A minimal amount of research has been conducted on marital commitment and parenting styles. There has barely been any acknowledgment on the importance of one’s relationship on raising a child. Thus, the following study aims to examine the relationship between each of the indicators of commitment in Rusbult’s investment model of commitment (investment size, satisfaction, and quality of alternatives) and the parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive). Participants are married individuals of elementary and middle school aged children in Lebanon who have completed a socio-demographic ...

Many students experience anxiety before an assessment: It can either be a normal feeling before any kind of assessment, also called performance anxiety, or it can be due to unpreparedness before an assessment. The flipped classroom methodology was introduced to 20 students enrolled in an English in the workplace course (ENL230) at Notre Dame University in Louaize Lebanon (NDU), for two modules in an attempt to reduce their unpreparedness anxiety before an assigned assessment. The flipped classroom requires students to cover the new material outside of class, and to practice it in class with the ...

The purpose of this thesis was to study how individual psychological factors, including perceived gratifications, loneliness, and boredom, have a correlation with mobile social game uses and addiction. Notably, the study laid emphasis on the case of Candy Crush in particular to assess the possible relationships between the mentioned above variables. The study covered high school students in the Maten region Lebanon. The sample size was 90 students, 30 students from three high schools based on purposive sampling, which is a non-probability sampling method. The findings of the study showed that ...

This research presents a study and a closer insight on the practice of citizen journalism and its effects on the profession in Lebanon. On Sunday May 6th 2018, a large dispute took place between two political parties running for the elections in Zahle- Lebanon: runner for the Popular Block, Mrs. Myriam Skaff and the Lebanese Forces. What triggers this study is the fact that the dispute was recorded by citizens while traditional media were absent. The videos were spread across social media, and afterwards, the Lebanese media interpreted the incident. The aim of this study is to stress on the ...