Browsing by Author "Mushyydah Abid"

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    Emotion reactivity, cognitive biases, drive for muscularity and social appearance anxiety in male gym members
    (UMT Lahore, 2024-09-18) Mushyydah Abid
    This study examines the relationship between emotion reactivity, cognitive biases, drive for muscularity, and social appearance anxiety among male gym members in Lahore, Pakistan, who are aged 18 to 30 years. The study attempts to determine the associations between these psychological variables and their effect on social appearance anxiety using a correlational research design. Purposive sampling was used to choose a sample of 121 gym patrons based on a certain inclusion criterion. The Drive for Muscularity Scale, Emotion Reactivity Scale, Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale, and Social Appearance Anxiety Scale were among the validated scales used in the study. Important results from the hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that more weight, drive for muscularity, sensitivity, arousal/intensity, and safety behaviors were significant positive predictors of social appearance anxiety, while consistent gym attendance was found to be a negative predictor. Furthermore, a parallel multiple mediation study revealed that cognitive biases, rather than drive for muscularity, significantly mediated the relationship between emotion reactivity and social appearance anxiety. Analysis of variance test showed that participants who spent more than two hours at the gym, were in relationships, and went to the gym seldom were higher in social appearance anxiety, emotion reactivity, and cognitive biases. These findings highlight the necessity of focused psychological therapies, especially ones that target cognitive bias modification, to reduce social appearance concern among gym-goers.
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    Impostor phenomenon, core self-evaluation, and self-ostracism in university students
    (UMT Lahore, 2021) Mushyydah Abid; Arooba Tariq; Aqsa
    Self-ostracism is a negative interpersonal experience in which the individuals choose to withdraw themselves from a social circumstance. There is a dearth of knowledge about the prevalence of self-ostracism as it is seemingly ostracized and there is also a significant gap in literature, especially in Pakistan. This research revolves around understanding negative core-self-evaluation and impostor phenomenon (IP) which could lead to self-ostracism. Temporal need threat model was the basic theoretical framework of this research which included few needs that predicted ostracism. In addition to other analysis, mediation analysis between core self-evaluation and self-ostracism was performed through impostor phenomenon. An online and on-campus survey was conducted to collect data from university students (N = 258). Results of mediation analysis demonstrated that core self-evaluation has a negative affect on impostor phenomenon and a positive affect on self-ostracism through impostor phenomenon. This concludes that people suffering from feelings of impostor phenomenon (IP) and negative core self-evaluation are very likely to self-ostracize. Although this study is limited to a single university, yet it implies that people register what they might think are just ordinary concepts and seek help instead of overlooking their situation. Likewise in this study, we discuss other practical implications of these findings and also give suggestions for future research.