Fatima R Al-Darmaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 5417709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fatima R Al-Darmaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fatima R |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Darmaki |
| SIGNATURE | AL-DARMAKI F R |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Arab Emirates University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6452-0708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Examining the Dimensionality, Reliability, and Invariance of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale–21 (Dass-21) Across Eight Countries
This study evaluated the dimensionality, invariance, and reliability of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale–21 (DASS-21) within and across Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United States ( N = 2,580) in college student samples. We used confirmatory factor analyses to compare the fit of four different factor structures of the DASS-21: a unidimensional model, a three-correlated-factors model, a …
Predictors of Emirati Marital Satisfaction: Contributions of Psychological Health and Family Functioning
Based on previous work on factors predicting marital satisfaction in Emirati society, this study aimed at examining whether anxiety and depression as well as perceived family functioning would predict marital satisfaction among a sample of 1,041 Emirati married individuals. Participants responded to the Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale along with an Arabic translation of the General Functioning (GF12) subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment …
Cross-cultural validation of the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) Scale
Social network stigma refers to the perceived negative views about seeking help for mental health problems that are held by those closest to an individual, such as family and friends. This form of stigma predicts help-seeking attitudes and intentions beyond other forms of stigma, and is predominantly measured using the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help scale (PSOSH; Vogel, Wade, & Ascheman, 2009). However, the PSOSH was nor…
Antecedents and Consequences of Marital Satisfaction in an Emirati Sample: A Structural Equation Model Analysis
This study surveyed 1,000 married Emirati men and women to explore a model of marital satisfaction in relation to self-esteem, satisfaction with life, gender-role attitudes, and general health (physical and psychological). The Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMSS), State Self-Esteem Scale (SSES), Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), the Arabic General Health Questionnaire, and the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale were used. Confirmatory factor a…
Stigma of Seeking Psychological Services: Examining College Students Across Ten Countries/Regions
Stigma is an important barrier to seeking psychological services worldwide. Two types of stigma exist: public stigma and self-stigma. Scholars have argued that public stigma leads to self-stigma, and then self-stigma is the primary predictor of attitudes toward seeking psychological services. However, this assertion is largely limited to U.S. samples. The goal of this research was to provide a first step in understanding the relationship between …
Help-Seeking Attitudes of United Arab Emirates Students: Examining Loss of Face, Stigma, and Self-Disclosure
The psychological help-seeking patterns of college students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have only recently begun to be examined. Initial suggestions indicate that the majority of Emirati students treat help seeking from counselors as a last resort, which may be linked to aspects of Emirati culture including feared loss of societal face, stigma associated with seeking help, and discouragement of self-disclosure to individuals outside of the …
Marital Satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates: Development and Validation of a Culturally Relevant Scale
Marital satisfaction is a culturally bound construct influenced by many traditional family values and processes. Research on marital satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates is very limited perhaps due to unavailability of a culturally relevant scale. In this study, the Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMSS) was constructed and validated based on a community sample of 407 Emirati married men and women. The 30-item unidimensional EMSS was found…
Mental Health Beliefs Amongst Emirati Female College Students
Predictors of Counseling Center Use Among College Students in the United Arab Emirates
College students’ decision to seek counseling is impacted by many factors such as demographic and psychological variables. This study investigated the differences between counseled (40 men and 120 women) and noncounseled (98 men and 111 women) college students from the United Arab Emirates using 3 measures of distress and a number of demographic variables (i.e., gender, marital status, residence, nationality, area of study, and grade point averag…
Problems and Preferences for Source of Help Among United Arab Emirates University Students
Counseling Self-Efficacy and its Relationship to Anxiety and Problem-Solving in United Arab Emirates
Counselor Training, Anxiety, and Counseling Self-Efficacy: Implications for Training Psychology Students From the United Arab Emirates University
The impact of training on counseling self-efficacy and state and trait anxiety was examined in this study. One hundred and thirteen undergraduate psychology students from United Arab Emirates (UAE) University participated in this investigation. The experimental group consisted of seventy-three students who were taking their first practicum (65 females; 8 males) and the control group was composed of female students who had not yet taken their prac…
Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help: What Really Counts for United Arab Emirates University Students
The major focus of this study was to examine attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help in relation to some demographic variables, self-esteem, and depression. Three hundred and fifty undergraduate students enrolled at UAE University completed measures of attitudes toward seeking professional help (ASPPH), self-esteem, and depression. Demographic information was also obtained. Factor analysis of the ASPPH scale revealed three modera…
Stigma of Seeking Psychological Services: Examining College Students Across Ten Countries/Regions
Stigma is an important barrier to seeking psychological services worldwide. Two types of stigma exist: public stigma and self-stigma. Scholars have argued that public stigma leads to self-stigma, and then self-stigma is the primary predictor of attitudes toward seeking psychological services. However, this assertion is largely limited to U.S. samples. The goal of this research was to provide a first step in understanding the relationship between …
Marital Satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates: Development and Validation of a Culturally Relevant Scale
Marital satisfaction is a culturally bound construct influenced by many traditional family values and processes. Research on marital satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates is very limited perhaps due to unavailability of a culturally relevant scale. In this study, the Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMSS) was constructed and validated based on a community sample of 407 Emirati married men and women. The 30-item unidimensional EMSS was found…
Help-Seeking Attitudes of United Arab Emirates Students: Examining Loss of Face, Stigma, and Self-Disclosure
The psychological help-seeking patterns of college students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have only recently begun to be examined. Initial suggestions indicate that the majority of Emirati students treat help seeking from counselors as a last resort, which may be linked to aspects of Emirati culture including feared loss of societal face, stigma associated with seeking help, and discouragement of self-disclosure to individuals outside of the …
Predictors of Emirati Marital Satisfaction: Contributions of Psychological Health and Family Functioning
Based on previous work on factors predicting marital satisfaction in Emirati society, this study aimed at examining whether anxiety and depression as well as perceived family functioning would predict marital satisfaction among a sample of 1,041 Emirati married individuals. Participants responded to the Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale along with an Arabic translation of the General Functioning (GF12) subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment …
Antecedents and Consequences of Marital Satisfaction in an Emirati Sample: A Structural Equation Model Analysis
This study surveyed 1,000 married Emirati men and women to explore a model of marital satisfaction in relation to self-esteem, satisfaction with life, gender-role attitudes, and general health (physical and psychological). The Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMSS), State Self-Esteem Scale (SSES), Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), the Arabic General Health Questionnaire, and the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale were used. Confirmatory factor a…
Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help: What Really Counts for United Arab Emirates University Students
The major focus of this study was to examine attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help in relation to some demographic variables, self-esteem, and depression. Three hundred and fifty undergraduate students enrolled at UAE University completed measures of attitudes toward seeking professional help (ASPPH), self-esteem, and depression. Demographic information was also obtained. Factor analysis of the ASPPH scale revealed three modera…
Counselor Training, Anxiety, and Counseling Self-Efficacy: Implications for Training Psychology Students From the United Arab Emirates University
The impact of training on counseling self-efficacy and state and trait anxiety was examined in this study. One hundred and thirteen undergraduate psychology students from United Arab Emirates (UAE) University participated in this investigation. The experimental group consisted of seventy-three students who were taking their first practicum (65 females; 8 males) and the control group was composed of female students who had not yet taken their prac…
Counseling Self-Efficacy and its Relationship to Anxiety and Problem-Solving in United Arab Emirates
Problems and Preferences for Source of Help Among United Arab Emirates University Students
Predictors of Counseling Center Use Among College Students in the United Arab Emirates
College students’ decision to seek counseling is impacted by many factors such as demographic and psychological variables. This study investigated the differences between counseled (40 men and 120 women) and noncounseled (98 men and 111 women) college students from the United Arab Emirates using 3 measures of distress and a number of demographic variables (i.e., gender, marital status, residence, nationality, area of study, and grade point averag…
Mental Health Beliefs Amongst Emirati Female College Students
Help-Seeking Attitudes of United Arab Emirates Students: Examining Loss of Face, Stigma, and Self-Disclosure
The psychological help-seeking patterns of college students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have only recently begun to be examined. Initial suggestions indicate that the majority of Emirati students treat help seeking from counselors as a last resort, which may be linked to aspects of Emirati culture including feared loss of societal face, stigma associated with seeking help, and discouragement of self-disclosure to individuals outside of the …
Marital Satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates: Development and Validation of a Culturally Relevant Scale
Marital satisfaction is a culturally bound construct influenced by many traditional family values and processes. Research on marital satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates is very limited perhaps due to unavailability of a culturally relevant scale. In this study, the Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMSS) was constructed and validated based on a community sample of 407 Emirati married men and women. The 30-item unidimensional EMSS was found…
Cross-cultural validation of the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) Scale
Social network stigma refers to the perceived negative views about seeking help for mental health problems that are held by those closest to an individual, such as family and friends. This form of stigma predicts help-seeking attitudes and intentions beyond other forms of stigma, and is predominantly measured using the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help scale (PSOSH; Vogel, Wade, & Ascheman, 2009). However, the PSOSH was nor…
Antecedents and Consequences of Marital Satisfaction in an Emirati Sample: A Structural Equation Model Analysis
This study surveyed 1,000 married Emirati men and women to explore a model of marital satisfaction in relation to self-esteem, satisfaction with life, gender-role attitudes, and general health (physical and psychological). The Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMSS), State Self-Esteem Scale (SSES), Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), the Arabic General Health Questionnaire, and the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale were used. Confirmatory factor a…
Stigma of Seeking Psychological Services: Examining College Students Across Ten Countries/Regions
Stigma is an important barrier to seeking psychological services worldwide. Two types of stigma exist: public stigma and self-stigma. Scholars have argued that public stigma leads to self-stigma, and then self-stigma is the primary predictor of attitudes toward seeking psychological services. However, this assertion is largely limited to U.S. samples. The goal of this research was to provide a first step in understanding the relationship between …
Predictors of Emirati Marital Satisfaction: Contributions of Psychological Health and Family Functioning
Based on previous work on factors predicting marital satisfaction in Emirati society, this study aimed at examining whether anxiety and depression as well as perceived family functioning would predict marital satisfaction among a sample of 1,041 Emirati married individuals. Participants responded to the Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale along with an Arabic translation of the General Functioning (GF12) subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment …
Examining the Dimensionality, Reliability, and Invariance of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale–21 (Dass-21) Across Eight Countries
This study evaluated the dimensionality, invariance, and reliability of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale–21 (DASS-21) within and across Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United States ( N = 2,580) in college student samples. We used confirmatory factor analyses to compare the fit of four different factor structures of the DASS-21: a unidimensional model, a three-correlated-factors model, a …
Psychology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Anxiety (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (6 works)