جریب حیات(افسانہ)
ڈاکٹر مجاہد عباس ،لیکچرر، نمل یونیورسٹی اسلام آباد
جریب زمین کے لیے ہے یا حیات کے لیے، زمین اور حیات دونوں ہی اس سے ناواقف رہتی ہیں۔ البتہ انسان جو زمین سے اگایا جاتا ہے اور پھر زمین میں ہی دبایا جاتا ہے جریبوں کی پیمائش بن کے رہ جاتا ہے۔
اقصیٰ کےلبوں پر سَرمیلی بسنت کے پھول کھل رہے تھے۔اُس نے زمین کی طرف جھکتے ہوئے اپنی زلف ِ دراز کو بائیں کان کی اوٹ میں سُلا دیا اور زمین پر گرے کاغذ کو ہتھیلی پر رکھ کر دل میں اُتار لیا۔ اُسے اپنے پیلے لباس کی مہک وصل کی چاندنی رات کا قصہ ِ ناتمام سنارہی تھی مگر وہ مسلسل سوچوں کی جریب سے پرائے موریے اور بورنیو کے جنگلات کی پیمائش کر رہی تھی۔وہ اُن جنگلات کے سحر انگیز مناظر میں یوں کھوئے جا رہی تھی جیسے دین و دنیا کی متاع ِ بے پایاں اُسے نصیب ہو گئی ہو۔وہ ایک ایک پودے کے ایک ایک پتے کے ایک ایک ملائم اور تیزکنارے کو چھو کر اس کی خوشبو اور لطافت کو جذب کر رہی تھی۔ وہ خود کو پرسکون سبز سمندر کی کشتی سمجھ کر ہوا کے رخ پر دھیرے دھیرے رواں دواں تھی۔ ابھی اُس نے اپنی کمر سیدھی نہیں کی تھی کہ اسےگلی سے گزرتی ہوئی لاری کی آواز سنائی دی جس پر اے کلاس چنیوٹی فرنیچر سلیقے سے لادا گیا تھا۔
اس نے ٹیَلوں لگے فرش سے پلاسٹک کی میز اور کرسیاں اٹھا کر گھر کی پچھلی طرف لان میں رکھ دیں جہاں پھولوں کے احاطے میں سبزے کی بہار تھی۔ یہ لان اس کی زندگی میں افضال کی طرح اہمیت رکھتا تھا۔ وہ جب بھی تھک جاتی تو وہاں آرام کرتی تھی، پودوں...
This study aims to look at the determinant factors that affect the intense / intention to do child marriage to adolescents in Banggai Laut. This research method using a cross sectional study. The research sample consisted of 192 teenage students in SMA Negeri 1 Banggai and SMA Negeri 2 Banggai. Chi-square test and multiple logistic regression were used to analyze the data. The results of the bivariate analysis showed that there was an effect of attitude, family drive and behavior control on the intention to do child marriage (p <0.05). The results of the multivariate analysis showed that there was only one variable that had a p value <0.05, namely the family drive variable with p = 0.029. From exp (B) = 4,871> 1 is a risk factor and the Cl value is 95% more than 1 (1,178-20,142) so that OR is significant. This means that respondents who are influenced by family encouragement have a risk of 4,871 times having the intention of engaging in child marriage. It can be concluded that there are many factors that can influence adolescents in engaging in child marriage. All levels of society should protect children together and stop the practice of child marriage in society. The smallest and closest family unit for the child should be able to protect it, not be the main factor that encourages underage marriage.
This mixed method study aimed to investigate information seeking anxiety among postgraduate students using a sequential explanatory research strategy and was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the data were collected using a questionnaire containing Information Seeking Anxiety Scale (ISAS) and demographic variables from postgraduate students. The second phase involved qualitative data collection using an interview guide from purposively selected students in order to better understand the proposed research problem. The targeted population consisted of postgraduate students from University of the Punjab, Lahore, for both phases of the study. In the quantitative phase, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) yielded six dimensions to the ISAS, namely, (1) Resource Anxiety, (2) ICT Anxiety, (3) Library Anxiety, (4) Search Anxiety, (5) Mechanical Anxiety, and (6) Thematic Anxiety. These six dimensions, while similar to those of Erfanmanesh, Abrizah, and Karim’s (2012) study, differed from their initial results with regard to the statements loaded on each factor. The results indicated that the ‘Thematic Anxiety’ was the most prevalent dimension among these respondents, followed by ‘Resource Anxiety’, ‘Mechanical Anxiety’, ‘ICT Anxiety’, and ‘Search Anxiety’; whereas ‘Library Anxiety’ was the least prevalent dimension. The largest segment of the sample experienced more than low anxiety in information seeking with regard to overall ISAS and all its sub-dimensions. Moreover, the participants’ age, gender, faculty, program of study, study stage, computer iii proficiency, and publishing experience appeared to be correlatives to the information seeking anxiety. While in the qualitative phase, the participants were asked to describe such critical situations that made them anxious in the information seeking process. The recurrent themes, identified by analyzing the content of students’ narratives, confirmed some of the dimensions observed in the quantitative phase. The emergent themes include: (a) Procedural Anxiety, (b) Information Overload, (c) Resource Anxiety, (d) Deficient Library Services, (e) Perceived Information Competence, (f) ICT Anxiety, (g) Language Anxiety, and (h) Thematic Anxiety. These participants also exhibited certain avoidance behaviours such as search avoidance, task avoidance, and even research avoidance, along with an inferiority complex. The results provided useful insights into the factors that caused anxiety among postgraduate students while seeking needed information. These findings would assist in developing useful directions for information literacy programs and help academic librarians in designing information literacy curricula not only for the students of the University of the Punjab but also for other similar institutions of Pakistan as well as of South Asia. Furthermore, the findings would encourage other researchers to conduct more detailed enquiries at other universities in Pakistan as well as in other developing countries. This study would make a worthwhile contribution to the literature on academic related anxiety in general, and information seeking anxiety in particular.