Browsing by Author "Kainat Fatima"

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Goal Orientation, Test Anxiety and Aggression in Medical and Non-Medical Students
(Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2020) Kainat Fatima; CIIT/SP17-BPY-023/LHR; Dr. Farzana Ashraf
The focus of the current study was to determine the goal orientation, test anxiety and aggression in medical and non-medical students. In this current research it was hypothesized that i) There is likely to be a correlation in goal orientation, test anxiety, and aggression. ii) Goal orientation, test anxiety, and aggression likely to vary in medical and non-medical students. iii) Demographic characteristics likely relate to goal orientation, test anxiety, and aggression in medical and non-medical students. The current study sample consisted of 300 medicals (n=202) and non-medical (n=99) students. The participant's ages range from 18 to 25 years (M=21.09, SD=1.93). These participants were selected through a convenient random sampling technique from medical college/university and non-medical college/university equally distributed in gender (Male=140) and (Female=160). Goal orientation scale (Was, 2006): Test Anxiety Questionnaire (Nist & Diehl,1990), The Aggression Scale (Orpinas & Frankowski 2001). For hypothesis testing, SPSS was applied to calculate the Independent Sample t-test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and regression analyses. The results suggest that goal orientation has negative significant correlation with aggression and has positive significant correlation with test anxiety. The Independent sample t-test shows that aggression is significantly high in non-medical students while, goal orientation is more in medical students. Linear regression analysis revealed that aggression, marks and educations are the predictor of goal orientation, however aggression was found to be stronger predictor of goal orientation. This study can contribute in acknowledging the comparison between medical and non-medical students using present variables and more variables.
Profiles of Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder: Predicting Self Harm and Suicidal Ideation
(Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2023) Kainat Fatima; SP23-RCP-008; Dr. Shameem Fatima; LHR TP 9522
The main objective of this study was to assess the profile of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in patients with borderline personality disorder compared to healthy controls. A secondary objective was to predict self-harm and suicidal ideation from cognitive emotion regulation strategies. For the main study, self-harm scale was required in Urdu version. Therefore, an additional objective was to translate and validate the self-harm scale into Urdu. The current study assessed nine emotion regulation strategies. The current study sample consisted of 350 individuals (M=30.06, SD=5.01) comprising patients with borderline personality disorder (n =150) & control group (n =200). Clinical samples were selected from clinical settings using purposive sampling technique. Gender, education, and age-matched participants in the control group were selected from community. Both groups were assessed for cognitive emotion regulation, self harm and suicidal ideation scales. Cognitive emotion regulation profiles of patients with borderline personality disorder showed that they significantly endorsed higher scores on specific negative emotion regulation strategies including catastrophizing, other blame, self-blame, and rumination compared to control group. However, they endorsed lower levels of positive emotion regulation strategies compared to control groups. Also, negative emotion regulation strategies positively predicted self-harm and suicidal ideation, and positive regulation strategies negatively predicted self-harm and suicidal ideation in both groups. However, the strength of association was relatively stronger in the clinical group compared to control group.