Jakia Rahman

University of Dhaka · Department of Psychology

Bangladesh has experienced rapid economic growth and significant progress in expanding access to education over the past two decades. However, comprehensive programs that address the psychological and academic needs of children remain largely absent. The country faces a shortage of qualified professionals to manage students’ behavioral, emotional,...

Introduction: East Pakistan War of Independence in 1971 that lasted for almost nine months gave birth to a new country Bangladesh. The history of that war continues to shape the mindset of Bangladeshi people till the present day. Although five decades have passed since the victory, yet, there still remains a generation for whom the liberation war...

Silver Jubilee (from July 22, 1998 to July 21, 2023) of Teaching, Research and Administrative activities of Md. Kamal Uddin in the Department of Psychology at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh

Covid-19 has caused significant distress around the globe. Apart from the evident physical symptoms in infected cases, it has caused serious damage to public mental health. The current research is an attempt to explore mental health and psychological distress of the Covid-19 frontline workers. One hundred and seventy-seven Covid frontline workers (...

A serious departure from the norm in taking classes has been a regular phenomenon in the University of Dhaka in recent years. The present study aimed to investigate perceptions, reactions, and grievances of students towards class cancellation, class rescheduling, inadequate classes, and classes for less than duration at the University of Dhaka. Dat...

The present study examined the level of depression, anxiety and stress experienced by Dhaka University students during the Covid-19 pandemic and the association among the variables. Data were collected online from 279 students using a questionnaire package comprising of Personal Information Form, Bangla version of Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21...

Adolescents of Bangladesh today are facing significantly higher rates of stressors with differing severity and frequency of anxiety, depression, internalizing, and externalizing problems to mention a few (cited in Mullick et al., 2019). Many of them use cyberspace where their limited capacity for emotion regulation may put them at the risk of cyber...

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the associations of bullying and peer victimization with adolescents’ adjustment. The sample in this cross-sectional design study consisted of 250 Bangladeshi adolescents (49.5% females, age: M = 16.13, SD = 1.27) from socioeconomically diverse background who were eighth, ninth and tenth graders. P...

Nursing students are susceptible to higher risks of anxiety and depression. We tested the prediction that anxiety and depression might adversely affect everyday memory on 288 female students pursuing diploma in nursing who have been selected purposively from two public nursing institutes of Dhaka division of Bangladesh. The students were between th...

The present paper studies about how Cybercrime affects the young generation. However, the risk factor of being victimized in cyberspace is unknown. The present study tested predictions that (a) parental rejection might be the risk factor of cyber victimization, and (b) parental rejection can affect cyber victimization partially through cyber aggres...