Department of Social Sciences

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Department of Social Sciences was established in 2008 in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) at UMT. The idea behind the launch of DSS was to cater to the needs of participants who have a keen interest in joining this realm of knowledge.

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    The big five personality inventory: performance of students and community in pakistan
    (University of the Punjuab, 2010) Iftikhar Ahmad
    NEO-FFI as translated in Urdu in the National Institute of Psychology was used on 452 undergraduate students in Pakistan. Item-analysis revealed that the respoase pattern of the students was differentiated across the five response choices for 44 of the 60 items. The mean scores of the respondents were close to a theoretical average of 35 for each scale. Girls scored significantly higher than boys on Neuroticism and Conscientiousness scales. The alpha index for the Neuroticism and Conscientiousness scales was in the .70s for Extraversion scale in the .50s and for Openness and Agreeableness scales in the 40s. The scales evidenced validity across multiple criterions. The translation of the 16 items that yielded undifferentiated responses were revisited by a committee of three faculty members in psychology. The inventory was thereafter administered to a community sample of 320 (male 139, female, 181) who gained 2-3 points in mean scores over the student sample on Neuroticism and Conscientiousness scales. The normative data of the community sample are recommended to be used for every day applications of the inventory in Pakistan.
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    Predictive ability of ability-based versus self-report EI measures for academic performance
    (Pakistan Journal of Psychology, 2010) Shumaila Aslam; Iftikhar Ahmad
    The study aims at finding if there is a valid increment for the tests of emotional intelligence (E1) in explaining variance in academic performance ofuniversity students. In this context, the contention was that 'ability-E1' measure would do better than 'trait EJ' measure. A sample of309 undergraduate students who had completed first year of their BA / BSc program was recruited from a local university. End of the first year GPA served as an index of student academic performance. High school marks (12 years ofeducation) ofthe students, a cognitive index, correlated strongly with Mayer; Salovey and Can.so Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) confirming that it embodied ability conceptualization of emotional intelligence tmlike Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) which is known as following the trait model of E1. The two E1 measures were lIncorrelated. Students ofsocial sciences scored equal to natural sciences on EQ-i and even lower on MSCEIT rejecting our hypothesis that social science students would score more on emotional intelligence. Prediction of academic performance popularly known as GPA was investigated through hierarchical regression analysis using high school marks and E1 tests, in order, as predictors. The incremental prediction made by E1 tests in explaining variance in students' GPA was however found to be modest (< 5%) both by trait-Ei as well as ability-E1 measure, after the major predictor i.e. high school marks, which explained 17 % of the variance in GPA, was controlled. The hypothesis ofincremental prediction ofGPA by the E1 measures was therefore not supported irrespective of the type aT Ef measures.
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    Effect of teacher efficacy beliefs on motivation
    (University of the Punjab, 2011) Iftikhar Ahmad
    The purpose of this investigation was to explore meanings of the construct of teacher efficacy and its effect on teacher motivation. Teacher efficacy comprises Teaching Efficacy (TE) and Personal Efficacy (PE) as two constituent dimensions. The two interact in terms of their effect on teacher motivation. More specifically we sought to find whether teachers would be more motivated when levels of TE and PE were high than when any one or both were low. In-service 227 secondary school teachers completed three quarters of their M.Ed. training at the time of this assessment and had, on average, 5.3 years of teaching experience. They were administered Teacher Efficacy Scale along with three measures of motivation namely Task Motivation, Ability-Effort Attribution and Beliefs about Ability as Incremental Quality. Across the median split of TE and PE scores four levels / groups of teachers were created to compare strength as well as motivation pattern of these groups. One of the findings was that task motivation and effort–attribution predicted TE strongly (p <.01) but PE was predicted with ability attribution and incremental ability percept in the inverse direction (p < .05).Thus PE dimension was found different or independent from TE. However, levels of analysis technique indicated that teachers high on both PE and TE dimensions were motivationally adaptive: They dominantly attributed ‘effort’ as cause of success / failure unlike low PE and high TE groups which displayed a mixed attribution of ‘ability’ and ‘effort’. Motivation was modest where both the dimensions were weak. These findings bring out the significance of both competence or teaching efficacy and confidence or personal efficacy beliefs as reciprocally boosting teacher motivation.
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    Psychological predictors of college students performance
    (Natioanl Institute of Psychology, 2011) Iftikhar Ahmad
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    Anger Management group with aggressive Children
    (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012) Rabia Iftikhar
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    Factors affecting parental choices for prigate school as compared to public school
    (University of Management and Technology, 2013) Ghulam Haider
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    On metric dimension of flower graphs fnχm and convex polytopes
    (Utilitas Mathematica, 2013) Imran, Muhammad; Fozia Bashir; Baig, Abdul Q.; Bokhary, Ahtsham Ul Haq; Ayesha Riasat; Tomescu, Ioan
    Let G be a connected graph and d(x, y) be the dis-tance between the vertices x and y. A subset of vertices W ={w1,w2, · · · ,wk} is called a resolving set for G if for every two distinct vertices x, y ∈ V (G), there is a vertex wi ∈ W such that d(x,wi) 6= d(y,wi). A resolving set containing a minimum number of vertices is called a metric basis for G and the number of vertices in a metric basis is its metric dimension dim(G). Let F be a family of connected graphs Gn : F = (Gn)n 1 depend- ing on n as follows: the order |V (G)| = '(n) and lim n!1 '(n) = ∞. If there exists a constant C > 0 such that dim(G) ≤ C for every n ≥ 1 then we shall say that F has bounded metric dimension; otherwise F has unbounded metric dimension. If all graphs in F have the same metric dimension (which does not depend on n), then F is called a family with constant metric dimension. The metric dimension of some classes of plane graphs has been de- termined in [3], [4], [5], [10], [12], [15] and [22], while metric dimen- sion of some classes of convex polytopes has been studied in [10]. In this paper this study is extended, by considering flower graphs fn×m and two classes of graphs associated to convex polytopes.
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    The post 9/11 demand to reform madrasa education and its response in pakistan
    (University of Education, Lahore., 2014) Fatima Sajjad
    The pursuit of knowledge has been a key characteristic of the Muslim civilization. Madrasas as institutes of learning have remained a central part of the Muslim society throughout history. Different phases in Islamic history, posed different challenges to the Muslim community in general and ulama in particular. Response of the ulama to these challenges shaped the Muslim ideas and cultural norms. From the fall of Baghdad to the invasion of Western modernity, from challenges of the Western domination to the ideological divide of the cold war and finally the unipolarity of the post cold war era to the war on terror of the post 9/11 era ; the challenges continue to confront the Muslim civilization .The response of ulama to these challenges remained crucial for the Muslim world at large.
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    Religious knowledge, women empowerment and da'wa
    (Al- Adwa, 2014) Riffat Munawar; Vaqas Ali; Inam Ul Haq
    Since the independence of Pakistan and the inception of the Islamic Republic, there had been no formal institution functioning for the empowerment and authority for women in the religious domain of the country. Following the traditional norms of the Islamic society, women in conservative families were constrained in their households. Their position for decades was in the contours of typical custodian or mentor in the house. However, in 1980’s and 90’s a sizable number of mosques and Muslim organizations opened their door to women and started to provide prayer rooms, religious instructions and other services particularly for women believers. The number of these organizations continues to increase incessantly. One can argue for that this new found autonomy of the Muslim women would eventually polarize the phenomena of religious authority itself and as a consequence would cause her own interpretative to dominate. Moreover, this affair would sooner or later rejuvenate the very roots of authority, opening the path for women to become authorized interpreters of religious sources.
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    Complex Regional Dynamics: Pakistan need for Political Paradigm shift
    (Journal of Political Studies, 2015) Umbreen Javaid; Mariam Shaukat Khan
    Since the beginning of war on terror world has realized not only the geostrategic importance of Pakistan but also the fact that it can play a decisive role in bringing end to this war for good. Mean while with every passing day regional dynamics are becoming more intricate and complex, therefore new challenges have emerged. Hence in order to deal with them Pakistan requires extensive preemptive pragmatic approach. In war on terrorism Pakistan became an important US ally and got this natural edge over India by being the neighbor of Afghanistan. With the imminent US exit from Afghanistan and emerging India-Afghanistan nexus, Pakistan is pondering over to make much needed political paradigm shift which would bring long term internal stability and would lessen the involvement of non-state actors in damaging the internal and external security configurations of Pakistan.
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    Common Entrepreneurial Purposes among the Students, Studying In the Universities of Lahore
    (University of Management & Technology, 2018) Muhammad Asad-Ur-Rehman
    This study explores the social entrepreneurial intentions of higher education students in Punjab.Poor economy, the rise in urbanization, rapid population growth, and absence of long-term sustainable policy has made Pakistan a challenging country in term of its long-term economic growth and competition with other developing countries. In the recent trends in economic development social entrepreneurship is the key to any country achieving her promise as a well-developed economy and as a country as well. Unleashed after decades of slow growth and government control, Pakistan’s entrepreneurs have begun to take advantage of many of the opportunities presented by the post liberalization business environment Social entrepreneurship is an economic environment that is being practiced around the globe. The concept of Social entrepreneurship in Pakistan seems very common now days. The waves of Social entrepreneurship in higher education found very strong. Therefore, this research thesis aims to look at the factors effecting social entrepreneurialintentions of the students in private sector universities of Pakistan. The core theme of this study is to cover up a gap of research related to social entrepreneurial intentions that exists in Punjab by identifying the dominating factors those play a key role in contributing success of social entrepreneurial activities by higher education students in Punjab. More, importantly this thesis has elaborated the intentions as well as attitudes of the students to become social entrepreneur. In order to systematically come up with meaningful result the researcher used quantitative research design to gather data from the respondent for the purpose to develop new ideas and test existing hypothesis. Furthermore, this study also looks at the association between empirical observation and measurement of quantitative relationships. In order to acknowledge the research question further, the participants were selected from the different department of private sectors universities. More importantly, the business department where more participants were focused as the research questions suggested requirements of the quantitative research; the researcher on the ongoing research has used the questionnaire as a tool for data collection and SPSS for data analysis so as to bring structured data in a meaningful way. Results have shown significant difference between male and females intentions towards social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship courses participants have shown more intentions towards social entrepreneurship than non participants. Future study can be conducted to study the pedagogical skills and development of courses to enhance social entrepreneurial skills of the higher education students.