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Audience Attitudes Towards The Spokesperson Of Health Ministries During The Covid-19 Pandemic - A Case Study Of Kuwait, Khaled Alhumadi Alqahs, Fawaz Mohammad Alajmi May 2026

Audience Attitudes Towards The Spokesperson Of Health Ministries During The Covid-19 Pandemic - A Case Study Of Kuwait, Khaled Alhumadi Alqahs, Fawaz Mohammad Alajmi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aimed to identify the attitudes of the Kuwaiti audience towards the performance of the official spokesperson of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health (MOH), during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was conducted with a convenience sample consisting of 1201 respondents, of which 52.9% were males and 47.1% were females, with an age range of 17-70 years (m=34.78, SD=11.75). The main tool of this study was an electronic questionnaire, that included some demographic variables and self-rating items, such as mass media usage for press conferences and audience motivations to follow the press conferences. It also included the MOH's official spokesperson's …


Arab Official Efforts To Raise Awareness Of Covid-19 - The Crisis And Emergency Risk Communication Model In The Uae, Rahima Aissani May 2026

Arab Official Efforts To Raise Awareness Of Covid-19 - The Crisis And Emergency Risk Communication Model In The Uae, Rahima Aissani

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to identify the contents of crisis communication used by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to raise awareness of the dangers of coronavirus (COVID-19) and reduce its spread in three phases - preparation, initial and maintenance - following the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication model. The study implemented content analysis for three elements from the crisis and risk communication components introduced by the UAE government. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, the UAE government quickly drew up a national plan to deal with the crisis under the leadership of the National Emergency Crisis …


Argumentation In The Preface Of Arabic Rhetoric Books, Abdulla Abdorahman Banqeeb May 2026

Argumentation In The Preface Of Arabic Rhetoric Books, Abdulla Abdorahman Banqeeb

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study will seek to show the argumentation methods in the preface sections of Arabic rhetoric books: that Abdul-Qahir Al-Jarjani used while consolidating the preface of his book ‘Dlaa'l Alaa'jaz’, and defending the adopted theses, and contradicting the opposition to it. As a result, the study follows three routes. The first route shows the argumentation strategy dominating the preface and is the subject of the introduction. The second route shows the argumentation techniques related to the content, while the third route shows the argumentation techniques related to the figure. Finally, the study concludes with the relevant results.


Transitivity - An Application Of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar To Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, Samah Abdel-Karim Ibrahim Mohammed May 2026

Transitivity - An Application Of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar To Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, Samah Abdel-Karim Ibrahim Mohammed

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to investigate the functional significance of transitivity in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, depending upon Halliday’s Systemicfunctional Grammar (SFG). Transitivity is a set of grammatical choices made by language users to express their experiences. These goings-on are realised by the verb type in the clause. The study investigates the process types: material, mental, relational, behavioural and existential, with a particular focus on the presentation of the protagonist's inner thoughts and his conscious practices. It examines the percentage of the frequent pattern of five process types in the novel and investigates the role of transitivity model …


Fair Value Accounting For Non-Current Assets And Its Role In Determining Auditing Fees, Hanady Hussien Alshdaifat, Nidal Omar Zalloum May 2026

Fair Value Accounting For Non-Current Assets And Its Role In Determining Auditing Fees, Hanady Hussien Alshdaifat, Nidal Omar Zalloum

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aimed to identify the role of non-current assets’ fair value in determining audit fees, in addition to studying the impact of non-current assets’ fair value on audit fees. This was achieved through different valuation methods and the corporate governance represented by board independence for the period of 2013 to 2018. The study included 50 industrial companies listed on the ASE. 'The panel data was processed using the fixed effects model, and the study found that there is a reverse effect of the non-current assets’ fair value on the audit fees. Furthermore, the study found a difference in the …


Breaking The Syntactic Context In Arabic Grammar - The Out-Of-Context Adjective As An Example, Abdullah Muhammad Hayyany May 2026

Breaking The Syntactic Context In Arabic Grammar - The Out-Of-Context Adjective As An Example, Abdullah Muhammad Hayyany

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The research addresses an issue known in Arabic grammar as ‘the out-ofcontext adjective’. This is when the adjective ceases to relate to the preceding noun, so that it does not become subordinate to it but rather has a different syntax. This phenomenon exists in the Arabic language but it has not been examined in one single study, hence this paper aims to treat its aspects in one single work, thus facilitating its overall study. Following a descriptive and analytical approach, the paper explains this phenomenon and distinguishes between three cases: the case where the adjective can be cut from the …


Improving Education Efficiency By Consolidating Public Schools With Few Students, Fayez Abdulaziz Al Fayez, Abdullah Saad Alsadhan May 2026

Improving Education Efficiency By Consolidating Public Schools With Few Students, Fayez Abdulaziz Al Fayez, Abdullah Saad Alsadhan

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aimed to review the best international practices for the consolidation of public schools in areas with low population density in order to improve the efficiency of public education expenditure. The study used the descriptive analysis method by analyzing documents from the best international practices on the consolidation of public schools. The study used two tools, namely, analyzing documents and interviews with 20 experts. The study found that the best international practices for consolidating schools with a small number of students are based on a national consolidation manual, diversity in standards of consolidation and its alternatives, raising the awareness …


Developing A Stress Prediction Tool For Arabic Speech Recognition Tasks, Eiman Alsharhan, Salah Alnajem May 2026

Developing A Stress Prediction Tool For Arabic Speech Recognition Tasks, Eiman Alsharhan, Salah Alnajem

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Developing natural language processing applications for Arabic must consider the different linguistic characteristics found in speech and translate those characteristics to script in order to reduce computational complexity and therefore reduce the word error rate (WER). Suprasegmental features are fundamental properties of speech that can enhance the performance of many natural speech processing applications. The present study considered stress as a prosodic feature comprising the prominence of syllables in speech by developing a tool that generated phonetic transcriptions and predicted the stress position. The generated transcription was used to create the phonetic dictionary necessary for developing an automatic speech recognition …


Teachers And The Regulation Of Students With Learning Disabilities, Tahani Soliman Al-Moneef, Abdulkarim Alhossein May 2026

Teachers And The Regulation Of Students With Learning Disabilities, Tahani Soliman Al-Moneef, Abdulkarim Alhossein

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aimed to identify the teachers’ perspectives toward the importance and effectiveness of the evaluation regulation of students with learning disabilities, to identify the differences among participants according to several variables (gender, major, years of experience), and to identify the most important suggestions for its development. This study used a descriptive survey approach. The study sample included (454) male and female teachers (214 male and female general education teachers and 240 male and female teachers of students with learning disabilities) in schools that provided services for students with learning disabilities. The results indicated that participants clearly understood the importance …


Identity And Participation Among The New Saudis, Desouki Jalal Mohammed Hamed, Ibrahim Al-Husseini Abdel Moneim Hilal May 2026

Identity And Participation Among The New Saudis, Desouki Jalal Mohammed Hamed, Ibrahim Al-Husseini Abdel Moneim Hilal

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

An exploratory study was conducted examining the problem of identity and participation among Saudi youth in light of social transformations. The project combined the quantitative and the qualitative curricula and relied on a field study using an electronic questionnaire with a sample of 1318 male and female students from the University of Hail and the participation of 120 students in focus groups during the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year. The research was based on a number of international and local studies and surveys, and its conclusions were compared with their outcomes. The study outlined a set of indicators that …


Epistemic Cognitive Beliefs And Academic Help Seeking, Omar Atallah Al-Adamat May 2026

Epistemic Cognitive Beliefs And Academic Help Seeking, Omar Atallah Al-Adamat

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to identify the levels of Epistemic Cognitive Beliefs (ECB and the behaviour of Academic Help Seeking (AHS) among secondary school students in Jordan and detect the ability of ECB to predict AHS behaviour. It also aims to identify differences in the levels of ECB due to the variables of gender, academic branch and the interaction between gender and academic branch. The sample of the study consisted of 330 students who were in their second year of secondary school. To achieve the aims of the study, the ECB scale (Wang et al., 2013) and the AHS scale (White, …


The Role Of Audit Committees In Limiting Earnings Management - An Empirical Study Of Saudi Corporations, Fahad Abdulrahman Al Naim, Thamir Saad Al Barrak May 2026

The Role Of Audit Committees In Limiting Earnings Management - An Empirical Study Of Saudi Corporations, Fahad Abdulrahman Al Naim, Thamir Saad Al Barrak

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to measure the impact that audit committees have on earnings management for companies listed on Tadawul Stock Exchange. The sample includes firms in the basic materials sector for the years 2017 and 2018. The modified Jones model is used to investigate the impact of audit committee characteristics (independence, financial expertise, size, number of meetings, and percentage of shares owned) on earnings management. The results show that the greater the audit committee’s independence, percentage of shares owned, and number of meetings held contribute to limited earnings management. However, no evidence is found to support that financial experience or …


Academic Leaders In The View Of Distributed Leadership, Hissah Nasser Al Yahya May 2026

Academic Leaders In The View Of Distributed Leadership, Hissah Nasser Al Yahya

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

’The study aimed to recognise the reality of academic leaders performances in Saudi universities in the view of distributed leadership from faculty members’ perspectives, as well as to identify the difficulties and proposed requirements for improving the performance of academic leaders in this view. To achieve the objectives of the study, descriptive surveys and two questionnaires were used to collect data. The study was applied to 247 academic leaders and 373 faculty members. The study concluded that the performance level of academic leaders in the view of distributed leadership was high. The difficulty levels of developing the performance of academic …


Physical Education Teachers And Their Knowledge Of Observation And Analysis Skills, Mohamed Dahy Abass Hassan May 2026

Physical Education Teachers And Their Knowledge Of Observation And Analysis Skills, Mohamed Dahy Abass Hassan

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Knowledge and information related to qualitative kinetic analysis involve personal experiences, which are of great importance in physical education. Teachers conduct qualitative analysis, which is concerned with the observation and analysis of skill performance, evaluation, diagnosis, and the provision of feedback to students. The present study aimed to identify the knowledge of the skills of observation and analysis accumulated by physical education teachers in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The researcher used the descriptive method, which was well suited to the nature of the research. A sample of 194 teachers was chosen from physical education teachers …


The Role Of Social Intelligence In Overcoming Shyness Among The Gifted, Abdulhamid A. Alarfaj, Jwaher A. Alamulhem, Abdullah M. Aljugaiman May 2026

The Role Of Social Intelligence In Overcoming Shyness Among The Gifted, Abdulhamid A. Alarfaj, Jwaher A. Alamulhem, Abdullah M. Aljugaiman

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study attempts to identify the manifestations of extreme shyness among students, shed light on the effect of counselling interventions in reducing the level of non-positive shyness, and highlight behavioural indicators that may lead to improved social interaction. The study researchers utilised a systematic approach to study a female gifted student with a high level of shyness that prevents her from engaging in normal social interaction. The study participant is a gifted student designated gifted as indicated by the Mawhiba scale in 2019-2020, and she was deliberately chosen for the purpose of this four-week case study. Multiple resources and a …


Saudi School Education During The Covid-19 Pandemic - The Madrasati Platform, Fawzia Omer Abdullah Alubthane May 2026

Saudi School Education During The Covid-19 Pandemic - The Madrasati Platform, Fawzia Omer Abdullah Alubthane

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aimed to evaluate the Madrasati Electronic Platform (MEP) from female teachers’ perspectives in public schools in Riyadh. It also investigated whether students’ educational level or teachers’ computer skills significantly affected teachers’ views. The study applied the mixed-method approach, whereby a questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 384 teachers, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with five teachers. Quantitative data were analyzed via appropriate statistical methods, while thematic analysis was used to interpret the interviews and comments. The quantitative and qualitative results indicated that MEP and its tools are effective and appropriate. Technical problems, internet interruptions and difficulties …


The Determinants Of Internal Auditing Effectiveness In The Public Sector - Saudi Universities, Abdulrahman Ali Aljabr, Ayth Ibrahim Almubarak May 2026

The Determinants Of Internal Auditing Effectiveness In The Public Sector - Saudi Universities, Abdulrahman Ali Aljabr, Ayth Ibrahim Almubarak

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This paper aims to examine the determinants of the effectiveness of internal auditing (IA) in the Saudi public sector. Although there have been efforts to study the statutes of IA in the Saudi public sector and the influences on IA effectiveness, there are still research gaps related to the measurement of IA effectiveness, the determinants of its variations, and to the context of Saudi public universities. The multiple regression analysis reveals that the effectiveness of IA – measured by a new index that reflects the extent of compliance with the Saudi internal auditing regulation - is positively related to top …


The Consistency Level Of Digital Skills Curricula With Saudi National Standards, Abdullah Alfayez May 2026

The Consistency Level Of Digital Skills Curricula With Saudi National Standards, Abdullah Alfayez

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aimed to identify the consistency level of Digital Skills curricula content for 5th-grade students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the national standards for the development of general education curricula in the field of digital technology learning. The study used a descriptive approach (content analysis) and a content analysis card. The card was extracted from the national standards document for digital technology learning (reinforcement level 4–6) (Education and Training Evaluation Commission, 2019). The results "indicated that the consistency level of the "Digital Concepts and Applications, "the "Computational Thinking and Programming," and the "Digital Citizenship standards with the …


Meta-Motivation And The Big Five Personality Factors, Hesham Abd-Alrahman Hussin Shanaa, Ezzeddin Daoud Mahmoud May 2026

Meta-Motivation And The Big Five Personality Factors, Hesham Abd-Alrahman Hussin Shanaa, Ezzeddin Daoud Mahmoud

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The present study aims to identify the five major factors of personality and their relationship to meta-motivation among university students. The two researchers used the correlational descriptive approach, and the study population consisted of 5260 male and female students pursuing a bachelor's degree from Palestine Technical University. The two researchers chose the sample by a simple random method, which consisted of 377 students split between 133 males and 244 females. The results showed that the extraversion factor, one of the five major personality factors, is the most prevalent factor among students of Palestine Technical University, whereas the neurotic factor is …


Laws Of Syntactic Structure And Speech Creation, Zaki Saleh Saad Al-Hariol May 2026

Laws Of Syntactic Structure And Speech Creation, Zaki Saleh Saad Al-Hariol

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This research aims to clarify the syntactic level in linguistic construction and study its effect on both language creativity in general and literary creativity in particular. We show this by highlighting the most important aspects of objection and consent in which the language originator interacts with the systems and laws of language structure. Therefore, we can reach the systemic, compositional features that enrich linguistic creativity by containing and organising the syntactic system for the generators of linguistic creativity and taking into account the grammatical system for the specificity of literary genres and the nature of their formation. The creativity of …


Modern Arab Women And Traditional Morality, Gamil Mohammed Alamrani May 2026

Modern Arab Women And Traditional Morality, Gamil Mohammed Alamrani

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study uses a descriptive–analytical methodology, based on a postmodern deconstructive feminist approach, to analyze the struggle of modern Arab women fighting against patriarchal biases, violence, and the hypocritical morality system that dominate most tribal Arab societies. Applications for the study are taken from major Arab contemporary novels that continue to create strong independent female characters to expose the misogynistic nature of selected traditional tribal Arab societies. Many of these characters challenge the existing tribal moral codes that incite physical and psychological violence against women who are suspected of violating accepted social and cultural codes of family honor. The study …


Saudi Youth And Risky Behaviours, Desouki Jalal Mohammed Hamed, Ibrahim Al-Husseini Abdel Moneim Hilal May 2026

Saudi Youth And Risky Behaviours, Desouki Jalal Mohammed Hamed, Ibrahim Al-Husseini Abdel Moneim Hilal

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study examined the problem of risky behavior, its prevalence among Saudi youth, and the degree of their awareness of it. These behaviors were determined on the basis of academic scientific studies and reports of the relevant international organizations. They consisted of: dangerous driving, smoking, drug addiction, violence, Unsafe healthy behavior, food, and physical activity. The researchers adopted the quantitative and qualitative approaches using the electronic questionnaire and the SPSS 21 statistical system at the quantitative level, and the Focus Groups tool at the qualitative level, on a sample of 625 individuals in Hail. The study concluded that Saudi youth …


The Legislative Direction For Establishing A Legal Regulation Of The Hardship Theory In Commercial Contracts, Aser Mohamed Abou Deif May 2026

The Legislative Direction For Establishing A Legal Regulation Of The Hardship Theory In Commercial Contracts, Aser Mohamed Abou Deif

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The commercial contract occupies the forefront in various legal systems, as it is the basis for commercial transactions, whether at the local or international level. Commercial contracts vary in the diversity of their subjects. A contract is considered commercial when it refers to a commercial business or any other business that has similar goals and attributes of a known business in a system. A commercial contract, like any other contract, covers general exceptional and sudden conditions that cannot be avoided. These conditions are called ‘hardship circumstances’. Hardship circumstances allow the judge, upon the request of one of the parties to …


The Awareness Of Cyber Security In Distance Learning, Manal Hassan Muhammad Ibrahim May 2026

The Awareness Of Cyber Security In Distance Learning, Manal Hassan Muhammad Ibrahim

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The present paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of a training program in improving the awareness of cyber security in distance learning among female primary school science teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To achieve the study objectives, the researcher used the quasi-experimental approach based on the one-group experimental design; the study tool was the cyber security awareness scale. The sample consisted of 30 teachers. The pre-application of the cyber security awareness scale was performed, then teachers were trained on the proposed program during the first semester of 2020–2021. At the end of the experiment, the post-scale was conducted. …


The Impact Of Sociocultural Changes On Obesity Among Arab Women - Kuwait As A Case, Yagoub Y. Al-Kandari May 2026

The Impact Of Sociocultural Changes On Obesity Among Arab Women - Kuwait As A Case, Yagoub Y. Al-Kandari

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to reveal the impact of sociocultural changes on obesity among Arab women (Kuwait as a case). A sample of 250 Kuwaiti women, ranging in age from 20 years to 76 years, was selected from all Kuwaiti governorates. The sample was selected from groups with different social, cultural, and economic status in the society. Social and health scales were used. Degree of religiosity, food habits, physical activity scales were used. Height, weight, triceps skinfold, subscapular skinfold, hip circumference, and waist circumference were also used. Whereas the World Health Organization indicates in the February 2018 statistics that 40% of …


The Use Of Arabic Loanwords In Teaching Writing Skills For Hausa Learners Of Arabic, Nasiru Mainasara, Abdulhalim Mohammad, Abdulrauf Hassan May 2026

The Use Of Arabic Loanwords In Teaching Writing Skills For Hausa Learners Of Arabic, Nasiru Mainasara, Abdulhalim Mohammad, Abdulrauf Hassan

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The educational curriculum requires improvement. As such, it is essential for educational designers to enhance it to address the challenges faced by the second language learners, in the hope of creating more effective teaching and learning environment. One of the modern techniques employed to improve the educational curriculum is the technique of using loanwords of Arabic for the teaching of second language. The goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness of utilizing Arabic loanwords in the Hausa language to simplify the teaching of writing skill in Arabic as well as to collect feedback from student. To achieve this, …


Impacts Of Price Shocks - Price Modeling Analysis For Saudi Sectors, Imtithal A. Althumairi May 2026

Impacts Of Price Shocks - Price Modeling Analysis For Saudi Sectors, Imtithal A. Althumairi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This paper investigates the impacts of increasing prices on the following sectors in Saudi Arabia: electricity, gas, water, manufacturing, agriculture, transport, storage, and communications. It evaluates the changes in producer and consumer prices and household living expenses. The Saudi Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) was developed along with a price multiplier approach used to analyze different simulations. Two findings stand out. First, there are differences in impacts according to household groups and the direction of the effects. Low-income and middle-income households were the most negatively affected by the price hikes. Second, the potential impacts of manufacturing, transport, storage, and communications price …


Improved Professional Life For People With Intellectual Disabilities - An Induction Programme, Atef Abdullah Bahrawi May 2026

Improved Professional Life For People With Intellectual Disabilities - An Induction Programme, Atef Abdullah Bahrawi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aimed at identifying the effect of the training and orientation program in improving the quality of the professional lives of trainees with intellectual disabilities. The study was conducted on a sample of 21 Intellectual Disability Trainers. They were nominated for training in the King Faisal University Rehabilitation Project during the academic year 2019–20. The study tool was used to determine the quality of their professional lives while the training and preparation program measured the quality of the professional lives of the trainees with intellectual disabilities, prepared by the researcher, where the validity of the tool was calculated and …


Analysing Islamic Curricula In View Of Digital Citizenship, Sameerh Ahmed Alzahrani, Moradi Ammar Alshakrah May 2026

Analysing Islamic Curricula In View Of Digital Citizenship, Sameerh Ahmed Alzahrani, Moradi Ammar Alshakrah

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study is aimed at determining the inclusion scope of the nine digital citizenship dimensions within the content material of a jurisprudence course at the high school level in Saudi Arabia. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers designed a digital citizenship checklist listing the dimensions that must be included in the high school jurisprudence course. The list encompassed the following nine areas: digital arrival, digital-physical fitness and morals, digital rights and responsibilities, digital telecommunications, digital laws, digital health and safety, digital trade, and digital security. A descriptive content analysis was used to examine the data. Based on …


Factors Influencing Internal Audit Fund Sufficiency, Salem M. Al Fayi May 2026

Factors Influencing Internal Audit Fund Sufficiency, Salem M. Al Fayi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study is motivated by the lack of internal audit (IA) fund research and examines the influence that the following elements have on IA fund sufficiency: IA quality factors (experience, certification and training), the independence and objectivity of Chief Audit Executives (rotation, reporting line and appointment), IA characteristics (IA department size and age), budget changes, and IA risk assessment activities. This study identifies 2,205 Chief Audit Executives and uses logistic regression to examine the impact of internal audit quality, independence, characteristics and activity on IA fund sufficiency. The results show that IA quality variables, independence and objectivity variables, IA size, …