Department of Clinical Psychology

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Browsing Department of Clinical Psychology by Subject "College students"

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    Identity and mental health issues in college students
    (UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, 2015) Ijaz, Asma
    This research aims to identify the relationship between identity and mental health issues in college students. Life of students at college level is full of stressors as adjustment problems because they attend ten years of schooling before entering in college, career choice issues and pressures for future life, pubertal changes that changes their moods and many other mental issues present in college students (Helfrich, 2008).
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    Perceived parental rearing practices, interpersonal difficulties and mental health problems in college students
    (UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, 2015) Ayesha Asghar
    The current study aimed to investigate the relationship among the Perceived Parental Rearing Practices, Interpersonal Difficulties and Mental Health Problems in College Students. The study was carried out with the help of three scales EMBU-A (Gerlsma, Arrindell, Veen, & Emmelkamp, 1991), Interpersonal Difficulties Scale (Saleem, Ihsan, & Mahmood, 2014) and General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg & Williams, 1988). A sample of 321 participants (54 % boys and 46% girls) from different colleges with the age range of 15-20 (M=17.32, SD=1.00) were selected through stratified sampling. Findings of the study showed that students who perceived more Rejection from their parents tend to face more Interpersonal Difficulties in college life as compare to those students who face more emotional warmth from their parents. Results also showed that Interpersonal Difficulties such as Lack of Social Support and Lack of Unstable Relations predict positively Mental Health problems. The findings of secondary hypotheses showed that age gender, class, parental education has significant relation with EMBU-A. Whereas Family system have no significant relation with EMBU-A. With interpersonal Difficulties gender, family system and parental education have significant relation but age and gender have no significant relationship. General Health have no significant relation with demographics.
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    Perceived parenting styles and social intelligence in college students
    (UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, 2015) Rabia Nasir
    This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Perceived Parenting Styles and Social Intelligence in College students. The study was conducted in four steps, in first step 35 college students (17 males and 18 females), with the age range of 17-19 years from different colleges were selected for exploring the phenomenology. In the second step, the empirical validation of the selected items was done with the help of 5 experts with at least MS qualification. After the expert validation, the most frequently rated items were selected and a questionnaire was made that was validated by conducting a pilot study on 20 students from two colleges both male and female. In the third step, after developing the scale the data was gathered from 360 college students of 1st year and 2nd year with the age range of 17-19 from different government and private colleges of Lahore. The results indicated that there is a strong relationship in between perceived parenting style and social intelligence. It also supported the idea that there are cultural differences in perceived parenting styles, as the results indicated the collectivist culture perceive differently as compared to individualistic culture. The findings suggested that parental education and warmth have a positive relationship with social intelligence. Whereas control has a significant relationship with negative social intelligence