Browsing by Author "Imran Mahmood"

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    (UMT Lahore, 2024-07-31) Imran Mahmood
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    Music absorption, spirituality and serenity in university students
    (UMT Lahore, 2017) Imran Mahmood
    The current research study investigated the relationship among music absorption, Spirituality, and serenity in university students. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be a relationship among music absorption spirituality and serenity, and spirituality will mediate the relationship between music absorption and serenity. It was co-relational research with cross-sectional design. The data from 165 university students (70 men, 95 women) were collected from different universities with the age range of 20-30 (M = 21.73, SD = 1.73) and purposive sampling technique was used. Music absorption scale (AIMS) (Sandstrom, Russo, 2011), expression of spirituality inventory (ESI) (MacDonald, 2000), brief serenity scale (BSS) (Kreitzer, Mary Jo, et al, 2009), and short test of music preference (STOMP) (Rentfrow & Gosling 2013) were used as measurement tools. The Pearson product moment correlation analysis revealed music absorption to be significantly positively correlated with serenity, and spirituality, it was also found to be significantly positively correlated with music absorption and serenity. The result of mediation analysis (indirect effect) showed that spirituality was significant a mediator between music absorption and serenity. Music along with spirituality or spiritual healing technique can be very helpful in various psychological treatments. Furthermore music therapy technique can be used for recalling past events.
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    Self-rated immune functioning, health anxiety, religious commitment, and mental health in adults
    (UMT Lahore, 2020) Imran Mahmood
    The current research study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-rated immune functioning health anxiety, religious commitment, and mental health problems through a complex moderated-mediation model. Further, to explore and measure the significance and the statistical power of the model. A sample of 541 adult participants (Men= 309, Women= 240) from 20-50 years of age (M=28.63, SD=6.48) was recruited through convenient sampling. Correlation, regression, and advanced SEM analyses through Smart-PLS were carried out. The result of the analysis showed that immune functioning predicts both health anxiety-related symptoms as well as several mental health problems, furthermore, the analysis showed that health anxiety in terms of different health-related anxiety factors was found to be a significant mediator between immune functioning and mental health problems. It was also found that religious commitment had no moderating effect between health anxiety and mental health problems. Based on existing literature and the current results, it was suggested that immune functioning plays an important role in the onset of many mental health problems and health anxiety significantly intervenes between the two. The focus must also be given to immune functioning during the clinical or psychiatric assessment also psychoneuroendocrinoimmunological factors should be considered along with other contributing factors of psychological problems.