Browsing by Author "AYESHA MUSHTAQ"

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    A SUSTAINABLE SOCIO-POLITICAL APPROACH TO DEAL WITH THE CLIMATE DEGRADATION IN PAKISTAN.
    (UMT.Lahore, 2023) AYESHA MUSHTAQ
    This study looks beyond the traditional International relation mainstream topics. Instead of focusing on diplomacy, conflicts and foreign policy and state national interest it focuses on issues the people of the state have to face which prove to be a greater threat to their existence as compared to any conflict. This study focus on the need to bring nontraditional security into limelight. It starts of by investigating and exploring multi-dimensional reasons that explain why Pakistan’s agriculture sector is not thriving and has faced a massive downfall. This study suggest a socio political sustainable way to deal with environmental degradation Pakistan has to face. Nontraditional security paradigm is used as a policy recommendation to achieve sustainability in environmental sector whereas dependency theory is used to explain the degradation. This study later explores issues like food insecurity, forest mafia, energy crises, developmental dilemma and rising security threat by creating a nexus between environment and agriculture sector of Pakistan. The research finishes of by giving policy recommendation which in future can help Pakistan to cope up with severe green emergency.
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    Personality traits
    (UMT.Lahore, 2021) AYESHA MUSHTAQ; BAKHTAWAR MIR
    The present research aimed to explore the relationship among personality traits, optimism and somatic symptom disorder among female university students during COVID-19. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be relationship between personality traits, optimism and somatic symptom disorder among female university students during COVID-19. The sample consisted of N= 110 university female students drawn from Lahore using non-probability sampling technique. Personality traits, optimism and somatic symptom disorder was measured by The 24-item Brief HEXACO Inventory (BHI) (Vries, 2013), Life Orientation Test (LOT) (Scheier et al., 1994), and Patient health questionnaire (PHQ-15) ( Kroenke, 2002) respectively. Descriptive analysis was calculated. For further investigation, Pearson product moment correlation analysis, regression analysis and mediation analysis were used. Results showed that personality trait (emotionality) was found negatively significant with optimism and positively significant with somatic symptom disorder. Optimism was found to be negatively significant with somatic symptom disorder. Results of regression analysis showed that emotionality was a significant predictor of somatic symptom disorder. Results of mediation analysis showed that optimism was not significant mediator between emotionality and somatic symptom disorder. The study implied that the psychological or mental issues as the results of pandemic states were equally important as medical or economic problems and they were needed to be addressed