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Item Educational continuation, social support and mental well-being among married and unmarried women(UMT Lahore, 2022) Laiba Jamil; Maham Fayyaz; Nuzhat ShaheenMarriages perform a great part in the choice of education and especially in its continuation, women with higher education and good social support show a higher level of mental wellbeing. The present study aimed at exploring the relationship between social support and mental well-being among married and unmarried women. It examines the link between marriage and education continuation which shows up how married and unmarried women change their preferences about education continuation and as result their mental well-being decrease and increase regarding their choices. Sample of N=200 married and unmarried women with an age range of 16-50 was used in this study, there were n=37 married and n=163 unmarried women. Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) by Zimet in 1988 and Ryff’s Psychological Well Being Scales (PWB) by Carol D. Ryff in 2007, were used in conducting this study. The survey method was used along with the non-probability convenient sampling technique in this research. The results showed that it was a positive relationship between social support and mental wellbeing among married and unmarried women. According to the result of regression analysis social support explained 13% various in psychological wellbeing hence revealing social support to be a predictor of psychological wellbeing. Also, it shows that women having good social support from family have good mental welling compared to women having low social support. Government should make policies to guarantee women’s education in our society, media should also highlight this issue and spread awareness about it which can make it easy to promote women’s education, especially in rural areas.Item Psychological distress, difficulty in emotional regulation and resilience in Transgender(UMT Lahore, 2022) Zobia Munir; Kinza Javed; Syeda Rabbia JafriThe present study aimed to invest the relationship between psychological distress, emotion regulation, and resilience in trans genders. A sample (N=100) consisted of transgender was selected through stratified sampling from NGOs and societies. A correlational study was conducted on a transgender people and by the collection of convenient sampling, DERS, DASS-42, TRS18, and SRC15 were used as scales for analyzing the data. Psychological distress was found to have a positive and significant correlation with Difficulty in Emotion Regulation. Difficulty in Emotion Regulation was shown to be inversely connected to State Resilience, while Trait Resilience was found to be strongly correlated with State Resilience. The relationship and determinants/correlates of relational aggression including age, name, education, occupation, contact with family, income and help from government. The abilities learnt might be generalized to reduce the harmful impacts of future gender minority stress. This study aims to explore the association between psychological distress, emotional control, and resilience in trans genders.Item Social media addiction, self-control and frustration intolerance among university students(UMT Lahore, 2022) SALIHA KHAN; TANZEELA IQBALThe objective of this study was to find out the relationship between social media addiction, self-control and frustration among the university students. A sample of 200 students were taken within the age range 18-25 years. Sample comprised of 68 males and 132 females and was obtained through random sampling. Social Networking Addiction Scale (Shahnawaz & Rehman, 2020), Self-Control Scale (Tangney et al., 2004) and Frustration Discomfort Scale (Harrington, 2005) were used for data collection. It was revealed in the results that there was a significant negative relationship between social networking addiction and self-control and there is a significant positive relationship between social networking addiction and frustration discomfort. Findings also showed that there is a significant negative relationship between self-control and frustration discomfort. Results also demonstrated that there was significant gender difference upon social media addiction and frustration discomfort. There was no significant gender difference in terms of the self-control among the university students. There was significant gender difference for all sub-scales except Tolerance sub-scale of social networking addiction scale. Moreover, there was significant gender difference for all sub-scales except Achievement Intolerance sub-scale of Frustration Discomfort Scale. This research is beneficial for university students to know about that how social media addiction leave bad effects on their self-control level.Item Sanctimoniousness, humility and cynicism in middle and older adults(UMT Lahore, 2022) Ms. Mahnoor; Uzma Nadeem; Rasil MumtazThe current study investigated the relationship between sanctimoniousness, humility, and cynicism in middle and older adults. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be a positive relationship between sanctimoniousness, humility and cynicism in middle and older adults. Further, it was hypothesized that the relationship is predicted that sanctimoniousness, humility and cynicism are more likely to be in middle and older adults. A purposive sample of 200 of male and female from homes and different institutions in Lahore with age range 40-60 years for middle adults and 60 years onward for older adults. English translated version of The Self-Righteousness questionnaire (SRQ; Felbo & Belk ,1983), Cultural Humility Scale (Hook et al., 2013), Change Cynicism Scale (Helvaci, & Cavdar, 2017) was used. The results showed that, sanctimoniousness was negative predictor of cynicism whereas humility was found to be positive predictor of cynicism. The findings are discussed with reference to indigenous and western literature. The findings will be helpful in understanding the issue of rigid behavior in older adults and will be beneficial for their counseling.Item Psychological need satisfaction, self-control and multi-screen addiction among young adults(UMT Lahore, 2022) MIRAT UL AIN; MARINA PERVAIZ ALBERT; NATASHA KAMRAN SAEEDThe present study aimed to determine the relationship between psychological need satisfaction, self-control and multi-screen addiction among young adults. It was hypothesized that 1) There is likely to be a positive relationship between psychological need satisfaction with multi-screen addiction among young adults. 2) Self-control negatively predict multi-screen addiction among young adults. The correlational research design was used in the present study. The sample of total 250 young adults with age range 18-30 years (M = 21.90, SD=1.99) were assessed from three universities including University of Management and Technology, Comsats University Lahore Campus, University of the Punjab by apply convenient sampling. The self-constructed demographic sheet, Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (Longo et al., 2016), Brief Self-Control Scale (Tangney et al., 2004) and Multiple Screen Addiction Scale (Sarıtepeci, 2021) were used for assessment. The result of Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis concluded that psychological need satisfaction, self-control was positively significant with multi-screen addiction. Multiple Hierarchical Regression concluded that psychological need satisfaction, self-control was positively significant with multi-screen addiction. This study is helpful to highlight these persons who are addicted to many screens and psychological need satisfaction.Item Impulsive personality traits and coping strategies and self harm tendencies among university students(UMT Lahore, 2022) Mariah Fatima; Amna AbidThe purpose of this study was to determine the association between impulsive personality traits and self-harm tendencies with the influence of coping strategies among the university students. The sample of total 200 participants were drawn from the university students through survey form, with the age range of 18 to 30 years (male= 81, female=119). Assessment measures used in this study for measuring impulsive personality traits, coping strategies and self-harm tendencies are; UPPS-P short version (Whiteside and Lynam 2001), Brief cope inventory (Eisenberg, S. A., 2012) and Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory (Gratz, 2001). Firstly, in this research we compute the data, run the descriptive analysis then run the analysis of Pearson Correlation and the last analysis is multiple linear Regressions. So, the outcomes of Pearson correlation analysis have shown that impulsive personality traits were negatively significant in relation with self-harm tendencies and coping strategies. The study concluded that an increase in impulsive personality traits causes an increase in self-harm tendencies. This study has implications in the areas of literature gap and provided the necessary aspects for the understanding of impulsive behaviors with its relationship with self-harm tendencies.