Browsing by Author "Sana Fatima"

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    Dowry
    (UMT Lahore, 2019) Sana Fatima
    The current study was carried out to explore the parental views, concerns and expectations regarding dowry practice. For this purpose, three fathers’ of marriageable daughters, three fathers’ of married daughters, three mothers of marriageable son and three mothers of married son were selected who practiced dowry. Participants were interviewed at their residence after taking permission to proceed. Data was analyzed through qualitative content analysis. Through particular steps of content analysis certain themes emerged. It was reviewed that participants almost from every sect, caste, status, educational and familial background, practice dowry. Three superordinate themes were dowry perspective, concerns behind dowry and consequences and coping of dowry. Participants were aware of concept, origin and religion basis of dowry system still practice due to various voluntary (mainly welfare and facilitation purpose, parental and daughter desire) and imposed factors (in-laws pressure, conformity with social norms, to avoid misconduct, maintain social standing, as power gaining). Participants were mainly support limited dowry provision on daughter’s wedding but opposed accepting from daughter-in-law, which depicts their disdain for dowry but abandoned to eliminate this persistent tradition. Mother-in-law holds high expectations regarding qualities and personality of daughter-in-law. Participants’ indicated destructive impact of dowry at societal, economical and familial level like greediness, son preference, delayed marriages, loans, psychological impact, financial miseries, dowry related violence divorce rate and materialism in our society. Coping challenges of dowry were included difficulty in confronting societal norms, continued tradition and lack of unity to cease this system. Eradication measures of dowry system included promoting awareness and knowledge of Islamic Shariah, role of media, positive attitude towards daughters and developing sense of equity among community. Themes elicited from transcriptions were significantly related to the literature. This study helped us to understand the core motives behind provision and accepting dowry from both parties (bride side and groom side).
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    Life of umpires
    (UMT, Lahore, 2023) Sana Fatima; Hussan bano; Ali Ahmad; Kamran khan
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    Parental efficacy, parental disharmony and emotional behavior problems: Child’s perception
    (University of Management and Technology, 2017) Sana Fatima
    In the current research Parental Efficacy in child's view is described as the children's perception about their parents' capacity to perform ably and adequately in a specific undertaking or setting of parenting. The current study aimed to explore culture specific demands and needs of child from parents in the adolescent period of life and its relationship with perceived parental disharmony and emotional behavior problems. For this purpose, firstly, phenomenology regarding parental efficacy was explored from 12 school students through open ended question that yielded a list of 41 items. After exclusion of repeated items and pilot study, a self-report measure was made having 33 items on 4 point Likert scale which was given to 400 school students with the age range of 12-18 years (M= 14.65, SD= 1.21) along with a demographic questionnaire, Perceived Parental Disharmony Scale (PPDS; Saleem &Amjad, 2012) and School Children Problem Scale (SCPS; Saleem & Mahmood, 2011). Exploratory factor analysis revealed the 3 factor solution of Perceived Parental Efficacy Scale with acceptable level of psychometric properties. Hierarchical Regression Analysis has revealed that having low perceived parental efficacy and high parental disharmony predicts more mental health problems in adolescents. Similarly results were discussed in terms of culture and gender differences with its clinical and counseling application.