Maher M Abu-Hilal

Maher M Abu-Hilal
Sultan Qaboos University | SQU · Department of Psychology

PhD

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Introduction
self-concept, teacher burnout, instrument development and validation, motivation and achievement.
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February 2009 - present
Sultan Qaboos University
Position
  • Professor (Full)
August 1987 - August 2006
United Arab Emirates University
Position
  • Professor
August 1987 - August 2006
United Arab Emirates University
Position
  • Professor (Full)

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Publications (107)
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The aim of this study was to examine if perceived family violence of victimized children is related to their perceived aggressive behavior. It has been acknowledged that children learn and behave what they observe and practice including violence. A stratified random sample (N =1160) of Omani school students was drawn from grades 6 to 9. The study u...
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This study tested the construct validity and reliability of the Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students (SRBCSS) with the purpose to have a valid and reliable measure to identify the gifted individuals. The sample consisted of 176 superior students from grades five and six in Qatar. The results revealed a high consiste...
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هدفت الدراسة إلى تحديد مستو ى قلق المستقبل المهني وعلاقته بسمتيّ التفاؤل والتشاؤم لدى طلبة كليات العلوم التطبيقية في سلطنة عمان. استخدمت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي التحليلي القائم على دراسة العلاقة الارتباطية بين المتغيرا ت على عينة تكونت من 726 طالب ا وطالبة )125 ذكو ر ا و 601 من الإنا ث ( ، واستخدم مقياس قلق المستقبل المهني )الشريفين وبني مصطفى وطشطوش...
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هدفت الدراسة للتحقق من الخصائص السيكومترية لمقياس هكساكو- 60 للعوامل الستة للشخصية، على عينة من طلبة المدرسة والجامعة في سلطنة عمان. وقد تكونت عينة الدراسة من 784 طالبًا وطالبة من الصفين التاسع والحادي عشر )متوسط العمر 15.31 عامًا(. أجاب 444 منهم على نسختي التقرير الذاتي، وتقييم الأقران؛ بينما أجاب الآخرون على نسخة التقرير الذاتي فقط. بالإضافة إلى...
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This study aims at testing the generalizability of Marsh’s Internal/External (I/E) frame of reference model as well as its Dimensional Comparison Theory (DCT) extension in a sample of United Arab Emirates (UAE) high school students. Relationship between self-concept and achievement in Arabic, English and mathematics were explored. A sample of 990 s...
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This study aimed to develop a scale for organizational loyalty for workers in Sultan Qaboos University and University of Nizwa. The sample of the study consisted of (303) workers (151 males and 152 females), who were selected using random sampling from Sultan Qaboos University and University of Nizwa. The scale consisted of (35) items representing...
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Background: In previous times, infectious diseases affected the quality of human life during home confinement. This study investigated the influence of home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on lifestyle, mental wellbeing, nutritional status, and sleeping pattern. Method: An online multicategory questionnaire was distributed to coll...
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Background In the past infectious diseases affected the quality of lifestyle during home confinement. The study conducted examines the influence of home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on lifestyle, mental wellbeing, nutritional status, and sleeping pattern. Method An online multicategorical questionnaire was distributed to colle...
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The Covid-19 outbreak has had severe effects on the humanity and has disrupted aspects of life. Hence, the psycho-social consequences attracted attention after imposing isolation and "social distancing". The current study was conducted to reveal the effects of this pandemic on individuals. Responses were collected electronically through a self-repo...
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Background: In previous times, infectious diseases affected the quality of human life during home con nement. This study investigated the in uence of home con nement during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on lifestyle, mental wellbeing, nutritional status, and sleeping pattern.
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Background In previous times, infectious diseases affected the quality of human life during home confinement. This study investigated the influence of home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on lifestyle, mental wellbeing, nutritional status, and sleeping pattern. Method An online multicategory questionnaire was distributed to colle...
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Purpose_ This paper examines associations among the socio-psychological determinants of ICT-assisted deviance-related practices within a group of Omani undergraduates. Moreover, the study aims to evaluate the explanatory burdens of such socio-psychological factors on actual behaviour. Design/methodology/approach_ The study implements a predictiv...
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Purpose Moor (1985) designated two major problem sources typifying the social and ethical implications of computer technologies, namely, “policy vacuum” and “conceptual muddles.” Motivated by Moor’s seminal definition and Floridi’s (2013) conceptualization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as re-ontologizing technologies, this st...
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Ethical behavior using information and communication technologies: Exploring a general theory of intention and behavior among Omani undergraduates This study develops an inclusive theoretical model that elucidates the overarching nature of behavioral intention and behavior connected to ICTs assisted ethical behavior among Omani undergraduates. Base...
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Ethical behavior using information and communication technologies: Exploring a general theory of intention and behavior among Omani undergraduates This study develops an inclusive theoretical model that elucidates the overarching nature of behavioral intention and behavior connected to ICTs assisted ethical behavior among Omani undergraduates. Base...
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Purpose This paper examines associations among the socio-psychological determinants of information and communication technologies (ICT)-assisted deviance-related practices within a group of Omani undergraduates. Moreover, this study aims to evaluate the explanatory burdens of such socio-psychological factors on actual behaviour. Design/methodology...
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Introduction. The purpose of this study was to examine if the perception of teaching value and a teacher's self-efficacy (SE) are related to burnout. Previous research has shown a strong relation between teachers SE and burnout. Rarely, however, job value has been included in any of the previous studies. Method. A stratified random sample (N =2446)...
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Abstract The preparatory and secondary stages of schooling are considered important stages that students pass through concurrently with the puberty stage in which they experienced unbalanced state as well as they may experience various behavior problems. However, this study aims at identifying the most important behavior problems that students may...
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Due to the segregated nature of schools in Arab countries and the differential socialization of boys and girls, the Arab culture presents interesting aspects to explore. In the current research, we tested the generalizability of the social comparison and dimensional comparison theory among school boys and girls in Oman. A sample of 700 students (33...
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Introduction. Mathematics is one of the most important academic subjects in school. However, it is one of the most difficult subjects, and both students and teachers face difficulties in this subject. Teachers have difficulty engaging students in learning the subject. Rarely has the concept of engagement been researched in the Middle East region, i...
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Rarely has the self-description questionnaire II (SDQ-II) been used with Arab samples. The Arab culture has unique characteristics that warrant investigating self-concept among individuals who are impacted by the culture. The SDQ-II has eleven factors and each is measured by 8 or 10 items. This study used a short version of the SDQ-II with an Omani...
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This study aims to investigate the association between psychological hardiness and career decision-making self-efficacy among eleventh grade students in the Sultanate of Oman. To achieve this purpose, psychological hardiness scale (PHS), and career decision self-efficacy-short form-were administered to a sample of 500 students of eleventh grade (n...
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Previous studies have supported the conceptualization that burnout consists of three aspects: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment. When the proposed structure of burnout was tested in several studies, these three aspects were confirmed. However, several researchers found that depersonalization consists of two...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the development and validation of a self-report structured questionnaire based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). The questionnaire was used to investigate university undergraduate students’ cognition, behavioural intent, and behaviour concerning the ethical use of information a...
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The aim of this study was to predict the quality and meaning in life from the level of religiousness. Also, the two variables were used to predict stress and stress related problems at family and personal levels. To achieve the objectives of the study, 344 Muslim college students from Oman responded to tailored questionnaire. The questionnaire enco...
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What this paper adds: This paper, to our knowledge, is the first research paper that provides empirical evidence on the Arabic self report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (A-SDQ) within a school-based sample. Though the focus was on the self-report version we collected data from the proxy versions for parents and teachers t...
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Paper ready for publication. A paper that came out of strategic research. The paper report on the validity and construct validity of the Maslach Burnou Inventory for a large sample of Omani teachers.
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The aim of this study was to examine the factor structure of the Teachers Sense of Self-efficacy Scale. Three factors are assumed to represent the self-efficacy: student engagement, effective strategies and classroom management. Testing the reliability of each construct is another aim of this study. To achieve the aims of the study, a stratified ra...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction between culture and psychological constructs such as self-concept, goal orientations, and achievement. Of interest in this paper is the differential socialization of boys and girls in the Arab culture and how socialization affects self-concept, goal orientation, and achievement. In this chapt...
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The aim of the present study was to test the assumptions of internal/external frame of reference model using science scores and self-concept in place of language. Three hundred twenty six eighth grade students in Al-Dhahra school district in Oman responded to a short version of SDQ-I. The sample was selected from those who took the TIMSS in 2011 (N...
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The aims of this study were to explore some cognitive and affective characteristics of Omani teachers. Verbal intelligence, figural intelligence and mathematics competence represented the cognitive components (3 indicators), while self-efficacy of teaching (3 indicators), burnout (3 indicators) and principal evaluation of teachers (2 indicators) re...
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The aims of this study are to: (a) assess if cognitive self-concept (competence) and affective self-concept in mathematics and science are different constructs, (b) evaluate the construct validity of self-concept in the context of conflation and separation, and (c) test if the relationships among cognitive and affective variables are invariant acro...
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Extensive support for the seemingly paradoxical negative effects of school- and class-average achievement on academic self-concept (ASC)—the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE)—is based largely on secondary students in Western countries or on cross-cultural Program for International Student Assessment studies. There is little research testing the g...
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The aims of this research were to: a) develop a profile of the Omani teachers; b) compare teacher quality and other criterion variables across gender, directorate, source of degree (SQU vs. others) and subject matter; c) identify the best predictor variables of teacher quality; and d) standardizing instruments for Omani teacher population (e.g., Ma...
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The aim of this study was to assess students' evaluation of the education quality and to predict their school marks for the factors composing the Students' Evaluations of Education Quality (SEEQ). The study was conducted on representative sample of Omani Students (N = 9614) representing all 11 directorates of Oman. A systematic sample was chosen to...
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The aim of this study was to assess students' evaluation of the education quality and to predict their school marks for the factors composing the Students' Evaluations of Education Quality (SEEQ). The study was conducted on representative sample of Omani Students (N = 9614) representing all 11 directorates of Oman. A systematic sample was chosen to...
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The internal/external frame of reference (I/E) model and dimensional comparison theory posit paradoxical relations between achievement (ACH) and self-concept (SC) in mathematics (M) and verbal (V) domains; ACH in each domain positively affects SC in the matching domain (e.g., MACH to MSC) but negatively in the nonmatching domain (e.g., MACH to VSC)...
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Reliability and Structure of Student Evaluation of Education Quality (SEEQ): Invariance os Structure across Elementary, Preparatory and Secondary Omani Students Maher M. Abu-Hilal, Said Al-Dhafri, Hashem A. Kilani, Ali M. Kazem, Ibrahim, A. Qaryouti, & Hussein Al-Kharousi Sultan Qaboos University ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to test the stru...
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Little research has been done on Arabic samples with regard to motivation and achievement. Due to the segregated nature of schools in Arab countries, and of Arab society more generally, the sex effect and differential socialization of boys and girls in the Arab culture presents many potentially interesting things to explore. In the present paper, w...
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The aims of this study are to: (a) assess if cognitive self-concept (competence) and affective self-concept in mathematics and science are different constructs, (b) evaluate the construct validity of self-concept in the context of conflation and separation, and (c) test if the relationships among cognitive and affective variables are invariant acro...
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Abstract Introduction. Learning difficulties (LD) is a recent construct. It has been agreed that the in-dividual who suffers from learning difficulty has a disorder in one or more of the basic psy-chological processes, including attention, cognition, formation of concepts, memory, problem solving, understanding or reading, speaking or writing, or c...
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Teacher self-efficacy is an important psychological state by which teachers can handle the stress of teaching. Teachers' self-efficacy can be conceptualized as the beliefs about one's ability to plan, organize, and carry out activities required to attain some educational goals. Also, cumulative research shows that teachers’ efficacy beliefs represe...
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Burnout is an unpleasant psychological syndrome that can be caused by excessive demands of the teaching profession. Burnout has been conceptualized to consist of three aspects: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment. The proposed structure of burnout has been tested and these three aspects have been confirmed. H...
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This study examined the structural relationships among cognitive constructs (intelligence and achievement) and affective constructs (perceived parental help, effort and self-concept). It was proposed that the relationships are not invariant across gender. The sample consisted of 219 boys and 133 girls from elementary and preparatory public schools...
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For the international Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS2007) math and science motivation scales (self-concept, positive affect, and value), we evaluated the psychometric properties (factor structure, method effects, gender differences, and convergent and discriminant validity) in 4 Arab-speaking countries (Saudi Arabia, J...
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This study focused on comparing mathematics teachers’ qualifications, practices, and perceptions between Saudi and Taiwanese schools. Data analyzed in this study were the responses of mathematics teachers to the Teacher Background Questionnaire—8th Grade from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in 2007. The Saudi sampl...
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The purpose of the study was to investigate attitudes of PE college students, and in-service Omani PE teachers towards teaching PE. A total of 195 participants were involved in the study (77 PE college students from Sultan Qaboos University and 118 Omani PE teachers who graduated from Sultan Qaboos University). A scale that measures attitudes towa...
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Introduction: Optimisim and pessimism are two psychological constructs that play a significant role in human mental and psychological hygiene. The two construct are strongly but negatively correlated. Optimisim and pessimisim can be influenced by culture and the environment. The present study attempts to test the structure of optimisim and pessimis...
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Introduction. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a diagnostic measure of attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder and impulsivity. Method. The instrument was administered to normal (n=51), learning disability (LD) (n=96), and intellectually disabled (ID) (n=108) children. The instrument in its final form comprises 36 items. Resu...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the structural relations between mastery and performance goal orientations, and their relations with self-efficacy, metacognition and achievement. Also, invariance across gender was tested. Four hundred three students (200 boys and 203 girls) from the United Arab Emirates University and Al Ain University par...
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Introducción. Optimismo y pesimismo son dos constructos psicológicos que juegan un papel significativo en la higiene mental humana y psicológica. Estas dos construcciones están fuertemente correlacionadas, pero negativamente. Optimismo y pessimisim puede estar influenciada por la cultura. El presente estudio intenta para poner a prueba la estructur...
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The aim of this study was to determine the usability of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) by investigating its psychometric properties with an Arab sample of school students from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Adaptations were made to some verbal items to fit the Emirates society. Some items of this scale were translated into A...
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Introduction. Optimisim and pessimism are two psychological constructs that play a significant role in human mental and psychological hygiene. The two construct are strongly but negatively correlated. Optimisim and pessimisim can be influenced by culture and the environment.The present study attempts to test the structure of optimisim and pessimisi...
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The aim of this study was to determine the usability of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) by investigating its psychometric properties with an Arab sample of school students from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Adaptations were made to some verbal items to fit the Emirates society. Some items of this scale were translated into A...
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This article reports two worldwide studies of stereotypes about liars. These studies are carried out in 75 different countries and 43 different languages. In Study 1, participants respond to the open-ended question “How can you tell when people are lying?” In Study 2, participants complete a questionnaire about lying. These two studies reveal a dom...
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This article reports two worldwide studies of stereotypes about liars. These studies are carried out in 75 different countries and 43 different languages. In Study 1, participants respond to the open-ended question “How can you tell when people are lying?” In Study 2, participants complete a questionnaire about lying. These two studies reveal a dom...
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The aim of this study was to determine the usability of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) by investigating its psychometric properties with an Arab sample of school students from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Adaptations were made to some verbal items to fit the Emirates society. Some items of this scale were translated into A...