Moh'd A Shoqeirat

• Ph.D. Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
• Professor (Associate) at University of Jordan

This study explores the relationship between executive functions, positive psychology, and depression within the context of a positive neuropsychological framework. The participants comprised 286 university students (113 male and 173 female). The study utilized the Executive Function Index (EFI), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), and Positive...

Wisdom, well-being, and resilience are essential for individuals to effectively cope with life's adversities. This study aims to examine the relationship between wisdom, well-being, and resilience within a sample of 223 participants (60 males and 163 females) aged between 18 and 65 years. Moreover, gender, age, and marital status were examined in r...

Wisdom and Executive Functions: A neuropsychological Perspective Moh'd Shoqeirat* ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the relationship between executive functions of the brain and wisdom from a neuropsychological perspective. The sample consisted of (343) subjects (77 males and 266 females) with an average age of (25.37 years). The San Diego Wi...

ackground: Most Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms appear in adolescence and early adulthood although there is significant variation in age of onset. There is a need to raise awareness as to how these symptoms might manifest in university students because they can lead to different psychological problems, including depression, anxiety, in...

The present study examines the relationship between executive functions and anger among a sample of students 13-17 years old.The sample consisted of 101 males and 105 females students. The state-trait anger scale and Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function 2nd were used. The results showed that executive functions and anger detected on the...

This study aims to investigate sex differences and the relationship between body esteem, depression, social phobia and self-esteem among college students. The sample consisted of 487 (159 male and 337 female) university students. Four scales were used to measure body esteem, social phobia, depression and self-esteem. The results showed no significa...

In 1978, Huppert and Piercy introduced a general method for comparing forgetting rates across groups differing in their baseline memory performance. The method has since become a standard for measuring rate of forgetting in amnesia. Using this method, amnesic subjects with presumed damage to midline diencephalic structures have consistently been re...

The encoding ability of 17 amnesics of mixed aetiology and 17 matched normal controls was assessed directly using a novel procedure. On two separate occasions, subjects were shown 60 complex drawings each containing six pictures. On one occasion each drawing was shown for 6 sec, and on the other occasion it was shown for 25 sec. Immediately after p...

Seventeen amnesics, including patients with Korsakoff's disease, post-encephalitic amnesia and amnesia caused by rupture of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm, were compared with 17 matched control subjects on a task in which 16 nameable shapes were placed on different squares of a 49-square grid. One version of the task tapped free recall a...

Groups of amnesics with aetiologies that included chronic alcoholism, encephalitis and ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysm (ACoAA) were examined on the Cognitive Estimation Test (CET), FAS Word Fluency Test (FAS) and the full and Nelson (1976) versions of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). The alcoholic amnesics were impaired on al...

Synopsis Some schizophrenics show anomalies in the frontal and temporal lobes. It is uncertain whether the cognitive deficits shown by Type I schizophrenics are caused directly by such anomalies, or by a deficit in the exertion of attentional effort. In this study, 16 acute schizophrenics, who broadly fitted the Type I characterization and their co...