3 research outputs found
WHY STAY? SAUDI WOMEN’S ADAPTIONS TO VIOLENCE
No full textThe study investigates the reasons why women continue to live with an abusive husband and examines the relationship between their reasons and a number of variables that support one’s ability to cope with spousal violence. These variables include employment status, educational level, number of children, marriage duration, the social status of the wife's family and the number of violent incidents. A demographic survey and a spousal violence adaption scale were administered to a sample of 114 abused wives. The results revealed that all of the variables and several of the dimensions represented by the violence adaption scale affected the women’s decisions. The impact of these variables was more obvious among nonworking wives and the lesser educated, women with a greater number of children, those who had been married longer, those who senatal families had a low social status, and those who were subjected to violence more frequently. Keywords: adaptation to violence, marital violence, Saudi Arabia, spousal violence, violence against women in Saudi Arabia, why women stay in violent relationships
The Relationship between Moral Values and Social Acts from Max Weber's Perspective: An Empirical Study Based a Sample of Students from King Abdulaziz University
No full textThe present study aims to identify the relationship between moral values ??and social acts in light of Max Weber's theory of action in terms of some demographic variables (i.e., gender, place of residency, academic level, and academic specialization) of some college students. The study, however, subjected a sample consisting of 360 students at King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The study tools included demographic data form and two criteria of measurements: moral values ??and social act. The statistical calculations were implemented using Arithmetic Mean, Standard Deviation, T-test and Pearson correlation. The results revealed that the correlation and congruence between moral values ??and social acts are much clearer in the female sample than the male sample, and in rural inhabitants than the urban ones, and in the students of the college level (1-4) than the college level (5-8). Keywords : Moral Values, Social Action, Gender, Residency, Grade, and Academic Specialization
Protective effect of sitagliptin and whole body gamma irradiation in diabetes-induced cardiac injury
No full textDiabetes mellitus is associated with an increased risk of cardiac complications, this study aimed to investigate effect of sitagliptin (SITA) alone or combined with γ-irradiation on diabetes-associated cardiac injury. Rats were treated with SITA (100 mg/kg/day; p.o.) for 2 weeks followed by single dose whole body γ-irradiation (3 Gy). Solitary administration of SITA or combined treatment with γ-irradiation succeeded to ameliorate the increase in serum levels of glucose, total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) and malondialdyhyde (MDA) coupled by increased insulin and reduced glutathione (GSH) levels. Their cardioprotective potential was confirmed through attenuating the apoptotic signaling by mitigating Bcl-2-associated X protein (Bax), caspase-3 and apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) expression, while augmenting the anti-apoptotic factors, B cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) and heat shock protein 70 (HSP-70) in left ventricular tissue homogenates. These findings were supported histopathologically. In conclusion, treatment with SITA alone or combined with γ-irradiation may prove beneficial in diabetes-accompanied cardiac insult. This could be due to the crosstalk between the antioxidant, anti-apoptotic and restoration of body’s defense capacities.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
