The present research was carried out to explore the adult attachment and its association on the marital satisfaction among couples in Pakistan. The main objective of the current study was to find out the relationship of adult attachment for marital satisfaction among couples and also to find out the relationship of husbands` attachment dimensions on the wives’ marital satisfaction and impact of wives’ attachment dimensions on the husband marital satisfaction. Present research further explored three factors i.e. conflict resolution, social support, and communication competence and their role as mediating variables between attachment and marital satisfaction. The research comprised three studies. Study I deals with translation and determination of psychometric properties of Experiences in Close Relationships- Revised questionnaire (Fraley, Waller, & Brennan, 2000); Enrich Couple Scales (Olson, 1996); and Social Provision Scale (Cutrona & Russell, 1987). Part I of study- I deals with ttranslation, adaptation, and cross language validation of the instrument. Part II deals with pretesting Instruments on a small sample and also determines the construct validity like Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Initially the researcher translated the scale into Urdu language and then carries out pre-testing on a small sample of 48 married individuals. The results of pretesting indicated that all the three instruments were showing satisfactory reliabilities indices. Afterwards the translated instruments were ready for Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on a sample of 300 married individuals. As results of CFA reduced final instruments were administered to a sample of 96 married couples (192 individuals) to verify the psychometric properties and testing the preliminary hypothesis in pilot study. Correlation coefficients were computed as indices to verify the magnitude and direction among various variables. Finally main study was conducted with N=350 (175 couples) on diverse groups on the basis of age, education, income, family system, length of relationship and number of children. There are three mediating variables, such as, conflict resolution, social support, and communication competence which are hypothesized to mediate the relationship between adult attachment and marital satisfaction. Consistent with hypothesis the research shows that three separate models were drawn to check the path analysis in AMOS software and these models are based upon Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) and it is found that conflict resolution is contributing as a mediating variable between attachment and marital satisfaction. For example anxious female is affecting her own conflict resolution as compared to avoidant female who aeffects the partners` marital satisfaction. Communication competence of both partners is fully mediating the relationship between avoidance and marital satisfaction. Similarly, social support is fully mediating the relationship between both partners` avoidance and their marital satisfaction. Finally, it was concluded that couples with anxious and avoidant attachment reported less marital satisfaction and there is a significant role of conflict resolution, communication competence and social support in strengthening the marital satisfaction. In the end, the findings are discussed in light of Pakistani cultural context and its implications in the Pakistani society.
گرنام سنگھ کے چائے کے کھوکھے کے باہر رکھے ہوئے بنچ پر چھ گلاسوں والے چھکےمیں رکھے تین ادھ بھرےچائے کے گلاسوں کو بارش پورا کرتھی اور کھوکھے پر موم جامے میں لپٹے ریڈیو میں زہرہ پائی انبالے والی کی مدھ بھری آواز میں انیس سو چالیس کا مشہور نغمہ "ساون کے بادلوں۔۔۔ان سےجا کہو"۔ گانے کو ماحول مہیا کر رہی تھی۔ جب سے گرنام سنگھ نے مومی لفافہ خریداتھا۔ اس وقت سے کسی نے ریڈیو کو برہنہ نہیں دیکھا تھا۔ ریڈیو کی دوشیزگی گرنام سنگھ غیرت مند باپ کی طرح برقرار رکھے ہواتھا۔ کھوکھے والی گلی کے نکڑ پر ایک دکھی عورت اپنے دونوں ہاتھ اٹھا کر کچھ کہہ رہی تھی، پتہ نہیں اس کے لب بھی گانے کے لفظوں کو دہرا رہے تھے۔ اس کے دونوں ہاتھوں میں اچانک ایک روپے کا سکہ آن گرا۔ اس نے منہ آسمان کی طرف اٹھا کے دیکھنا چاہا کہ سکہ کس نے مجھے دیا ہے تیربرساتے قطروں کےساتھ کالے بادل بھی اپنا غصہ بجلی چمکا کر دکھا رہے تھے۔ دائیں بائیں دیکھا تو ایک فقیر جس کا کاسہ کارتوس کی پیٹی کی مانند کندھے سےلٹکا تھا۔ باآواز بلند کہے جارہا تھا ’’جو دے اس کا بھی بھلا جو نہ دے اس کا بھی بھلا۔ دینا ہے تو خیر کی خیرات دے‘‘۔ دکھی عورت نے بھاگ کر فقیرکو آن لیا۔ ’’ٹھہرنا ‘‘ ۔۔۔فقیر رک گیا ۔ اوراس نے اپنے کندھے اور کمر سے لٹکے ہوئے کاسے کو سیدھا کر عورت کے سامنے بھیک کے لیے پھیلایا۔ ’’دینا ہے تو خیر کی خیرات دے‘‘۔ عورت نے دکھی آواز میں فقیر سے کہا ’’میں تو خود مصیبتوں کی ماری ہوں ۔ میں کہا ںخیرات دے سکتی ہوں۔ کیا یہ سکہ آپ نے میری ہتھیلی پر رکھا ہے...
The government of General Ayub Khan (Former President of Pakistan) established an Institution in 1960, in the name of Idarah Tahqeeqat Islami (Islamic Research Institute). Dr, Fazlur Rahman, was the visiting professor at the institute remained on the rank of director of the year 1961 to 768 in seven years. And later, he serves as an advisor to the Islamic Ideology council. The writer who was published by the Institute of Islamic Research was the first editor of "Fikr-o - Nazar”. The scholars were considered as 'expertise of logic and philosophy' as 'interpretation of the Qur'an'. It is mentioned in the various verses of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). The slaughtering of zakat in 'zakat' animal slaughtering 'basic laws and family planning' matters of marriage and Sunnah, such as the month of revelation, and their opinions have earned great reputation. And because of which they were accused of denying the heavenly nature of the Qur'an. Therefore, the first step towards Islamic thinking regarding the Islamic idea was to put an eye on Islamic law and religious beliefs on Islam. According to their plan, the difference between the Quranic verses and the verses and the laws of the law, is the difference. Regarding the meanings, his axis received: The beginning of the tradition and the meaning of 'the law of the law' is the word and the law. Islamic Laws' Principles Concernedly speaking about issues like Fiqh and Qa'as and al-Azai speak.
The Cd accumulation might result disturbances in plant metabolism causing several physio-biochemical and structural changes ultimately declining the crop productivity. The experiments were conducted in two phases (plant and callus) under different combinations of Cd (control, 100, 500, and 700 μM) without or with AsA (0.0 18 and 200 mg L-1) with four genotypes of barley (Jau-83, Jau-87, Paidar 91 and Haider 93). The results revealed variable Cd accumulation pattern in the both culture systems (seedling and callus). Roots showed higher Cd accumulation as compared to shoot and callus. The lower Cd accumulation of callus than root exhibited less sensitivity of callus to Cd-induced stress. A two phase linear concentration-dependent Cd accumulation pattern was observed in root and shoot whereas in callus Cd accumulated in a linear concentration-dependent fashion with the elevating Cd levels in the both culture media. However, protective effect of AsA on root or shoot and the callus inhibited the Cd accumulation from the both media revealing the possibility of occurrence of the formation of stable AsA-Cd complexes. Higher amounts of H2O2 and MDA caused Cdinduced oxidative stress elevating the activities of antioxidants (CAT and POD) which accelerated the accumulation of solutes disturbing mineral nutrients and water status in the both media. The uneven SOD activity exhibited that differences existed among the genotypes to withstand the Cd toxicity. The application of AsA in combination with the elevating Cd stress showed improvements in the SOD activity indicating that higher SOD activity might modulate the activities of other enzymes and regulate the solutes maintaining water relations under Cd-induced oxidative stress and ultimately the growth in the both culture media. Based on Cd translocation factor and the root STI, and the callus BCF and STI factors, Jau-83 showed more tolerance to Cd toxicity followed by Jau-87 and Paidar 91and Haider 93 to Cd toxicity.