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

About This Issue

October to December, Volume 5, Issue 4, 2021.

Articles

Research Article # 1

Parental Involvement in Online Learning and Academic Achievements of their Children under COVID-19 Conditions

Due to spreading of deadly COVID-19, all the schools, colleges and universities have been closed for ensuring the social distance and to minimize the effects of this pandemic disease. The closuring of educational institutions has shifted the educational system form face to fac...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)01
Research Article # 3

Financial Drivers of Corporate Cash holdings and its Implications: Evidence from Pakistan Stock Exchange

The study inspects corporate cash holding behavior of firms listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange during 2013 to 2018. More specifically, we look into the financial determinants of corporate cash holdings and its impact on firm value during 2013 to 2018.Furthermore, the study inve...

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

Identifying the Major Causes of Interpersonal Conflicts of Teachers and Managing Strategies of Conflicts at Secondary Schools in Rawalpindi

The objectives of this study were to find out the major causes of interpersonal conflicts of teachers and managing strategies of conflicts at Secondary schools and to compare the opinions of head teachers and SSTs regarding causes of conflicts and managing strategies for confl...

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

Effectiveness of Assertive Training in Developing Social-Emotional Competencies among Adolescents

Adolescence is a developmental stage of transition from childhood to early adulthood carrying immense stress and pressure among growing youngsters. The elevated level of excitement often leads to emotional sensitivity and social problems among the growing adolescents. The pres...

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

Inspecting the Effect of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Quality of Life: The Moderating Role of Economic Benefit

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is serving as a promising project for the citizens of Pakistan. The basic purpose of this research is to explore the influence of CPEC infrastructural development on the local community of Baluchistan and northern areas of Pakistan. This...

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

Management of Social Media Marketing by Higher Education Institutes

This study has focused towards identification of important management dimensions related to Social Media (SM) marketing in the context of Higher Education Institutes (HEIs). The findings of study have highlighted current execution strategies of selected HEIs across various man...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)07
Research Article # 8

The Tragedy Within the Comedy: The Politics of Narrativizing Émigré Crisis in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin

This research aims to examine the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov in the light of Gilles Deleuze and Filix Guattari’s concept of Minor Literature. This research is a qualitative study of the protagonist Timofey Pnin, an émigré, who demonstrates all the three characteristics of ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)08
Research Article # 9

Gender Discrimination through Stereotype Role Depictions: Content Analysis of a Textbook used in a Developing Country

Gender discrimination in Pakistan is strongly discouraged, yet it has been one of the greatest concerns throughout the history of Pakistan. The textbooks currently being used in Pakistan present and represent stereotypical roles that reinforce gender discrimination. This stud...

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

Impact of Head-teachers’ Instructional Approaches on Teachers competencies at Campus Schools in Karachi

The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers’ perceptions of head-teachers’ instructional approaches and its impact on teachers’ competencies at campus schools in Karachi, since lack of teacher competencies has been a substantial issue, as it has remained ineffective t...

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

Married Women’s Negotiations about their Reproductive Rights with Patriarchy

The present study was carried out to explore how married women discuss their reproductive health issues with their spouses. Gender and power theory was used to describe the effect of sociocultural and economic factors on women’s decision making about the size of the family and...

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

Analysis of Undergraduate Students’ Performance during Covid-19: Evidence from a Public University in Karachi

The study focused on student’s academic performance in undergraduate programs with aim to analyze whether or not Covid-19 impacted the academic performance of undergraduate students. With a sample of n = 124 undergraduate students, the study employed the survey research with p...

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

Diverse Animals’ Imagery, Symbolism and Vitality in the Poetry of Ted Hughes

The paper discusses the animal’s vitality in the poems of Ted Hughes from the perceptive of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. Additionally, the notion of animals’ vitality is expanded into mythological or religious dimensions, when animals intercede in human existence and ass...

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

Belt and Road Initiative: A Step towards Shared Economic Growth

Belt and road initiative is strategic economic program that will enhance the economic growth of countries by facilitating through infrastructures development and ease in trading procedures. The case studies discussed in this article from Pakistan, Malaysia and Kazakhstan concl...

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

Psycho-Existential Displacement in Shakespeare’s The Tempest: A Fanonian Study

This research presents a critique on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1623) by using Fanon’s idea of ‘Psycho-Existential Crisis’. Unlike the traditional western criticism that enshrines Shakespeare as the champion of human values and universality, Postcolonial Criticism deth...

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

India-Pakistan Standoff (2001-2002): Chinese Diplomacy to De-escalat

An eye ball situation emerged on India Pakistan border after terrorists targeted the Indian parliament in 2001. This situation created a tense environment in the region. International and regional powers played their due role to remove the tightness between the two nuclear riv...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)16
Research Article # 17

A Challenges of Using ICT at Secondary Schools in Rawalpindi

The main aim of this study is to examine the Challenges of Using ICT at Secondary Schools in Rawalpindi. Information Communication and Technology is a source of connecting, sharing, transferring, and communicating out knowledge and information around the world. ICT consist of ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)17
Research Article # 18

Investigating Washback Effects of the GRE (Verbal) on Test Takers (Successful & Unsuccessful) in Sindh, Pakistan

This study has investigated the washback of the verbal section of Graduate Record Examination (GRE) on test takers, specifically focusing on washback upon learners’ perceptions, attitudes, and test preparation strategies in Sindh, Pakistan. The study employed a mixed method re...

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

Understanding of Students in the Concepts of Geometry at Secondary Level District Lasbela, Baluchistan: An Evaluative Study

This study investigated the understanding of the students in the concepts of Geometry at secondary level. Geometry as one of the branches of the mathematics has an important in the study of mathematics. In this study 15 (Girls/Boys) schools were selected. Teachers (Male/Female...

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

Strategies and Challenges of Novice Public-School Teachers related to Classroom Management at the Elementary Level in Lahore

This study aimed to explore the perceptions of novice teachers about classroom management and the importance of classroom management at the elementary level in Lahore. Specifically, this study explored the challenges novice teachers faced in their early days and the strategies...

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

Online Teaching at ECE: Perspectives of Early Childhood Educators

This study was conducted to investigate the perceptions of teachers about online teaching for the students of early childhood education level whose age are from 3-8 years. For this purpose, 200 teachers at private schools of urban Islamabad were approached in which 197 have re...

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

Legitimizing Oppression: An Althusserian Study of Jamil Ahmed’s The Wandering Falcon

This study aims to analyze the coercion on downtrodden people and the role of the state to legitimize the oppression in Jamil Ahmed’s The Wandering Falcon through the perspective of Althusser’s function of repressive state apparatuses in the capitalist society. It also tends t...

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

Historical Analysis of Federalism in Pakistan from Partition to 1973 Constitution

The history of federalism in Pakistan has been discussed in this paper. The inception of Pakistan, foundations of federal system, its evolution with the passage of time and its effectiveness in the context of governance in Pakistan has been laid out in the paper. The paper exa...

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

Translation Norms in Pakistani Literature: A Comparative Study of The Reluctant Fundamentalist And Bunyad Parast

This qualitative study aims at exploring certain features of the Target Text (TT) in comparison with the Source Text (ST) and investigating the factors that affect the translation process. Further, the research examines the essence of the original conveyed in the translation a...

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

Pakistan’s Engagement with China and Russia: Impacts on the Regional Order

Pakistan is now the gateway to Eurasia and this is increasingly becoming a reality in the light of the integration wave launched by China and patronized by Russia. It is a land bridge to Eurasian Economies and a part of Belt Road Initiatives. 9/11 led to many fundamental chang...

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

The Role of Teachers in Perspective of Millennium Development Goals (MDG’S) of Primary Education in Pakistan

Sending all children to school is a major millennium development goal related to universalization of primary education around the world. The purpose of the study was to explore the roles of teachers and head teachers in perspectives of millennium development goal of primary ed...

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

Intricateness of Identity and Race: A Racist Study of Brit Bennet’s Novel The Vanishing Half

The present study endeavors to unveil the phenomenon of racism as a social, cultural and political concept based on falsehood, and problems of ethnicity in America portrayed in Brit Bennett’s (2020) “The Vanishing Half” under the theoretical framework of Frantz Fanon’s (1952) ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)27
Research Article # 28

Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Qualities and Organizational Commitment of School Monitoring Staff

The research aimed to examine Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Qualities and Organizational Commitment of School Monitoring Staff in Dera Ghazi Khan District. The objectives of the study were on the way to identify the correlation flanked by emotional intelligence, leadershi...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)28
Research Article # 29

Analysis of Social Responsibility Skills with Reference to Life Skills in Secondary School Curriculum

The purpose of the research study was to find out the presence Social Responsibility skills (as an important area of life skills in the Secondary level curriculum. Data was collected through content analysis of curriculum, National Education Policy, and through opinion of curr...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)29
Research Article # 31

Exploring Rapport of NTS and Non NTS Recruited Teachers in District Bagh Azad Jammu and Kashmir

The present study explored Rapport of NTS and Non NTS Recruited Teachers in district Bagh Azad Jammu and Kashmir at Elementary Level. The objective of the study were to explore the perceptions of students toward NTS and non NTS recruited teachers. A survey method was used to ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)31
Research Article # 32

Forensic Investigation of Road Traffic Accident Cases in Pakistan and Types of Physical Evidence

Road accident is an eminent, socio-economic, and felonious problem in all developed and under-developed countries. The dynamics and significance of road accidents are changing day by day and it has not been attracted sufficient attention from modern sciences. Pakistan being an...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)32
Research Article # 33

Bidirectional Relationship between Terrorism and Pakistan Stock Market: Evidence from ARDL and Nonlinear ARDL Approaches

This study used to find the effect of terrorism attacks over the Overall Pakistan Stock market for the period from January-2005 to December 2019. This study used all the companies registered in the Pakistan stock exchange. By employing ARDL technique this study statistically p...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)33
Research Article # 34

Relationship between Man and Nature in Paulo Coelho’s Alchemist: An Ecocriticial Study

The study is an attempt to examine the aspects of the relationship between human beings and nature through the Ecocritical study of Paulo Coelho’s novel Alchemist. Through the application of the theory of Ecocriticism, the study explores the role of nature in the lives of huma...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)34
Research Article # 35

Afghanistan Under the Shadows of Taliban and Implications For Pakistan and Regional Security

The Taliban's possible return to Kabul would affect the region, in the short term, the situation in Afghanistan may benefit regional players; China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran but in long term, can become problematic for these nations. This study shed light on the future prosp...

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

Exploring Education for Global Citizenship: Qualitative Content Analysis of Islamiyat Textbook

Education for global citizenship is not a new concept, it empowers the students to foster an awareness of others' expectations towards the interconnected world. It helps the learner to develop values and attitudes toward global citizenship education so that they face challenge...

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

A Comparative Analysis of Gender and Educational Leadership in Pakistan and the United Kingdom

This paper considers gender differences in educational leadership theory and practice in two countries: Pakistan and United Kingdom. The differences are highlighted and explored through a comparative analysis of gender roles and its multitude effects on women. By undertaking t...

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

Effect of Cooperative Learning Strategies on Students’ Learning

It is noticed that students are stay deprived from the practical teaching because our teaching and learning system has its base on rote system. In this paper, researcher tried to bring in teaching method that may support students learning so that they are able to develop their...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)38
Research Article # 39

Individual Preferences and Constraints: A Naturalistic Study of “Exit West

The present research study endeavors to probe out the aspects of individual preferences and constraints through the naturalistic study of Hamid’s (2017) Exit West, under the theoretical framework of Zola’s (1964) The Experimental Novel: And other Essays. The purpose of this re...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)39
Research Article # 40

Admissibility of Digital Evidence: A perspective of Pakistani Justice System

Digital evidence is any evidence which can be stored, exchanged or generated in electronic form. Such type of evidence has assumed a crucial role in modern day adjudication of criminal cases. In the recent past, digital evidence was treated as secondary evidence in Pakistan, h...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)40
Research Article # 41

Exploring the ‘Civil Repair’ Role of Media: A Case Study of the Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka

On the day of Easter Sunday April 21, 2019 within the span of 20 minutes in Sri Lanka there was a chain of six coordinated suicide attacks in historical churches and standard hotels in the capital city Colombo along with other places. The attacks left at least 253 people kille...

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

Critical Analysis of the Academic Performance of Students at High Secondary Level (HSL)

Students are the asset of education. Every age of a child vary different needs and level of understanding and learning. “Critical Analysis of the Academic Performance of Students at ‘HSL” is carried out to examine the level of achievement of students due to transition from hig...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)42
Research Article # 43

Legal Framework of Right to Privacy: A Comparative Analysis of Western and Islamic Law

Endeavour of this paper is to grasp the idea of the right of privacy to establish its utility for social conformity and harmony in the postmodern world Islam v modern world. It has so happened in the last few decades that Islamic law and Western ideology seems to be poles apar...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)43
Research Article # 44

Governmental Strategies to Control COVID-19 in Pakistan and India: A Comparative Study

The current study has focused on the governance issues faced to policy implication and practical implications of the decided immediate precautionary measures. It was a qualitative comparative study of developing countries i.e. Pakistan and India as both countries have almost s...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)44
Research Article # 45

Edhi Foundation: A Struggle for Humanitarian Survival under the Global Welfare Vision

The social specific system is managed by the official and non-official organizations under the umbrella of concluded agreement powers. These are the social work organizations that respect, prefer and defend human basic rights; and with the passage of time they improve the civi...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)45
Research Article # 46

Role of Education and Labor Force Participation in Influencing Women Empowerment in Pakistan: A Case Study of District Khanewal

The present study has attempted to focus on the role of education and labor force participation in influencing women's empowerment in Pakistan. The primary data were collected from 200 female respondents from Khanewal district using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique f...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)46
Research Article # 47

Factors Effecting the Development of Social Emotional Competence of Muslim and Non-Muslim Students at the Secondary Level in Pakistan

This paper investigates the factors affecting the development of social-emotional competence of Muslim and Non-Muslim students at the secondary level in Pakistan. The study was a mixed-method in which the researcher used a QUAN-QUAL sequential explanatory model. All the Muslim...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)47
Research Article # 48

Work Family Conflict, Creative Performance, and Paternalistic Leadership: Analyzing the Paradigms

This study was designed to evaluate the impact of work-family conflict on creative performance, whereas, the paternalistic leadership was tested as the mediating variable in the case of National Highway & Motorway Police. This is a cross-sectional research study having a popul...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)48
Research Article # 50

An Investigation of ESL Students’ Perceptions on the Use of Social Networking Applications to Increase Motivation and Vocabulary Development

This study examines the influence of social media on English vocabulary growth and motivation enhancement among ESL students in public and private institutions in Pakistan. This study is descriptive in nature. In this regard, data was gathered through the convenience sampling ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)50
Research Article # 51

Appropriation and Westernization: A Postcolonial Study of the Inheritance of Loss

Appropriation is a process to take or borrow some conventions and beliefs of another culture and practice those conventions and beliefs in their lives merging with their own. Westernization can be defined as a process through which the social setup of eastern areas is changed ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)51
Research Article # 52

Phonological Variation in Verb in Pashto Spoken in District Swat

The present study seeks to find out the phonological variations in Pashto spoken in district Swat. The aim of the study is to investigate the phonological variation in the form of verb in two varieties of Pashto spoken in Swat, i.e, in Upper and Lower Swat regions. The study u...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)52
Research Article # 53

Ideology, Politics and Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Headline about Pakistan Democratic Movement

This study aims to do a Critical Discourse Analysis of the news headlines about Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). For the critical discourse analysis of this current issue, twenty five news headlines are randomly selected from the regional newspapers. The critical discourse ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)53
Research Article # 54

Historiographic Metafictional Portraits of Twentieth Century Scientists in Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World

The paper critically analyses Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World (2020) as a work of Historiographic Metafiction aiming to undermine the authority and veracity of scientific discourses hailing the individuals featured in the novel as men possessing an unp...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)54
Research Article # 55

Perception of University Teachers and Students Regarding the Use and Effectiveness of Audio Visual Aids in their Daily Classroom Teaching

The main purpose of this research article was to find out the effective role of Audio Visual aids for university students. AV aids are the most supportive and encouraging tools of teaching and learning process. For this purpose researcher has made a questionnaire of 33 stateme...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)55
Research Article # 56

Role of Research Supervisors to Implement Ethical Practices in Research of Social Sciences

In social sciences, research supervision with ethical considerations is crucial at universities. This study is designed to identify the gap between research students and supervisors in implementation of ethical research standards. Being a survey type study, population comprise...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)56
Research Article # 57

A Narrative of Hybrid Identity of Second Generation Immigrants in ‘The Buddha of Suburbia‘

This study examines the difficulties experienced by second-generation immigrants in establishing their identities as depicted in Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia." It seeks to draw a comparison in identity creation between the characters in this novel and general immig...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)57
Research Article # 58

Socio Economic Barriers Restricting Women Participation in Local Government System in District Bahawalpur

The current study sets out for investigating socio-economic barriers restricting women participation in local government system in District Bahawalpur. Women are actively participating in all fields of life in developed nations which is source of motivation for women in develo...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)58
Research Article # 60

Alter (Narrating) The Story of Nation: The Fluidity of 1971 War Narratives in Anglophone Pakistani Fiction

The present article is a critical and reflective reading across three texts produced in the wake of the 1971 War between Pakistan (formerly East Pakistan) and India culminating in the secession and making of Bangladesh. The selected texts which include Moni Mohsin’s End of Inn...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2021(5-IV)60