Humaira Jami

• Post-Doctorate (Fulbright) PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Quaid-i-Azam University

The present study aims to improve doctors’ active listening skills after imparting training, with a significant focus on teaching active listening skills in a workshop format. The authors believe that improving active listening skills helps increase cultural competence. Social competence indicators include empathy, emotional regulation, doctor-pati...

Media exposure to terrorism and its effects of the mental health of adolescents

In a historical development, the Pakistani parliament made significant strides toward recognizing the rights of the third gender by enacting the Transgender Protection of Rights Act in 2018. This legislation represents a pivotal milestone in acknowledging and safeguarding the rights of transgender individuals in Pakistan. The present study sought t...

The purpose of the study is to develop an original, valid, and reliable measure of Media exposure to terrorism (METT) that could adequately measure the effects of METT on adolescents’ mental health who have been exposed to the Army public School Peshawar (APSP) terrorist attack through media. Previously available measures on METT have some limitati...

The escalating indirect exposure to terrorism through media has contributed to rising mental health issues among adolescents. The terrorist attack on Army Public School Peshawar (APSP) in Pakistan has received immense media coverage and the violence shown has touched the lives of natives. The current study adopts an Interpretative phenomenological...

Inequity in health and well-being is driven by systemic, political, and structural forces that, along with social factors, influence the allocation, access, and impact of health resources across communities based on religion, gender, caste, sexuality, and ability. Lesbian, gay, bisexual , transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, and plus (LGBTIQ+)...

Adolescence is the most crucial developmental and emotional stage of life where educational decision-making takes center stage. This challenge is especially difficult for the students of pre-engineering. The highest attrition rate is prevalent in STEM due to a lack of interest and academic dissatisfaction among students which is in part due to a nu...

Objectives Negative attitudes toward polio vaccination in Pakistan are threatening the global polio eradication efforts by encouraging vaccine refusals and attacks on polio workers. The present research explored the underlying dimensions of these attitudes and their correlates: Uncertainty and belief in conspiracy theories. Methods This research b...

This study examines the differences in academic support, mental well-being, and school burnout among pre-engineering students in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and Sialkot, focusing on the public and private educational institutions. The sample size of 324 students was equal, and the research used established measurement tools to evaluate these factors. Th...

Sexual and gender diverse people (SGDP) bear a disproportionate burden of and vulnerability to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and risks of mental health problems worldwide including countries in South Asia such as Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Despite recent advances in LGBTQ rights in several...

Attitude Towards Sexuality Scale (ATSS) was adapted and translated for the use on Pakistani population. Convenience sampling was used for data collection and adolescents from several schools and colleges of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A total of 316 adolescents participated in the study. ATSS developed by Fisher & Hall (1988) was used to assess sexua...

The cross-sectional study was carried out to explore the role of academic locus of control learning as an explanatory mechanism between the relationships of self-determination based needs and GPA. The sample comprised 279 (male = 128, female = 151) students of Quaid-i-Azam University from different departments. Assessment measures were Basic Psycho...

Introduction In 2012, transgender persons in Pakistan were granted right for a legal third gender identity, and in 2018 the Transgender Persons (Protection) of Rights Act affirmed transgender people’s right for self-perceived identity. Further, gender affirming medical treatments were also legalized to support gender transitioning in transgender pe...

There exists a great disparity in the literature on the definition of cyberbullying. This research aimed to explore the definition and forms of cyberbullying from adolescents’ perspectives. Six focus groups (N = 36) were conducted with participants aged 16–21 years (M = 17.6, SD = 1.8). The focus group guide was used to gain an understanding of ado...

The purpose of the present study was to translate Gender Minority Stress & Resilience Scale (GMSR; Testa, 2014) into Urdu language for construct validity of the scale for gender nonconforming individuals living in Pakistani culture. This purpose was accomplished in two phases. In the first phase, the GMSR Scale was translated in to Urdu language by...

Objective: To translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Clinically Useful Anxiety Outcome Scale on Urdu-speaking population. Methods: The observational validation study was conducted in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan, from January 2018 to December 2019 in two phases. In the first phase, the Clinically Useful Anxiety Outcome S...

Objectives: To study the moderating role of perceived group normative support on the effect of group identification on scepticism and advocacy domains of attitude towards polio vaccination. Methods: The cross-sectional analytical study was conducted at the National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in June 20...

Emotions play a crucial role in children’s life, from toddlerhood to adolescents, significant others play an important role in socializing different aspects of emotions in children. The school life of a preschooler is not a simple one, successfully navigating through the seemingly difficult social challenges , is dependent upon different types of s...

Objective: To translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Clinically Useful Anxiety Outcome Scale on Urdu-speaking population. Method: The observational validation study was conducted in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan, from January 2018 to December 2019 in two phases. In the first phase, the Clinically Useful Anxiety Outcome Scale...

Objective: To translate and validate the Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale for Urdu-speaking population. Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted in Rawalpindi and Islamabad from January 2018 to November 2019. The process of translation and validation was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the scale was forward and bac...

The study was conducted to assess the social competence, temperament and school adjustment of 3-5 years old preschoolers. The aims of the research were to assess the gender differences in the levels of social competence as well as to study the associations between the various aspects of temperament, social competence and school adjustment. Particip...

The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an art based intervention program on reducing emotional and behavioral problems by improving life skills and self-esteem of institutionalized children. Pre-test Post-test control group design was used for the purpose of the study. Scales used were the English caregiver version of the Strength...

The present study aimed to explore the role of metacognitive awareness of reading strategies, research anxiety, and attitude towards research in research self-efficacy among students at university currently conducting research as part of their degree requirement. The role of perceived supervisor’s satisfaction from research and intensity of reading...

Research has shown a decreased readiness and motivation of students to pursue engineering fields despite of increased demand for trained workforce for economic growth and development. The present study was undertaken to explore the factors influencing students at their high school level to pursue engineering as a career or not. The objective was to...

The purpose of this study was to explore risk and protective factors of obesity and its consequences among adolescents. In-depth interviews were conducted from 18 adolescents with obesity (8 males and 10 females) having an age range of 13-17 years, selected through purposive sampling. The interview guide was developed to conduct semi-structured int...

The purpose of the study was to explore modes, strategies, and consequences of cyberbullying perpetration and victimization among university students. In-depth interviews of 14 volunteer university students (8 male and 6 female) were conducted who volunteered to participate in the study in which 10 participants were "cybervictims" whereas 4 were "c...

According to self-determination theory, the satisfaction of self-determination related needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness) are necessary for engaging in self-regulated learning among university students. Furthermore, within self-regulated learning, the role of academic locus of control needs to be explored. This study was carried out to e...

The impact of Social Networking Sites (SNS), especially, Facebook in marital relationships is increasing in Pakistan. A model based on negative-effect hypothesis about SNS use was designed to test the effect of Facebook use intensity on marital satisfaction among married Facebook users. Sample comprised of 302 married Facebook users from capital ci...

This study aimed to predict the role of driving anger expressions in accidents among Pakistani drivers. Driving Anger Expression Inventory (DAX; Deffenbacher, Lynch, Oetting, & Swaim, 2002) was translated and adapted into Urdu through back translation. After a tryout on 30 drivers it was administered on 310 car-drivers (218 male and 86 female drive...

The present study was planned to explore the role of the internet in value-orientation among adolescents along the role of different demographic variables that is number of Facebook friends, peer interaction, and religiosity. For the current study, cross-sectional and survey method was used for data collection. Convenience sampling was used for sam...

The present study was aimed to explore the relationship between attitude, social adjustment, and mood states related to menstruation among female students. Sample comprised of 317 girls (age range 18 to 26 years) taken from different colleges and universities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Attitude towards Menstruation Scale (Aflaq & Jami, 2012), Soc...

The present study was aimed to explore the relationship of mother-daughter relationship, knowledge/awareness, and practices during menstruation. Sample consisted of female (N = 317) students of the college and university drawn through convenience sampling technique. Mother-daughter relationship was measured by using Mother-Adult Daughter Questionna...

The current study was conducted to explore the relationship between psychological capital and mental health of rescue workers. A cross-sectional survey research design was employed to collect data from 502 male rescue workers with their age ranging from 22 to 44 years by using purposive-convenience sampling. Urdu versions of Mental Health Inventory...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the reliability and validity of an expended scale with translation, adaptation and cross-language validation of the student: thinking about my homework (STP) (Bareno, 1997; Hoover-Dempsey et al. , 1999; Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler, 2005). Design/methodology/approach Response items rating are made fr...

The impact of Facebook on interpersonal relationships is increasing in Pakistan. To study impact of Facebook, valid and reliable measures could contribute to better understanding and planning for interventions to promote marital adjustment. The aim of this study was to translate and validate Facebook Jealousy Scale (FJS; Muise, Christofides, & Desm...

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Hijras are male-to-female transgender individuals living in the form of community since centuries in Pakistan. Present study was planned to explore belief in myths related to hijras along role of participants' gender and one's concept of " who are hijras " in these beliefs. Current study is cross-sectional and sur...

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship of familial social support with psychological well-being in patients with hepatitis C. The study also provide an insight about the role of some demographic variables in relation to the study variables. Psychological Well-being Scale and Familial Social Support Scale were used on a sample of 10...

The present research aimed to explore the relationship between posttraumatic growth and perceived social support from different support sources of those women who experienced miscarriage as a trauma. A sample of 96 women (Age range: 17-49 years; M = 27.93, SD = 5.4) who experienced at least one miscarriage after their marriage or since last child w...

The present research aimed to explore the relationship between perceived parental rearing behaviors, anxiety, and intolerance of uncertainty among university students. Sample comprised of 301 students (151 males, and 150 females) age range 17 to 25 (M = 21.73, SD = 1.54) from universities of Rawalpindi/Islamabad. Convenient sampling was employed fo...

The present study was conducted to examine the relationship of body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors among women during lactation period that is, maximum two years after last delivery. The basic aim of the study was to find out whether women in our culture experience body image dissatisfaction during lactating phase that leads...

School drop-out is one of the major concerns that hamper youth's progress in professional setting. Truancy and run away from school is leading cause for such drop-outs. The present study was aimed to examine the role of truancy in academic self-concept, self-esteem, and academic achievement through a comparison between truant and punctual students....

In this study, perceived parental school involvement and problem faced by truant and punctual students were explored. Sample comprised of both truant (n = 100) and punctual students (n = 100) with age range 12-18 years. Student: Thinking About My Homework (Hoover-Dempsey, Walker, & Sandler, 2005) was translated into Urdu for measuring each parents'...

1 Hijras are marginalised and stigmatised sexual minority in Pakistan. Quite recently, hijras have attained third gender status at the State level in Pakistan. Main objectives of the present study were to develop a valid and reliable scale for measuring attitudes towards hijras of hijra community and then establishing role of gender and religiosity...

Childhood experiences determine adulthood personality. Witnessing violence in domestic and community setting may lead towards developing aggressive tendencies later. The present research was aimed to explore the relationship between witnessing domestic violence during childhood and aggression among university students. A sample of 310 university st...

A need to measure attitude towards contraception was felt since Pakistan is one of the most populated countries in the world. For this, in the present study Keye’s (1998) Contraceptive Attitude Scale was translated and validated to investigate attitudes toward contraception in Pakistan. Back-to-back translation method was used for translation follo...

Experiencing menstruation is an important indicator of reproductive health that holds great significance in the life of young girls. Aim of the study was to explore the relationship between attitodes and experiences related to menstruation among female adolescents. For this purpose, Attitode towards Menstruation Scale originally developed by McHugh...