The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of pregnant women disclosing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and seeking help from Health Care Professionals (HCPs) at public Hospitals in Jordan. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 pregnant women. The findings revealed that the women were not satisfied with the care providers' procedures, responses, or follow-up. Women also preferred to discuss IPV issues with females, experts, and same age or older HCPs. Lack of privacy, continuity of care, time constraints, and barriers for disclosing were dominant themes that emerged from women's contacts with HCPs. Women felt more able to disclose IPV if they were confident that circumstances would be safe enough to do so. HCPs require specialized and structured training programs in IPV screening and case management.

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The current study aimed to explore the effect of regulatory Focus – Promotion vs. Prevention – in problem-solving among undergraduate students at The Hashemite University. The hypotheses were that promotion focus students outperform prevention focus students in ill-structured problems but underperform them in well-structured problems, and prevention focus students outperform promotion focus students in well-structured problems but underperform them in ill-structured problems. The participants (n=170) were allocated into four groups according to their mindsets and the problems assigned to them (promotion with ill-structured problems, promotion with well-structured problems, prevention with ill-structured problems, prevention with well-structured problems). After the groups solved all the assigned problems, their work was scored according to Measuring Problem Solving Instrument MPSI. The findings confirmed the hypothesis that the regulatory focus affects how problems are solved.

This study aimed at exploring the relationship between goals orientation and the problem solving strategy among students of the Hashemite University. It also aimed at identifying the pattern of goals adopted by those students, as well as the degree of their use of problem-solving strategies in light of the variables of gender and the college. A random sample composed of (453(male and female students completed a scale of goal orientation and a scale of problem solving strategy. The results indicated that the students had several patterns of goals, but the most common ones are mastery goals. The results also showed that males adopted performance goals whereas females adopted mastery goals. Technical college students adopted mastery goals, while scientific college students adopted performance ones, and humanitarian college students adopted avoidance goals. With regard to problem solving, the results revealed that the Hashemite University students tend to use these strategies, but males more commonly used problem-solving strategies than females. Students of technical and scientific college, more commonly used those strategies than students of humanitarian colleges. Finally, the results showed that there was a positive correlation between solving problem strategy and the mastery and the performance goals, while there was a negative correlation between those strategies and the avoidance goals. In the light of the results, the study suggested a number of recommendations.

Adolescents and the youth experience major psychological changes related to the issues they face. In some countries, local songs broadcasted on YouTube and by local radio stations have been significantly correlated with adolescents’ prejudiced behaviors as songs occupy a central role in their life. This study investigates the effects of exposure to different kinds of songs (national and local) on developing prejudiced attitudes in university students. A Prejudice Attitudes Scale (PAS) was developed and used to evaluate the students’ prejudice levels. A total of 111 undergraduate students who participated in the current study were randomly assigned to one of the two groups: the national song group and the local song group. In both groups, participants were requested to listen to certain songs for one month. The findings of the current study indicate that listening to local songs increased students’ prejudicial attitudes. Further, males tended to produce higher levels of social prejudicial attitudes compared to females.