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Who Supports Honor-Based Violence in the Middle East? Findings From a National Survey of Kuwait
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
This study reports findings from what is, to the authors' knowledge, the first nationally representative survey of public attitudes toward honor-based violence (HBV) in a Middle East country affected by such violence, and ...
Ethical Commitments And Raison D’etat In Rentier States: Asylum-Seeker Policies In The Gulf Cooperation Council And Central Asian Republics During The Refugee Crisis
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Rasim Özgür Dönmez (Prof.Dr., Abant İzzet Baysal Univ., editor@alternatifpolitika.com)
, 2018 , Article)
The international migrant crisis made headlines during summer 2015 and challenged the national asylum systems of many countries worldwide. Going beyond academic circles, hot debates on migrants and the role of asylum ...
Nudging greywater acceptability in a Muslim country: Comparisons of different greywater reuse framings in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
With very low annual rainfall and increasingly depleted groundwater resources, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are some of the most water scarce in the world and rely on growing quantities of desalinated water ...
Examining the cross-cultural attitudes of Qataris and expatriates in Qatar, the host country of 2022 World Cup
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Emerald Publishing Limited
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how residents in Qatar, the host country of the 2022 World Cup, interact, socialize and acculturate in order to create a more harmonic society, a critical factor for the ...
Attitudes Toward the Coaching Profession: Evidence from a Nation-Wide Study in Qatar
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Human Kinetics
, 2018 , Article)
The present study aimed to develop a scale for measuring Qataris’ attitudes toward coaching and their intentions towards this profession. The survey target population included Qataris who were 18 years or older and who ...
Antecedents and consequences of perceived student employability in Qatar: parental perspective
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Springer Verlag
, 2018 , Article)
The aim of this research is to examine the factors that influence parental perceptions of the image of Qatar’s national university, Qatar University. The study builds on relevant scholarship on perceptions of organizational ...
Assessing the factor structure and measurement invariance of the eating attitude test (EAT-26) across language and BMI in young Arab women
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BioMed Central
, 2018 , Article)
Background: The objective of the study was to determine the factorial structure and test the measurement
invariance of the EAT-26 in a large probability sample of young female university students in Qatar (n = 2692),
a ...
Determinants of College and University Choice for High-School Students in Qatar
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Sciedu Press
, 2018 , Article)
Drawing on existing research, this paper investigates various predictors of high school students’ college and university choice decisions in Qatar. Based on a 2015 survey of 1,427 participants, this study utilized exploratory ...
"Toxic pleasures”: A study of eating out behavior in Arab female university students and its associations with psychological distress and disordered eating
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
University years are a critical period in which young people establish independence and adopt lasting health behaviors. The aim of this study was to estimate the
associations between eating out, psychological distress, ...
Competence and Electability: Exploring the Limitations on Female Candidates in Qatar
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
Attitudes about women’s expertise can play a role in limiting their access to influential public spaces, including elected government positions. In the Arab Gulf, women remain underrepresented in electoral politics. This ...