Shamsul Haque

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• PhD
• Professor at Monash University Malaysia

The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) is a widely recognized tool for assessing personality traits across five domains and fifteen facets. However, its psychometric properties in non-Western cultures like Bangladesh remain unexplored. This study aimed to validate the Bangla BFI-2 (BFI-2-B) within a Bangladeshi community sample to provide a culturally ad...

The Bangla-translated 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) has been widely used in Bangladesh, but no attempt has been made to assess its psychometric properties. We investigated the latent structure, item quality, and differential item functioning of the Bangla GHQ-12 among 788 Bangladeshi adults (197 clinical outpatients and 591 nonclini...

There is a debate about what matters more in organizing autobiographical memories: identity or transition. To test this, we investigated the autobiographical memories of Bangladeshi elderly who witnessed the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence. Sixty-five war veterans and 41 non-veterans retrieved and dated twenty memories each and completed a gene...

We examined the impact of an 8-h exposure to short-wavelength-enriched white light during the day on the cognitive performance, alertness, and mood of moderately sleep-restricted university students in a simulated classroom setting. A total of 28 participants (mean age: 23.57 ± 2.69; 19 female) were assigned to one of two short-wavelength-enriched...

Light exposure is an essential driver of health and well-being, and individual behaviours during rest and activity modulate physiologically relevant aspects of light exposure. Further understanding the behaviours that influence individual photic exposure patterns may provide insight into the volitional contributions to the physiological effects of...

Background Little research has considered the influence of culture on control appraisals in the context of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Objectives This study aimed to investigate whether cultural group moderated the relationship between control (primary and secondary) appraisals and PTSD symptoms in trauma survivors from Western (Australi...

In a world where effective communication is fundamental, individuals who are Deaf and Dumb (D&D) often face unique challenges due to their primary mode of communication—sign language. Despite the interpreters' invaluable roles, their lack of availability causes communication difficulties for the D&D individuals. This study explores whether the fiel...

Public awareness of necrophilia is limited in Bangladesh. We have analyzed reports of the two necrophilia cases published in local Bangladeshi media. Both of those accused were heterosexual men and employed at the mortuary of two hospitals. One was a 20-year-old unmarried Hindu working as a mortuary assistant, and another was a 48-year-old divorced...

Objectives: Mindfulness-based interventions are common in contemporary mental health practices. Hence, the assessment of mindfulness is necessary during those interventions, and the 39-item Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is one of the most frequently used tools. As there is a scarcity of mindfulness scales for Bangla-speaking people, w...

Background Homosexual individuals are at high risk of suicide, but there is a shortage of data from developing countries to confirm this. Estimates on mental health and suicide risk among male homosexuals in Bangladesh are needed to generate awareness and to plan services accordingly. Method We assessed mental health and suicidal behavior of 102 s...

Ample research has shown that light influences our emotions, cognition, and sleep quality. However, little work has examined whether different light exposure-related behaviors, such as daytime exposure to electric light and nighttime usage of gadgets, especially before sleep, influence sleep quality and cognition. Three-hundred-and-one Malaysian ad...

Background: Social support is an important feature in understanding posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its treatment. Non-clinical research has identified distinct profiles of culturally appropriate social support. Despite this, little research has examined cultural influences on social support in the context of PTSD. Objective: This study ex...

Background People worldwide have experienced various mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigates the modifiable and nonmodifiable predictors of anxiety, depression, and stress among Bangladeshi participants after one year of the pandemic. Method A large group of adult participants (N = 1897), recruited from eight adm...

Light exposure is an essential driver of health and well-being, and individual behaviours during rest and activity modulate physiologically-relevant aspects of light exposure. Further understanding the behaviours that influence individual photic exposure patterns may provide insight into the volitional contributions to the physiological effects of...

Ample research has shown that light influences our emotions, cognition, and sleep quality. However, little research has investigated if different light exposure-related behaviors, such as the use of electric light during daytime, and use of gadgets before sleeping, influence those variables. Three-hundred-and-one Malaysian adults (Mean Age±SD =28 ±...

Brooding rumination is positively associated with symptoms of both depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, non-clinical cross-cultural research indicates that culture may influence these associations. This study aimed to examine the moderating effect of cultural group (Australian versus Malaysian) on the associations between b...

There is no psychometric tool to assess locus of control for Bangla-speaking people. Hence, we attempted to translate the 23-item Rotter's Internal-External scale into Bangla and validate it on Bangladeshi adult participants. In Study 1 (N = 300), we translated the items into Bangla and conducted an exploratory factor analysis, which gave a one-fac...

Past research has shown that trauma‐exposed refugee people frequently report less specific autobiographical memories, but the characteristics of their future episodic thinking remain largely unexplored. This study investigated the specificity and emotional valence of autobiographical memory and future episodic thinking produced by 120 Rohingya refu...

Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is slowly turning into an international health emergency, evidenced by accelerated growth in prevalence rates worldwide. Experts have now called for greater integration of self-management interventions in clinical practice in light of these worrisome trends, supplanting the prevailing notion of a “...

We tested the effect of daytime short-wavelength dominant light exposure on alertness and higher cognitive functions among university students using spectrally tunable lights. Participants (n = 24; mean age ± SD = 23.96 ± 2.42 years; 8 Female) were randomized to a two-hour daytime exposure to one of three light conditions with photopic illuminance...

Light exposure is an important driver of health and well-being. Many aspects of light exposure are modulated by our behaviour. How these light-related behaviours can be shaped to optimise personal light exposure is currently unknown. Here, we present a novel, self-reported and psychometrically validated instrument to capture light exposure-related...

Introduction Clinical education has moved to a ‘competency-based’ model with an emphasis on workplace-based learning and assessment which, in turn, depends on feedback to be effective. Further, the understanding of feedback has changed from information about a performance directed to the learner performing the task, to a dialogue, which enables the...

Appraisals and emotional regulation play a central role in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Despite research demonstrating cultural differences in everyday appraisals and emotion regulation, little research has investigated the influence of culture on these processes in PTSD. This study examined cultural differences in the associations between...

This paper reports the results of a systematic review conducted on articles examining the effects of daytime electric light exposure on alertness and higher cognitive functions. For this, we selected 59 quantitative research articles from 11 online databases. The review protocol was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42020157603). The results showed that...

Background: Light exposure is essential for our health and well-being, driving various non-visual processes, including circadian photoentrainment, melatonin suppression and the modulation of alertness. An unexplored dimension of light exposure is that it is partially controlled by our behaviour. Here, we present a novel instrument to capture light...

The tendency of a person to frequently use public (i.e., historical) events as temporal landmarks when dating personal memories is termed the living-in-history (LiH) effect. We investigated the LiH effect in autobiographical memories of Bangladeshi older adults who lived through the 1960s Bengali nationalist movement and the 1971 Bangladesh War of...

Literature indicates that trauma exposure leads to autobiographical memory (AM) impairment, but the differential effects of direct and indirect trauma on memory remain unclear. We investigated AMs of 100 Rohingya refugees (Meanage = 35.79; SDage = 15.36) recruited from camps in Bangladesh and communities in Malaysia. Each participant retrieved ten...

This study investigated the self-defining periods (SPs) in private and public memories of Bangladeshi older adults (N = 476; mean age = 67.16 years) who, during adolescence and early adulthood, witnessed the 1960s Bengali nationalist movement and the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence. Each participant retrieved three private and three public memo...

There is a lack of a psychometric tool for generational identity. We have conducted two studies involving Bangladeshi older adults who have witnessed the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971 to develop a new generational identity scale (GIS). The first study (N = 300) prepared an initial pool of 31 items and got them vetted by expert judges, which ret...

Research examining trauma, memory, and mental health among refugee and asylum-seeking people has increased in recent years. We systematically reviewed empirical work focusing on the link between autobiographical memory and mental health among these populations. The review protocol was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42018095888). Six major databases w...

Background A paradigm shift in the disease management of type 2 diabetes is urgently needed to stem the escalating trends seen worldwide. A “glucocentric” approach to diabetes management is no longer considered a viable option. Qualitative strategies have the potential to unearth the internal psychological attributes seen in people living with diab...

This paper reviewed articles on autobiographical memories of veterans who fought several major battles around the world. A total of 28 articles, reporting 11 quantitative, 16 qualitative, and 1 mixed-methods study, were identified through a search conducted in 11 major databases. Convergent thematic analysis of the findings extracted five recurrent...

Abstract Purpose: This study investigated if Rohingya refugee people resettled in camps in rural Bangladesh and urban locations in Malaysia had different levels of trauma, mental health and everyday functioning. The study also examined if direct and indirect exposure to traumatic events could predict PTSD, depression, generalized anxiety, and ever...

Background: Clinical education has moved to a competency-based model with an emphasis on workplace-based learning and assessment which, in turn, depends on feedback to be effective. Further, the understanding of feedback has changed from information about a performance directed to the learner performing the task, to a dialogue, which enables the le...

Background Qualitative strategies can uncover the relationship between the external realities of people living with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and the barriers that are associated with disease self-management. Information from in-depth interviews (IDI) and focus group discussions (FGD) can be used to devise psychological models that could potentially fa...

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. The persistence of this behavior throughout adulthood has fascinated and puzzled many researchers. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by triggering social support intentions. Initial experimental studie...

Objectives This study examined the influence of a wrist-worn heart rate drowsiness detection device on heavy vehicle driver safety and sleep and its ability to predict driving events under naturalistic conditions. Design Prospective, non-randomized trial. Setting Naturalistic driving in Malaysia. Participants Heavy vehicle drivers in Malaysia we...

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and mainly human phenomenon. The persistence of this behavior throughout adulthood has fascinated and puzzled many researchers. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue that binds individuals together and triggers social support intentions. Initi...

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and mainly human phenomenon. The persistence of this behavior throughout adulthood has fascinated and puzzled many researchers. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue that binds individuals together and triggers social support intentions. Initi...

BACKGROUND: There has been an unabated rise in the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) worldwide. Although T2D is highly preventable, these trends suggest that a paradigm change is much needed in the way both clinicians and policy makers view what effective T2D strategies conventionally entail. Hence, it is becoming increasingly clear that T2D pati...

AIMS: There is a growing trend in the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) in South-East Asian and Western Pacific regions. These patterns incur a costly health burden to developing nations around the world. An understanding of the mechanics behind self-management practices in T2D people is key to solving this problem. This information can help unlo...

Background: Patients suffering from schizophrenia spectrum disorders demonstrate various cognitive deficiencies, the most pertinent one being impairment in autobiographical memory. This paper reviews quantitative research investigating deficits in the content, and characteristics, of autobiographical memories in individuals with schizophrenia. It...

Background: The Preschool version of the Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ-18) is a popular instrument to assess children’s ability to master the environment through action or activity to explore, influence, or control the physical atmosphere. Although this instrument was originally developed in English, it has now been translated and valida...

Cultural differences in autobiographical memory characteristics and function have often been presumed to be associated with different cultural beliefs related to the self. The current research aimed to investigate whether self-construal mediated the relationship between cultural group and the characteristics and functional use of autobiographical m...

Background: There has been a shift in worldwide disease burden from infections to non-communicable diseases, especially type 2 diabetes (T2D). Behavioural change and self-management are key to optimal T2D control. Several universal models of diabetic care have been proposed to help explain the dimensions of T2D self-care such as medication adheren...

One of the most consistently observed phenomena in autobiographical memory research is the reminiscence bump: a tendency for middle-aged and elderly people to access more personal memories from approximately 10–30 years of age. This systematic review (PROSPERO 2017:CRD42017076695) aimed to synthesize peer-reviewed literature pertaining to the remin...

Temporal distribution of all 68 studies examined in this systematic review. The clustering of included studies in three groups; 1988 to 1999; 2000 to 2010, and 2011 to 2017. (TIF)

Showing Key words and alternative words. Computer-based searches were conducted to search nine databases. In each search, derivatives of “reminiscence bump” were combined using the Boolean OR operator and wildcards. (DOCX)

Showing quality assessment of quantitative studies included in this systematic review (n = 68). The detailed quality assessment of all included studies was carried out through a 14 criteria given by Kmet, Lee, and Cook. (DOCX)

Geographical distribution of all 68 studies examined in this systematic review. The clustering of studies on the basis of geographical location shows that most of the studies (n = 19) were conducted in USA. (TIF)

PROSPERO protocol. Review protocol registered in PROSPERO (International prospective register of systematic reviews). (PDF)

Databases searched for the systematic review. A search of nine databases gave a total of 523 research articles. (DOCX)

PRISMA checklist. A PRISMA checklist showing various section of this review and page numbers on which these sections are reported. (DOCX)

We attempted to develop and validate a generational identity scale (GIS) to be used in a large study exploring generational identity and autobiographical memory of Bangladesh independence war veterans and non-veterans. Initially, a pool of 31 items was generated. Expert review and pilot testing excluded 18 items, leading to a 13-item provisional GI...

We examined the plausibility of transition theory suggesting that memories of transitional events, which give rise to a significant and persistent change in the fabric of daily life, are organized around the historically defined autobiographical periods (H-DAPs). The Galton-Crovitz cueing technique was administered to induce autobiographical memori...

Cultural life scripts are shared knowledge about the timing of important life events. In the present study, we examined whether cultural life scripts are transmitted through traditions and whether there are additional ways through which they can be attained by asking Australian and Malaysian participants which information sources they had used to g...

One of the most consistently observed phenomenon in autobiographical memory literature is the reminiscence bump - a tendency for older people to recall more personal events from 10-30 years of age. We have conducted a systematic review aiming at synthesizing the peer-reviewed literature pertaining to the reminiscence bump. We searched nine database...

We examined the contributing factors to problematic internet use among university students representing different academic faculties. 800 students (Mean age 20.39, SD 1.56, 48% female), randomly selected from a large university in Bangladesh, completed a pool of questionnaires: Internet Addiction Test, General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12), The...

Previous studies have documented links between sub-clinical narcissism and the active pursuit of short-term mating strategies (e.g., unrestricted sociosexuality, marital infidelity, mate poaching). Nearly all of these investigations have relied solely on samples from Western cultures. In the current study, responses from a cross-cultural survey of...

Inspired by indigenous psychology, this study examined stereotypical thoughts and perceptions held by members of Chakma and settler Bengalis living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeastern Bangladesh. In-depth interviews with 26 participants revealed 31 types of thoughts and perceptions, of which 7 were more likely to be expressed by hig...

Most adults know which important events will most likely take place in the life of an ordinary person with the same cultural background as themselves. They also know in what order and at what age these events will probably take place. These expectancies are called cultural life scripts. In this brief review, we will address eight questions regardin...

Background There is a growing body of literature showing individuals with depression and other trauma-related disorders (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder) recall more overgeneral and less specific autobiographical memories compared to normal participants. Although the mechanisms underlying overgeneral memory are quite clear, the search strategy...

Novel influenza viruses are seen, internationally, as posing considerable health challenges, but public responses to such viruses are often rooted in cultural representations of disease and risk. However, little research has been conducted in locations associated with the origin of a pandemic. We examined representations and risk perceptions associ...

Two studies examined the ability of the life script account to explain the reminiscence bump for emotionally charged autobiographical memories among Malaysian participants. In Study 1 volunteers, aged 50-90 years, participated in a two-phased task. In the first phase, participants estimated the timing of 11 life events (both positive and negative)...

As the media interest in H1N1 Influenza A (‘swine flu’) ebbs and wanes, it is important to prepare ourselves for the societal—not just the medical—implications of this outbreak. While practitioners may, rightly, anticipate a desire for physical intervention (eg, face masks),1 psychologists also point to the societal ‘out-grouping’ that can follow a...

The outbreak of the pandemic flu, Influenza A H1N1 (Swine Flu) in early 2009, provided a major challenge to health services around the world. Previous pandemics have led to stockpiling of goods, the victimisation of particular population groups, and the cancellation of travel and the boycotting of particular foods (e.g. pork). We examined initial b...

Psychological differences between women and men, far from being invariant as a biological explanation would suggest, fluctuate in magnitude across cultures. Moreover, contrary to the implications of some theoretical perspectives, gender differences in personality, values, and emotions are not smaller, but larger, in American and European cultures,...

The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, the BFI was translated from English into 28 languages and administered to 17,837 individuals from 56 nati...

This chapter reports on the results of a cross-cultural study of the effects of social comparison on self-construal among eight nations/cultures. It follows a previous report on five of these cultures (Guimond, Branscombe, Brunot, Buunk, Chatard, Désert, Garcia, Haque, Martinot, and Yzerbyt, 2005) and is linked to the previous chapter outlining som...

Groups from Japan, China, Bangladesh, England, and the United States recalled, described, and dated specific autobiographical memories. When memories were plotted in terms of age-at-encoding highly similar life-span memory retrieval curves were observed: the periods of childhood amnesia and the reminiscence bump were the same across cultures. Howev...

As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically va...

As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, 16,954 participants from 53 nations were administered an anonymous survey about experiences with romantic attraction. Mate poaching--romantically attracting someone who is already in a relationship--was most common in Southern Europe, South America, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe and w...

Gender differences in the dismissing form of adult romantic attachment were investigated as part of the International Sexuality Description Project-a survey study of 17,804 people from 62 cultural regions. Contrary to research findings previously reported in Western cultures, we found that men were not significantly more dismissing than women acros...

In three autobiographical memory retrieval experiments participants reported the contents of consciousness to a probe presented at early and late points during retrieval. Classification of the protocols according to the specificity of the reported knowledge found that early in retrieval abstract knowledge predominated whereas at the later point, cl...

We describe a study in which young and older groups of Bangladeshi participants recalled and dated autobiographical memories from across the lifespan. Memories were subsequently plotted in terms of the age of participants at time of encoding. As expected the reminiscence bump, preferential recall of memories from the period of 10 to 30 years of age...