Psychological Sciences
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Using learning analytics to measure self-regulated learning: A systematic review of empirical studies in higher education
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2024 , Article Review)Background: Measuring students' self-regulation skills is essential to understand how they approach their learning tasks in order to identify areas where they might need additional support. Traditionally, self-report ... -
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 ... -
Examining Factors That Predict Arabic Word Reading in First and Second Graders
( Routledge , 2022 , Article)Although there is a growing research base on Arabic literacy development to inform our understanding of the factors that account for variability in word reading skill, the current body of research is limited by two major ... -
Depression Following Major Life Transitions in Women: A Review and Theory
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2020 , Article Review)Depression can occur due to common major life transitions, such as giving birth, menopause, retirement, empty-nest transition, and midlife crisis. Although some of these transitions are perceived as positive (e.g., giving ... -
Developing a Test of Early Arabic Literacy Skills
( Routledge , 2021 , Article)In recent years, stronger literacy development has emerged as a critically important issue in Arabic speaking nations. Results of international assessments indicate that most of the participating Arab countries are near ... -
Individual differences in emotion regulation and face recognition
( Public Library of Science , 2020 , Article)Face recognition ability is highly variable among neurologically intact populations. Across three experiments, this study examined for the first time associations between individual differences in a range of adaptive versus ... -
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 ... -
Evaluating self-reported psychopathy and associations with personality traits outside the WERID countries: evidence from two Arabic speaking Middle Eastern countries
( Routledge , 2023 , Article)The prevalence, manifestation and assessment of psychopathy might be influenced by culture. However, the vast majority of research on psychopathy has been carried out in a few Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and ... -
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. ... -
Face processing: Systems, disorders and cultural differences
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2017 , Book)Face processing is now a mainstream, multi-faceted and global research field in psychology, and it is growing exponentially. The volume of emerging research necessitates continuous efforts to update our overall understanding ... -
Developmental improvement and age-related decline in unfamiliar face matching
( Pion Limited , 2015 , Article)Age-related changes have been documented widely in studies of face recognition and eyewitness identification. However, it is not clear whether these changes arise from general developmental differences in memory or occur ... -
Culture shapes face perception: Comparisons of egypt and the UK
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2017 , Book chapter)The psychological literature reports a variety of cross-cultural differences in cognition, but most of these are based on comparisons of Western and Asian observers. Here, we discuss quantitative and qualitative cross-cultural ... -
A large-scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2024 , Article)Background Math anxiety (MA) is a worldwide appearing academic anxiety that can affect student mental health and deter students from math and science-related career choices. Method Using the Arabic version of the ... -
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 ... -
Erratum: A visual processing advantage for young-adolescent deaf observers: Evidence from face and object matching tasks
( NLM (Medline) , 2017 , Other)This article contains typographical errors in the 'Methods' section under subheading 'Stimuli'. -
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 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 ... -
Preface : Face Processing: Systems, Disorders and Cultural Differences
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2017 , Other)Face processing is now a mainstream, multi-faceted and global research field in psychology, and it is growing exponentially. The volume of emerging research necessitates continuous efforts to update our overall understanding ... -
Cognitive emotion regulation strategies, anxiety, and depression in mothers of children with or without neurodevelopmental disorders
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Background: A large number of studies have examined psychological distress and emotion regulation (ER) in parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, no study has previously examined "purely" cognitive ... -
Video/Computer Game Addiction Among University Students in Ghana: Prevalence, Correlates and Effects of Some Demographic Factors
( AVES , 2020 , Article)Background: This study represented the first investigation of video/computer game addiction in Ghana and Africa. We investigated the prevalence of video game addiction and some of its correlates. In addition, the effects ...