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Selected psychiatric problems among college students in two Arab countries: Comparison with the USA
( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Background: Psychiatric problems among college students on USA campuses are common. Little is known about similar problems in developing countries, particularly the Arab region. The goal of this study was to assess the ... -
Self-reported psychopathy in the Middle East: a cross-national comparison across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States
( BioMed Central , 2015 , Article)Background The construct of psychopathy is sparsely researched in the non-Western world, particularly in the Middle East. As such, the extent to which the psychopathy construct can be generalized to other cultures, including ... -
Small Steps Lead to Quality Assurance and Enhancement in Qatar University
( Routledge , 2009 , Article)This paper presents a brief overview of Qatar University's history since it was started in 1973. Its primary focus is on the various small, but important, steps taken by the University to address the needs of quality ... -
Spatialization in working memory is related to literacy and reading direction: Culture “literarily” directs our thoughts
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)The ability to maintain arbitrary sequences of items in the mind contributes to major cognitive faculties, such as language, reasoning, and episodic memory. Previous research suggests that serial order working memory is ... -
Super-Recognisers show an advantage for other race face identification
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2020 , Article)The accurate identification of an unfamiliar individual from a face photo is a critical factor in several applied situations (e.g., border control). Despite this, matching faces to photographic ID is highly prone to error. ... -
Teachers' practices for the purpose of developing creativity among children in primary learning stage and its relation to a number of variables
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2015 , Conference Paper)The purpose of this study is to examine teachers' practices performed to develop creativity among children in primary learning stage in Jordan. It also aimed to determine the differences between teachers' creative practices ... -
Teaching writing in Qatari early years education: the perceptions of early childhood teachers
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2015 , Conference Paper)The present study aimed at 1) exploring early childhood teachers' perceptions about teaching writing in Qatari early years settings, and 2) identifying the impact of several social-demographics variables on these views. ... -
Testing Measurement Invariance of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) in American and Arab University Students
( Springer , 2022 , Article)Affect describes any feelings, emotions, or moods that a person experiences and is generally divided into two broad dimensions-positive affect and negative affect. The most widely used measure of affect, the Positive and ... -
The abbreviated science anxiety scale: Psychometric properties, gender differences and associations with test anxiety, general anxiety and science achievement
( Public Library of Science , 2021 , Article)Science anxiety refers to students' negative emotions about learning science. Across two studies, we investigated the psychometric properties of the newly developed Abbreviated Science Anxiety Scale (ASAS), which was adapted ... -
The Arabic version of the modified-abbreviated math anxiety scale: Psychometric properties, gender differences, and associations with different forms of anxiety and math achievement
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2023 , Article)Background: This study examined the psychometric properties (factor structure, measurement invariance, convergent and criterion validity, inter-correlations, and reliabilities) of an Arabic version of the modified-Abbreviated ... -
The COVID-19-Related Lockdown in Qatar: Associations Among Demographics, Social Distancing, Mood Changes, and Quality of Life
( Springer , 2022 , Article)The worldwide spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the absence of medical treatment and vaccination, the delayed onset of symptoms, and the rapid human-to-human transmission have led the vast majority of countries ... -
The effect of using flipped classroom strategy on the academic achievement of fourth grade students in Jordan
( Kassel University Press GmbH , 2018 , Article)This study aimed at investigating the effect of flipped classroom strategy on the academic achievement in the subject of science among fourth grade students in Jordan. The study population consists of all fourth grade ... -
The effectiveness of family literacy programs in Qatari preschool settings
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)There is an increased recognition that family literacy programs can play a fundamental role in enhancing young children's literacy learning. Research in early literacy development stresses the importance of a partnership ... -
The effects of a culturally gender-specifying peripheral cue (headscarf) on the categorization of faces by gender
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)Faces convey a wealth of cues that influence social categorizations and subsequent cognition and behavior. This study examined the effects of wearing a headscarf on face categorization by gender using Egyptian observers ... -
The impacts of math anxiety, science anxiety, and gender on arts versus sciences choices in Qatari secondary schools
( PeerJ Inc. , 2023 , Article)Previous studies showed small-to-moderate associations between students' performances in math and science and math anxiety and science anxiety, respectively. Accordingly, the high prevalence of these two forms of topic ... -
The mitigating role of physical activities on emotions is gender-specific: An experience during "lenient" COVID-19 prevention protocols
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2023 , Article)The researchers examined emotional status subsequent to changes in physical (PA) and sedentary (SA) activities during "lenient" COVID-19 prevention protocols that allowed being outdoors. Emotions, PA, and SA were collected ... -
The Need to Develop an Individualized Intervention for Mathematics Anxiety
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2021 , Article)Mathematics anxiety is prevalent in many societies around the world, ranging from 30 to 70% (for a review, see Betz, 1978; Dowker et al., 2016). More than 30% of 15-year-old students across the Organization for Economic ... -
The psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) across three Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern countries
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)The nature and extent of the influence of culture on psychopathology have long been studied, with a central emphasis on whether abnormal behavior is etic (universalized) or emic (cultural based). This study aimed to examine ... -
The Robustness of the Nine-Factor Structure of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire across Four Arabic-Speaking Middle Eastern Countries
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2016 , Article)The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) focuses on the “pure” cognitive components of emotion regulation thought to help people to manage and control their emotions during or after the experience of a stressful ... -
THE TRANSFER OF PSYCHOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE TO THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES AND ITS IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF FIVE ARAB GULF OIL-PRODUCING STATES
( Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. , 1984 , Article)Psychological knowledge transmitted by universities in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates is presented and some historical-cultural roots identified. Required courses for a B.A. are similar ...