Psychology

Present study was carried out to develop and validate an instrument for measuring different factors affecting upon students’ success at higher educational level. Focus group discussions and extensive literature review was done in order to generate an item pool for the instrument. Initially 75 items were generated under ten dimensions namely: motivation, intellectual abilities, personality brought up, institutional environment, socio- economic background, family participation, peer group, influence of siblings, awareness about future goals and awareness about current trends in the subject. After qualitative item analysis, the items were reduced to 60 as 15 were found to be repetitive in nature. These 60 item statements were administered to 100 graduating students of public universities in Islamabad region. The data thus obtained was subjected to factor analysis. As a result ten subscales containing 45 items in total were constructed with Eigen value above 2.83. Split half reliability for both halves was expressed at .78 and .89. Psychometric properties demonstrate that SSHL is a valid and reliable instrument to be used in research studies related to students’ academic success at higher level.

Mathematics is typically one of the subjects with which many students struggle. To improve mathematics achivement, it is helpful for students to gain proficiency in mathematics vocabulary. The importance of developing vocabulary as a means of improving comprehension has long been understood by educators and researchers. Students who are exposed to academic vocabulary are usually more successful in their content area classes; yet, the relative effectiveness of vocabulary strategies to build content area vocabulary comprehension in mathematics at the secondary level has had limited research. In this study, two vocabulary strategies were compared in a six-week long investigation to determine the relative effectiveness of each strategy on students’ content area vocabulary development in an Algebra II class - a Modified Cloze/Maze procedure and a Concept of a Definition word map. The research findings conducted from this study are relevant to all content area teachers, in particular math teachers at the secondary level.

The research that has been done in the area of evaluation methods all seek to achieve an efficient evaluation system for employees. The purpose and expectations of an organization determine performance evaluation method. Although most researchers and human resource managers believe that comprehensive and time consuming methods provide us with more effective information, the important point is that a suitable method based on organization situation and using cost analysis must be selected. 360-degree evaluation is an evaluation method in which a list of the merits is provided and all people involved in organization including superiors, colleagues, subordinates and the individual will be asked directly and indirectly to assess somebody on the basis of the merits required. The appraisee also participates in the process of self-evaluation. The present paper aims to investigate the difference between two types of evaluation methods including 360-degree evaluation and traditional evaluation among the employees and managers of Imam Reza Hospital in Kermanshah Province. The study sample is composed of all staff involved in Imam Reza Hospital including 50 managers, 46 physicians and also 479 employees who were surveyed by traditional evaluation method and 360-degree evaluation method. The data obtained using independent t-test and F-statistics and multiple comparison Tukey test showed that there is a significant difference between the means of the results obtained from the traditional evaluation method and 360-degree evaluation method, and 360-degree method provides the system with the a more accurate evaluation than the traditional method.

The study examined the nature and characteristics of locus of control across three critical phases of the life span such as young adulthood (20-25 yrs.), middle age (40-45 yrs.), and old age (65-70 yrs.) among both males and females. The sample consisted of 90 subjects, 30 from each of the age categories. Equal number of males and females from each of the categories were randomly selected. All the subjects were individually administered Rotter’s ‘Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. The results were analyzed for observing age-related and sex-related effects and changes in locus of control. Major findings of the study are summarized below. Both males and females are highly internals during the middle age, while they are externals at young and old age. Females show relatively more of external locus of control than males. However, the male-female difference was not found to be statistically significant across any of the three age groups. The interaction effect between age and sex was also not found to be significant suggesting that these two are independent factors with respect to locus of control.

This research aims to study the effectiveness of phonological educational intervention on the reading performance of students with developmental dyslexia. It was experimentally conducted using a pretest-post test scheme, a control group & the multiple sampling method in which 16 3rd grade female dyslexic students who met the research admission criteria were selected in the simple random method from Esfahan City public elementary schools and who were randomly assigned to 2 experimental and control groups. For information gathering, the 3rd grade elementary school reading test and list of dyslexia symptoms whose reliability and validity had been approved were used. Data were analyzed using the covariance analysis statistical method and SPSS software. The results showed a significant difference (P?0.001) between the 2 experimental and control groups. It can thus be said that phonological educational intervention is effective on the reading performance of dyslexic children and the method can be used to optimize such children's dyslexia.

Abuse often become an issue that most fretted by parents. Practically, every certain day the news of innocent little children being victims of child abuse. However, many parent an unconscious that they often abuse their children. Abusing definitely suspected using force hit or bellowed at children. This reading is carried out in order to determine how an unconscious many parents had committed quiet abuse on their children. This study emphasizes the quiet abuse can kill emotional intelligence and self-esteem of children.

Learning disability of students is one of the major problems faced by teachers in a normal classroom. Due to learning disability a child needs extra care and attention from the parents and teachers as well for getting proper learning. Present study aimed to investigate the role of teachers in handling learning disable students in a normal classroom at primary education level. The study was conducted on 80 primary school teachers of Abbottabad (Pakistan). It was found that although, in general, according to pedagogies, teachers should consider learning disabilities of students in class room; but teachers face problems in handling these students due to not having proper training in this context.

Many children are refusing to attend school or have problems remaining in the classes for an entire day. Refusal is associated with classroom climate factors and if not managed well they lead to multiple socio-economic risks spanning into adulthood. This study sought teachers’ views on classroom determinants of school refusal behaviour among lower primary schools in Nandi East district with emphasis on class dynamics. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design in which variables were studied as they are in the field without manipulation. The accessible population consisted of all the 282 public lower primary class teachers in the district. The final sample size of 152 was determined by employing Stein’s method. Stratified and simple random sampling methods were used to get the participants. Structured and semi structured survey questionnaire were used to collect data from class teachers. Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha was used to determine the reliability of research questions; which established a reliability coefficient of .872. Descriptive statistics used to analyze quantitative data were percentages and frequencies. Statistical Packages of Social Science (SPSS) programme version 17 aided in analyses. The findings were summarized and presented in tables and figures. The study established that teachers consider the following dynamics as triggers of refusal: getting poor marks which lead to frustrations, learners inability to bring out their problems well, teachers forcing weak learners to repeat classes and learners getting demotivated because achievement and performance are not praised or rewarded. The study recommends the in -servicing of education stakeholders on nature of school refusal, improving provision of instructional materials to learners with special needs and improving school inspection.

The present study was undertaken to examine the influence of School related Hardiness and Achievement Motivation on Academic Achievement of Secondary School students. Descriptive survey method was employed to conduct it. Statistical techniques of product moment method of correlation and analysis of variance were employed to analyse data. There was no significant relationship found between Academic Achievement and school related Hardiness but a significant relationship was found between Academic Achievement and Achievement Motivation. Significant main effect of Achievement Motivation was revealed on the Academic Achievement of students at .05 level but there was no significant main effect of school related Hardiness on Academic Achievement. Results also indicated statistically significant interaction at .05 level between school related Hardiness and Achievement Motivation with regard to Academic Achievement. Overall, these findings provide new insights about a comprehensive understanding of School related Hardiness and Achievement Motivation as correlates of Academic Achievement.

This study tends to investigate the application of psychological research methods in the fashion endeavor. The prospect of this challenge is to quantify, formalize and investigate the causal relationships connecting clothing style, preference, personality factors, emotions and mood with an observation to an improved understanding of the psychological profile of the fashion consumer. The result specifies strong relationships between mood and important relationships among three out of five personality factors and clothing style preference; mood was an important predictor of preference, at the same time as personality was restrained. Personality, emotion and mood were exposed to be managed and reflected through clothing with propositions for assistance in consumer clothing service training, resolution, and strategies for personal shoppers, market segmentation and design. The methodology derivative from a combination of research methods coupled with definite wearing experience, previously not studied collectively. This is a vital demonstration of how important this combination is in order to fully be pleased about the psychological profile of the fashion consumer.