scholarly journals The Family Dialogue Culture and Its Obstacles in the Omani Family from the Viewpoint of Teachers in North Eastern Province, Sultanate of Oman

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Said Sulayiam AlMatari
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Gender Factor ◽  
High Level ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

This quantitative study investigates the level of the culture of dialogue within the Omani family and its hindrances from teachers’ perspectives in Ash Sharqiya North Governorate in the Sultanate of Oman. Out of 4516 teachers in the governorate in the academic year 2018-2019, 96 teachers participated in the study. The study used a survey, which included two sections; one assessed the level of the culture of dialogue and the second assessed obstacles of family dialogue. The study revealed that, based on the teachers’ perspectives, there was a high level of the culture of dialogue in the Omani family. The level of the obstacles of the family dialogue was low. The major obstacles were family dependency on housemaids, other employees at home, and parents being busy. Further, the study indicated that there were no statistically significant differences at the level of (0.05) in the areas of the culture of dialogue on gender, level of education, social status, and the number of family members. However, a statistically significant difference exists at the level of the culture of dialogue at the gender factor in favor of male teachers. There were no statistically significant differences at the level of (0.05) at the hindrances of the culture of dialogue based on gender, level of education, social status, and the number of family members. The main recommendations were: a) activating the culture of dialogue within educational institutions such as schools, b) the importance of parents’ awareness of characteristics of children’s development stages c) conducting workshops and seminars for parents and d) enhancing the media role for the importance and advantages of the culture of dialogue.

scholarly journals The Level of Psychological Security among Sample of Nizwa University students in the Sultanate of Oman: مستوى الأمن النفسي لدى عينة من طلبة جامعة نزوى في سلطنة عمان

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (30) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Nasser Said Al-Sawafi
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

    This study aimed to find out the level of Psychological Security of Nizwa University students and to find out the differences in level of Psychological Security according to gender (males/ females), the sample included (238) males and females. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive approach was used. The researcher used the Maslow scale for the sense of Psychological Security and interpolation by Dawani and Dirani (1983) in the Abdullah’s study (1996) after verifying its validity and stability. The study sample (238) students from Nizwa University in the Sultanate of Oman were randomly chosen. The findings of the study could be summarized as the following: there is a high level of Psychological Security with Nizwa University students according to the comprehensive Psychological Security scale with a median (2.24) feeling with Psychological Security compares to threat with average (2.29) and feeling love to hatred with average (2.25) feeling with loyalty to loneliness with average (2.19), there is a significant difference at the level of α=0.05 between males and females in favour of the males. In light of the results, a number of recommendations and proposals were submitted to enhance the level of psychological security among students of the University of Nizwa, and the general Omani and Arab universities.    

scholarly journals Study of Mental Health Status of the Family Members of Disappeared Persons of Kashmir

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhail Ahmad Bhat ◽  
Dr. Shawkat Ahmad Shah
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Emotional Control ◽  
Normal Person ◽  
Frequency Method ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Family ◽  
Anxiety Depression

While trying to portray the picture of mayhem and woes of family members of those who disappeared, it fails to fully convey the agony of the survivors. Their emotions are so intense that a normal person can hardly help his emotional shutters. Even a single experience with a family member of a disappeared person makes one to ponder that how unbearable it is to be a mother, father, wife or son of disappeared person. Their search for the disappeared family member along with hardships of daily life, social stigmas, economic and educational needs have left their mental health par below average level. One finds the words of depression, stress, anxiety, sleeplessness and melancholy in their everyday lexicon. With such a despondent picture of family members of disappeared persons in mind, the present attempt was made to study the nature of their mental health. To achieve this objective, data was collected from 217 family members of disappeared persons of Kashmir. The frequency method and t-test were used to obtain the results. The results of the study showed that majority of the family members scored high in negative dimensions of mental health namely, anxiety, depression and loss of behavioral and emotional control and low in positive dimensions of mental health namely, general positive affect, emotional ties and life satisfaction. A significant difference was found in mental health on the basis of gender, age and family type.

Women Entrepreneurs and Determinants of Their Success: An Empirical Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
Sudarshan Maity ◽  
Tarak Nath Sahu
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lemeshow Test ◽  
Ease Of Doing Business

Using a Logistic regression model the present study investigates the important factors that influence on ease of doing business by the women entrepreneurs. The respondents are from the four different backward regions in West Bengal, India. The goodness of fit of the model is checked in terms of the Hosmer–Lemeshow test. Moreover, a large share of the women-owned business is a single person enterprise, generates lower revenues, and is smaller in size. The study shows that most women are engaged in small entrepreneurs to help their families financially. Though, women entrepreneurs are facing challenges of financing and non-cooperation from their family members. Even from non-cooperation from the family, they are engaged in entrepreneurship after managing their households’ work. The level of productivity will be enhanced significantly in case easy access to credit and support received from the family members. The support may be in terms of mental as well by helping in households’ work. Further, the application of the Welch’s t-test shows the non-existence of a significant difference in income level among the two groups, who have faced complexities and who have no complexities into running the entrepreneurship. To improve the socio-economic status of the female counterpart of the society, initiatives from the grassroots level are absolutely essential.

Care for Imminently Dying Cancer Patients: Family Members' Experiences and Recommendations

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuya Shinjo ◽  
Tatsuya Morita ◽  
Kei Hirai ◽  
Mitsunori Miyashita ◽  
Kazuki Sato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Level ◽  
Bereaved Family

Purpose The aim of this study was to clarify the level of emotional distress experienced by bereaved family members and the perceived necessity for improvement in the care for imminently dying patients and to explore possible causes of distress and alleviating measures. Methods A cross-sectional nationwide survey was performed in 2007 of bereaved families of cancer patients at 95 palliative care units across Japan. Results Questionnaires were sent to 670 families, and 76% responded. Families reported their experiences as very distressing in 45% of cases. Regarding care, 1.2% of respondents believed that a lot of improvement was needed, compared with 58% who believed no improvement was needed. Determinants of high-level distress were a younger patient age, being a spouse, and overhearing conversations between the medical staff outside the room at the time of the patient's death; those reporting high-level necessity of improvement were less likely to have encountered attempts to ensure the patient's comfort, received less family coaching on how to care for the patient, and felt that insufficient time was allowed for the family to grieve after the patient's death. Conclusion A considerable number of families experienced severe emotional distress when their family member died. Thus, we propose that a desirable care concept for imminently dying cancer patients should include relief of patient suffering, family advisement on how to care for the patient, allowance of enough time for the family to grieve, and ensuring that family members cannot overhear medical staff conversations at the time of the patient's death.

FAMILY FUNCTION LEVELS OF TURKISH FATHERS WITH CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN 0 – 6

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seher Balci Çelik
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Behavior Control ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Family Function ◽  
Family Assessment Device ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Affective Involvement

Family function levels of fathers with children aged 0–6 in Samsun, Turkey were compared on the basis of length of marriage, level of education, family structure, and type of marriage. The sample consisted of 171 fathers aged between 24–36 (average age 29.2). The Family Assessment Device (Epstein, Baldwin, & Bishop, 1983) was used to measure family function levels of fathers and t-test and one way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. There was a significant difference in family function levels of the fathers, according to length of their marriage, in the subdimensions of problem solving, communication, affective involvement, behavior control and general functionings, according to their level of education. In all the subdimensions of affective involvement and behavior control, according to the family structures of fathers, significant differences were found between groups and total general points; according to fathers' types of marriage, a significant difference was found between the groups regarding problem solving, communication, affective involvement, behavior control and general total points.

scholarly journals THE «ALTERNATIVE» MEANS OF USAGE OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS IN RUSSIA OF THE 18TH CENTURY

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (07) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Ye.M. Lupanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
General Public ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Many Instruments ◽  
Transnational Communication ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
High Level ◽  
High Social Status

The 18th century was marked by the appearance of a great number of unusual objects in Russia. Besides military ships, wardrobes and beds, wigs and Holland-fashioned suites they were all kinds of scientific instruments – compasses, astrolabes, sundials, clocks, bisecting dividers, electrostatic machines etс. They were visible and tangible signs of western culture, processes of Russian modernization and westernization. And besides the obvious for us today means of usage they had some other ones. Many instruments were multi-faceted. As a rule they all were rear and expensive things, hand-made by individual order in just few or even the only exemplar. Not everyone could use them. So the instruments demonstrated the high level of education and the high social status of the possessor. The instruments were used for entertainment both at the court and for general public. This kind of court activities was an important tool of attracting attention and state investments to the scientific researches. Clocks, sundials and telescopes played diplomatic role as gifts both on the level of transnational communication and on the local one (the establishment of good relations between arriving expeditions and local authorities). At last local peasants preserved the strange objects possessed by alien-dressed men as a super-modern weapon of pillage.

scholarly journals PRACTINCING DEGREE OF FIRST CYCLE HEAD MASTRES IN NORTH AL BATINAH GOVERNORATE IN SALTANATE OF OMAN OF THEIR ROLES IN ACTIVATING PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL AND FAMILY

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (06) ◽  
pp. 41-61
Author(s):  
Mohammed SALEH ALAJMI ◽  
Fatema Ali Salim ALMAQBALI
Keyword(s):  
School Principals ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Degree Of Participation ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Guardian

The target of this study is to identify the degree to which school principals in the first cycle of the North Al Batinah governorate in Sultanate of Oman practiced their roles in implementing the partnership between the school and student families, and whether there were statistically significant differences between the averages of the chosen sample participants in this subject in Oman and weather if there is a major role played by the amount of experience of each individual. The study sample consisted of 244 female teachers from the first field in the North Al Batinah governorate in Oman, who constituted 17.2% from the total 1422 female teachers. A questionnaire consisting of 30 items was used, divided into 3 sections (cultural field, educational field, and the social field). In order to ensure the validity and reliability of the tool, it was applied to 30 teachers outside the sample under study, as the percentage of stability was according to the Cronbach Alpha coefficient .976 At the end and after analyzing the data, the partnership between the school and the family showed a high degree of partnership commitment, with an average of 4.19. The results indicated statistically there was no significant differences between the averages of the sample members for the degree of participation of school principals in North Al Batinah in Sultanate of Oman partnership between the school and the family which was due to the years of experience of the individuals. The study recommended the necessity of adopting a program to exchange visits between the principals of the first cycle schools and their counterparts in the rest of the educational governorates in order to benefit from their high experience in activating the partnership between the school and the students families, it also recommended that the media should play a role in broadcasting and publishing some programs that enhances the culture of partnership between the school and the families, and to also include a special field for activating the partnership between the school and the family in the school’s annual plan and programs. In addition, it also recommended creating an electronic educational platforms for students to help the guardian to follow up on all what is presented to the student, so that the principals are able to face and keep pace with any upcoming new challenges ‎.

scholarly journals Media Literacy Skills and Social Media: A Portray of Teenagers in Urban Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.7) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Ragil Tri Atmi ◽  
Iswanda F. Satibi ◽  
Indah R. Cahyani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
High Level

What we know about association between social media and media literacy is largely based upon case studies that investigate how teenagers’ behavior in digital environment. Although studies focusing on the level of media literacy skills towards social media have been conducted in recent years, much uncertainty still exists about the relationship between the media literacy skills and the use of social media among teenagers. This study aims to contribute to this growing area of research by exploring the level of media literacy skills and motivations among the teenagers towards social media in urban area. A quantitative descriptive survey research design was used to identify, analyze, and describe the media literacy skills of teenagers towards social media. The purposive sampling method was taken to appropriately select an evenly balanced group of participants. In total, 34 students participated, of which 83% living in the rural-urban fringe area, the intersection area between urban and farming field. It is evidently clear from the findings that the average level of media literacy skills among teenagers in urban area is at medium level. There is a high level of information dimension among teenagers, whereas other dimensions are fractionally less popular. On average, the level of dimensional motivations is medium. Teenagers seem to use social media to support their study and socially engage with friends. The result of this study confirm previous studies that focused on the level of media literacy among teenagers towards social media. Analysis of data shows that teenagers acknowledged the benefits of social media. However, no statistically significant difference between the mean sores of four sets of media literacy skills was evident. Media literacy is maturing, as evidenced by the significant understanding of social media in the digital environment.  

scholarly journals Stigma and expressed emotion: a study of people with schizophrenia and their family members in China

2002 ◽  
Vol 181 (6) ◽  
pp. 488-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Phillips ◽  
Veronica Pearson ◽  
Feifei Li ◽  
Minjie Xu ◽  
Lawrence Yang
Keyword(s):  
Expressed Emotion ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Cognitive Responses ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
Severe Effect ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Interview ◽  
High Level ◽  
Work Up

BackgroundThe most damaging effect of stigma is the internalisation of others' negative valuations.AimsTo explore the factors that mediate patients' emotional and cognitive responses to stigma.MethodBased on responses to 10 open-ended questions about stigma appended to the Chinese version of the Camberwell Family Interview, trained coders rated the effect of stigma on both patients and family members in 1491 interviews conducted with 952 family members of 608 patients with schizophrenia at 5 sites around China from 1990 to 2000.ResultsFamily members reported that stigma had had a moderate to severe effect on the lives of patients over the previous 3 months in 60% of the interviews, and on the lives of other family members in 26% of the interviews. The effect of stigma on patients and family members was significantly greater if the respondent had a high level of expressed emotion, if the patient had more severe positive symptoms, if the respondent was highly educated and if the family lived in a highly urbanised area.ConclusionsClinicians should assess the effect of stigma as part of the standard work-up for patients with mental illness, and help patients and family members reduce the effect of stigma on their lives.

scholarly journals Spiritual Intelligence and Its Relation to Depression Among Eleventh and Twelfth Grades Students of Nizwa in Sultanate of Oman: الذكاء الروحي وعلاقته بالاكتئاب لدى طلبة الصفين الحادي عشر والثاني عشر في ولاية نزوى بسلطنة عمان

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (44) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalifa Ahmed Humaid Al-Qassabi, Naila Mahmood Amur Al Burai
Keyword(s):  
Female Students ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
Counseling Programs ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Reduction Equation ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed at addressing the relationship between the spiritual intelligence and depression for eleventh and twelfth grades students of Nizwa in Ad-Dakhiliyah Governorate. The study sample included (350) male and female students chosen randomly. The researcher used “King” inventory (2008) of spiritual intelligence translated by Al-Kiumi and Al-Furaisiyah (2018), and the inventory of Arabic depression list for children made by Abdul-Khaliq (1991). The researcher used the descriptive correlative approach. The results showed a high level of spiritual intelligence and low level of depression among the study sample students. There were also statistically significant differences in the level of spiritual intelligence in favor of females, and there was no significant difference in the level of depression except for the dimensions of (lack of focus and pessimism, and self-hatred) in favor of males. The study concluded that spiritual intelligence contributes to reduction of depression by (23.9%). 1. The researchers recommended a set of recommendations, the most important of which are: the use of the depression reduction equation reached by the research, when building counseling programs, and developing spiritual intelligence through curricula and teaching to protect students from depression.

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