PROFILE SUMMARY

Sabahat Haqqani graduated with a silver medal in M.Sc. Behavioral Sciences from Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan (FJWU) in 2009. She was awarded HEC faculty development scholarship to complete PhD in Clinical Psychology from The University of Edinburgh, UK. She is practicing academician, researcher and clinical psychologist. She served as a lecturer at FJWU from 2010 to 2019 and joined Capital University of Science and Technology in September 2019 as an Assistant Professor. Since 2021, she is working as Head of Psychology Department. She is also In-charge of Wellbeing and Daycare Centers at the university. She has been involved in conducting psychological assessment, psychotherapy/ counselling and clinical trainings and supervision in school, college, special education, university, hospital, and private clinical settings. She is currently working on several funded and non-funded projects including development of intervention for depression, anxiety and stress, and psychological assessment tools. She has taught wide range of courses including counselling and psychotherapy, statistical analyses, research methodology, psychological assessment, experimental psychology and ethics. Her research interests include self-harm, suicide, interpersonal relationships, marital satisfaction, designing interventions for mental health concerns of youth, women and elderly, and designing behavioral insight interventions for traffic management, agriculture and mental health.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad	Since – 2024
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad	2019 – 2023
Assistant Professor	Fatima Jinnah Women University	2018 – 2019

RESEARCH SUPERVISION
1.	MS	Perceived over Qualification and Cyber Loafing: Mediating Role of Moral Disengagement and Moderating Role of Moral Identity
2.	MS	Shared Leadership, Organizational Commitment and Well-being: Mediating Role of Psychological Capital and Moderating role of Task Interdependence
3.	M.Phil.	Health consciousness, health related-behaviours, functional dependency and health status in aging population
4.	M.Sc.	Association between Mental Health Distress, Barriers to Help Seeking, and Help Seeking Intentions among Young Adult
5.	M.Sc.	Psychosocial factors associated with “the sinner” state and trait among youth
6.	M.Sc.	Relationship of socially prescribed perfectionism and self-criticism with psychological distress: A pilot study
7.	M.Sc.	Association of hardiness and psychological distress with help seeking intentions: A Pilot study
8.	M.Sc.	Measuring psychological, physical and social disability through functional status questionnaire: translation, validation and reliability in Urdu language
9.	M.Sc.	Association of intergenerational contact with empathy and depression in grandchildren: A pilot study
10.	BS	Psychometric Evaluation of Entrepreneurship Aptitude Scale among Pakistani Young Adults
11.	BS	The Power of Nudging: A Study on Improving Traffic Management and Reducing Driving Fatigue and Dangerous Violations
12.	BS	Effectiveness of Nudge Intervention on Eliminating Aggressive Driving Behavior and Risk Taking
13.	BS	Relationship of cognitive performance, emotional regulations and risky behavior of drivers while driving.
14.	BS	Relationship between Emotional Regulation and mood states with risky driving behavior.
15.	BS	Predicting risky driving behaviors association with attentional bias, sensation seeking and emotional regulation
16.	BS	Development and feasibility testing of behavior insight program for traffic management on the university campus
17.	BS	Traffic Management Behavior of Traffic Police and Perception towards different Drivers and Passengers
18.	BS	Psychometric Evaluation of Urdu version of Cognitive Hardiness Scale in the Pakistani Context
19.	BS	Self-discrepancy: Relationship with Shame, Guilt and Aggression
20.	BS	Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Entrepreneur Aptitude Scale: A Pilot Study
21.	BS	Risk and protective factors of anxiety and depression among youth: A systematic review
22.	BS	The Effect of Problem Solving Based Storytelling Intervention on Aggression and Wellbeing of School Children
23.	BS	Understanding the Needs of Pakistani Adolescents Who Engage in Self-harm: a Qualitative Investigation
24.	BS	Impact of gratitude on focus and resilience in learning among university students in Rawalpindi
25.	BS	Assessing the role of attachment with grandparents in psychological resilience and character strengths among adolescents
26.	BS	Expectation-experience discrepancy and adjustment issues of newly married Pakistani women
27.	BS	Association between parent child relationship, perceived parental marital quality and adolescent adjustment
28.	BS	Relationship of dental anxiety and pain perception among periodontal patients
29.	BS	Role of parenting styles in guilt and shame proneness of adolescents
30.	BS	Role of attachment: Coping strategies and subjective wellbeing of orphans living in residential care
31.	BS	Association between interpersonal competence, emotion regulation and marital understanding among married individuals
32.	BS	Association of self-compassion and conscientiousness with health risk behaviors among adults
33.	BS	Association of attachment styles and social anxiety with learning styles among adolescents: A pilot study
34.	BS	Association between bullying, depression and social dominance among adolescents: A pilot study