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The development of children's preferences for equality and equity across 13 individualistic and collectivist cultures
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
A concern for fairness is a fundamental and universal element of morality. To examine the extent to which cultural norms are integrated into fairness cognitions and influence social preferences regarding equality and equity, ...
Amna Mahmoud Al-Jaydah, a pioneer in the struggle for female education in Qatar: A biographical research study
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
Much of the historical data, often narratives, on 19th and early 20th century women teachers in the West highlights the ways in which these women educators were influenced by religious institutions and/or the cultural, ...
Women with disabilities in the state of Qatar: Human rights, challenges and means of empowerment
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International Journal of Special Education
, 2017 , Article)
This study explored human rights for Qatari women with disabilities, challenges and means of empowerment as perceived by females and males both with and without disabilities. The Questionnaire of the Rights of Women with ...
Face perception in schizophrenia: A specific deficit
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article)
Introduction. Patients with schizophrenia have a large-scaled and severe cognitive impairment. This study examines whether a well-established deficit in face recognition in schizophrenia is a part of this general cognitive ...
Autism in the Gulf States: Why social robotics is the way forward
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, we assess the current situation in the Gulf States with respect to autism awareness and diagnostic facilities, and emphasize the need for epidemiology studies in light of prevalence statistics available for ...
Does visual letter similarity modulate masked form priming in young readers of Arabic?
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Academic Press Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
We carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment to study whether visual letter similarity plays a role during the initial phases of word processing in young readers of Arabic (fifth graders). Arabic is ideally ...
Parenting, personality, and culture as predictors of perfectionism
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Springer New York LLC
, 2018 , Article)
This study examined the relationship between parenting styles, personality traits, culture, and perfectionism. Male and female undergraduate university students from the US (n = 168) and the Middle East (n = 74) completed ...
The psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) across three Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern countries
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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 ...
Characteristics and models of effective professional development: the case of school teachers in Qatar
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of effective professional development and effective models of professional development as perceived by school teachers in the State of Qatar. This study is ...
Quality of llife of Qatar university students with disability and its relation to their academic adjustment and performance
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International Journal of Special Education
, 2018 , Article)
This study aimed at assessing the quality of life of Qatar University students with disability and its relation to their academic adjustment and performance. Seventy (70) students, 31 males, and 39 females participated in ...