In Lebanon cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity. Assisting people to live with cardiac illness is a problem needing attention. Literature demonstrated significant association between effective self-care practices and secondary prevention of c…
Scope and method of study. The objectives of this study were to (1) assess hotel managers' perception towards relationship marketing (RM) in Turkey's lodging industry; (2) assess if there is a GAP between hotel managers' perception towards importance and performance of RM applic…
In the years following the September 11th attacks, Americans increasingly pondered why an ill-defined "they" harbor hostility towards an allegedly cohesive "us." Simply stated, asking the question "why do they hate us?" became cliche. Yet anti-Americanism as a concept remains am…
The current study aimed to assess religious clients' evaluation of therapists' helpfulness in psychotherapy. Participants (N = 35) were undergraduate and graduate students from 11 public institutions of higher learning within the United States of America. Participants were actua…
In Saudi Arabia, genetic practice is growing due to high consanguinity and incidence of genetic diseases in the Saudi population. Nurses and physicians must be competent in providing genetic services and aware of their implications in clinical practice. The purpose of this study…
This study attempts to investigate the views of three groups of Saudi ESL and EFL learners (total = 100) toward some pedagogical issues related to native and nonnative English-speaking teachers. Specifically, it seeks to focus on participants' perceptions and beliefs regarding t…
Using a nationwide household sample, this study examined public perception of and experience with white collar crime in Turkey. The study also looked into demographic characteristics that influence individuals' likelihood of being victimized by white collar crime and the reporti…
The purpose of this research was to examine the influence of police organizational culture on officers' perception of integrity in the Turkish National Police (TNP). Adopting an organizational rather than an individualistic perspective, this study focused on police organizationa…
L'étude suivante vise la compréhension d'un fait social qui porte sur la perception des jeunes concernant des gens soi-disant membres des "communautés culturelles" telles que définies par l'État québécois. Nous voulons savoir, en général, comment des acteurs à l'intérieur des co…
This study employed Terror Management Theory (TMT) to examine whether evoking thoughts about being in a terrorist attack would lead to a worldview defense similar to that which occurs when mortality is made salient. That is, it examined whether, participants would defend their c…
Conducted within a feminist framework and guided by the principles of grounded theory methodology, this dissertation reports on the findings of a study of women's rape perceptions, undertaken in Beirut, Lebanon. The study relied on 38 interviews, participant observation, and a r…