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The present case study explored the temperament and charecterological nature of dependent personality disorder, and Cognitive Behavior therapy with emphasis of childhood schemas as psychological intervention strategy in this endeavor. Case study Islamabad, Pakistan. Ms A., 26 years old female, a university student who suffered from an enduring pattern of traits that comprised the characteristics formally identified as dependent personality disorder. She also exhibited anxiety states while encountering some challenging situation in general. Ms A was provided with structured preplanned psychotherapy sessions of Cognitive Behavior Therapy with special emphasis on identifying and restructuring of schema constructs. Pre and post evaluation for rating the underlying schemas and anxiety manifested was taken by using young's schema Questionnaires by Young[1] and Beck Anxiety Inventory by Beck and Steer. The results revealed momentous improvement in both variables. It was concluded that Cognitive Behavior Therapy can be used as an effective intervention strategy when focused on schema constructs of individual suffering from dependent personality disorder
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The present study was aimed to explore the relationship of masculinity and smoking among working women. The instrument used to measure the masculinity and femininity of the participants was BSRI [BEM sex Role Inventory,]. The sample consisted to 50 females aged between 25 and 35. They were divided into two groups: Group I smoker women [n=25] and Group II nonsmoker women [n=25]. To analyze the data, the t-test was applied. The results were drawn out from two different hypotheses. The first hypothesis was accepted which has shown that there is a significant relationship between masculinity and smoking. The result of the second hypothesis indicates that there is no significant relationship of scores on femininity and smoking