAINING WORKSHOP ON REGRESSION ANALYSIS

and researchers. Prerequisites of the workshop was the basic understanding of statistics and interpretation of simple regression analyses. Resource person of the workshop was Prof. Dr. Rukhsana Kausar, from department of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Purpose was to upgrade research students and professionals with the latest data analytic techniques adapted by the advanced world in the research industry. This two-day workshop ended successfully. Participants appreciated this intellectual activity. This workshop was organized by Dr. Rubina Hanif, Assistant Professor at NIP. By: Editor Newsletter


Malik, Mr. Naeem Aslam, Ms. Raiha, Ms. Nelofer, and Ms. Sadaf were the resource persons. The workshop starts with the aim to introduce the concept of aging particularly with reference to ageing in Pakistan. Mr. Naeem highlighted the phenomenon of normal aging, and then Ms. Raiha proceeded with how to communicate with target group and collecting case studies. In later sessions Ms. Sadaf delivered talk on mental health issues and how to improve emotional wellbeing of older people. Dr. Mozamma Abidi discussed the issues like recognizing and providing emotional support to the older persons, counseling for compliance to treatment. Dr. Jamil Malik talked about Health & Nutrition. At the end of the workshop the certificates were distributed among the participants.

Reported by: Nilofer Kiran, Lecturer, NIP


AGE FRIENDLY TRAINING SERIESMEETING THE EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE:

GERIATRIC COUNSELING FOR CARE OF CARERS

Helpage Merlin International is a UK based NGO working all over Pakistan providing medical and psychological support to old population. With the joint collaboration of NIP, arranged comprehensive workshop. It was a series of workshops in which three batches were trained. Workshops started from 10th January till 20th January. The participants of the workshops were Psychologists, Health Promoters , and Paramedical staff of Help Age from all over the country. Workshops started by the registration of participants, then the Pretest sessions were conducted. This training was planned to facilitate the works of help age and indirectly to increase the quality of life for old age people. Ms. Nelofer was the organizer of this event from NIP and Dr. Mozamma Abidi, Dr. Jamil



PAF Public School Lower Topa is a residential institution tasked to act as a nursery to PAF Academy. The institution under-takes for education and grooming of the young students for a period of five years during which they complete F.Sc level studies. On the request of the PAF School, the faculty members of National Institute of Psychology, trained 24 teachers of the school, all having Master’s Degrees in various subjects. NIP faculty conducted three days workshop. The workshop contents focused on developing self compassion, valuing one’s self, social distance, knowing your own personality, assessing personality using different tools, creating personality profiles, psychology of learning, teaching and learning styles, strategies for effective class room management, grooming of children, problem solving skills, when vocation becomes vacation, role of

motivation in learning process, communication and interaction, adjustment issues anxiety & its impact, appropriate use of punishment and reward in educational setting, and managing student’s issues . The resource persons were the faculty members of NIP including Ms. Aisha Zubair, Ms. Irum Naqvi, Ms. Raiha Aftab, Dr. Jamil. A. Malik and Mr. Naeem Aslam. The three days workshop ended successfully. At the end, the organizer of the workshop, the Vice Principal of the school thanked the NIP faculty for sharing their valuable knowledge with the participants. In the closing ceremony a shield was presented to NIP as a token of appreciation and the certificates were distributed among the resource persons and participants. Contributed by: Aisha Zubair

Dr. Rubina Hanif and Ms. Raiha Aftab, of National Institute of Psychology, attended a two day seminar on “Relative Grading System” in educational settings, hosted by the Institute of Business Administration Karachi. The purpose of the workshop style seminar was to familiarize the academia with the procedures and merits of the relative grading system for higher education. Maximum effort was taken to highlight and enlighten how it enhances the skills and abilities of students and teachers; how achieved grades can be better interpreted with reference to the job markets and how universities can monitor the quality of education being meted out. The hallmark of event was that the seminar was webcasted to over a hundred national universities with the efforts of HEC.

By: Raiha Aftab

NIP Faculty Attended National video Seminar

Organized by HEC

WORKSHOP ON EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: PAF PUBLIC SCHOOL, LOWER TOPA, MURREE

Dr. Jamil A. Malik, Assistant Professor, National Institute of Psychology has been selected for inclusion of his biography in the famous Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2011-2012 (11th Edition). Since 1899, with its first publication Marquis who’s Who is recognized as the premier biographical reference source and is regarded worldwide as the foremost chronicler of human achievements. Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering publishes biographies of those men and women whose achievement and contributions to society make them subject of widespread reference interest and inquiry. We congratulate Dr. Jamil A. Malik for his achievements and wish him tremendous success in his future endeavors.

By: Naeem Aslam, Editor, Newsletter

Pride Moments for NIP


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As after his appointment at NIP, Dr. Jamil A. Malik took initiative to activate international collaboration with interested partners. Considering the mutual interest of the partners; in September 2010 a research project titled “A Dimensional Approach to Personality Pathology in Adolescents; A Pakistani Perspective” was designed and submitted to Higher Education Commission, Pakistan for funding. Dr. Jamil Malik became the Principal Investigator whereas Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal (Director NIP) and Prof. Dr. Hans Koot (Head Developmental Psychology, VU University Amsterdam) participated in the project as Co-Principal Investigators. In October 2010, first revision of the project was submitted and in November 2010 the project was awarded a funding amount of PKR Rs: 500000/- by Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. After, its approval, first meeting of the project was conducted on 29th November 2010 to develop a timeline of the project and to discuss role of each contributor. The participants included Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal, Dr. Rubina Haneef, Dr. Jamil Malik, and Prof. Dr. Hans Koot (online). It was decided that Prof. Hans will provide DAPP-BQ-A which will be translated in Urdu for data collection of the project. Dr. Jamil Malik suggested incorporation of research students of NIP into the project; the proposal was appreciated by the Director NIP. On 6th December 2010, Dr. Malik delivered a presentation of the project to the research students and faculty of NIP and invited them to submit their proposal if interested in the project. A number of research students showed their interest in the project and submitted their proposal. After evaluation of the proposals, shortlisted candidates were called for interview on 19th Jan 2011. The interview committee comprised of Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal, Prof. Dr. Anis ul Haq, and Dr. Jamil Malik. Four proposals

Foreign Collaboration between NIP and VU Amsterdam; An HEC Funded Project to Dr. Jamil A. Malik;

Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal and Prof. Dr. Hans, M. Koot

were approved with some modifications suggested by principal investigator and co-principal investigator after discussion with the students and respective supervisors. Following proposals were accepted and incorporated in the project:

1. Hassan, Z. (M.Phil III) Personality traits as predictors of personality disorders: A comparison of dimensional and categorical personality assessment of Pakistani adolescent population.

2. Safdar, T. (M.Phil III) Relationship between attachment styles, autonomy and personality pathology.

3. Khan, N. R. (M.Phil I) Influence of parenting style and parent-adolescent conflict on the personality development of adolescents; adapting the dimensional model of personality disorder.

4. Hanif, R. (Faculty NIP) A validation study of DAPP-BQ-A in Pakistani Culture.

At NIP participating researcher includes Dr. Jamil A. Malik, Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal, Prof. Dr. Anis ul Haq, and Dr. Rubina Haneef. Foreign participating researcher includes Prof. Dr. Hans Koot (VU University, Amsterdam), Prof. Dr. M.H.J Bekker (Tilburg University), Prof. Dr. C.K.W Schotte (Free University, Brussels). Under this project, four scales (i.e., DAPP-BQ-A, ADP IV for Personality Disorders, ACS, and CBQ) are in processes of Urdu translation using the back translation method. Mid April is the prospective date for start of the data collection. The project is expected to produce three M.Phil research dissertations and five to seven peer reviewed national and international research articles. Completion of the project is expected in november 2011 by conducting a symposium to share findings with research community. By: Editor newsletter


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MSc II Said Goodbye to MSc 1V: Farewell Party Report

Farewell or goodbye party is a bitter sweet. M.Sc students of National Institute of Psychology gave farewell to the MSC-4th students. It’s a difficult time for the seniors to say good bye to a place where they passed their maximum time, shared their experiences, had lunch together have all the happy and sad moments together. Director Dr.Anila Kamal was the chief guest and the faculty joined and made the party successful. Program was started as the chief guest arrived. Students of MSC-II participated and contributed to their best to make it full of fun and excitement for MSC-IV. Kanwal Shahbaz and Maymona Zahid took the responsibility to host the whole program. Program was started with the recitation of Holy Quran. Samia Shukat and Tehseen Aslam presented titles to seniors and the titles were highly appreciated and liked by seniors and faculty. Samreen Masood and Nazia Anwar took control of the background music system of the party. Maimoona Zahid composed a documentary for the seniors in which their two year stay was presented at NIP. At the ending note, the director appreciated the efforts of the students and asked the goodbye to the departing students.

By: Kanawal Shahbaz, MSc-III

Kanwal Shahbaz s tudent o f MSc 3 rd semester of National Institute o f P s y c h o l o g y secured 2nd position i n w o m e n ’ s w e e k s p o r t s c h a m p i o n s h i p h e l d a t F a t i m a Jinnah University Rawalpindi. She

represented Quaid-e-Azam University in this event. She participated in table Tennis, Cricket and Pitogram and stood second in all these games. According to her its an honour to play for university by wearing playing kit of Quaid-e-Azam University that can’t be explained in words. We wish her best in future. ameeeen.

Mr. Aqeel, MSc student at NIP is selected as the captain of cricket Team of Quaid-i- Azam University and coach of girls cricket Team as well. Before joining NIP he played under-19, under-16, Pepsi 20-20 cup, played for HEC and

Punjab University and Pakistan Steel Mills. M.Sc students, Jaweria Khalid, Furrukh Nadeem, Shorn John, are selected in university basketball and Kanwal Shahbaz, Samreen Masood and

Maimoona are selected in university cricket team. We wish all these students Good Luck

GREAT SAYINGS ABOUT WOMEN The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women ... merely adored.

Oscar WildeDo you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak. The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it’s educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they’re going to fall behind.

Barack ObamaWoman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive.

Abraham MillerBy::Muhammad Akram Riaz MSc III

Honor of NIP Students


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Qureshi, Sidrah. (2010). Individual values as predictor of conflict management styles. (Unpublished M.Phil Dissertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

M.Phil & Ph.D Researches Completed

Ashraf, Sana. (2010). Women’s Experiences of Husband’s Controlling Behaviors and their Self-Esteem (Unpublished M.Phil Dissertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Shahid, Huma. (2010). Perception of Social Support, Marital, Satisfaction and Coping Strategies among Infertile Couples. (Unpublished M.Phil Dissertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

The present study aimed to explore the husband’s controlling behaviors among working-wives and house-wives. It also aimed to investigate the role of work status of women and family system in the victimization of husband’s controlling behaviors. Furthermore, it was aimed to identify the level of self-esteem of working-wives and house-wives. An important objective was to find out the role of education in happening of domestic violence based on husband’s controlling behaviors in an intimate relationship. The study was also undertaken to establish the psychometric properties of instruments. Domestic Violence scale (Hussain, 1998), Urdu version of Controlling Behaviors Scale (Archer & Kevan, 2003) and Self-esteem Scale. Pilot study was concerned with the translation and adaptation of Controlling Behaviors scale in Urdu. Psychometric properties of the scales were also determined in Pilot study. Domestic Violence scale (Hussain, 1998), Urdu Version of Controlling Behaviors scale (Archer & Kevan, 2003), and Self-esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) were used to collect the data. A purposive sample of the 300 married females (working-wives =150, house-wives =150) participated in the study. Results of the main study revealed the validity of Controlling Behaviors Scale as a valid measure of domestic violence. Significant mean differences were found with respect to women work status and victimization of husband’s controlling behaviors. Working-wives experienced more controlling behaviors in comparison with house-wives. Results reveled that working wives have higher Self-esteem in comparison with house-wives. Significant mean differences were found in the victimization of husband’s controlling behaviors among working-wives living in different family systems. Working-wives living in joint family system experienced more violence than working

wives living in nuclear family system This research was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Anis-ul-Haq, Professor, NIP.

The present study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between perception of social support and marital satisfaction among infertile couples. Moreover, coping strategies were also examined separately for husbands and wives. The instruments used were Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet, & Farley, 1988), Comprehensive Marital Satisfaction Scale (Blum & Mehrabian, 1999) and Brief COPE (Carver, 1997). The study was completed in three phases. The first phase consisted of translation of MSPSS following a try out study (n =40) that aimed at establishing the psychometric properties of the instruments. In second phase, the translated scales were administered on a sample of husbands (n=20) and wives (n= 20) of infertile couples. The results of try out yielded satisfactory results. The third phase comprised of main study conducted on 100 infertile couples (husbands n= 100 and wives n= 100) seeking infertility treatment. The age of the husbands and wives ranged from 24 years to 55 years (M=33.55, SD=5.84) and 20 years to 50 years (M=29.71, SD=5.64) respectively. The results revealed a significant positive correlation between perception of social support and marital satisfaction among infertile couples. Regression analysis showed that perception of social support is an important predictor in determining the marital satisfaction of infertile couples. Wives tend to exhibit more active-avoidance and religious/denial coping and husbands were more likely to employ problem-focused and positive coping. Chi-square analysis demonstrated that wives showed more interest towards adoption of a child as compared to husbands. On the basis


Sana, Farhat. (2010). Effects of Parenting Styles and Parent/Peer Attachment on Dis-ruptive Behavior Problems of Adolescents. (Unpublished M.Phil Dissertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Anjum, Gulnaz. (2010). Sex Differences in Perception of Partners Infidelity among Married Adults. (Unpublished M.Phil Dis-sertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.


of qualitative data, different themes emerged depicting the perceptions of infertile couples about impact of childlessness on their lives. This research was supervised by Dr.Anila Kamal, Professor, NIP.

The purpose of present research was to explore sex differences in perception of infidelity among married working adults. To serve this purpose a multi-method approach was applied. In the first phase the issue of infidelity was explored qualitatively which was followed by development of an indigenous instrument to assess the dimensions of infidelity and the impact of perceived infidelity on marital relationship. Initially the research began with development of discussion or interview guideline with the help of three interviews from the expert in the area of gender and sexuality to get the detailed data about the married adult’s opinion and their perception about infidelity; and the impacts of perceived infidelity on the marital relationship. The Hybrid thematic analysis plan was developed in Excel files separately for focus group discussions and in-depth interviews . On basis of the categories that emerged in the qualitative work the vignettes were developed to test the assumed categories experimentally. These vignettes were administered on 200 participants (100 men & 100 women) belonging to three different socio economic strata. The participants categorized infidelity into two main kinds, i.e. Emotional and Sexual. There were significant sex differences in the perception of infidelity; women perceived high possibility of emotional infidelity and higher levels of distress on emotional infidelity; whereas men perceived high possibility of sexual infidelity and higher levels of distress on emotional infidelity. Moreover, women were significantly more intended towards the resolution, forgiveness and continuation of the relationship with their partner after witnessing their infidelity as compared to men. This research was supervised by Dr.Anis-ul-Haq, Professor at NIP.

Present study was conducted to find out the relationship and effects of parenting styles and parent/peer attachment on disruptive behavior problems of adolescents. Translated versions of Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) (Buri, 1991; Babree, 1997) ; Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA) (Armsden & Greenberg, 1987; Zafar, 2009) and the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI) (Eyberg, 2002; Sana, 2006) were used. Present research is comprised of two phases-pilot study and main study. There were two samples, sample I consisted of adolescents (12-16 years) and sample II consisted of their caregivers (mostly parents). Responses on PAQ and IPPA were given by adolescents and responses on ECBI were given by caregivers (mostly parents). Pilot study was conducted on sample of 60 adolescents and their caregivers. Results of pilot study suggested satisfactory psychometric properties of all the instruments. For finding out mean differences between groups of adolescents with non -disruptive behaviors and adolescents with disruptive behaviors, 30th and 70th percentiles have been used on Intensity and problem scales of ECBI. The directions of results were in line with the proposed hypotheses. Main study was conducted on the sample of 300 adolescents and their caregivers (mostly parents). On the basis of intensity scale, mean differences on permissive, authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles between adolescents with disruptive and non-disruptive behaviors were non-significant (p>.05) whereas on the basis of problem scale of ECBI, the mean differences on authoritative parenting style were significant (p<.05). On the basis of intensity scale, mean differences on parental attachment was significant (p<.01) but non significant on peer attachment (p>.05) whereas similar results were found between the respective groups divided on the basis of scores on problem scale of ECBI. Correlation coefficients between scores on intensity scale of ECBI and authoritative parenting


Home Page_Researches Completedwere non significant (p>.05) but in negative direction as assumed, similarly correlation coefficients between scores on problem scale of ECBI and authoritative parenting style was non-significant (p>. 05) but in negative direction as assumed. Correlation coefficients between scores on intensity scale of ECBI and parental attachment was significant (p<.01) and in negative direction as assumed, similarly correlation coefficients between scores on problem scale of ECBI and parental attachment was significant (p<.01) and in negative direction as assumed. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that 13% of variance in intensity scores of ECBI has been explained by father’s authoritative style and parent/peer attachment whereas 8% variance in problem scores of ECBI has been explained by authoritative parenting style and parent/peer attachment. Mediation analysis indicated that there is significant role of parent/peer attachment as mediatory variable between authoritative parenting styles and disruptive behavior problems among adolescents. This research was supervised by Dr.Rubina Hanif.

Qureshi, Sidra Nasir. (2010).Individual Values as Predictors of Conlfict Management Styles. (Unpublished M.Phil. Dissertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of individual values on the styles of managing conflict among the University students. It was also intended to find out the gender differences in individual values and the use of different conflict management styles. It also aimed to investigate the dominant values and the preferred styles of conflict management. In the first phase, the Schwartz Value Survey (Schwartz, 1994) was translated. In the second phase, the psychometric properties of the translated versions of Schwartz Value Survey and the Urdu version of Dutch Test for Conflict Handling (Khan, 2008) were tested. Phase III i.e., the main study, was conducted on a purposive sample of 700 (345 males and 355 females). Regression analysis was conducted to test the predictive role of values as the well as the typologies of Schwartz Values with reference to different typologies of conflict management.

Results showed that power significantly and positively predicts the dominating style of conflict management, tradition significantly and positively predicts the avoiding style of conflict management, benevolence significantly and positively predicts the obliging style of conflict management , stimulation and self direction significantly and positively predicts the integrating style of conflict management, security significantly and positively predicts the compromising style of conflict management. Significant gender difference was found on Openness to Change with males scoring higher than the females. The gender differences with regard to the five styles of conflict management revealed that on the integrating, obliging, and compromising styles of conflict management, the male university students scored significantly higher than the female university students. Compromising was found to be the highly preferred and dominating was found to be the least preferred style of conflict management among the university students. The university students scored higher on Conservation and lower on Openness to Change dimension of Schwartz Value Survey. This research was supervised by Dr. Anis-ul-Haq, Professor at NIP.

Aziz, Mudasar. (2010).Effect of Mortality Salience on Desire for Offspring and Offspring Salience as a Buffer for Ingroup Bias. (Unpublished M.Phill. Dissertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

The study was based on Terror Management Theory (TMT), which posits that following mortality salience people tend to defend their cultural world and bolster self esteem. Recent research has also shown that following mortality salience people tend to have higher desire for offspring.· The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of mortality salience on desire for offspring and also to explore the buffering function of offspring saliency for ingroup bias. Post test only control group experimental research design was used to fulfill this purpose. Three experimental studies were carried out. The samples used in all the studies were taken from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad with the



High rates of postnatal depression have been reported in the developing world. It has also been reported that more than 200 million children under 5 years of age in developing countries do not reach their developmental potential. This study examined the possibility of maternal depression as a risk factor for psychological development of infants. There is likely to be a particularly high risk during the first year of life, not only because this is a time of increased susceptibility of mothers to a depressive episode but also because it is during this period that the infant requires most responsive care. The aim of this study was to systematically investigate this association in a representative rural community based sample in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, using a natural groups design. 160 infants of mothers diagnosed to have depressive disorder in the third trimester, and 160 infants of mothers psychologically well in the third trimester, were followed up for one year. Mothers’ mental state was re-assessed postnatally at 2, 6 and 12 months using the WHO Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry . While, Bayley Scales of Infant Development were administered to the infants of both depressed and non-depressed mothers at the age of 12 months. Significantly lower developmental scores (Bayley mental, motor & behaviour rating scores) were found through univariate analysis in the infants at 12 months age who were exposed to maternal depression at 2 months postnatally as compared to infants of non-depressed mothers at 2 months postnatally. This association did remain significant for motor and behaviour rating scores at multivariate analysis, while mental scores did not remain significant along with significant association with infants having low birth weight and mothers having 4 or more children. Maternal depression is a significant risk factor of poor psychological development of infants in the first year of life. It may also be a significant marker for other infant risk factors such as low birth weight and maternal risk factor of having 4 or more children. This reserch was supervised by Prof. Dr. Naeem Tariq.

Iqbal, Zafar. (2010). Impact of Maternal Depression on Psychological Development of Infants. (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

age range of 21-28. Study 1 was conducted to see the effect of mortality salience on desire for offspring, 100 participants (50 male, 50 female) were assigned to experimental and control condition. Mortality was manipulated to be salient for experimental group as they were asked to think deeply of their own death where as in control group participants were asked to think deeply of their own dental pain. After a certain delay and distractive activity, in line, with terror management theory research, dependent variable (desire for offspring) was measured by using Desire for Offspring Questionnaire. In addition to the previous research by Fritsche, Jonas, Fischer, Koranyi, Berger and Fleischmann (2007), the desire for male and female offspring was also included in the study. The findings showed that, following mortality salience participants had more desire for offspring as compared to control group. Desire for male and female offspring was higher in mortality salient (MS) group as compared to mortality not salient (MNS) group. The desire for male offspring was higher than desire for female offspring in mortality salient group. In study 2, 80 participants (40 male 40 female) were used to explore the difference of children thought accessibility in MS and MNS groups. Mortality salient was manipulated in the same way as in study 1. It was found that Children related thoughts were more accessible in mortality salient group as compared to mortality not salient group. Research suggests that following mortality salience people tend to defend their cultural world view by showing in group bias and negative evaluation of out groups. It was hypothesized in study 3 that in group bias would reduce in mortality salient condition when offspring is salient as well. 80 male participants were divided into experimental and control condition. In experimental condition, offspring was made salient by asking participants to think deeply about their anticipated children and in control condition they were made to think about watching television. After that mortality was also manipulated with same procedure as in study 1 and 2. Then dependent variable (ingroup bias) was measured using Anti-Pakistan Essay. The findings suggested that the MS effect on ingroup bias was eliminated under conditions of offspring salience. This research was conducted under the supervision of Dr.Anis-ul-Haq , Professor, NIP

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