Muhammad Rizwan
Biographic Data
| ID | 98273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muhammad Rizwan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muhammad |
| FAMILY NAME | Rizwan |
| SIGNATURE | RIZWAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Islamia University of Bahawalpur |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5332-9980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Is Societal Progress Muting the Expressivity of Negative Emotions? Evidence from Two Cross-national Studies
Contemporary theories of emotion emphasize the dual role of emotions as both personal experiences and communicative signals during social interactions. However, the impact of macro-level societal structures on emotional expression remains underexplored. This study investigates the expression-experience discrepancy for self-reported emotions across nations, focusing on how societal development relates to this discrepancy, which captures expressivi…
Climate-induced displacement and urban insecurity in Pakistan
Climate change is increasingly recognised as a threat multiplier for conflict. However, much of the climate – security literature remains nationally aggregated or rural-focused, offering limited insight into how environmental shocks reshape security and development dynamics within cities. This article examines how climate-induced internal displacement following Pakistan’s 2022 floods intersects with pre-existing urban vulnerabilities in Karachi a…
Restoration of Copper (Cu) Polluted Soil Using Compost and Vermicompost and Their Impact on Chili Growth
The phytoavailability of copper (Cu) in productive soils poses a significant threat to ecosystems, predominantly due to its extensive use in mineral fertilizers aimed at enhancing crop yield. To address this issue, a pot trial was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of compost (CP) and vermicompost (VC) induced from agro‐industrial waste byproducts, applied at rates of 1%, 3% and 5% to immobilize Cu in contaminated calcareous soil. This trial was …
Mind the Gap
The link between economic inequality and individual well-being has been gaining increasing research attention. This study examines this relationship using data from 71 countries with diverse national incomes, addressing three key research gaps: (1) incorporating measures of both perceived and objective economic inequality, (2) extending analysis to multiple components of well-being beyond happiness, including meaning in life, harmony, and spiritu…
Happiness Maximization Is a Weird Way of Living
Psychological science tends to treat subjective well-being and happiness synonymously. We start from the assumption that subjective well-being is more than being happy to ask the fundamental question: What is the ideal level of happiness? From a cross-cultural perspective, we propose that the idealization of attaining maximum levels of happiness may be especially characteristic of Western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) societ…
The function of love
A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness
Although most people aspire to be happy, the extent to which people pursue or idealize experiencing high levels of happiness does differ according to sociocultural context. This study was designed to elucidate which societal and cultural indicators are the most conducive to fostering high levels of happiness idealization. To accomplish this goal, we measured levels of happiness idealization for 11,170 participants residing in 43 different countri…
Love beyond east and west
Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being
Prevalence of Social Anxiety Disorder in Undergraduate Students of Hazara Division, Pakistan
Globally, people are more likely to suffer from social anxiety issues (SAD) in regions with high levels of social and performance demands. This study evaluates the occurrence and severity of SAD among undergraduates in the Pakistani culture Hazara Area. It controls for gender and age. A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted. An investigation of 353 college students looked into the frequency, symptoms, and effects of SAD on everyday …
The Role of Cultural Heterogeneity in Strengthening the Link Between Family Relationships and Life Satisfaction in 50 Societies
We argue that the importance of family relationships for individual well-being varies across societies as a function of a society’s degree of cultural heterogeneity. To examine the role of family relationships, we analyzed the responses from 13,009 participants in 50 societies on their life satisfaction across societies varying in their levels of historical and contemporary cultural heterogeneity. Such heterogeneity creates differences in the fre…
State and Protection of Cultural Heritage in Bone, South Sulawesi
Indonesia possesses a rich cultural heritage consisting of both tangible and intangible artifacts that continue to exist in the present day. This cultural heritage has significantly contributed to the advancement of human civilization, encompassing economic, social, and scientific dimensions. This study seeks to examine the state's involvement in safeguarding cultural assets in Bone Regency, located in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The article emplo…
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
Religious (Salat) Behavior and Suicidality among Youth in Pakistan
The manuscript studied religious (Salat) behavior and its link with the probability of suicide among Muslim youth in Pakistan. After careful analysis of scientific literature, it was hypothesized that “young adults who are regular in the practice of religious behavior (Salat) would have a lower score on the measures of suicidal behavior as compared to those who are irregular and rarely/occasionally practice religious behavior (Salat)". A sample o…
Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being
How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when well-being is being measured according to the way people in country A think about well-being? We address this issue by proposing a new culturally sensitive method to comparing societal levels of well-being. We support our reasoning with data on life satisfaction and interdependent happiness focusing on individual and family, collected mostly from students, across for…
Moral Expansiveness Around the World
What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found …
Physiological interaction of Sars-CoV-2 binding to the ACE-2 receptor
For a better knowledge of how viruses enter cells, the associations that are created between the viral glycoproteins and associated human receptors must be studied. The spike glycoprotein (S-glycoprotein) of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 mediates entrance into host cells, and the cellular receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2) has been discovered.The goal of our research was to evaluate the physiological interactions between the SARSCo…
Impact of perceived social support and psychological capital on university students’ academic success
This research develops a predictive model for examining students' academic adjustment to university and the outcomes of success based on social capital theory and conservation of resources theory. The current study suggests that it is necessary for policymakers to make full use of their ability to enable students to adjust to university life effectively. Higher education institutions should therefore pay full attention to the development of stude…
Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal
Past research has shown that economic inequality shapes individuals' self-construals. However, it has been unclear which dimensions of self-construal are associated with and affected by economic inequality. A correlational (Study 1: N = 264) and an experimental study (Study 2: N = 532) provided converging evidence linking perceived economic inequality with two forms of independent (vs. interdependent) self-construal: Difference from Others and Se…
Self-construals predict personal life satisfaction with different strengths across societal contexts differing in national wealth and religious heritage
We explore to what extent previously observed pan-cultural association between dimensions of self-construal and personal life satisfaction (PLS) may be moderated by three national-contextual variables: national wealth, economic inequality, and religious heritage. The results showed that Self-reliance (vs. dependence on others) predicted PLS positively in poorer countries but negatively in richer countries. Connectedness to others (vs. self-contai…
Emotional experiences and psychological well-being in 51 countries during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges to psychological well-being, but how can we predict when people suffer or cope during sustained stress? Here, we test the prediction that specific types of momentary emotional experiences are differently linked to psychological well-being during the pandemic. Study 1 used survey data collected from 24,221 participants in 51 countries during the COVID-19 outbreak. We show that, across countries, well-being…
Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance
While a great deal is known about the individual difference factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, much less is known about the country‐level factors that shape people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories. In the current article we discuss the possibility that willingness to believe conspiracy theories might be shaped by the perception (and reality) of poor economic performance at the national level. To test this notion, we surveyed …
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incompetent and unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies and also examines the role of wealth‐based categorization in explaining this relationship. We found that people who perceived highe…
Family First
People care about their own well-being and about the well-being of their families. It is currently, however, unknown how much people tend to value their own versus their family’s well-being. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size ( N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries ( N = 49). We found that …
Covid-19 and Social Distancing
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the introduction of unprecedented safety measures, one of them being physical distancing recommendations. Here, we assessed whether the pandemic has led to long-term effects on two important physical distancing aspects, namely interpersonal distance preferences and interpersonal touch behaviors. We analyzed nearly 14,000 individual cases from two large, cross-cultural surveys – the first conducted 2 years prior to…
Preferred Interpersonal Distances
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of…
Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance
While a great deal is known about the individual difference factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, much less is known about the country‐level factors that shape people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories. In the current article we discuss the possibility that willingness to believe conspiracy theories might be shaped by the perception (and reality) of poor economic performance at the national level. To test this notion, we surveyed …
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were ba…
Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups
A survey of the cultural notions related to happiness and the existing empirical evidence indicate that some individuals endorse the belief that happiness, particularly an immoderate degree of it, should be avoided. These beliefs mainly involve the general notion that happiness may lead to bad things happening. Using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel modeling, this study investigates the measurement invariance, cross-level is…
An empirical analysis of monetary and multidimensional poverty
The present study computes multidimensional poverty and compares it with unidimensional estimates of poverty for the district of Mandi Bahuddin in the Punjab province of Pakistan for the years 2010 and 2014. By employing the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) and Alkire-Foster Methods, the incidence, severity and depth of unidimensional and multidimensionality poverty was estimated. We found an increase in absolute and relative poverty levels in 2…
Nation-Level Moderators of the Extent to Which Self-Efficacy and Relationship Harmony Predict Students’ Depression and Life Satisfaction
Previous two-nation comparisons have provided evidence that self-efficacy may be a protective factor against depression in individualist cultures, whereas relationship harmony may be a stronger protective factor in collectivist cultures. However, wider sampling and more specific measures of cultural difference are required to test these conclusions. Student ratings of depression and life satisfaction were surveyed in 10 samples drawn from nine na…
Family First
People care about their own well-being and about the well-being of their families. It is currently, however, unknown how much people tend to value their own versus their family’s well-being. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size ( N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries ( N = 49). We found that …
The function of love
Love beyond east and west
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
Covid-19 and Social Distancing
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the introduction of unprecedented safety measures, one of them being physical distancing recommendations. Here, we assessed whether the pandemic has led to long-term effects on two important physical distancing aspects, namely interpersonal distance preferences and interpersonal touch behaviors. We analyzed nearly 14,000 individual cases from two large, cross-cultural surveys – the first conducted 2 years prior to…
Cultural Variations in the Relationship Between Anger Coping Styles, Depression, and Life Satisfaction
Hypotheses are tested that ways of handling anger and their consequences will differ in student samples drawn from dignity cultures (United Kingdom and Finland), honor cultures (Turkey and Pakistan), and face cultures (Hong Kong and China). In line with our hypotheses, holding anger in and controlling anger correlate positively in face cultures but not in other samples, whereas holding anger in and letting anger out correlate positively in honor …
Self-Esteem Deficits Among Psychiatric Patients
The objective of the present study was to investigate the difference in the level of self-esteem among patients with psychiatric disorders and normal controls. After a detailed literature review, it was hypothesized that there would be a significant difference in the level of self-esteem among patients with psychiatric disorders and normal controls. The sample of the present study consisted of 260 participants, who were further divided into two g…
The relationship of Brand Commitment, Brand Credibility, Perceived Quality, Customer Satisfaction and brand loyalty
Group advertisement can help build brands, but dependability is what makes them preceding. If people believe they share values with an organization, they will remain loyal to the particular brand.” There is only one boss ‘the customer’ and he can fire everybody in the company, simply investing money somewhere else, he wants. Keeping in mind that costumers are a challenging aspect for organizations, our study aims to contribute in the brand loyalt…
The Role of Brand and Company Image in Building Brand Loyalty through Service Quality and Brand Trust
In today’s competitive world brand loyalty is the only tool for organizations to gather customers around them. We cannot describe brand loyalty completely by a consumer's intention to repurchase a specific brand. Peoples intention to purchase a specific brand affected by many variables; some of these variables are discussed in this study. The purpose of the current study is to explore the impact of Brand image and company image on service quality…
Determinants of Customer Satisfaction and its impact on Customer loyalty in Nokia brand
This study examines major influences on customer loyalty in a research framework where customer loyalty is the dependent variable and customer satisfaction, perceived price, service quality and trust are all independent variables. The research also tests the hypothesis that there exists a moderating relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction. The study employs various statistical techniques, including reliability, factor and r…
An Empirical Study of Brand Loyalty on Samsung Electronics in Pakistan
The purpose of this study is to explore the brand loyalty of Samsung electronics focusing the special part of south Punjab of Pakistan (Bahawalpur and Multan).This projected model is examines major variables moderating the relationships of, brand trust, service quality, brand credibility, customer satisfaction, brand image with these challenging models of the relationships amongst the impact of, independent variables on brand loyalty. The data wa…
Effect of brand trust and customer satisfaction on brand loyalty in Bahawalpur
Brand Loyalty is the only tool for any company to survive in a severe competition. Brand helps in creating relationship between consumer and producer. In this research we study and investigated the effect of service quality, perceived quality, perceived value, brand trust and customer satisfaction on brand loyalty. The service quality, perceived quality and value were determined to be input variables; brand trust and customer satisfaction were de…
Customer Loyalty of Nokia Mobiles; an Empirical Study Conducted In Pakistan
Customer loyalty is a psychological motive which today’s managers are considerate about. Today in the world of competition, customer loyalty is the basic thing for the company’s survival. In this research paper, we study the variables which directly or indirectly affect the loyalty of the customer and these variables are the customer satisfaction, customer trust, and vendor communication, perceived value, perceived quality, relational benefits, a…
The Comparative Analysis of the Factors Effecting Brand Loyalty towards Samsung Products
Two conditions consistency levels of purchase for specific brand over the span of time imply on brand loyalty. The most precious asset of an organization as there is neck to neck competition in the market and it is essential for the survival of companies. Aims of this research are basically to spot what kinds of factors influence brand loyalty in Pakistan. Six preceding factors influence the consumer’s brand loyalty. By using self-administered qu…
Customer Loyalty in Telecom Sector of Pakistan
This study examines major influences on customer loyalty in a research framework where customer loyalty is the dependent variable and customer satisfaction, perceived price, service quality and trust are all independent variables. The research also tests the hypothesis that there exists a moderating relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction. The study employs various statistical techniques, including reliability, factor and r…
Antecedents Affecting Customer’s Purchase Intentions towards Green Products
Green marketing is a process of producing environment friendly product. Such type of products that are safe from different hazards. Now a days Green marketing is exploring day by day. The eco-friendly products are making by many companies in Globe. Our Purpose of this study is basically to identify that what kind of factors influence the green purchase intentions of consumer of Pakistan. Four preceding factors influence the consumer’s purchase in…
Determinants of customer intentions for online shopping
Time and trend wait for none. We are in 2013 where time is money. In past people travels hundred miles for transactions, which was a time consuming activity. This courage’s people to shop online instead manual shopping. Online Shopping (OS) has totally changed the people perception about shopping. Generally the objective of this research is to discover the influence of different variables on online shopping intention. Specifically the aim of this…
Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups
A survey of the cultural notions related to happiness and the existing empirical evidence indicate that some individuals endorse the belief that happiness, particularly an immoderate degree of it, should be avoided. These beliefs mainly involve the general notion that happiness may lead to bad things happening. Using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel modeling, this study investigates the measurement invariance, cross-level is…
Antecedents of Online Shopping Intention
Online shopping is a process to make shopping easier for people. Now a day’s online shopping is exploring day by day. Most of the people move towards online shopping because it is easier than grocery shopping. Now people have trust on online shopping. Our intention of this study is fundamentally to categorize that what kind of factors influence the online shopping in consumers of Pakistan. By using self-administered questionnaires we collected da…
Self-Esteem Deficits Among Psychiatric Patients
The objective of the present study was to investigate the difference in the level of self-esteem among patients with psychiatric disorders and normal controls. After a detailed literature review, it was hypothesized that there would be a significant difference in the level of self-esteem among patients with psychiatric disorders and normal controls. The sample of the present study consisted of 260 participants, who were further divided into two g…
Nation-Level Moderators of the Extent to Which Self-Efficacy and Relationship Harmony Predict Students’ Depression and Life Satisfaction
Previous two-nation comparisons have provided evidence that self-efficacy may be a protective factor against depression in individualist cultures, whereas relationship harmony may be a stronger protective factor in collectivist cultures. However, wider sampling and more specific measures of cultural difference are required to test these conclusions. Student ratings of depression and life satisfaction were surveyed in 10 samples drawn from nine na…
Cultural Variations in the Relationship Between Anger Coping Styles, Depression, and Life Satisfaction
Hypotheses are tested that ways of handling anger and their consequences will differ in student samples drawn from dignity cultures (United Kingdom and Finland), honor cultures (Turkey and Pakistan), and face cultures (Hong Kong and China). In line with our hypotheses, holding anger in and controlling anger correlate positively in face cultures but not in other samples, whereas holding anger in and letting anger out correlate positively in honor …
Non accidental injury in disguise; a Paediatric Enigma
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Preferred Interpersonal Distances
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of…
Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries
Considerable research has examined human mate preferences across cultures, finding universal sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and resources as well as sources of systematic cultural variation. Two competing perspectives—an evolutionary psychological perspective and a biosocial role perspective—offer alternative explanations for these findings. However, the original data on which each perspective relies are decades old, and the li…
Visualization, Spatiotemporal Patterns, and Directional Analysis of Urban Activities Using Geolocation Data Extracted from LBSN
Location-based social networks (LBSNs) have rapidly prevailed in China with the increase in smart devices use, which has provided a wide range of opportunities to analyze urban behavior in terms of the use of LBSNs. In a LBSN, users socialize by sharing their location (also referred to as “geolocation”) in the form of a tweet (also referred to as a “check-in”), which contains information in the form of, but is not limited to, text, audio, video, …
Relief Role of Lysine Chelated Zinc (Zn) on 6-Week-Old Maize Plants under Tannery Wastewater Irrigation Stress
Tannery wastewater mainly comes from leather industries. It has high organic load, high salinity, and many other pollutants, including chromium (Cr). Tannery wastewater is generally used for crop irrigation in some areas of Pakistan and worldwide, due to the low availability of good quality of irrigation water. As tannery wastewater has many nutrients in it, its lower concentration benefits the plant growth, but at a higher concentration, it dama…
N-Fertilizer (Urea) Enhances the Phytoextraction of Cadmium through Solanum nigrum L
Heavy metal contamination is currently a major environmental concern, as most agricultural land is being polluted from municipal discharge. Among various other pollutants, cadmium (Cd), one of the most harmful heavy metals, enters into the food chain through the irrigation of crops with an industrial effluent. In the present study, a pot experiment was designed to assess the effect of different nitrogen (N)-fertilizer forms in the phytoremediatio…
Prevalence and Spatial Distribution of Animal Brucellosis in Central Punjab, Pakistan
Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease of animals and humans caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella . Brucellae are Gram-negative intracellular bacteria which infect a wide variety of animals including goats, sheep, buffaloes, cows, pigs, and wildlife. The objectives of this study were to determine the seroprevalence and spatial distribution of brucellosis in Central Punjab, Pakistan. A total of 1083 blood samples of goats, sheep, buffalo…
An empirical analysis of monetary and multidimensional poverty
The present study computes multidimensional poverty and compares it with unidimensional estimates of poverty for the district of Mandi Bahuddin in the Punjab province of Pakistan for the years 2010 and 2014. By employing the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) and Alkire-Foster Methods, the incidence, severity and depth of unidimensional and multidimensionality poverty was estimated. We found an increase in absolute and relative poverty levels in 2…
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were ba…
Psychology (39 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Mathematics (15 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Geography (13 works)