Moderating role of academic motivation and entitlement between motives of students and academic achievement among university students.

Objectives: The study examined the moderating role of academic motivation and academic entitlements between students' motives for communication with their instructors and their academic achievements.

Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the universities situated in Okara and Sargodha, Pakistan, from November 1, 2017 to November 9, 2018. Data were collected using the Students' Motives for Communicating with their Instructors Scale, Academic Motivation Scale and the Academic Entitlement Scale.

Effect of brain damages on logical inferences of depressive adults.

Objective: To examine the immediate and mediate inferences among depressive adults with and without brain damage.

Methods: The descriptive, comparative study was conducted from November 6 to June 19, 2019, in Sargodha, Pakistan, and comprised depressive adults of either gender enrolled from various local mental health facilities. After applying Stroop test to identify brain damage, the subjects were divided into adults with brain damage in group A, and adults without brain damage in group B.

Impact of preoperative surgical anxiety on postoperative surgical recovery among surgical patients: Role of surgical coping.

Objective: To examine the moderating impact of surgical coping in the relationship between pre-operative surgical anxiety and post-operative surgical recovery.

Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the surgical department of various hospitals across Punjab, including the Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, District Headquarters Teaching Hospital, Sargodha, Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, and Margalla Institute of Health Sciences, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from May 1, 2018, to May 1, 2019. It comprised surgical patients of either gender aged 18-60 years.

Moderation role of proactive coping between psychological place attachment and its mental health consequences in sojourners.

Objective: To investigate the interaction effect of psychological place attachment and proactive coping on psychological distress and mental well-being in sojourners.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted from July 12, 2019 to July 12, 2020 at University of Sargodha, Pakistan and comprised academic sojourners who stay in a place for a limited period of time. Data was collected using four self-reporting tools: Psychological Place Attachment Scale, Proactive Coping Inventory, Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale and Kasler Psychological Distress Scale.

Effect of positive and negative symptoms on schizophrenia related quality of life of hospitalized schizophrenic patients at Sargodha and Lahore: Moderating role of neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to find out the moderating effect of neuropsychiatric symptoms in the relationship between positive-negative symptoms of schizophrenia with quality of life of schizophrenic patients.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Lahore and Sargodha, Pakistan. Data was collected by administering the Positive and Negative of Schizophrenia Questionnaire, Quality of Life of Schizophrenia Scale and Neuropsychiatry Inventory.

Prenatal psychiatric symptoms as predictors of postnatal anxiety and depression among primary and multi-gravida women.

Objective: The study aimed to examine effect of prenatal anxiety and depression on the prediction of postnatal anxiety and depression among pregnant women. In addition, to find out mean differences in prenatal and postnatal anxiety and depression among primary and multigravida pregnant women.

Methods: This study was conducted at Sargodha Pakistan, on a total number of 100 pregnant women as participants.

Measurement and association of sideways emotions with emotional expressivity among adolescents.

Objective: To examine the development of a scale for measuring sideways emotions, and to examine the relationship of sideways emotions with emotional expressivity of adolescents.

Methods: The two-phase cross-sectional study was conducted at the educational institutions of Sargodha and Bhalwal, Pakistan from October 2, 2017 to October 6, 2018, and comprised of 300 adolescents, aged 18-24 years. In the first phase, development of the Sideways Emotion Scale for adolescents was done, while the second phase examined the correlation of sideways emotions with positive and negative emotional expressivity.

Effect of revenge on sadism and schadenfreude in clinical and non clinical adults: moderating role of misanthropic beliefs.

Objective: To investigate the concept of moderating effect of misanthropic beliefs in the relationship involving revenge tendencies, sadism and schadenfreude among clinical and non-clinical adults.

Method: The cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of Psychology, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan, over a period of one year from 2017 to 2018, and comprised adults aged 22-65 years in both clinical and no-clinical settings enrolled from the University of Sargodha, Punjab Institute of Mental Health and the Fountain House. Data was collected using Vengeance, Misanthropic, Short Sadistic Impulse and Perceived Schadenfreude scales.

Predictors of siege mentality among early adults: moderating role of paranoid thoughts.

Objective: Firstly, the study aimed to determine the effect of paranoid ideation on the prediction of siege mentality among early adults. Secondly, the study examined the effect of paranoid thoughts on the prediction of siege mentality among early adults. Thirdly, the study assessed the moderating effect of paranoid thoughts in the relationship between paranoid ideation and siege mentality among early adults.

Effectiveness of positive psychotherapy for young adults with depressive Symptoms.

Objective: To analyse the level of happiness and depressive symptoms before and after positive psychotherapy..

Methods: The experimental study was conducted from February 2018to March 2018 in Shahpur Sadar town of Sargodha district in the Punjab province of Pakistan at Govt.

eXnet: An Efficient Approach for EmotionRecognition in the Wild.

Facial expression recognition has been well studied for its great importance in the areasof human-computer interaction and social sciences. With the evolution of deep learning, therehave been significant advances in this area that also surpass human-level accuracy. Althoughthese methods have achieved good accuracy, they are still suffering from two constraints (high computational power and memory), which are incredibly critical for small hardware-constrained devices.

Social support and health related quality of life among pregnant women.

Objective: To explore the relationship between social support and health-related quality of life among pregnant women.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at City Hospital, Kashrote, and District Headquarters Hospital in the city of Gilgit, Pakistan, from January to March2017.Pregnant women presenting to the two hospitals were approached for data collection.

Self-related factors and decision making styles among early adults.

Objective: To examine the effect of self-related factors, including self-regulation, self-esteem and self-efficacy, on decision-making styles of early adults.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted from February to August, 2014 at four universities of Islamabad, Pakistan, and comprised adult students of both Social and Natural sciences. Data was collected through Self-Regulation Questionnaire, Self-Esteem Scale, Self-Efficacy Scale and the General Decision Making Styles Questionnaire.

Paternal malparenting and offspring personality disorders: Mediating effect of early maladaptive schemas.

Objective: To examine the mediating role of maladaptive schemas between permissive/authoritarian parenting by fathers and personality disorders, including histrionic, antisocial, narcissistic and depressive attitudes among adults.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at the University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan, and comprised university students. Data was collected by administering the parental authority questionnaire, the young schema questionnaire and the personality diagnostic questionnaire.