Said Suliman Aldhafri
Biographic Data
| ID | 3053907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Said Suliman Aldhafri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Said Suliman |
| FAMILY NAME | Aldhafri |
| SIGNATURE | ALDHAFRI S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sultan Qaboos University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1776-263X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The effect of parental involvement on academic passion
The positive impacts of parental involvement on academic achievement and student motivation are well established. However, little is known about the association between parental involvement and academic passion, particularly in an online learning context. This study investigates the causal relationship between parental involvement, academic passion, and motivation for learning English online among 270 students in grades 7–11 in Oman. We also exam…
Modeling the Relationships Between Social Intelligence, School Bullying and Psychological Adjustment
The descriptive study aimed to identify the levels of social intelligence, school bullying and psychological adjustment among students of seventh, eighth, and ninth grades studying in public schools in the Sultanate of Oman. The study also examined possible differences in the study variables according to gender, grade and birth order. In addition, the researchers proposed a mediating model that explains the causal relationships among the study va…
Predicting Students’ Academic Achievement through Teaching and Parenting Styles
Understanding how individual, school, and social factors interact to shape students’ academic achievement gives a better insight into the relative effects of these factors in the presence of other variables. The current study (N = 604) utilized a mediation model to examine the mediation role of two dimensions of students’ self-concept (academic and social) in the relationships between teaching and parenting styles and students’ Mathematics achiev…
The Perception and Roles of School Mental Health Professionals Regarding School Bullying (Suluk Audwani) in Oman
With increasing mental health risks among school populations and prevalent bullying, school mental health professionals (SMHP) are crucial globally. This study explores the perspectives of SMHP on bullying in Omani schools, focussing on definitions, types, current practices, and future strategies. Involving 50 Omani SMHP from Muscat Governorate with at least three years of experience, data was collected through structured interviews and analyzed …
Want-to, have-to, amotivation, grit, self-control, and tolerance ambiguity among university students
The current study adopted a person-centered approach to identify distinctive university students' profiles based on three variables (i.e., three academic motivations, grit, and self-control), regress multiple covariates (i.e., gender, age, study level, and college) on profile membership, and estimate differences on ambiguity tolerance across the estimated profiles. Data on 525 university students were modeled using Latent Profile Analysis. The fi…
Emotional intelligence and its relation to hope among Sultan Qaboos University students in Oman
This descriptive study aims to examine the levels of emotional intelligence and hope and study the possibility of predicting hope through emotional intelligence. The study was conducted on 167 female students from SQU who were non-randomly selected. A measure of emotional intelligence and adults' measure of hope were applied after verifying their validity and reliability. The results indicated high levels of emotional intelligence and hope among …
Parenting Styles and Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Omani School and University Students
The present study examined the predictive role of students’ perceptions of parenting styles on their academic efficacy beliefs. This relationship was examined using two large sets of national data that were collected from school and university students to see how the relationship between parenting styles and academic efficacy beliefs may or may not vary across life stages. The sample included 1431 school students and 1119 university students cros…
Organizational Justice in Arab Countries
Given the importance of comparing different groups in terms of perceptions of justice and justice effects, it is essential that the instrument used to measure perceptions behaves the same way across all groups. This study investigates the measurement invariance of the four-factor structure of organizational justice across nine Arab countries. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis is used with 2,914 employees working in the public sector to …
Emotional Intelligence Among School Teachers in Oman
This paper sheds light into the role of emotional intelligence in school teaching. It reports the findings of a study that sought to investigate the emotional intelligence of 4,098 school teachers in the Sultanate of Oman in five dimensions using the Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale (SEIS). The study also measured the relationship between teachers’ emotional intelligence and a number of demographic teacher and school variables. The results sh…
Being oneself through time
Self-continuity – the sense that one’s past, present, and future are meaningfully connected – is considered a defining feature of personal identity. However, bases of self-continuity may depend on cultural beliefs about personhood. In multilevel analyses of data from 7287 adults from 55 cultural groups in 33 nations, we tested a new tripartite theoretical model of bases of self-continuity. As expected, perceptions of stability, sense of narrative…
The predictive effects of math teachers' emotional intelligence on their perceived self-efficacy beliefs
Beyond the ‘east–west’ dichotomy
Markus and Kitayama's (1991) theory of independent and interdependent self-construals had a major influence on social, personality, and developmental psychology by highlighting the role of culture in psychological processes. However, research has relied excessively on contrasts between North American and East Asian samples, and commonly used self-report measures of independence and interdependence frequently fail to show predicted cultural differ…
Undergraduate Omani Students’ Identity and Perceptions of Parenting Styles
The current study examined the relationship between university students’ academic identity and their perceptions of their parents’ parenting styles among a sample of Omani students. Marcia’s (1993) academic identity statuses are adapted. These are moratorium, foreclosed, diffuse, and achievement. Parenting styles included authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive. The participants were 192 undergraduate students from Oman. The participants res…
Learning Processes and Academic Achievement among Omani School Students
This study examined the competing role of cognitive and affective learning processes used by students on predicting their academic achievement. The sample included 342 students from different schools in Oman (female=74.6%). The participants responded to a group of measures as part of a national study examining different learning variables. For the purpose of the current study, the participants’ data of six measures (i.e., critical thinking strate…
Effective University Instructors as Perceived by Turkish and Omani University Students
This study investigated the characteristics of effective university instructors as perceived by 547 students. The students came from institutions in two different countries, Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman and Süleyman Demirel University in Turkey. They were asked to indicate the personality and the teaching characteristics they felt were essential qualities of an effective university instructor. The students' responses were als…
Academic and social self-concept
This study examined the relationship between academic and social self-concept and teachers’ teaching styles (authoritative, authoritarian and permissive). The participants included 511 school students (53.2% females). They completed the Self-Definition Questionnaire (SDQ-I) and the Teacher Authority Questionnaire. Data were analysed to predict self-concept from teaching styles. On the one hand, females’ academic self-concept was positively predic…
Classroom Assessment
We examined the effects of teachers' classroom assessment practices and students' perceptions of assessment tasks on students' academic self-efficacy beliefs as 1 dimension of student academic motivation. Participants ( N = 1,457) were students sourced from 99 classrooms of public secondary schools in Oman. Results of multilevel analysis showed that student academic self-efficacy beliefs were significantly and positively influenced by students' p…
The Impact of Students' Perceptions of Assessment Tasks on Self-Eefficacy and Perception of Task Value
Using path analysis, we examined the direct effects of students' perceptions of assessment tasks on self-efficacy, and the indirect effects through the students' perception of task value. Data were collected from 2,137 school students in Oman. Their perceptions in terms of congruence with planned learning, authenticity, student consultation, transparency, and diversity were measured using Alkharusi's (2013) Arabic version of Dorman and Knightley'…
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), sh…
Culture and the distinctiveness motive
The motive to attain a distinctive identity is sometimes thought to be stronger in, or even specific to, those socialized into individualistic cultures. Using data from 4,751 participants in 21 cultural groups (18 nations and 3 regions), we tested this prediction against our alternative view that culture would moderate the ways in which people achieve feelings of distinctiveness, rather than influence the strength of their motivation to do so. We…
Self-Efficacy and Physical Self-Concept as Mediators of Parenting Influence on Adolescents' School and Health Wellbeing
The current study examines the role of parenting styles (permissive, authoritative, and authoritarian) in predicting adolescents' school and health wellbeing through the mediational role of adolescents' academic self-efficacy and physical self-concept. Data were collected from 1599 Omani adolescents (mean age = 17.50, SD = 1.02, males = 783, females = 816). These were analyzed using EQS Structural Equation Modeling. Results suggest that authorita…
Development and Validation of a Short Version of the Parental Authority Questionnaire
A short version of Buri's (1991) 30-item Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ), a widely used measure of Baumrind's (1971) model of authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles, has been developed in this study. The participants were 3,025 middle and high school students from Oman. The sample was randomly divided into 2 subsamples. The first sample ( N = 1,504) was used for the development of the short version, and the second sa…
Investigating pre-service teacher motivation across cultures using the Teachers’ Ten Statements Test
Culture and the distinctiveness motive
The motive to attain a distinctive identity is sometimes thought to be stronger in, or even specific to, those socialized into individualistic cultures. Using data from 4,751 participants in 21 cultural groups (18 nations and 3 regions), we tested this prediction against our alternative view that culture would moderate the ways in which people achieve feelings of distinctiveness, rather than influence the strength of their motivation to do so. We…
Investigating pre-service teacher motivation across cultures using the Teachers’ Ten Statements Test
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), sh…
The predictive effects of math teachers' emotional intelligence on their perceived self-efficacy beliefs
Organizational Justice in Arab Countries
Given the importance of comparing different groups in terms of perceptions of justice and justice effects, it is essential that the instrument used to measure perceptions behaves the same way across all groups. This study investigates the measurement invariance of the four-factor structure of organizational justice across nine Arab countries. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis is used with 2,914 employees working in the public sector to …
Effective University Instructors as Perceived by Turkish and Omani University Students
This study investigated the characteristics of effective university instructors as perceived by 547 students. The students came from institutions in two different countries, Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman and Süleyman Demirel University in Turkey. They were asked to indicate the personality and the teaching characteristics they felt were essential qualities of an effective university instructor. The students' responses were als…
Investigating pre-service teacher motivation across cultures using the Teachers’ Ten Statements Test
Self-Efficacy and Physical Self-Concept as Mediators of Parenting Influence on Adolescents' School and Health Wellbeing
The current study examines the role of parenting styles (permissive, authoritative, and authoritarian) in predicting adolescents' school and health wellbeing through the mediational role of adolescents' academic self-efficacy and physical self-concept. Data were collected from 1599 Omani adolescents (mean age = 17.50, SD = 1.02, males = 783, females = 816). These were analyzed using EQS Structural Equation Modeling. Results suggest that authorita…
Development and Validation of a Short Version of the Parental Authority Questionnaire
A short version of Buri's (1991) 30-item Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ), a widely used measure of Baumrind's (1971) model of authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles, has been developed in this study. The participants were 3,025 middle and high school students from Oman. The sample was randomly divided into 2 subsamples. The first sample ( N = 1,504) was used for the development of the short version, and the second sa…
Culture and the distinctiveness motive
The motive to attain a distinctive identity is sometimes thought to be stronger in, or even specific to, those socialized into individualistic cultures. Using data from 4,751 participants in 21 cultural groups (18 nations and 3 regions), we tested this prediction against our alternative view that culture would moderate the ways in which people achieve feelings of distinctiveness, rather than influence the strength of their motivation to do so. We…
The Impact of Students' Perceptions of Assessment Tasks on Self-Eefficacy and Perception of Task Value
Using path analysis, we examined the direct effects of students' perceptions of assessment tasks on self-efficacy, and the indirect effects through the students' perception of task value. Data were collected from 2,137 school students in Oman. Their perceptions in terms of congruence with planned learning, authenticity, student consultation, transparency, and diversity were measured using Alkharusi's (2013) Arabic version of Dorman and Knightley'…
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), sh…
Classroom Assessment
We examined the effects of teachers' classroom assessment practices and students' perceptions of assessment tasks on students' academic self-efficacy beliefs as 1 dimension of student academic motivation. Participants ( N = 1,457) were students sourced from 99 classrooms of public secondary schools in Oman. Results of multilevel analysis showed that student academic self-efficacy beliefs were significantly and positively influenced by students' p…
Academic and social self-concept
This study examined the relationship between academic and social self-concept and teachers’ teaching styles (authoritative, authoritarian and permissive). The participants included 511 school students (53.2% females). They completed the Self-Definition Questionnaire (SDQ-I) and the Teacher Authority Questionnaire. Data were analysed to predict self-concept from teaching styles. On the one hand, females’ academic self-concept was positively predic…
Beyond the ‘east–west’ dichotomy
Markus and Kitayama's (1991) theory of independent and interdependent self-construals had a major influence on social, personality, and developmental psychology by highlighting the role of culture in psychological processes. However, research has relied excessively on contrasts between North American and East Asian samples, and commonly used self-report measures of independence and interdependence frequently fail to show predicted cultural differ…
Undergraduate Omani Students’ Identity and Perceptions of Parenting Styles
The current study examined the relationship between university students’ academic identity and their perceptions of their parents’ parenting styles among a sample of Omani students. Marcia’s (1993) academic identity statuses are adapted. These are moratorium, foreclosed, diffuse, and achievement. Parenting styles included authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive. The participants were 192 undergraduate students from Oman. The participants res…
Learning Processes and Academic Achievement among Omani School Students
This study examined the competing role of cognitive and affective learning processes used by students on predicting their academic achievement. The sample included 342 students from different schools in Oman (female=74.6%). The participants responded to a group of measures as part of a national study examining different learning variables. For the purpose of the current study, the participants’ data of six measures (i.e., critical thinking strate…
Effective University Instructors as Perceived by Turkish and Omani University Students
This study investigated the characteristics of effective university instructors as perceived by 547 students. The students came from institutions in two different countries, Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman and Süleyman Demirel University in Turkey. They were asked to indicate the personality and the teaching characteristics they felt were essential qualities of an effective university instructor. The students' responses were als…
Being oneself through time
Self-continuity – the sense that one’s past, present, and future are meaningfully connected – is considered a defining feature of personal identity. However, bases of self-continuity may depend on cultural beliefs about personhood. In multilevel analyses of data from 7287 adults from 55 cultural groups in 33 nations, we tested a new tripartite theoretical model of bases of self-continuity. As expected, perceptions of stability, sense of narrative…
The predictive effects of math teachers' emotional intelligence on their perceived self-efficacy beliefs
Emotional Intelligence Among School Teachers in Oman
This paper sheds light into the role of emotional intelligence in school teaching. It reports the findings of a study that sought to investigate the emotional intelligence of 4,098 school teachers in the Sultanate of Oman in five dimensions using the Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale (SEIS). The study also measured the relationship between teachers’ emotional intelligence and a number of demographic teacher and school variables. The results sh…
Parenting Styles and Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Omani School and University Students
The present study examined the predictive role of students’ perceptions of parenting styles on their academic efficacy beliefs. This relationship was examined using two large sets of national data that were collected from school and university students to see how the relationship between parenting styles and academic efficacy beliefs may or may not vary across life stages. The sample included 1431 school students and 1119 university students cros…
Organizational Justice in Arab Countries
Given the importance of comparing different groups in terms of perceptions of justice and justice effects, it is essential that the instrument used to measure perceptions behaves the same way across all groups. This study investigates the measurement invariance of the four-factor structure of organizational justice across nine Arab countries. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis is used with 2,914 employees working in the public sector to …
Emotional intelligence and its relation to hope among Sultan Qaboos University students in Oman
This descriptive study aims to examine the levels of emotional intelligence and hope and study the possibility of predicting hope through emotional intelligence. The study was conducted on 167 female students from SQU who were non-randomly selected. A measure of emotional intelligence and adults' measure of hope were applied after verifying their validity and reliability. The results indicated high levels of emotional intelligence and hope among …
Want-to, have-to, amotivation, grit, self-control, and tolerance ambiguity among university students
The current study adopted a person-centered approach to identify distinctive university students' profiles based on three variables (i.e., three academic motivations, grit, and self-control), regress multiple covariates (i.e., gender, age, study level, and college) on profile membership, and estimate differences on ambiguity tolerance across the estimated profiles. Data on 525 university students were modeled using Latent Profile Analysis. The fi…
Modeling the Relationships Between Social Intelligence, School Bullying and Psychological Adjustment
The descriptive study aimed to identify the levels of social intelligence, school bullying and psychological adjustment among students of seventh, eighth, and ninth grades studying in public schools in the Sultanate of Oman. The study also examined possible differences in the study variables according to gender, grade and birth order. In addition, the researchers proposed a mediating model that explains the causal relationships among the study va…
Predicting Students’ Academic Achievement through Teaching and Parenting Styles
Understanding how individual, school, and social factors interact to shape students’ academic achievement gives a better insight into the relative effects of these factors in the presence of other variables. The current study (N = 604) utilized a mediation model to examine the mediation role of two dimensions of students’ self-concept (academic and social) in the relationships between teaching and parenting styles and students’ Mathematics achiev…
The Perception and Roles of School Mental Health Professionals Regarding School Bullying (Suluk Audwani) in Oman
With increasing mental health risks among school populations and prevalent bullying, school mental health professionals (SMHP) are crucial globally. This study explores the perspectives of SMHP on bullying in Omani schools, focussing on definitions, types, current practices, and future strategies. Involving 50 Omani SMHP from Muscat Governorate with at least three years of experience, data was collected through structured interviews and analyzed …
The effect of parental involvement on academic passion
The positive impacts of parental involvement on academic achievement and student motivation are well established. However, little is known about the association between parental involvement and academic passion, particularly in an online learning context. This study investigates the causal relationship between parental involvement, academic passion, and motivation for learning English online among 270 students in grades 7–11 in Oman. We also exam…
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (6 works) · Perception (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)