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    Emotion regulation, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and abuse among adolescents
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Faiza Niazi
    Abuse among children and adolescents is an adverse issue that may consequence into serious issues for the society and the individual. The main aim of this study was to find out that weather child abuse do cause the dysfunction in emotion regulation and PTSD symptoms among adolescents. Through simple random sampling the 478 adolescents (male=247, Female=231) ages between 13 to 18 years (M=15.18, SD=1.45) from government schools were selected. The Child Abuse Scale: Adolescent Version (Ghaffar & Malik, 2015), Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Kausar, 2014) and to measure the PTSD symptoms in adolescents, the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist(Translated version): Halepota and Wasif (2002)were selected to administer upon the adolescents. The findings shows that in male adolescent prevalence of paternal and maternal abuse and there types i.e. physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect exist more as compared to female adolescents but the difference were found in the third type of abuse i.e., sexual abuse. It was also revealed that adolescents with high score on abuse show more PTSD symptoms and difficulty in emotion regulation. Those adolescents with high parental abuse show more PTSD symptoms. The findings report that child abuse is a significant predictor of PTSD symptoms and emotion regulation. The results manifest that there is a significant gender difference among paternal and maternal physical and emotional abuse and physical and emotional neglect but there was no significant gender difference exist in paternal and maternal sexual abuse.
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    Emotion regulation, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and abuse among adolescents
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Faiza Niazi
    Abuse among children and adolescents is an adverse issue that may consequence into serious issues for the society and the individual. The main aim of this study was to find out that weather child abuse do cause the dysfunction in emotion regulation and PTSD symptoms among adolescents. Through simple random sampling the 478 adolescents (male=247, Female=231) ages between 13 to 18 years (M=15.18, SD=1.45) from government schools were selected. The Child Abuse Scale: Adolescent Version (Ghaffar & Malik, 2015), Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Kausar, 2014) and to measure the PTSD symptoms in adolescents, the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist (Translated version): Halepota and Wasif (2002) were selected to administer upon the adolescents. The findings shows that in male adolescent prevalence of paternal and maternal abuse and there types i.e. physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect exist more as compared to female adolescents but the difference were found in the third type of abuse i.e., sexual abuse. It was also revealed that adolescents with high score on abuse show more PTSD symptoms and difficulty in emotion regulation. Those adolescents with high parental abuse show more PTSD symptoms. The findings report that child abuse is a significant predictor of PTSD symptoms and emotion regulation. The results manifest that there is a significant gender difference among paternal and maternal physical and emotional abuse and physical and emotional neglect but there was no significant gender difference exist in paternal and maternal sexual abuse.
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    Motivational factors behind volunteer activities
    (University of Management and Technology, 2014) Faiza Niazi
    The aim of this research was to find out what motivates people to engage in volunteer activities. To investigate motives behind volunteerism this research hypothesized that female would score higher than males on motivational factors of volunteering, age would have a significant positive correlation with six motivation factors of volunteering and education would have a significant positive correlation with six motivation factors of volunteering. Survey method was used in this research. Snow ball sampling and convenience sampling was used to collect the sample comprised of 120 respondents which were involved in volunteer activities and were from different organizations and organizations, clubs or societies in universities in Lahore, Pakistan. There were 64 were male and 56 were female. The Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI) was used to find out motivational factors of volunteering. The VFI was developed by Clary et al. (1998). Obtained data was statistically analyzed by independent sample T-test to find out gender difference and correlation method to find out the relation of age and education with six motivational factors of VFI. The findings showed that there is no gender differences were found at six motivational factors. The age has significant positive relation with Value. No statistically significant relationship exists between age and other subscales of VFI. Education is positively correlated with Value and Enhancement however, the relationship between education and other subscales of VFI is not found. Whereas it has also been found that overall, the main motives behind volunteer activities were understanding, value and enhancement.