ISSN (Print): 2664-0422 | ISSN (Online): 2664-0430 | ISSN-L: 2664-0422

About This Issue

July to September, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2021.

Articles

Research Article # 1

Condition of Paragraph Writing Skills in Private Sector Schools of Islamabad at Primary Level

The major objective of this research was to find the Condition of paragraph writing skills in private school of Islamabad at primary level. The design of this study was a survey to assess the paragraph writing skills of students of Grade 3 in private schools. Grade 3 students ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)01
Research Article # 2

Overall Impact of Action Research Project as Perceived By Pupil Teachers and Resource Persons of Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad

Currently, AIOU Islamabad has made an action research project compulsory for the students enrolled in these programs. They are asked to select a topic of their own interest and carry out an action research project. To study the impact of action research in terms of improvement...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)02
Research Article # 3

Hybridity Leading towards Identity Crisis: A Study of Daniyal Moeenuddin’s Stories “Our Lady of Paris” and “Lily” as Cultural Rai

Hybridity, in Postcolonial context, refers to dismantling cultures from their totalizing specificities of cultural situations. This cultural decolonization leads towards the emergence of an identity in a contradictory and an ambivalent space called the “Third Space of Enunciat...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)03
Research Article # 4

Women can be Destroyed but Not Defeated: Undefeatable Struggle of Sisters in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

This article discusses the theme of female friendship as a possible way out of alienation (spiritual or physical detachment in a relation) in gender relations, and then goes on to argue that this female friendship itself suffers from alienation in the long run. While foregroun...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)04
Research Article # 5

Challenges and Opportunities of Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the Province of Sindh, Pakistan

Vocational and educational training is an integral component for efficient and smart GDP of a country. With a higher rate of professionally trained manpower, a country can increase its exports and earn direct revenue. The paper attempted to employ survey research by virtue of ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)05
Research Article # 6

Effect of Synchronous Videos on Academic Achievement in Health and Physical Education at the College Level in Rawalpindi during Covid-19

The major purposes of this experimental research had been to find out the effect of Synchronous Videos on academic achievement in Health and Physical Education at the College level and to compare the effect of Synchronous video on girls’ and boys’ academic achievement in Healt...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)06
Research Article # 7

Issues and State of Religious Minorities in Pakistan: A Systematic Literature Review

This article presents a systematic review of previous empirical literature regarding the problems faced by religious minorities in Pakistan which is a hub of religious diversity. Using various keywords Google Scholar, JSTOR, Emerald Insight and ProQuest were searched and 31 st...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)07
Research Article # 9

Rummage for a Sustainable Earthquake Resistant Structure “Construction Techniques and Technologies” in Northern Areas of Pakistan

The research focus on comparative Analysis on the determination of emerging construction technology verses new improved form of indigenous construction techniques-technology. To rebuild confidence among the people it relies on traditions-culture by restoring pride in a new imp...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)09
Research Article # 10

The Judiciary’s Contribution to Regimes’ Hybridity in Pakistan

The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) was never as powerful in a context of hybrid regime as it emerged after the lawyers’ movement for the restoration of judiciary in March 2009. A hybrid regime is a mix of authoritarian and democratic features. The SCP decide several political...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)10
Research Article # 11

Material Evaluation of English Textbook of BS Criminology: An ESP Analysis

The present research aims to investigate the pedagogical value and suitability of the English textbook of BS Criminology at the University of Sargodha, Main Campus. The study adheres to the material evaluation in ESP. The data comprises 14 sample analyses. For evaluating the t...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)11
Research Article # 12

Advancing the Role of Population for Sustainable Economic Development: An Investigation of the National Perspectives

The current study attempts to explain the relationship between the increase in population growth with the economic growth in Pakistan. The nature of this relationship is ambiguous as it has positive as well as the negative relationship with economic growth. The causal relation...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)12
Research Article # 13

Estimating and Forecasting Meat Prices in Pakistan: A Comparative Study of ARIMA, GARCH and State Space ARIMA Models

Forecasting plays essential role in making effective planning and decisions for a gainful business. Modeling monthly price series containing nonstationarity, seasonality, lag dependence, heteroscedasticity and structural changes is challenging. This leads to the applications o...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)13
Research Article # 14

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): A Sociometric Analysis

Sociometry is the human connectedness analysis. In the present paper, in the sense of CSR on CPEC ventures, an attempt is made to explain and understand sociometry in the assessment of Public Relations practices. CPEC is in the initial phase, and CPEC is seen by politicians an...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)14
Research Article # 15

Assessing Economic Rights of Pakistani Women: An Islamic Perspective

The objective of study is to assess economic rights of women from Islamic perspective. Pakistan is established in the name of Islam, and hence the organisation and administration of country got full inspiration from religion. It has brilliantly presented a comprehensive patter...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)15
Research Article # 16

Analysis of Gap between Expected and Achieved Levels of Skills related Learning Outcomes of Graduates

Learning outcomes are the written statements that inform learners what they will expect to achieve at the completion of a programme. By following the Bologna process, Pakistan Higher Education Commission established its national qualifications framework (NQF). Theaim of this s...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)16
Research Article # 18

Effectiveness of Grammar Translation Method and Communicative Language Teaching Approach on Students’ Achievement in English Grammar

The primary objective of the study was to seek the effectiveness of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach and Grammar Translation Method (GTM) on students’ achievement in English grammar in an EEL context. The study at hand focused on linguistic competence only. The n...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)18
Research Article # 19

Exploring the Role of Historic Building Information Modeling for Heritage Conservation in Pakistan: Case of Chauburji Lahore

The research involves application of modern technologies for digital documentation, management and monitoring of built heritage in Pakistan for sustainable developments, giving respect to the authenticity and integrity to the cultural landscapes. The purpose of paper is to eva...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)19
Research Article # 20

Head Teachers’ Ethical Leadership Behaviours and Teachers’ Motivation: A Correlational Study at Elementary Level

Leadership is considered as one of the major factors and sometimes the only factor to determine the success or failure of an educational organization. Ethics is central to leadership because leaders consistently influence their followers’ lives as well as their work place moti...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)20
Research Article # 21

Stylistic Analysis of Brand Taglines and their Impact upon Consumers’ Perception: A Study in Pakistani Context

The study looks at the persuasive power of brand taglines produced by linguistic choices and rhetoric devices in Pakistani context.Thirty taglines representing several brands and collected from different sources were analyzed in this study. The language of selected taglines wa...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)21
Research Article # 22

Hindutva Doctrine, Communal Violence, and the Postcolonial Subalternization of Indian Muslims in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

The paper studies Roy’s fictive character of Anjum: an Indian Muslim ‘Hijra’ of Old Delhi (Shahjahanabad) as the literary sum total of Indian Muslim’s social experience of communal violence and ‘Othering’ from the theoretical perspective of ‘Postcolonial Subalternization’ as e...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)22
Research Article # 23

Measurement and Determinants of Informal Employment: Evidence from Pakistan

This article estimates the size and determinants of informal employment in Pakistan by applying four empirical measures using data from Pakistan Labor Force Survey (2017-18).The recent debate on informality in the labor market has led to a renewal of informal employment measur...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)23
Research Article # 24

Demotivating Factors in the Foreign Language Learning: An Analysis of the Past Studies

Language learners’ demotivation is one of the key reasons for their failure or poor progress in learning a foreign language. The study aimed to identify the key demotivating factors in learning the language. Findings of the 44 published studies in the past years were analyzed....

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)24
Research Article # 25

The Expansionary or Contractionary Effects of Devaluation: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan

The current research is the long-term and short run impact of real exchange rate variations on growth for Pakistani annual data from 1973 to 2011. Pesaran and Shin (1999) and Pesaran et al. (2001) introduced the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to Co-integration ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)25
Research Article # 26

Impact of Ethics of Care on Secondary School Students’ Learning: Evidence from Pakistan

This study aimed to explore the perceptions of administrators, teachers and Grade 9 and 10 students (pre-medical group) regarding the impact of care on the learning of students. The study employed a qualitative research design, and multiple case study method to explore the per...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)26
Research Article # 27

Analysis of Academic Performances of Boarding and Non Boarding Students at University Level in Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Performance of learners is associated with so many other factors as many studies conducted on the analysis of the performance of learners but there are a few studies related to the learners residing at hostels and home at school level which found divided conclusions but at uni...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)27
Research Article # 30

Relationship of Social Skills with Life Satisfaction of Public and Private Secondary School Students

The main purpose of this study was to explore the level of social skills and life satisfaction. A sample of 240 secondary school students randomly selected from the division Gujranwala. Participants were 120 male students out of these 60 were from Govt Schools and 60 from priv...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)30
Research Article # 31

How Conceited Is Donne’s Metaphysical Conceit? A Possible World Perspective With Multiverse Commendation

Metaphysical conceit as popularized by John Donne has remained a narratlogical enigma considering the truth value of the eccentric, stretched metaphorical ideas presented in this category of poetry. Narratologists like Lewis (1986) have successfully made use of the Possible ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)31
Research Article # 35

Impact of Learning Motivation on Students’ Academic Achievement: Mediating Role of Constructive Feedback

The study aimed to find out the impact of learning motivation after the intervention of constructive feedback on students’ academic achievement. A true-experimental research with randomization pretest-posttest control group design was used in the study. The study sample compri...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)35
Research Article # 36

Museums’ Problems and Management for Tourism: A Case Study of District Peshawar

The study is aimed to identify some basic problems of museums and community in Peshawar District and their management to make the museum a visitors’ friendly destination. Museums and community are interdependent to flourish. The development of a museum is subject to the intere...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)36
Research Article # 37

Information Verification Motivation and its Influence on Users’ Social Media Advertising Evaluation and Outcome Behaviors

Social media has overwhelmingly changed the behavior of users and organizations worldwide. Users use social media platforms for several reasons. One of them is users’ product information verification motivation. The effect of product information verification motivation (IVM) o...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)37
Research Article # 38

Development of an Indigenous Scale on Altruism in Urdu

The present study focused on the development of an indigenous scale on altruism in Urdu language. With the help of literature, expert point of view and personal observation, the initial draft of items was prepared. Pilot study was conducted to see the effectiveness and length ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)38
Research Article # 40

Impact of Cognitive Dissonance Bias on Investors’ Decisions: Moderating Role of Emotional Intelligence

The aim of the study is to investigate the influence of cognitive dissonance bias on investors' decision-making, with an emphasis on the moderating effect of emotional intelligence. Cognitive and emotional stages may obstruct rational investment decision-making. This study pro...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)040
Research Article # 41

The Critique of Democracy by Dr. Mohammad Iqbal in the Light of Quran and Hadith

The purpose of this study is to analyze Iqbal's criticism of modern secular democracy, focusing on its limitations and exploitative nature. Western political philosophers acknowledge the failure of secular democracy, with sovereignty often dominated by elected rulers. Economic...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)41
Research Article # 42

Understanding the Evolution and Future Scenarios of Business-to-Business Marketing in Pakistan: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Method Approach

The rapid growth of digital technologies has converted advertising practices and commercial activities worldwide, including business-to-business (B2B) marketing in evolving economies such as Pakistan. Online platforms are being extensively used by business organizations to acc...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-III)42